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Stars Making a Social Impact: How Actress Kris Kelly is Taking Responsibility For Abandoned or Neglected Animals
You need to have thick skin to be involved in animal rescue. I didn’t realize how tough this cause was going to be. You cannot take anything personally and you can never let your guard down. When I first started out I thought this was going to be easy because I was fighting for the rights of animals and doesn’t everybody want good things to happen for animals? I assumed that people wanted them not to be killed in shelters and for them to have the right to live a life of love and comfort. I was wrong there are a lot of people that do not feel these rights for animals are important so that makes my work harder.
As a part of our series about Stars Making a Social Impact, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Kris Kelly. Kris is an Actress, Animal Activist and Vegan. She worked in film, television and the theatre. Kris found her calling in 2006 and…