[Dog. Credit to Pixabay]

On February 26th 2023, the animal remembrance ceremony took place in Campell Town Cenotaph in Australia in an effort to commemorate the sacrifices that the loyal animals have made for Australian hope and peace. 

The original animal remembrance day,February 24th, a day in Australia when we remember all the animals that helped Australia fight in world war 1,2. 

These animals have given much hope to fellow Australians, and their fame and legacy still lives on today. 

Over the past years in the Great War, Australian soldiers brought all kinds of animals with them, including kangaroos, wallabies, birds, cats, dogs and many others to carry some cheerfulness with them. 

These pets didn’t only bring cheerfulness but also provided a lot of help. 

For example, one of the Australians called Simpson had a donkey. 

He and his donkey delivered hurt soldiers to safety. 

He also was a good companion for his owner. 

There was also a case with a dog, Harry, that an Australian man brought with him. He used his sense of hearing to detect if enemies were approaching. 

He saved many lives thanks to his senses of smell and hearing that he could track enemy soldiers easily. 

Thanks to him, many soldiers were saved.

There was also a pigeon that spread a message by flying through a tornado to save a ship from sinking. 

He flew a long way and called for help. 

This saved the ship, and he got the highest award which an animal could possibly get, the Dickinson.

There was a cat that was on a boat that had been robbed, and it had deadly infected rats. 

The cat saved the soldiers by eating up the rats, and the ship’s conditions improved thanks to the cat. 

There are many more times that Australians had brought pets overseas, like during theVietnam war. 

However, not all of them returned to Australia.

Some were just abandoned there, or some were killed. 

Only some of these helpful pets were able to make it back. 

There were strict laws that stopped the soldiers from bringing back their pets. 

This  made people sneak their pets to ships and bring them back to Australia as a man did to a dog by stuffing him in his bag, but not all pets got this chance. 

This is also very risky. 

But to the soldier, they were precious. 

They were so precious that if their animals got injured or died, they would shed tears and do all they can to  try to help them.

Some people have been interviewed, and one of them said, “I can believe they (pets) are not brought back when they have done so much for us. 

How come they leave these loyal pets behind?”

So now, these pets that have been left behind have been brought back. 

They are back from different countries.

February 14th is the day when we commemorate the sacrifices that war animals  made for us and thank our pets for the jobs that they carry around.

Today, dogs are policemen’s and rescuers’ pets. 

They use the dogs to smell criminals or smell hurt people that are hidden. 

Although there are many examples, a recent one would be when dogs were used to sniff people out from the Earthquake that happened in Turkey. 

This day has been celebrated and made since 1997. 

This day still exists, and this is now a familiar local day. 

Not only that, but this day is also a public holiday because this is a war event in which animals have given their lives to save many Australian soldiers.