Animals bring so much to our lives and to the Earth. They share their unconditional love, forgiveness, and acceptance with us and expect nothing in return. Their wild beauty reminds us that there is something bigger out there making this world go round. Whatever your experience is with animals, there is always room to grow, share, learn, understand, and love them even more. Empowering Animals would love to share all that with you. Come on over, the animals are waiting for you. ❤️🐾

In the COMMENTS BELOW, please share a Skool community you think is doing really great things. It can be one you've participated in yourself or one that you've heard from others is amazing. Please do the following: 1. Tell us the name of the community and link to it (affiliates allowed). 2. Tag the person who owns the community. If they are not in the CLASSIFIEDS, then please send them a DM and let them know that you mentioned them here. I promise you will make their day! 3. Describe why the group is so wonderful and how it has helped you. Please DO NOT just copy and paste the About page! 4. Comment on each others comments and scroll through the referrals to see if there's an amazing group you are missing out on! Thanks so much for supporting each other and this community! Please note that any #FriendFriday mentions that are created as new posts will be deleted. Thanks! Please DO NOT promote yourself. 🤨. The entire community is for promoting yourself. This post is for celebrating someone else. 😊

Today is another good day for animal news! NBCUniversal Local has announced the results of its 2026 Clear The Shelters campaign, and more than 135,000 shelter animals found homes during the months of July and August! More than 1,200 shelters and rescues participated across 47 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam, with over 100 NBC and Telemundo stations helping spread the word. The campaign also: 🐾 Raised more than $480,000 for participating shelters and rescues. 🐾 Airlifted 60 vulnerable dogs and cats from overcrowded Louisiana shelters to areas where they had a better chance of being adopted. 🐾 Brought professional photographers into approximately a dozen shelters to help animals stand out to potential adopters. Since Clear The Shelters began in 2015, the campaign has helped generate nearly 1.5 million adoptions and raised more than $6 million for shelters and rescues. This is what can happen when we work together for the animals. What a beautiful win! ❤️🐾 If you'd like more animal stories and simple ways to help animals, I'd love to have you join us in Empowering Animals. Please use the link in this post rather than my profile so your membership is credited correctly. Thank you! ❤️

Lulingu was only 18 months old when she was rescued from the illegal wildlife trade in 2016 and brought to GRACE, the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There, she grew up in a gorilla family and learned the skills she would need to survive on her own in the wild. In December 2024, Lulingu and three other rescued Grauer’s gorillas followed a wild silverback named Mwasa into the forest, becoming the first gorillas rehabilitated by GRACE to return to the wild. Then, on May 21, 2026, Lulingu gave birth to a healthy baby in the wild. That is what wildlife rehabilitation is all about. 🦍❤️ If you love stories like Lulingu’s and want to discover more incredible animals and the organizations working to protect them, come check out Empowering Animals. It’s free to join!

The CLASSIFIEDS own @Charlotta John of Real Life - Unleashed is hosting a free masterclass for anyone interested with a dog who wants to help the children in your life! Here is what she has to say: We talk a lot about what AI is taking away from our children. The jobs that won't exist. The attention spans already shrinking in real time. The childhood that looks increasingly different from the one we grew up in. But there's a question we're not asking loudly enough: what do we need to actively protect in our children right now — and how do we do it in a world moving faster than any parenting book can keep up with? In this masterclass I'm going to show you something that surprised even me when I first understood it fully. The answer has been living in your home all along. It has four legs. And it has been doing this job for thousands of years — long before screens existed, and long after AI has reshaped everything else. What we will cover: The real reason screen battles don't respond to rules, timers, or bans — and what's actually underneath them. The six human skills AI will never replicate, and why childhood is the only window to grow them. How dog-led learning builds empathy, leadership, resilience, and real-world problem solving — without pressure, without lessons, without conflict: The B.O.N.D. framework — a simple four-phase rhythm any family can start this week with the dog they already have. What eight years as a school principal taught me about how children actually learn to lead — and why the dog in the hallway was doing more than the curriculum was. You will leave with: A personalised skills map for your child — the one skill to focus on, the one activity that grows it, and what to start with this week. This is not a lecture about screen time. This is a masterclass about what your child is capable of — and the guide already waiting by the door who can show them.