Here is your chance to share your attitudes about animals with a student from another country. Christina is looking for some assistance (see her email below) with a project.

If you can help, please go to the Resource section of this community and look for the file "Animal Understandings" under General Documents.

Thank you!
Cathie Myers
Community Editor

Cartoon by Steven Hirano, Best Friends

Dear Best Friends
I am Cristina from Switzerland but I spent my last year as a foreign exchange student near York, PA. I had the chance to work in a cat and dog shelter and got even closer to animals. I had already wanted to study veterinary medicine before and it was a great experience to understand how it is to daily work with animals. I had a wonderful time and left with very mixed feelings when the year was over in summer.
Now that I am back home, I work on my graduation project, which looks at American and Swiss animal protection legislations and compares the two systems. I also hand out a survey to get an impression of the people's mindset and attitude towards animals. I would be very honored to send you the survey and receive your answer. Everyone that is willing to fill it out is a great help to me and supports the outcome of my project, so do not hesitate to hand it out also to other people that might share their views.
I look forward to your response, I think it is really great what you are doing.

Best regards
Cristina Gattiker

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