Abandoned Pets Can Use Your Knitting Help...
Knitting help for frightened abandoned pets
Knitting help is needed for so many charitable organizations, it's hard to know where to start sometimes, but helping frightened abandoned pets seems like a pretty good cause to me.
Your knitting help is needed by animal shelters right across this country. They are all in need of warm, comfy blankets for abandoned animals. Knitted blankets help calm frightened cats and dogs, and improve the quality of life for shelter animals during their stay.
If you think you can provide this kind of knitting help for 'critters' in your neighborhood, here's what to do:
1. Call your local animal shelter or animal rescue organization, and confirm that knitted blankets are needed. Ask them about suggestions for sizes - and while you're at it, ask them about any other knitting help they might need!
If the shelter isn't sure about sizes, here are some basic guidelines you can use:
- 18" x 18" for cats and small animals
- 24" x 24" for cats and small to medium dogs
- 36" x 36" for medium to large dogs
2. Commit to however many you think you can make, and a time frame, and let the shelter know what to expect.
3. Spread the word, and get other knitters involved in knitting help for animals
4. Knit the blankets out of acrylic yarns, so that they are comfy and warm, but completely durable and washable, and get them to the shelters. The shelters will SO appreciate these!
If providing knitting help to animals is something that's near and dear to your heart, and you want to pitch in a bigger way, pay attention in your district or state (or country!) when there are natural disasters. If there is a large forest fire, for instance, or flooding or an earthquake, there are often more lost or abandoned animals than usual, and there would be a corresponding emergency-based need for knitting help at those times.