In a little over a month, animal lovers worldwide will unite for the 12th annual Remember Me Thursday. Observed each year on the fourth Thursday in September, the campaign sees celebrities join with animal welfare organizations and other proponents of kindness to animals to become an integrated online voice advocating help for orphan pets. This year, actress and animal welfare advocate Kaley Cuoco is lending her voice as the campaign’s newest luminary.
Animal lovers across the world are invited to join Kaley Cuoco and other philanthropic celebrities to be part of this very special day on September 26. Cuoco is a television and movie actress known for her starring role as Penny on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory between 2007 and 2019 and, most recently, as the titular character in the HBOMax comedic thriller The Flight Attendant, which earned her nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards.
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Cuoco’s other roles include Billie Jenkins in the fantasy series Charmed (2005-06), voicing the titular character in the animated series Harley Quinn since 2019, and playing the lead in the comedy thriller series Based on a True Story (2023). She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014.
Offscreen, the Emmy-nominated actress has developed a reputation for being an animal advocate who often adopts rescued animals. She owns a ranch and rescue farm that has welcomed horses, donkeys, chicken, goats, cows and pigs, all of whom she considers family.
About her passion for animals, Cuoco said, “Animals have taught me how to forgive and how to truly live in the moment. They don’t hold grudges, and they love you no matter what. We should be surrounding our children with animals from a young age, showing them responsibility and how animals deserve to be loved and treated.”
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Kaley Cuoco joins the Remember Me Thursday campaign in a crucial year. At least in part due to rising inflation and an unstable political climate fostered by largely incompetent and corrupt hate-mongering politicians in several countries, adoption rates have plummeted worldwide. Consequently, euthanasia rates in countries like the USA, which style themselves as the “shining city upon a hill” and yet countenance this action as a solution for abandoned and stray animals, are on the rise.
Animals have taught me how to forgive and how to truly live in the moment. They don’t hold grudges, and they love you no matter what. — Kaley Cuoco
“Remember Me Thursday focuses attention on the plight of shelter animals across the country during a critical time of increasing euthanasia rates and overcrowded shelters,” said Cuoco. “It has never been more important that we encourage the public to save a life by adopting a rescue pet from their local shelter.”
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Remember Me Thursday was established in 2013 by Helen Woodward Animal Center President and CEO Mike Arms. Moved by the staggering statistic of over a million homeless pets losing their lives each year in the USA, Arms put out a call to rescue organizations in an attempt to create a global awareness campaign. As creator of the International Pet Adoptathon and the International Home 4 the Holidays programme (placing over 20 million pets in homes since 1999), he was able to send out an expansive request and the response was significant.
Now in its twelfth year, Remember Me Thursday has been supported by 190 countries with hundreds of thousands of individuals and more than 1,000 separate animal welfare organizations around the globe holding candle-lighting ceremonies of their own, spreading the message on social media, or lighting a virtual candle. The enormous swell of celebrity support has resulted in the topic trending each year on Facebook and Twitter, garnering more than 2 billion social media impressions since it began. The candles are lit in memory of orphan pets that have lost their lives without the benefit of a loving home and to shine a light on the millions still waiting for their forever homes.
For more information on Remember Me Thursday and the full list of participating celebrities and animal welfare organizations, visit www.remembermethursday.org.
SOURCE: PR Newswire
