Join us now in planning this historic week for Louisiana's animals! Also please join Louisiana Week for Animals Facebook community.
The 1st Louisiana Week for the Animals will kick off on Saturday, March 21st
with the LSU Great Rover Road Run 5K and also EarthFest at the Audubon Zoo. The exciting life-saving week will conclude on Sunday, March 29th with the 27th Annual Dog Day Afternoon!
Please see our Calendar of Events page for more details on the wide array of other wonderful community-connecting events taking place across the state during this amazing 1st Annual Louisiana Week for the Animals.
Throughout the week, shelters, rescue groups, and humane organizations across the state will be hosting exciting and life-changing animal-related special events. Educators, students, businesses and caring citizens across Louisiana will be joining in planning fun-filled activities to celebrate and help the animals.
Events will include adoption fairs, spay/neuter awareness events, shelter days, educational displays/programs in libraries, awareness building activities for farm animals and therapy dogs visiting hospitals and nursing homes.
Also to be included are a salute to our canine military and police dogs, feral cat initiatives, animal law events, special programs at the zoos, blessings for the animals, and full-filled festival days for families to come and enjoy food, music and the amazing animals!
Become Involved! Events are being planned now, and we need animal lovers and supporters everywhere in Louisiana to start planning so they can participate! See the page "Become Involved" on this website for lots of great ideas and suggestions on
what you can do and/or how we can work together.
See the Calendar of Events for exciting events already in the planning, and please note we will be adding events and activities right up to the kick-off of the week for Louisiana's amazing and deserving animals.
Please join together with:
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
Animal World USA
Animal Law Coalition
Alley Cat Allies
Alexandria Animal Shelter
Animal Protection & Welfare Society
ARNO
Ascension Parish Animal Shelter
ASPCA
Baton Rouge Animal Advocacy Group
Baton Rouge Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Blue Dog
Bossier City Animal Control
Boudreau's Animal Rescue Krewe (BARK)
Cajun Corgi Rescue
Calcasieu Parish Animal Services
Cathy Wells, legislative aide to Senator Fotenot
Chimp Haven
City of Sulphur Animal Control
Community Feral Cats Care
Companion Animal Network TV
Dixieland Dog Rescue
Dogs Deserve Better-No Chains!
East Baton Rouge Parish Library System
East Baton Rouge Parish Animal Control Center
Farm Sanctuary
Fort Polk Army Base
4 Paws Rescue, Inc.
Governor Bobby Jindal
Grace's Home for Abused & Neglected Animals
Hokies Hounds Beagle Rescue
Hope for Animals
Humane Society Adoption Center of Monroe
Humane Society of Louisiana-Acadia
Humane Society of Louisiana
Humane Society of Louisiana-Lincoln Chapter
Humane Society of NW Louisiana
Humane Society of the United States
Iberia Humane Society
Jefferson Parish Animal Shelters
Joni Solis, Artist
Kiroli Elementary School 5th grade students
Louisiana Department of Justice
Louisiana Equine Council
Louisiana SPCA
Louisiana State Animal Response Team
Louisiana State Bar Association
Loyola University, New Orleans
LSU School of Veterinary Medicine
Magic Happens Rabbit Rescue
Mimi Hunley, Assistant Attorney General
Minden Animal Control Shelter
Monroe Animal Shelter
New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau
NIFAA: The National Institute for Animal Advocacy
NOLA Chinchilla Rescue
North Louisiana German Shepherd Rescue
Ouachita Parish Animal Shelter
Ouachita Parish School System
Paws of N.E. Louisiana
Pet Savers
Rodrigue's Gallery of Arts
River Cities Humane Society For Cats
Ruston Recreation & Parks
Spay Baton Rouge
SPCA of Livingston
St. Francis Animal Sanctuary
St. Martin Library System
St. Francis Medical Center
St. Martin Parish Animal Control
St. Tammany Humane Society
St. Tammany Parish Tourist & Convention Commission
Tallulah/Madison Parish Animal Control
Tangi Adopt A Rescue
Tangi Humane Society
The Bully Beat
The Gryphon Press
Tulane University
Union Parish-Humane Society of LA Shelter-Building Fund
Visiting Pet Program
Winnfield Animal Shelter
World Peace Diet
