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The Bark Avenue Foundation is a nonprofit 501c3
organization committed to ending pet overpopulation
through spay and neuter, humane education and community
outreach.
Joining forces
with the KidsnPets programs the Bark Avenue Foundation
needs volunteers,
donations and support to continue the
expansion of these programs that help people and
animals.
Our Mission
The Bark Ave Foundation and KidsnPets philosophy is
founded on the idea that permanent life lessons- of
compassion or violence- begins at a young age. Often a lack of positive experiences
with people and animals, contribute to future acts of
violence. Importantly, these violent acts typically begin
with animals. |
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We are devoted to engaging children in
positive, educational experiences with animals in an effort
to promote positive life skills that will persist through
adulthood. This is an essential step to combating society’s
current struggle with increasing violence and crime.
Among the most violent criminal
offenders, no fewer than a quarter committed acts of animal
abuse before segueing to humans (Petrovoski 1997). Childhood
violence toward animals, and pets in particular, has been
proven to be a precursor to future acts of violence.
Alarmingly, the following percentages of violent criminals,
abused animals as children |
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• 30% of convicted child molesters
• 36% of those who assaulted women
• 46% of those convicted of sexual homicide
Even children not actively taught lessons of violence in
their homes and communities might still learn them
elsewhere. Based on this, we have developed hands-on
educational programs designed to impact children, resulting
in positive self-awareness and healthy personal
relationships, now through adulthood. We believe that the
foundational problems addressed through its educational
programs transcend cultural and economic conditions,
reaching children typically categorized as “at risk”.
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