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Kids Can Watch These 5 Movies For World Animal Rights Day

by Kevyn Gohu
December 10, 2021

Celebrate World Animal Rights Day with your kids with these 5 animal movies.

Whether your kids are asking for a pet or just love animals, watching an animal movie for World Animal Rights Day is one way to celebrate it. When it comes to teaching our kids how to care for their furbabies, we usually just Google the tip. But teaching our kids about animals might need more than just searching it up on Google. So, we came up with animal movies your kids can watch to celebrate World Animal Rights Day.

1. Snow Dogs

Starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Snow Dogs is about a young man finding himself after he discovers that he was adopted. But during the course of the movie, he finds himself interacting with his mother’s former sled dogs. He at first gets into fights with Demon, the alpha of the pack, and nearly gives up until he learns the commands. Accompanied by the ever-faithful Border Collie Nana and Barb, he learns more about himself and how to interact with animals.

2. Wild Thornberrys The Movie

Your millennial kids will definitely recognize the title as the movie explores the reality of poaching in the eyes of the child. The story begins with a young girl named Eliza Thornberry who has the ability to speak to animals. She journeys across the Savannah to save a cheetah named Tally but finds difficulty in doing so when her powers are taken away. The movie covers how poaching can be extremely destructive especially in the eyes of those who are trying to study and preserve the Savannah and its inhabitants.

3. White Fang

If you’re trying to introduce your kids to the classics, Jack London’s White Fang was transformed into an animal movie they can watch. The story shows how animals are usually vicious and cruel due to the circumstances they get involved in. White Fang, a wolf-dog, had become vicious and territorial but slowly distinguished between right and wrong when adopted by Jack, a young man who had ventured up into the mountains to take over his father’s legacy.

4. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

For your kids who love horses, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron’s a good animal movie especially since the dialogue often involves what Spirit himself is thinking. The story begins with Spirit growing up as a wild horse before he’s broken in several times. From there, your kids can see the differences in culture and how humans can change how animals respond. This movie might even inspire them to get into horse veterinary medicine one day.

5. Two Brothers

Another story about how nature should be left alone, the movie Two Brothers focuses on two Indochinese Tigers named Sangha and Kumal who were separated. The two tigers live different lives, one being in a more vicious environment and the other as a pet. The two tigers are then pitted against each other for people’s amusement. This animal movie’s perfect for kids to understand that there are just some creatures that are better off being admired from afar.

Celebrate World Animal Rights Day with your kids using these heartwarming movies!

Although these movies expose the cruelty of some parts of the world, it’s also a perfect learning opportunity for our kids to learn how to treat and protect animals. A lot of times, animals become ferocious or attack due to the lack of knowledge on how to handle them. But with us guiding them through these movies, we can teach them how to become better stewards of nature. Who knows? Maybe one of your kids is an aspiring veterinarian!