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
TM
Love, Understand, Protect
Freedom
We love you Art of Conservation, Africa.
Animal World USA
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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, 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 TN 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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Animal World USA Adoption Days at Petco
Memphis, 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
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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 Pets
Adoption Fair
TN Week for the Animals
Knoxville, TN!
AW USA & Best Friends
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 a 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 of our planet. She is emerging as an important voice for the animal world and communcations.
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!
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.
"To you it's a meal. To her its life itself."
~Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary, CO advocacy group
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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"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 )
Think Global, Act Local
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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
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 and/or contact your senators and representatives:
202-225-3121
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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!
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AW USA's 'Teddy' Bear, who is a also therapy dog!
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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Adopt Love
"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. "
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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
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SUPPORT UKRAINE
Call your Reps, Senators.
202- 224-3121
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
Tennessee Week for the Animals
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.
Renewed Call to Pass House Federal Bill
"SAFE Act" for the Horses.
June 7, 2024
Apr 22, 2024
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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
Memphis, TN
12th Africa
Weeks for the Animals
June 29-July 7-2024
12th Washington DC
Week for the Animals.
Fall 2024
Animal World USA Outreach
Bartlett Community Day
Bartlett Animal Shelter
Memphis, Tennessee
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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
Humane Educational Society in Chattanooga Cat House Renovation
Tennessee Week for the Animals.
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
"Blessing of the Animals"
Tennessee Week for the Animals
TN Week for the Animals
Benjamin Hooks Library
Adoptions & Humane Ed
Outreach
Adoptions and Humane Ed
TN Week for the Animals
City of Memphis Proclamation
from Director Keenan McCloy
to MAS was presented in festivities.
Benjamin Hooks Library Memphis, Tennessee
Pet Adoptions, animal-assisted therapy, humane education & READ dogs.
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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 Adoption Days Petco
"Since visiting the abatoirs of South France,
I have stopped eating meat."
~Vincent Van Gogh
(March 30, 1853- July 29, 1890)
Animal World USA
The
New $11 million Detroit animal shelter able to house 200-plus pets for adoption.
Look inside the brand-new Detroit Animal Care and Control!
How China’s demand for donkey hide is devastating African communities.
as e-jiao is fueling the slaughter of millions of donkeys every year.
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
“Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
― Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Anima-, Anim- +
(Latin: animal life, a living being, living; breath; soul; mind) having a spirit, living, “breath of air, air, soul, life”
A positive thinking mind can dramatically change your world.
Go Veg, Be Happy!
Animal World USA
April 19, 2024
Serve, Organize, Educate, Volunteer, Advocate, Vote.
AfricaAnimals.org
Your Are Destined for Greatness
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UK: Cat and dog thieves to face up to 5 years in jail under tough new laws.
Abduction Bill cleared in the House of Commons
Asia: Deadly deep freeze that has decimated millions of farm animals in Mongolia.
90 percent of the country has been impacted
Animal World USA
2024
Defend Our Democracy
