A.S.T.R.O.
Animals. Students. Teaching. Reaching Others.
Inspiring, educating and empowering communities
to understand, love and protect our amazing animals and planet.
Animal World USA brings Benji,
once a MS shelter dog, who later became
a movie star, back home in style
arriving a Memphis RiverKings
hockey game.
Memphis City Officials and MAS Advisory Board Chairperson Michelle Buckalew at MAS 2010 groundbreaking of new Memphis Animal Services facility!
GOD is LOVE
"Ask Me About My Dream"
Love Joy Peace
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Love, Understand, Protect
Freedom
We love you Art of Conservation, Africa.
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Animal World USA
Educator of the Month Award.
Treadwell Middle School
Memphis, Tennessee
Gimme Shelter Pet Adoption Festival
Shelby Farms, 4,500 acre park, Memphis, Tennessee.
2002 breakout event featuring the Miami Animal Police (right), TN Task Force One, MPD K9 demos, live music, blessing, elected officials and 50 animal welfare groups.
Animal World USA
Youth Leadership Award
Tisdale School
Bridgeport, Connecticut
AW USA
Tennessee Week
Memphis Zoo with adoptions,
welfare groups, city officials,
'Blessing of the Animals'
AWUSA & Best Friends Adoption
Days at Petco
Midtown Memphis, TN
Africa Weeks for the Animals!
Animal World USA is putting "Unity in the Community!"
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Visit our Weeks for the Animals websites on how to help animals and connect with others!
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
—Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Animal World USA
Humane Education Days
Downtown Elementary School
Memphis, Tennessee
Faith, Hope and Love.
Animal World USA
Youth Leadership Award
Tennessee Week
Girls Scouts of Southern Appalacians
Smoky Mountains
Pearson Springs Park Adoption Fair
TN Week for the Animals
Maryville, TN!
Animal World USA
Poplar Plaza Adoption Days
Memphis, TN
Animal World USA
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Five Freedoms Recognized by Animal Welfare Orgs
Around the World.
International Homeless Animals Day with 25+ shelter, rescue
and welfare groups, pet parade, community orgs, live music,
and blessing of the animals!
Overton Park Memphis, Tennessee
Animal World USA Youth Leadership Award
Brandon Wood
from Florida for his joyful creativity saving chimps and building global relationships from Florida to Africa. Make A Chimp Smile was spotlighted during both Florida (Save the Chimps) and Africa Weeks for the Animals letter writing and art campaign.
His military dad was the inspiration!
Protect our Nation's Freedom...Vote.
AWUSA Humane Education Days
Downtown Elementary School
Memphis, Tennessee
Animal World USA 's
'Teddy' Bear Buck
at 2023 Memphis Grizzlies
Poplar Plaza block party!
Animal World USA Adoption Days Petco with Memphis Animal Services and Mid South area welfare & rescue groups.
Animal World USA Valentine's Day Adoption Day w/ Memphis Animal Services
& Mid South area rescues.
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AW USA "Merry Memphis Christmas "
Boys & Girls Clubs Memphis, Tennessee
Helping Save Lives, Empowering Educators
and Strengthening Communities!
Wardrobe)
'Mystic' Aura
Buckalew
1994-2010
"Fantasia' Buckalew
1979-1994
'Blue Boy' Buckalew
2000-2013
'Gunny Buck'
Buckalew
2009-2022
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Adopt a Shelter Animal. Save a Life. Become A Hero.
Juliette West
from California for her activism advocating for elephants and educating the public about the plight of the animals sharing our planet. She is emerging as an important voice for the animal world and media communications.
Encourage and love one another.
"For to be free is
not merely to cast
off one's chains...
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances
the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela
apartheid activist, freedom fighter, Pres South Africa
(1918-2013)
AWUSA Educator of the Month
Humane Education
Cordova Middle School
Memphis, Tennessee
“Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo.
You can choose your own course, think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.”
~-Nina Kuscik women’s running pioneer,
1st female champion
Boston Marathon
Leasure Elementary
School Delaware
Week for the Animals
Newark, Delaware
Your Voice Matters! You can be a catalyst for change!
To report animal fighting crimes, contact your local law enforcement or the U.S. Dept of Agriculture’s Office of Inspector General’s Hotline or
800-424-9121.
Peace, Love and Unity Festival
Shelby Farms, Memphis, Tennessee
With over 25 animal welfare groups, TN Task Force One, faith based & community orgs, music, shelters.
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“God answered the prayers of animals.”
— Thomas Aquinas
See prayers and blessings for animals.
Belief.net
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VOTE in 2024
For Democracy.
Your Country Needs You.
