World Kindness Day will be our celebrated tradition. It is a day when we not only remind but spread Kindness through our Kindness rocks. Last year, fifty rocks were unleashed into the community. This year, we managed to outdo our last year effort by 4 rocks. We are pleased to see our rocks found their way into people’s lives. This year we also created the pocket Kindness rocks so they can go with you anywhere.

Often misunderstood as a Mexican version of Halloween, this sacred tradition celebrates the opening of Heaven's Gate and the Rainbow Bridge, allowing us to reconnect with our beloved pets who have passed. This "ofrenda" is a community pet altar to provide space for us to come together, share memories and celebrate the lives of our furry friends. It is believed that the presence of marigolds open the Rainbow Bridge. We encouraged the community to write their deceased companion’s name on the provided paper marigold and share them with us. The event was well received. We shared their names here - we hope people and their pets reunited in spirits.

We celebrated Rainbow Bridge Memorial for our second year inviting the community to create and share their companion pets memorial rocks with us. The response was overwhelming.

We finally have our own store. Our goal is to spread “kindness” through wearables. We carry limited categories of merchandises but plan to have campaigns when applicable. Our last campaign was our Kitty Summer Camp.

Our first summer camp! This is a community collaboration between Life of Kai, Community Cat Project and Cat Tales cat clinic. The camp is open to children age 7-11 to learn about cat pets and community cats. We look forward to read stories about cats and to do lots of hands on activities to reinforce what we learn.

One of the favorite activities was to visit the Tabby Lounge where the children get to play with the kitties that are available to be adopted.

Storytelling is a big part of humane education. We read titles with kindness theme that are age appropriate.

The overwhelming success of Kai Kind Library for adults gave us the motivation to create our second Little Library - for kids. We call it Empathy Kids Library. Our goal is to pair Red Rover curated children books on empathy and compassion stocked at the library with our Kind is Cool program. We celebrated the opening with coloring pages and stickers for kids.

New Event at the library: Life of Kai’s “Kind is Cool” initiative is our cornerstone humane education program designed to foster compassion, respect, and empathy in children towards all living beings, including animals, whether pets or wildlife. When it comes to animals, domestic or wild, the lessons are particularly poignant, as these creatures often directly interact with human environments, necessitating a harmonious coexistence. We seize the opportunity to support the work of Debbie Cooper, our local naturalist to highlight co-existence with our coyotes with our Lending Library between March 7-27.

We are fortunte to share Davis with several coyotes allowing us to learn about them and foster harmonious relationship with our wildlife that share our daily spaces. A core component of humane education is encouraging co-existence as a pathway to kindness.

We want to dispel myths and address fears about coyotes, highlighting their vital role in maintaining ecological balance and the challenges they encounter. Key lessons on practical coexistence - like securing trash to prevent scavenging, keeping pets safe during coyote active hours such as dawn and dusk, and maintaining a respectful distance - aim not only at safeguarding our community but also at teaching both children and adults about our shared responsibility to live respectfully alongside other species.

We hope to shift perceptions of coyotes from being seen as threats to valued members of the ecosystem with their own needs and rights. We want our humane education benefits the animals and enriches everyone’s lives by fostering a sense of stewardship and connection to the natural world.

These wonderful photographs by Debbie Cooper, our local naturalist, captured the beauty of this small and very friendly neighborhood coyote.

Here is our list of books for children:

1. Coyote’s Wild Home by Lily and Barbara Kingsolver

2. Coyote by Tyler Grady (non-fiction about coyotes to teach kids)

3. At the Edge of the Forest by Jonathan London

4. Coyote - A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest by Gerald McDermott

5. Coyote Autumn by Bill Wallace

6. Hungry Coyote by Cheryl Blackford and Amparo Ortiz

7. Claire’s Coyote Friends by Christy Burbridge

Here are the books for adults:

1. Coyote America by Dan Flores

2. Coyote Conversations by Mark Surls

3. The Voice of the Coyote by J.Frank Dobie

4. Coyotes Among Us by Standley D. Gehrt

5. God’s Dog by Hope Ryden

Coyote Awareness Coloring Book

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