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FOR LIFE
CAMPAIGN FOR ANIMALS

Companions for Life
Commitment for Life

The mission of FOR LIFE (which I first wrote about here) is to help people understand that animals are sentient with a language everyone can hear if only we choose to listen, to eradicate the kill policy in kill shelters, creating safe havens for all homeless animals in commitment for life shelters. To educate people that domestic animals are companions for life, are kin and kindred spirits, that they are our teachers and we are their caring guardians.

FOR LIFE promotes the Ballyoncree Animal Sanctuary credo of “caring with commitment and compassion".

FOR LIFE promotes the end of “convenience euthanasia”, encouraging people to try harder when looking for solutions to problems. For example, many animals are killed before their time because conventional medicine has failed them. Solutions may exist in a more holistic approach. People could also be educated in understanding animal sentience, spirituality and psychology. Also diet. With FOR LIFE shelters, people with true difficulties can have help and support in rehoming their companion, safe in the knowledge they will be cared for.

FOR LIFE also promotes a change of language with regard to animals.

• Replace the word “pet” with "animal companion" or "animal kin". “Pet” means “toy” to many people and thus something which can be abused or discarded.
• Choose “he” or”she”, instead of the depersonalising “it”.
• Replace “owner” with “animal carer”, “person”, “guardian”. How can you own a soul? When someone "owns" an animal they feel they can treat that animal however they please, and that that animal must perform in a certain way. When you are an animal guardian or caretaker or carer, you embrace an animal’s care and consider their emotions and feelings.

The FOR LIFE CAMPAIGN really started for me over thirty years ago when I became a vegetarian, and understood the truth of the images and feelings I was receiving from the animals and natural world. For the last 20 years I have taught animal communication and been involved in rescue. To try and raise consciousness, I have written children’s books, made two films, taught hundreds of students, and written any number of articles on animal communication and sentience. But now the time has come for enormous change in animal welfare. I sincerely believe we will not have true peace on this planet until harmony with the natural world is achieved. And this will come when humans treat animals as equals, teachers, and kin.

FOR LIFE starts with individuals of compassion and commitment. Ballyoncree Animal Sanctuary is a holistic forever home for animals who have been homeless, and this is run by myself and my husband Andrew Einspruch. Andrew and Anne Cowling will spearhead and manage the new Canberra Animal Haven which will be established as soon as we can raise sufficient funds.

We need you. We need your voice and support and your ideas. We need songs, advertisements, artists and filmmakers, media, journalists, fundraisers, PR people, web designers, volunteers, animal handlers, people who can write letters, people who can write proposals, people who can make donations --- this is a new campaign and we urge all of you who want to join us to email me so we can coordinate the effort.

SAY YES TO COMMITMENT AND COMPANIONS FOR LIFE. SAY YES TO A BETTER WORLD FOR ANIMALS, LIVES WITHOUT FEAR, AND TRUE PEACE FOR THE PLANET.

Because an animal is a commitment For Life.