Dear Animal Communicators,

Have you heard about this before?  It all started in 1931 with a group of ecologists in Florence, as their way of raising awareness of the need to protect and secure endangered species.  October 4 was chosen as World Animal Day as it is the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

Please take a look at the wonderful website and wonder “What can I do to be of support on the 4th October?” 

Taken from the site here is their reason for being;

MISSION STATEMENT – WORLD ANIMAL DAY

• To celebrate animal life in all its forms  
• To celebrate humankind’s relationship with the animal kingdom  
• To acknowledge the diverse roles that animals play in our lives – from being our companions, supporting and helping us, to bringing a sense of wonder into our lives
• To acknowledge and be thankful for the way in which animals enrich our lives

You could spend time with your animals, if you have them, or go and visit some animals in a sanctuary or park.  You could do some fund raising to donate to a cause you know or whatever else you can think of. 

Sitting quietly for 10 minutes praying for the highest good for all species on this planet is  a hugely powerful action to take.  Sending love to all life as often as possible is also a wonderful thing to do and it does make a difference.

See what your imagination can create and do something to add energy and action behind this wonderful day of recognition, thanks and love to our most precious fellow species. 

The more fun and laughter you can bring to the celebrations the better!  I’ll be posting details of what celebrations I will be getting up to shortly.  

Have fun with it and make it a really special celebration, let’s show our love and gratitude for all our animal companions.  The more of us that get involved the bigger the difference it makes…

Love and blessings, Julie   XXX

Thank you so much to my wonderful friend Sharon for passing on this amazingly heart warming (and tear jerking!) story to me today.  She needs no explanation.  What a wonderful soul. Enjoy.  XXX

A Dog Named Faith
 
 This is a story about a dog who was born on Christmas Eve in 2002. 
  
She was born with 3 legs – 2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which needed to be amputated. 
  
She of course could not walk when she was born.  Even her mother did not want her. 
  
She was rejected and scorned. 

Her first owner also did not think that she could survive.  Therefore, she was thinking of putting her to sleep.. 
  
At this time, her present owner Jude Stringfellow came into her life and wanted to take care of her.   

  
She was determined to teach and train this dog to walk by  herself.  She thought, all we need is a little faith. 
  
Therefore she named her ‘Faith.’ 
  

In the beginning, she put Faith on a surf board to let her feel the movements of the water.  

Later she used peanut butter on a spoon as a lure and to reward  her for standing up and jumping around.  Even the other dogs at home helped to encourage her to walk.  Amazingly, after only 6 months, like a  miracle, Faith learned to balance on her 2 hind legs and jumped to move  forward.  After further training in the snow, she can now walk like a  human being. 

 Faith loves to walk around now.   No matter where she goes, she just  attracts all the people around her.  She is now becoming famous on the  international scene.  She has appeared in various newspapers and TV  shows.  There is even one book entitled ‘With a little faith’  being published about her.   
  
She was even considered to appear in one of  Harry Potter movies.  

Jude Stringfellow has given up her teaching job and plans to take her around the world to preach, ‘that even without a perfect body,  one can have a perfect soul.’

In life there are always undesirable things. 
  
Perhaps a person who feels things are not going as well as they could will feel better if they change their point of view and see things from  another perspective. 

Perhaps this message will bring fresh new ways of thinking to everyone.  Perhaps everyone can appreciate and 
be thankful for each beautiful day that follows. Life is the continual demonstration of the power of thinking positive and having faith. 
  
Believe in yourself.  Never lose faith.