Teaching kindness & Other Animal Welfare Resources

As a former librarian, I often chose a dog or cat book to read to my students.  It was difficult to find one that delivered the message I wanted.  Here are a few I used and if you have others, please offer a suggestion to us here.    We must teach our children the kindness we want them to display with their interaction with our furry friends.   I found these on Amazon but they may be elsewhere too.

Here are some free online resources for public school programs which may be helpful. 
There used to be a lot of resource material available from national animal welfare groups but those materials do not seem to be available now.  However, there are a lot of materials online which we have assembled here.  Just be careful to use only those materials for educational purposes and do not violate any copyright laws.  As a former librarian, this is good advice for you using any online material.

Free animal care and control coloring book to download.  I see no restrictions on printing it.  I am a former librarian so I am always checking closely on any copyright violations but I see nothing here prohibitive.

https://www.jacksonville.gov/departments/neighborhoods/docs/animal-care—protective-services/acc-coloring-book.aspx

Here are some free cat and dog coloring pages but you have to sign in with email and then you can download.  No other obligation.    https://www.zoetispetcare.com/resources/pet-coloring-pages

A lot of free pages here.  I did not sign up to test it but it looks like it could be a large variety.
https://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/plants-and-animals/animals-coloring-pages/

This is thru the AVMA and as long as you do educational purposes, it looks like you can do a free download.    This one is on dog bites so quite informative.    https://ebusiness.avma.org/files/productdownloads/doggie-dos-and-donts-coloring-book-bilingual-12-2021.pdf

These have lesson plans with them and look like they would be quite good.  I did not preview but just sharing here.     What is an animal shelter free video.    What is a puppy mill   free video.  https://teachheart.org/educational-videos/

Definitely order this free teaching kindness handbook.     https://www.nhes.org/product-category/handbook/

Little more general animal info but it does discuss the shelter which could be good for elementary.  11 min. video too.  https://whyy.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/what-do-animals-need-media-gallery/hero-elementary/

FOHO does have brochures and can ship them to you for your use.  It is a general brochure about who we are.   FOHO pamphlet 2020 Spay Neuter final rev