I've listed my favorite rescue-The Great Kitty Rescue. Honorable mention goes to the Katrina rescue, the rescue of the pets in war-torn areas, the Michael Vick dogs (when other "animal lovers" wanted them killed),I could go on.

However, my favorite story to appear in the Best Friends Magazine is the story of how members of the world's religions came together to sign and support "The Proclamation" which finally gave cats, dogs, and other souls what they have not received from the world's religions in the past: Love, respect, reverence for their lives and reverence for their SOULS.

Finally, thanks to Best Friends, we heard these religious leaders acknowledge that animals have souls, and that they are God's precious Children just as much as the rest of us.

Finally, dogmatic human bureaucratic baloney was left out, and animals were left IN.... in the circle of love,included where the rest of us have left animals out in the past: As precious individuals with beautiful, precious, immortal souls, equally as much as the rest of us.

It's nice to see that religions are finally embracing the truth instead of the myth.

This will benefit everyone, most importantly animals everywhere.

I am a firm believer that how you view someone determines how you will treat them.

In the past, religions and society have viewed animals as being the same as plant matter.Some imbeciles even went so far as to say that animals didint have immortal souls like us "all precous humans" (Incorrect). Animals were animated machines said other lost individuals. It's no wonder then that animals are murdered in "shelters", slaughtered in beef industry facilities, abused by humans young and old.
We had a horrible view of them.

Now, with the world getting educated and enlightened to the fact that animals are living, breathing, feeling, thinking, loving, soul-filled Children of God, equally as much as we human animals are.

It's no coincidence that the No-Kill movement has grown leaps and bounds in recent years. It's no coincidence that cats, dogs, bunnies, etc. are now considered members of the family as much as anyone else.
It's no coincidence that vegetarianism has increased greatly.
It's no coincidence that there are more Best Friends supporters than ever.

With knowledge, and enlightenment, comes love, respect, and change.

Religion has such a powerful influence on others, that we MUST REMAIN ACTIVE in spreading the word that animals are God's precious, beautiful, immortal, soul-filled Children equally as much as the rest of us.

If we do this, animals will continue to be treated as Children of God, rather than the ignorant, arrogant ways that they have been treated in the past.

I give this friendly reminder to any religious leaders who happen to read this: It is great that you signed the Proclamation. It is great that you took part in what Best Friends was doing. Thank you for speaking on behalf of God's precious four-legged Children.

But please, please dont let it end there......constantly remind your worshippers in churches, temples, mosques, etc, about this message.

We must remain ever conscious about how we and our brothers and sisters in fur, fin and feather, are ONE AND THE SAME.

We are all beautiful flowers, who had our seeds lovingly planted on Earth by the same immortal, loving Gardener.

Just like God welcomes EVERY INDIVIDUAL SOUL INTO HEAVEN, regardless of race, species, nationality, etc., we must welcome every individual soul into our loving arms and into our religions, if we are going to claim to be truly living God's will.