I’ll be honest. I  have been known to be a bit obsessive when it comes to dwelling on inequalities. Human. Animal. National. Abroad.

They make my brain hurt. They make my heart hurt. They are just so darn unfair.

I mean, how can it be that I flush my toilet with gallon after gallon of perfectly good drinking water when 783 million people on this planet don’t have access to clean water?

Or, how does it make sense that obesity in first world countries is now a top killer while hunger in the rest of the developing world is still a fatal disease for so many?

Or, how come a scruffy faced puppy that shows up at the Sonoma Humane Society will have four adoption applications within hours when that same sweet animal wouldn’t stand a chance south of the border in animal control?

I know, I know… there are complex sociopolitical and historical explanations for all of this, but, regardless, it just plain stinks.

That gross inequality is exactly why Compassion without Borders works so hard to even the playing field out for some of the less fortunate creatures on our planet.

We’ll take that scruffy faced pup without a chance in hell south of the border and make sure she gets transported North, where she will be in high demand and find a loving home.

That tan Chihuahua who is sure to get overlooked time and time again to the point of facing euthanasia in the overcrowded Central Valley?

We’ll just snatch that sweet soul right up and send her off to Minneapolis where a small dog like that is an adopter’s dream.

That Pit Bull puppy whose bound to get Parvo and then be euthanized when their low-income owners can’t afford treatment? We’ll  get that sweet thing vaccinated for free – and deworm and sterilize him while we are at it.

We work so hard to find exactly those animals who have been dealt a bum hand – those who aren’t going to get a shot at the life they deserve because of where they were born, how much money the family they live with makes, or what color or breed they are.

We find them and then we do whatever we can to help them.

To take at least that one injustice and make it right.

At times it can feel impossible to make sense of the world and to understand the inherent inequalities it holds for people and animals alike.

But, thankfully, it is possible to make it a better place – one animal at a time.

Passion. Advocacy. Hope.

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