l Educate yourself l ❤
INTERMIX sells fur from China, where dog pelts are frequently unlabeled and mixed in with others (2,000,000 dogs & cats die annually in China for the fur trade).
If this doesn’t bother you, don’t sign the petition.
(via furfreela)
This border collie was found by a walker after being shot in the head at point blank range and dumped on a mountainside.
Still alive, the puppy was taken to the vets, but later had to be put down after 60 pellets were found to be lodged in its skull. The dog did not die instantly from the shot, and was therefore left to suffer until he was found the same day by a dog walker.
The RSPCA is trying to track down the gunman responsible for the barbaric act, which took place at the Fochriw mountain at Rhymney, South Wales.
The puppy was less than a year old and had been microchipped - but the RSPCA have not been able to trace its owner.
Inspector Lucas urged anyone with information on the possible owner to contact the RSPCA’s 24-hour national cruelty and advice line on 0300 1234 999.
We are all connected.
‘Tradition’ Is a word being echoed by upper-middle class conservatives up and down the country which is being offered up in an attempt to excuse the senseless bloodsport they continue to promote.
There are many, many barbaric ‘traditions’ all over the world that are no longer practiced. Fox hunting should be no exception.
The hunted animal can be chased for long distances by hunts, maybe for ten or more miles. Foxes are not suited for long distance running, and are built for speed not stamina. The opposite is true for hounds who are deliberately bred this way, so that the hunt can have a long chase. Hunters will claim that the fox dies from a ‘quick nip in the back of the neck’, but those who have seen kills (and sometimes recorded them on video), can tell you that the truth is somewhat different.
Some foxes ‘go to ground’. In this situation, terriers are put into the hole, either to flush the fox out, to provide a longer chase, or to fight it until the terriermen dig down to it. A terrier is a formidable opponent for a fox. In one case in 1989, a cornered fox was so desperate to dig its way out of a hole in which it was being attacked by a terrier that it died with its lungs filled with earth. An underground fight like this can easily last for half an hour, and may even go on for two to three hours on occasions. All the time, the fox is fighting for its life. When the terriermen reach it, if it is one of the lucky ones it will be killed quickly by a bullet or by a spade.
This is the major myth that hunters use to excuse their activities. The fox is not nearly the incredible menace to rural society it is sometimes made out to be. The MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food) regard the threat from a fox as ‘negligible’. Scientific studies have shown that a fox may take dead or dying sheep, but a healthy sheep is easily a match for a fox. Sometimes foxes may get into sheds and take chickens, but if the shed was made reasonably secure this would not happen - and most chickens are kept in factory farms anyway. In the end, you are left with the farcical image of a fox with a crowbar.
Hunts tend to kill 2.5% of the local fox population a year. These are BFSS (British Field Sports Society) figures, so if anything are exaggerated. Plainly, hunts do not control foxes, even if there was the necessity.
Hunting with hounds is deliberately inefficient as a method of killing, because it is about a perverted definition of ‘good sport’, not pest control. Hunts would use cubhunting tactics all season if they wanted to maximise kills; they don’t.
Hunts often bolt foxes that have gone to earth - digging would be much more likely to end in a kill. Hounds are bred to be slow - and so may often lose their quarry. If hunts were serious about maximising kills they would use dogs fast enough to bring the hunted animal down quickly.
These whines are heard from the kind of rider who isn’t really into the killing side, and may even feel vaguely guilty about it.
Help preserve our British wildlife. Educate yourself. Let parliament know we are not prepared to turn a blind eye to their cruelty.
(Source: chaos.org.uk)
The moment lab Beagles see sun light for the first time as they are freed from their cages.
Raccoon Dogs are a species of canine named for their striking resemblance to raccoons. Raccoon Dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) are sometimes called Asiatic raccoons, Finn raccoons, or Tanuki. However it is well known that Chinese fur exporters will put whatever label the buyer requests on the pelt or garment using the Raccoon Dog.
When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal’s leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.
When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals’ heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals’ hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.
Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.
“A broiler is a chicken bred for the meat industry. These poor creatures are genetically modified to go from 0 to slaughter in 6 weeks. They have massively accelerated growth, which has painful and gross side effects. Heart and organ complications, severe growing pains – as their legs bones battle to grow in accordance with their rapidly growing bodies. Often lameness leaves them flopping about pathetically on the floor.”
‘Most chickens don’t get to live their natural bird lives. Hens and roosters raised for meat typically are crowded into poorly ventilated sheds with 20,000 other birds of the same age and sex. They are trucked off to be killed at six or eight weeks of age, catching their first breath of fresh air only as they are on the way to a ghastly death. Hens in egg factories live longer but endure more torture. Confined in cages so small that they cannot open their wings or even lie down comfortably, they are driven mad by boredom, despair, periodic hunger, and chronic pain. After close to two years of such horror, they too are trucked off to slaughter’
Please be aware that the chicken you eat at restaurants, buy from supermarkets, and is present in baked goods, is all from broilers. By buying and eating chicken you are enabling this horrendous industry.
Research indicates that between about 20 to 100 million sharks are killed each year by humans.
Each year there are about 50 to 70 confirmed shark attacks and 5 to 15 shark-attack fatalities around the world.
… lightning strikes and kills more than 41 people each year.
You may or may not be aware of a story that is circulating across the British media at the moment regarding a fox who ‘attacked two babies’
As always , the beautiful British public burst into a over-dramatic , hysterical , emotional frenzy and demand that all foxes are killed , hunting is brought back etc etc .
I bet Mr. Cameron and his Tory toffs are absolutely loving this , the perfect propaganda for their hunting bill , essentially fuel for a fire they have been shamelessly trying to ignite since the ban was rightfully brought to parliament in 2004 . I’ve made no secret about my high regard for animal welfare , there is no justification in killing a helpless animal as a ‘sport’ . It is disgusting and shameful and anyone who says otherwise should get down on their hands and knees and run for their life as a pack of dogs try to tear them apart .
You have to ask yourself , why now ? Curious as to why there is massive media coverage of this particular incident now that we have a conservative government ( lets not forget most of the papers have their heads directly up Camerons backside ) yet i never even heard of the previous incidents of fox attacks , i honestly do not remember them being reported on ?
The following is taken from an article which can be found here - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterwedderburn/100042453/hunting-would-not-have-stopped-this-fox-attack/
Why would urban foxes attack sleeping babies? Perhaps the biggest fear that this incident has provoked is that this was some type of premeditated onslaught. Could the foxes have been trying to steal away with the babies, taking them in the same way as they’d take chickens from a hen run?
The answer to that question is a definite “no”. That’s not how foxes behave. There’s a high concentration of foxes in urban Britain, yet very few reports of attacks of any type on humans. Even if foxes are more numerous than in the past, and even if they’re gradually becoming less fearful of humans, this does not mark some new trend in fox behaviour. This was a one-off freak incident, and it’s highly unlikely to happen again.
I’ve often dealt with foxes in my job as a vet, and my conclusion that it’s most likely that the foxes entered the house out of curiosity, furtively looking for something to eat. They may have smelt food or milk from the babies’ cot, and clambered in. They would then have panicked after finding themselves trapped with wooden bars around them. The squirming and cries of the babies beside and beneath them would have heightened their terror, causing them to snap and bite as they tried to escape
Dogs attack far more humans a year than foxes ever have yet no one has their pitchforks ready to slaughter all dogs when those incidents happen ? And that’s even after dogs KILL babies / children .
In fact i can think of about a million and one things that attack / kill a greater number of humans each year than foxes do . I too would listen to a certain headline on the news or read from a newspaper and take everything in at face value but experience has taught me to never trust anything a journalist tells you .
If any of you out there have parents / grandparents / families who you overhear slating foxes or demanding something be done about them , educate them and remind them that it was a one off incident and they should focus their energy on more important killers , like cigarettes and drink drivers .
X
