A Special Day to Honor Animals
Begun in 1931, World Animal Day celebrates animal life in all its forms – along with the diverse ways in which all creatures enrich our lives.
Celebrated every year on October 4th, events took place in 66 countries around the world last year. This year, organizers are looking forward to even more participants.
Help Spread the Word
World Animal Day is a day that belongs to everyone. So please join in with this 2009 celebration of our fellow creatures.
Quillcards members can choose from any of our ecards, but if you are not a member you can help spread the word by sending some of our distinctive World Animal Day ecards. Just follow this link to the Free Ecards section to begin.
When you are composing your ecards, we encourage you to use the World Animal Day greeting. It is the last in the pull-down menu list of greetings.
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Many thanks, Nick. I heard that you have been away — welcome back, and I hope all’s well.
Weell I’ll be danged if you don’y git lernd sumthin new ever day. Good deal another celebatin day fer me.
Thanks, and nice blog site too.
Mighty appealin’ message thar, Bob, and ah hope yew enjoy your celebratin’ of World Animal Day!
Seriously now: We appreciate you writing, and thanks for the compliment about this site.
Thank you for the information about Animal Day. I had no idea. But, I will certainly notify my dogs, birds and hermit crabs – so that they can amply celebrate.
Our pleasure, Teresa — and I hope your menagerie enjoys their celebration too (and how interesting that you have hermit crabs as pets, I have never heard of that)!
Hermit crabs are delightful pets, but probably aren’t fond of being plucked out of the ocean for our pleasure. Interesting thing about them: They laugh. Loudly. In the middle of the night. And, sometimes they can be heard from the other end of the house…;)
How long have you have your hermit crabs – and how many do you have, by the way? Yes, they probably aren’t thrilled about being taken from the seas, as you noted.
How phenomenal to think of hermit crabs laughing! Does this happen often? And what do you think they find so funny? How fascinating…
I have five, good-humored hermit crabs. I think. They hide under things, and change their shells quite often. So, I’m never quite sure how many I have.
I have no idea what they’re laughing about. Maybe hermit crabs have a subtle sense of humor over being put in an aquarium, with a small pond, surrounded by dogs and birds!
Hey, sounds like fun with your hermit crabs! Seeing that they are hermits, no wonder they hide, eh?
Great, imaginative response there about why they laugh: Sounds ‘logical’ to me!
Or maybe they think you’re a stellar owner and so they are keeping YOU amused, perhaps?