The Women’s March and companion animals: Why human rights matter.
This post was written in response to those who asked why representatives from dog advocacy group BADRAP chose to participate in the Jan 21 Women’s March. Last Saturday , we canceled classes and lifted foster dog Lolo into our car along with some quickly made signs and headed downtown to Oakland’s Women’s March . We didn’t know what to expect to be honest, but – serendipity – the first people we ran into were former adopters with their three young kids. Kids and families with handmade signs were everywhere, in fact. We were definitely at the right place. We soon had to give up on keeping track of our friends – The crowd was just too massive. (One in 45 California residents marched. An estimated 100K counted in Oakland and upwards of 4.6+ million just in the US). While waiting for some kind of announcement to signal the start, we were squeezed into a shoulder to shoulder, slow motion lava flow down Madison Street with the impressively resilient Lolo. Drums were beating, people