A.S.T.R.O.
Animals. Students. Teaching. Reaching Others.
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."
~Marshall McLuhan
Canadian Philospher
(July 21, 1911–Dec 31, 1980)
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 long awaited groundbreaking of new
Memphis Animal Services facility!
Love, Understand, Protect
We love you Art of Conservation, Africa.
Animal World USA
Educator of the Month Award.
Treadwell Middle School
Book Donations & Humane Ed
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, live music, blessing, elected officials and 50 animal welfare groups.
Animal World USA Youth
Youth Leadership Award
Himane Education
Tisdale School
Bridgeport, Connecticut
AW USA TN Week
at Memphis Zoo with caretakers, adoptions, welfare groups,
'Blessing of the Animals'
AW USA & Best Friends Adoption Days at Petco
Midtown Memphis, TN.
Africa Weeks for the Animals!
Animal World USA is putting "Unity in the Community!"
Animal World USA Adoption Day
w/ Metro Animal Care
Nashville, Tennessee
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
AWUSA Education Days
Downtown Elementary School
Shelby County & Memphis Schools
Memphis, Tennessee
Animal World USA
Helping Save Lives, Empowering Educators
and Strengthening Communities!
Animal World USA
Youth Leadership Award
Tennessee Week
Girls Scouts of Southern Appalacians
AW USA Smoky Mountains Pets
Adoption Day
Knoxville, TN!
AW USA & Best Friends
Poplar Plaza Adoption Days
Memphis, TN.
Washington DC
Week for the Animals
2024
United Kingdom
Week for the Animals
2024
AWUSA Humane Education
Snowden School
with Humane Society of Mphs
Shelby County
Memphis, Tennessee
Five Freedoms Recognized by Animal Welfare Orgs
Around the World.
International Homeless Animals Day with 25+ rescue and welfare groups, community orgs, live music, blessing of the animals!
Overton Park Memphis, Tennessee
AWUSA Poplar Plaza Petco Adoption Days
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 and Africa Weeks for the Animals. 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 and Mid South area
shelters, rescue groups.
AW USA "Merry Memphis Christmas "
Boys & Girls Clubs Memphis, Tennessee
Helping Save Lives, Empowering Educators
and Strengthening Communities!
'Mystic' Aura
Buckalew
1994-2010
"Fantasia' Buckalew
1979-1994
'Blue Boy' Buckalew
2000-2013
'Gunny Buck'
Buckalew
2009-2022
Adopt a Shelter Animal. Save a Life.
Multiply Love. Become A Hero.
Juliette West
from California for her activism advocating for elephants and educating the public about the plight of the animals of our planet. She is emerging as an important voice for the animal world.
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
Delaware
Week for the Animals
Newark, Delaware
Your voice matters!
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, TN
With over 25 animal welfare groups, TN Task Force One, faith based & community orgs, music, shelters.
“God answered the prayers of animals.”
— Thomas Aquinas
See prayers and blessings for animals.
Belief.net
Protect wildlife and their habitat.
Take one action daily
for the animals.
VOTE in 2024
For Democracy.
Your Country Needs You.
Animal World USA International
Weeks for the Animals
Animal World USA Adoption Days
“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
"Since visiting the abatoirs of South France,
I have stopped eating meat."
~Vincent Van Gogh
(March 30, 1853- July 29, 1890)
Research bills, laws, and sponsors.
Contact your legislators to bring/sponsor ordinances and laws for the animals to your community and state.
"To you it's a meal. To her its life itself."
~Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary, Colorado-advocacy group
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. "
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
“Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.”
~Thomas de Quincey, English writer, essayist, and literary critic
"Animals have hearts that feel, eyes that see and families to care for...just like you and me."
— Anthony D. Williams, author
Black Beauty ~Anna Sewell, novelist ( 1820-1878 )
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 animal rescue groups
Memphis, Tennessee
AWUSA Tennessee Week
Smoky Mountain Pet Fair
Adoption, live music, blessing
Knoxville, TN
Thank you to our partners who are helping save lives. Please support them!