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Animal World USA International
Weeks for the Animals
Animal World USA
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Animal World USA Adoption Days
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“Animal communication is like any other form of telepathic, intuitive conversation. The thoughts and feelings of people and animals carry energetic signatures, communicated through very primal, nonverbal channels.”
― Elizabeth Eiler
Research bills, laws, and sponsors.
Contact your legislators to bring/sponsor ordinances and laws for the animals to your community and state.
"“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
SERVICE
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. "
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Anima-, Anim- +
(Latin: animal life, a living being, living; breath; soul; mind)
having a spirit, living, “breath of air, air, soul, life”
One thing I know,
the only ones among you who will be really happy...
Are those who will have sought and
found out how to serve."
~Albert Schweitzer
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, worn or consumed.
It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
~Denis E. Waitley
IN THE SPIRIT
COMPASSIONATE LIFE-SAVING CHOICES
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
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"“Whether we change our lives or do nothing,
we have responded.
To do nothing is
to do something.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
Black Beauty ~Anna Sewell, novelist ( 1820-1878 )
Think Global, Act Local
Emmylou Harris
and Michelle Buckalew,
Keynote Speakers at the
'Spay the Way' Conference Nashville, Tennessee
Animal World USA
Adoption Days Poplar Plaza
MAS and Mid South rescues
Memphis, Tennessee
AWUSA Tennessee Week
Smoky Mountain Pet Fair
Adoption, live music, community. Knoxville, TN
Thank you to our partners who are helping save lives. Please support them!
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Save a Life Today!
Ban Horse Slaughter
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"Do everything in love."
1 Corinthians 16:14
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“People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don’t care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it’s like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.”
— Jonathan Foer
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Did you know that most animal legislation happens at the state level?
There are also federal animal protection laws. Some cities and counties pass ordinances to protect animals by citizens like you and me.
Seize the Day!
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AW USA's 'Teddy' Bear, who is a also therapy dog!
This boy is pure love., 'Ambassador of Love. '
Serve, Adopt, Advocate, Volunteer, Organize.
BRING a READ DOG
Program To Your Community!
Be informed on animal laws. How does your state measure up?
Strengthen the laws by using your voice. Form coalitions.
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"Justice cannot exist without truth, and truth cannot exist without transparency."
-Alexi Navalny (1976-2024)
"If We Can Put A Man on the Moon (July 1969), we can take Man's Best Friend off 5 ft chains. " ~Animal World USA
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Work with legislators, rescue groups and form coalitions in your community to end dog chaining. Support rescue groups on the front lines."
Working with governors, decision makers, leaders and advocates to strengthen communities and democracies around
the globe.
Michelle Buckalew
founder, president
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"More and more as we come closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us."
~ George Washington Carver
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Boys & Girls Clubs
You Can start your own voter engagement drive!
Hear the Heart
of Africa
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Eglin Air Force K9s
Florida Week
for the Animals visit.
Eglin Elementary School!
AWUSA Humane Education Days
Downtown Elementary School
Memphis, Tennessee
AWUSA Woofstock
Overton Park, Rainbow Lake
Memphis, TN
HELP the ANIMALS
in your Community!
Vote.gov helps you register to vote, find voter deadlines.
Check your registration.
Animal World USA
Book donations, therapy dog visits to your school!
Anima-, Anim- +
(Latin: animal life, a living being, living; breath; soul; mind) having a spirit, living, “breath of air, air, soul, life”
Animal World USA & West TN Therapy Dogs
Celebrating
Earth Day & Arbor Day with Boys & Clubs Memphis!
Animal World USA
Petco Adoption Days
MAS & Rescue Orgs
Memphis, TN
Animal World USA Outreach
Bartlett Community Day
Bartlett Animal Shelter
Memphis, Tennessee
AWUSA Tennessee Week
Young Williams Adoption Ctr
Furry Fall Festival
Knoxville, TN
Animal World USA
St John's Episcopal Church
Blessing of the Animals
Tennessee Week
for the Animals
Memphis, TN
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AWUSA Adoption Days
w/ MAS, Bartlett Animal Shelter
Monthly Walmart Outdoor Fests
Bartlett, Tennessee
Lucy Duane
from Kentucky started what she calls her "Old Friends Fund to help the horses in Kentucky." It became such an important part of her life, that she is now recognized in the community for her work to help Old Friends Farm.
Lucy's motto is: " It doesn't matter if you have two legs or four, you should be able to live out your life in peace, dignity, and happiness. "
Fort Bragg (Now Fort Liberty) Army K9 Unit visiting Bragg
Elementary School during NC Week for the Animals!
