Laura Motes grew up with animals all around her in her parents’ home
in rural Georgia. She knows how to properly care for and treat them and
she wants everyone to have the same knowledge and caring nature that she
does. Unfortunately, the United States is still a long way from being
completely educated of the proper way to take care of domesticated
animals. Pets still go neglected and get abandoned all the time. Motes, a
former police officer and current nursing student, wanted to join the
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
The
ASPCA has two main causes that it as an organization works hard to
fight for: the end of animal homelessness and the end of animal cruelty.
Laura Motes works closely with her local animal shelters near her home
in Watkinsville, Georgia, but across the country animal shelters are
routinely stretched thin because their budgets just don’t do enough to
place animals in good homes. With 2.7 million animals being euthanized
in the United States every year, the ASPCA works to provide alternatives
to euthanasia for shelters throughout the country. The ASPCA also works
to help abused animals find new homes and to educated people about the
causes and effects of animal cruelty in our society, as well as the
signs to watch for. Laura Motes is a vocal advocate of all of these
issues.
Laura Motes plans on beginning her Master’s degree in Nursing in the fall of 2016 at Georgia Regents University.
The
ASPCA has two main causes that it as an organization works hard to
fight for: the end of animal homelessness and the end of animal cruelty.
Laura Motes works closely with her local animal shelters near her home
in Watkinsville, Georgia, but across the country animal shelters are
routinely stretched thin because their budgets just don’t do enough to
place animals in good homes. With 2.7 million animals being euthanized
in the United States every year, the ASPCA works to provide alternatives
to euthanasia for shelters throughout the country. The ASPCA also works
to help abused animals find new homes and to educated people about the
causes and effects of animal cruelty in our society, as well as the
signs to watch for. Laura Motes is a vocal advocate of all of these
issues.Laura Motes plans on beginning her Master’s degree in Nursing in the fall of 2016 at Georgia Regents University.
