Winter II 2021
Spread Love for Animals
Valentine's Day is a great opportunity to promote love and compassion toward animals. In our activity, A Valentine for Animals, youth are encouraged to create posters with slogans that cultivate care for animal companions, wildlife, and farm animals. If you are meeting with young people virtually, you can have them complete this activity with whatever materials they have at home. With permission from their parent/guardian, invite students to post their work on social media or take a picture of it and email it to your organization so that you can share their messages widely.
A Simple Spay and Neuter Message
This year, World Spay Day is on Tuesday, February 23rd, so what better time to talk about spaying and neutering? We know that spaying and neutering saves animals' lives, but spreading the word about its importance can be challenging. People need to understand the benefits of the procedure, and they need to have affordable access. We created this short video as an educational tool to promote the benefits to both people and animals of spaying and neutering. As a follow-up activity, after screening the video, have students complete our Too Many Puppies? worksheet. We hope that you can use it as a means to begin thoughtful dialogue about this very important topic.
Share Your Expertise, Learn from Others!
We want to hear from you! Join the HEART Network Private Group hosted by Maddie's Pet Forum on the Maddie's Fund website. In our private group, you can share and access additional humane education resources, participate in ongoing conversations, collaborate with Network members, and more.

We created this step-by-step instruction guide explaining how to join the HEART Network Private Group on the new Maddie's Fund website. (Follow these steps if you already have an online Maddie's Fund account or you still need to create one.)

If you were previously part of our HEART Network private group, you should have received an email to activate your account on the new site. If you need assistance with activating your old account, please visit the Maddie's Fund "Contact Us" webpage for support.

Please note that while Maddie’s Fund itself focuses on animal companion issues, the Pet Forum is open to all animal advocates and animal lovers, and our HEART Network group is inclusive of a wide range of animal protection issues facing all animal species. 
Thanks to everyone who attended our virtual gathering in December! It was great for Network members to get to know each other, share a little about themselves, and tell us about the ways they are promoting humane education. We want the HEART Network to be a community where we can support one another and learn together.
Members Only: Access All HEART Network Lessons and Activities
Have you visited the Member Center yet? Check it out to access important Network information and benefits. The Member Center includes an archive of our past Network bulletins so that you can review them all in one place at any time. Our previous bulletins contain a vast range of humane education resources that you don't want to miss.
Share the Network!
Help us spread the word about the Network. Let your friends and colleagues know that it is free to join, and that signing up takes less than five minutes on our Network registration page.