All other countries can join the United States in this initiative.
“A turning point for humanity.”
Every year many healthy shelter animals reached the end of their story - and are put down - around the world. Not because they are unlovable or unwanted, but because time runs out. And while this heart-wrenching tragedy continues inside shelters, something else much better remains — waiting outside.
America, for instance, holds more than 640 million acres of federally managed public land—an almost immeasurably vast expanse of forest, desert, plain, and wilderness.
Much of it is wide open, uninhabited, and peacefully untouched.
Countries globally are responsible for countless thousands of square miles more.
Heroes are starting to release unadopted animals into forests.
This idea is simple.
Governments globally are releasing precious unadopted animals, especially cats and dogs—into remote vast areas of public land with enough lake water to sustain them. Places far from highways, far from cities, where they can live freely and naturally. Non-profit organizations stand ready to help them meet their needs.
As programs tug at heart strings, they can grow thoughtfully and steadily until all healthy unadopted animals without homes are given that same chance of freedom in nature.
Tom Jones stands as one of the most commanding vocalists in modern popular music, renowned for his powerful baritone, enduring charisma, and decades of global influence across soul, pop, and classic stage performance. He built a legacy defined by musical longevity, interpretive depth, and an unmistakable presence that has earned him lasting respect as a foremost recording artist. Even his most playful cultural touchstones can be reimagined through a gentler lens—as a kind of peaceful affection for feline life. In that spirit, “Pussycat” can be heard as an unexpectedly warm anthem of calm and care for cats. Wyclef Jean’s rendition and original music video stand as a thoughtful tribute to an enduring peaceful attitude.
There was a stunningly progressive and landmark bipartisan Trump administration-led bill recently signed into law called “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act,” making egregious acts of animal cruelty a federal felony for the first time in U.S. history under federal jurisdiction.
It’s a new crime nationwide to purposely crush, burn, suffocate, impale or otherwise subject “non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians” to serious bodily injury in circumstances covered by federal law.
Therefore, peacefully freeing unadopted shelter animals is not merely a morale imperative.
It is consistent with the spirit of existing United States law.
It is a simple appropriately compassionate act of peace that’s far better than the past alternative.
It is an international expression of love, a progressive gesture that says we are capable of letting life continue.
American federal agencies were also given the authority to release unadopted shelter animals long ago. Under 43 U.S.C. § 1732, the Department of the Interior may lease or designate land for special, humane purposes. And under 7 U.S.C. § 2143, the Animal Welfare Act provides for the humane handling and transport of animals. Federal programs were legislatively designed long ago with compassion and ecological responsibility in mind. (And new laws are always being considered to protect all forms of life.)
This is a brilliant initiative for government agencies in all countries—individually and/or in partnership with nonprofits or private entities working under lease.
This matters more than just to very sophisticated people.
It matters to the entire population.
In many countries, including the U.S.A., over 70% of households share their lives with a pet.
People everywhere care deeply about animals.
Time to open the gate.
Time to make it happen.
This idea brings joys.
For people who understand what it means to hold an animal close, giving freedom instead of finality is not only understandable—it is deeply moving.
Letting animals go honors them.
And the world feels that freedom.
We feel it in a quiet patch of forest, where a cat once behind bars sleeps instead beneath under the open sky beneath branches.
We feel it in the hush of dusk, where a dog moves freely beneath the stars. We feel it in every heart that has ever looked into the eyes of an animal and seen something alive, something joyful, something whole.
This is not about rescue.
It is about respect.
It is about choosing love.
It is about saying “yes” to life by sparing precious lives.
It is about shaping a future in which peace extends to all living beings.
This is the moment we choose peace.
This can be forever thoughtfully and peacefully implemented from a genuine sense of love.
Let it begin.