The Shelter Animal Reiki Association (SARA) has just announced its new blog. The SARA blog will feature articles and stories from Reiki practitioners working with animals and staff in shelters, preserves and refuges.

SARA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing Reiki to shelter animals through visiting practitioners and training of shelter staff and volunteers. SARA members may be practitioners or teachers of Reiki. Kathleen Prasad, co-founder of SARA and co-author of “Animal Reiki”, has a vision for SARA which includes standardized training for shelter personnel and standards for practitioners offering Reiki to the animals.

Visit the SARA website for more information:

http://shelteranimalreikiassociation.org

John

Some animal rescuers actually do have wings. A group of private pilots donate their time and talents to transporting rescued animals to the promise of better lives.

Pilots N Paws is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to assisting in the transport of animals from overcrowded shelters to areas where they have a much better chance of being adopted into a forever home. This week, September 12-20, 2009, PNP’s goal is to transport 5000 animals. The purpose of the campaign, aside from saving these animals, is to call attention to PNP’s mission and make more people aware of their service.

If you’ve ever been involved with traditional rescue transports, you know how difficult it can be to coordinate multiple drivers covering multiple legs of a long journey to get one or two animals from point A to point B. PNP is able to transport many more animals in one hop, saving a great deal of time and resources.

PNP does not charge for transports. Pilots donate their time and fuel costs. Tax-deductible donations are accepted on their web site.

Anyone may request and view transports by visiting PNP’s web site and logging in to their forum. Requests only require that an agreement already be in place between the sending and receiving parties before posting to the forum.

It’s wonderful to hear of organizations such as PNP willing to help rescued animals! You may visit their web site at:

http://pilotsnpaws.org

John

There’s a reason why many of the classic replays of the old Johnny Carson show involved animals. Here are a couple of daytime TV news folks trying to do a good thing and find homes for animals in need. This is probably best filed under “It seemed like a great idea at the time!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDpEyuWVVQ4

CritterReiki.com

The Shelter Animal Reiki Association (SARA) is intended to bring Reiki to animals in shelters and their volunteers and staff. SARA is the brainchild of Kathleen Prasad, co-author of “Animal Reiki” and founder of Animal Reiki Source.

SARA members work with shelter staff to provide Reiki for the resident animals. In some cases, appropriately trained SARA members train the staff and volunteers to become Reiki practitioners.

Shelters may partner with SARA in logging Reiki sessions and observing effects on the animals involved in those sessions. This information is compiled into a database and used to document the effects of Reiki in the shelter environment.

For more information about SARA please visit their web site at:

http://shelteranimalreikiassociation.org

John

Here’s a unique and innovative way of using social media: Romeo the cat (and his buddy Pugsley) are using Twitter to raise funds for rescue organizations. For every follower they get on Twitter, they donate 5 cents to animal rescue. Twitterers are encouraged to donate to the cause, as well.

For the month of March, 2009, I’m pleased to report that the proceeds from the campaign will go to Animals in Distress, the no-kill shelter at which I volunteer each week. I offer Reiki to the animals there and hold Reiki classes for the volunteers.

If you use Twitter, please support Romeo‘s campaign by following @romeothecat on Twitter.

John