AWUSA Education Days
Downtown Elementary School
Humane Education
Memphis, Tennessee
TN Week for the Animals
Library Special Adoption Day w/ Shelters and Community orgs
Memphis., Tennessee
Animal World USA
Youth Leadership Award
Tisdale School
Bridgeport, Connecticut
TN Week for the Animals
Benjamin Hooks Library
Adoptions & Humane Ed Outreach Memphis, Tennessee
City of Memphis Proclamation
from Director Keenan McCloy
Tennessee Week for the Animals.
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Animal World USA
AW USA TN Week
at Memphis Zoo with adoptions, welfare groups, city officials, Humane Ed.
Animal World USA Monthly Adoption Days
Wild Oats, Poplar.
Memphis, Tennessee
"Since visiting the abatoirs of South France,
I have stopped eating meat."
~Vincent Van Gogh
(March 30, 1853- July 29, 1890)
Animal World USA
UK: The Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill has passed in Parliament!
Finally ending the cruel export of farm animals being sent overseas for slaughter.
Animal World USA
Petco Adoption Days
Midtown, Poplar Plaza
Memphis, TN
If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
~C. S. Lewis
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his
being.
~Dag Hammarskjold
"Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now."
~Dag Hammarskjold
Anima-, Anim- +
(Latin: animal life, a living being, living; breath; soul; mind) having a spirit, living, “breath of air, air, soul, life”
Admiral McRaven Will Inspire You to Handle Life's Challenges with Courage.
Go Veg, Be Happy!
AfricaAnimals.org
Your Are Destined for Greatness.
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Global : Hundreds of rescue animals head to USA
from Afghanistan.
After arriving in U.S., most of the animals will be picked up by rescue organizations from all over North America. The working dogs will go to Mission K9 Rescue in Texas.
See how you can help!
Animal World USA
Defend Our Democracy
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Four dogs are to be found among the constellations:: Canis Major, Canis Minor & the 2 hunting dogs, Canes Venatici- Canis Major:
top dog.
Sirius, "The Dog Star" is the most brilliant star in the entire sky!
'We the people' are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution."
But to overthrow the men who
pervert the Constitution."
~Abraham Lincoln
Animal World USA
Canis Major
"Our Constitution is the envy of
the world, as it should be, for it
is the grand design of the
finest nation on earth."
~Thurgood Marshall
TN Week for the Animals
Library Special Adoption Day
TN Week for the Animals
Library Special Adoption Day
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May 18, 2024
Serve, Organize, Educate, Volunteer, Advocate, Vote.
God Bless Our Troops!
USA: USDA Strengthens Regulations to Protect Horses from Soring Abuse.
In an effort to end horse soring at Tennessee Walking Horse shows, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced strengthened Horse Protection Act regulations.
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“We must be silent before we can listen.
We must listen before we can learn.
We must learn before we can prepare.
We must prepare before we can serve.
We must serve before we can lead.”
~~William Arthur Ward
USA: Washington state: Agents hope new law will help break up and stop animal fighting rings.
Prosecutors will be able to file felony charges for each and all animals involved in cruelty cases..
Break up operations of dog or cockfights.
Ukraine Breaking News
USA Breaking News
For a more loving planet.
United Kingdom
Week for the Animals
June 29-July 7, 2024 !
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Animal World USA International
UK Week for the Animals 2024
Featuring 50+ events including Magical Mystery Tour in Liverpool, 200th Anniversary of RSPCA, Scottish Wildlife Cruise of Mallaig, At Millets Wildside in Oxfordshire become a Wildlife Photographer subject-falcons and birds, Dog and Cat Adoption Fairs, Greyhound Walks and family fun festivals.
Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience London Digital Exhibit, Harry Potter Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Transport from London, Happy Hounds Breakfast Club, Vegan Village at Thatcham Family Fun Day 2024, Penny Farm Day, Beach Cleans in UK and Scotland and so much more.!
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Philippines: – Manila Senate on Agriculture, Food, and Ag Reform begin talks on Senate
Bill (SB) 2458.
Addressing much needed animal welfare issues.
(Global) European Commission seeks public opinion on ways to improve protection of sharks. Your input is needed.
The questionnaire is for everyone- no matter where you live- and will be available online until 4 June 2024..
Your Voice Matters.
Luther Standing Bear was a Sicangu and Oglala Lakota author, educator, philosopher,
and actor. He worked to preserve Lakota culture and sovereignty and was at the forefront of a Progressive movement to change government policy toward Native Americans.
Born: December 1868, Rosebud, SD
Died: February 20, 1939, CA
Animal World USA
Petco Adoption Days
MAS & Rescue Orgs
Memphis, TN
Animal World USA
TN Week for the Animals
MACC
Nashville, TN
