What’s Your Animal-Advocate Style? Take the Quiz!

Posted by Bridget on July 24, 2024

Speaking up for animals is a beautiful thing—and there’s no right or wrong path to animal advocacy. The best way to make a difference varies from person to person, depending on individual strengths, interests, and talents. For example, some people are great at speaking in public, while others panic at the sight of a microphone but may be great at speaking with people one on one. The best path for you depends on who you are! ❤️

Text ADVOCATE to 30933 to learn your animal-advocate style.* Once you have your results, look below for ideas about ways you can be most effective as an animal advocate. We’ve included tips for all the different activist styles, so please take a minute to review them all.

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Tips for Busy Beavers

You’re a hardworking, outspoken advocate who’s always planning actions and looking for new ways to speak up for animals.

Try these suggestions:

• Check out your local shoe store for vegan leather shoes, and politely ask the manager to carry some if you don’t find any.
• Drop off a peta2 “Guide to Going Vegan” at a local business or library. E-mail us at [email protected] to get a free stack of the guides.
• Set up an information table at school or during community events or gatherings—anywhere there are people to talk to about animal rights. We’ll send you everything you need and give you tons of great tips and talking points.
• Ask for meetings with your federal, state, or local representatives and equip yourself with information. Prepare packets that include a factsheet about the issue and the proposed ordinance.
• Organize a protest. Is there a fur store in town? Is a circus coming soon? Organize a protest, and we’ll send you supplies and help promote the event. Contact us at [email protected], and we’ll walk you through the steps.
• Start your own animal rights club at school. It’s easier than you may think, and you can get your message out to your entire school.

Tips for Enthusiastic Elephants

You thrive in a group dynamic, and not much intimidates you. You’re interested in educating and inspiring others in your school or community to join your efforts to help animals.

These ideas are sure to be right up your alley:

• Ask your teacher to cut animal dissection out of your school’s curriculum.
• Show your hairdresser or barber some of the many great haircare products that weren’t tested on animals.
• Order FREE copies of the “Cruelty-Free Shopping Guide” to pass out at school.
• Take vegan meals (and recipes) to club meetings, birthday parties, or other functions.
• Lend animal rights books to your friends. When you’re done reading them, place them in your school, church, or local library.
• Find a busy sidewalk or park and pass out leaflets to passersby.
• Always carry an animal rescue kit in your car in case you come across stray or injured animals.
• Hold a vegan bake sale at school or in your community and donate the proceeds to an animal rights group.

Tips for Advocating Alligators

Speaking in public isn’t your thing and you may prefer solitary advocacy, but that doesn’t prevent you from speaking out for animals. You’ve found your voice online, where you constantly speak out for animals, share videos, and sign peta2 petitions.

Here are some great ways to take action:

• Join the peta2 Rewards Program and start earning points for signing petitions.
• Write letters or e-mails to universities that perform cruel experiments on animals, such as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.
• Call and write your legislators, asking them to support animal-friendly legislation.
• Put an animal rights bumper sticker (or more than one) on your car.
• If you discover that your school or a local business is using glue traps, contact the building manager about how cruel and dangerous they are and urge them to use humane alternatives.
• Volunteer at your local animal shelter. Most shelters welcome volunteers, who help walk dogs, clean cat cages, and dole out love and attention to the animals.

Tips for Devoted Ducklings

Animal advocacy may be new to you—or maybe you need some inspiration—but you’re ready to learn more and get involved.

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

• Wear an animal rights T-shirt or button.
• Carry your schoolbooks in a peta2 “Everyone Deserves Empathy” tote.
• Use suggestion boxes at restaurants. Ask the manager to consider adding more vegan menu items and thank them if they’re already on the menu.
• Don’t support any business that contributes to the suffering of animals. Urge others to shun these businesses, and let the company know that it has lost you as a customer.
• Stay up to date on animal rights news. Follow @peta2 on Instagram and @peta2official on TikTok.
• If it doesn’t already, ask your local coffee shop to start offering soy or coconut milk creamer.
• Watch animal rights–themed movies with friends and family and discuss the issues afterward. To get started, check out our list of animal rights movies.

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Looking for more ways to get active for animals? Join our collective of students taking action for animals, Students Opposing Speciesism, and we’ll help you take your animal advocacy to the next level.