The Animal Rescue Site

Animal lovers will want to add The Animal Rescue Site to their list of online favorites or bookmarks.  I've got it set as my home site, along with the other five sites that make up the Greater Good Network.

Each site serves a particular cause - hunger, breast cancer, child health, literacy, rain forest, and animal rescue - by inviting readers to click a colorful rectangle prominently displayed near the top of the site.  Each click generates a monetary donation from the many sponsors who support these sites.  It's an incredibly quick and entirely painless way to honor a worthy cause.  Or six of them.

Animal shelters in the US take in more than 27 million animals every year, according to The Animal Rescue Site.  That's a lot of hungry mouths to feed.  Each click of the purple rectangle means .6 of a bowl of food will be donated, thanks to the money supplied by the site's sponsors.  From January through June of 2009, 37.4 million bowls of food were donated as a result of reader clicks.

Sponsors of the site offer hundreds of irresistible things to buy, ranging from clothes to jewelry to pet needs, and each purchase generates even more bowls of food.  During the first half of 2009, purchases of sponsor merchandise generated 5.8 million bowls of food.

Once you click the purple rectangular button on the animal rescue home page, you'll be directed to a second page, where you can scroll down a bit to see how many bowls of food have been donated in recent days.  Yesterday, 257,591 bowls of food were donated to animal shelters and sanctuaries all across the country, thanks to just the click of a mouse.

Make one purple click a daily event.  I do.