What Is Animal Advocacy? How to Become an Animal Advocate
What does it mean to be an animal advocate, and how do you get started in animal advocacy? In this episode, Penny explains how ordinary people can help animals through volunteering, fostering, rescue work, professional skills, community advocacy, and legislative advocacy.
Being an animal advocate doesn't take a law degree, a microphone, or a new nonprofit. It takes 4 moves: pick something specific, figure out who controls the outcome, learn enough to be useful, and keep showing up. The first move makes you feel like an advocate. The fourth is what makes you useful.
Penny shows what advocacy…
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