29 Quick and Easy Ways to Help Animals on Leap Day

Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way. That’s why PETA works year-round to end speciesism—the human-held belief that other species are inferior—and reminds people that every animal is someone.

2024 is a leap year, meaning that we all have an additional 24 hours this year to do something for others.

With PETA’s help, you can quickly and easily complete 29 actions to help animals on the February 29 leap day. Using your smartphone or computer, it only takes a matter of seconds to leap into action for animals. So what are you waiting for?

PETA action alerts are a quick—and effective—way to speak up for animals.

We’re always working to ensure that animals are given the consideration, respect, and rights they deserve, and sometimes that means calling out the humans who benefit from harming them. From this page, you can fire off multiple e-mails to abusers with the simple click of a button.

Month after month, PETA supporters are instrumental in winning victories for animals. Persuading circuses to go animal-free, influencing brands to drop fur and other animal-derived materials, and ending cruel and irrelevant experiments on animals—PETA action alerts help accomplish all this and much more.