AWUSA Community Outreach
Bartlett Animal Shelter
Bartlett, Tennessee
"Do everything in love."
1 Corinthians 16:14
“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
Save America’s Forgotten Equines
Bill that bans horse slaughter in USA and prohibits export of horses for slaughter.
(SAFE) Act (H.R. 3475 and S. 2037)
Call your senators and Representatives:
202-225-3121
Most animal legislation happens at the state level. There are also federal animal protection laws. Some cities and counties pass ordinances to protect animals. You can make it happen!
AW USA's 'Teddy' Bear, who is a therapy dog!
Pure love.
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.
"Justice cannot exist without truth, and truth cannot exist without transparency."
-Alexi Navalny (1976-2024)
Browse pets from our
network of over 11,500 shelters and rescues.
Animal chaplains offer spiritual care and more for every animal species.
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This is beyond blessings and pet funerals, What we’re talking are deep and existential questions about our relationships with animals.”
Canada: Manitoba live horse exporter facing charge in rare private prosecution case.
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“Shipment of horses, which would be leaving from Winnipeg to Japan, then slaughtered to be eaten.
“Why Big Pharma won’t stop testing on lab monkeys."
Experimenting on primates isn’t the only way to test new drugs.
Lion brotherss are rescued from the war in Ukraine and find sanctuary in Africa.
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Two lions rescued from Kyiv have swapped bombs for undisrupted birds after a long road to freedom. Released into a 2.5-acre “forever home” after an amazing journey!
"If We Can Put A Man on the Moon (July 1969), we can take Man's Best Friend off 5 ft chains. "
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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
U.S. House members have cosponsored the FIGHT Act in Congress.
The FIGHT Act would crack down on animal fighting and the people invoolved.
Arbor Day Foundation
Together Let Us Plant 500 million trees by 2027
73 COMMUNITY
SERVICE PROJECT
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AWUSA Weeks for the Animals Summer 2024!
Celebrating animals, people, communities in Africa & the UK.
"The most irrevocable of nature's laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any species that ignores this law winds up destroying its community to support
its' own expansion. "
~Janine Benyus
Defend Democracy.
Freedom is at stake.
Live export ban petition passes 20,000 signatures, organizer wants five times that.
This to combat a million-dollar lobbying campaign by Livestock Export (LENZ) .
Support Ukraine> Call your Representatives.
(202) 224-3121
Looking to start your own voter engagement drive?
Eglin Air Force K9s Florida Week for the Animals.
Eglin Elemtary!
RePUPlicans, DemoCATS. IndePETdents
VOTE!
AWUSA Humane Education Days
Downtown Elementary School
She;lby County & Memphis School
Memphis, Tennessee
Animal World USA Adoption Day Farmers Market
Shelby Farms with Mid South animal shelters, rescue groups.
AWUSA Woofstock
Tennessee Week for the Animals
Overton Park, Rainbow Lake
Memphis, TN
March 19, 2024
Organize, Educate, Volunteer, Advocate, Vote.
AWUSA Outreach
Bartlett Animal Shelter
Bartlett, Tennessee
AWUSA & West TN Therapy Dogs Celebrating
Earth & Arbor Day w/
Boys & Clubs Memphis!
The global population of giraffe, Earth's tallest animal, is estimated to be approximately 111,000, which represents a decrease of nearly 30% since the 1980’s.
Giraffes Are Amazing!
Did you know?
No two giraffe have the same spot patterns.
Like human fingerprints, giraffe spots are unique
to each individual, they grow up to 18 ft tall and
weigh 3,000 lbs!
HELP the ANIMALS
in your Community!
Vote.gov helps you register to vote, find voter deadlines.
Also check your registration, change your political party affiliation, vote.
Renewed Call to Pass House Federal Bill
"SAFE Act" for the Horses.
Congress Just Passed a Massive Spending Bill in March.
Good news for animals. But. we can still need the SAFE Act passage. Call your representatives.