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Poisoned ham kills many street cats in Kemer, Turkey

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on December 23, 2020 by MikeBDecember 23, 2020
Kemer

NEWS AND COMMENT: I had believed with caution that Turkey is a country of cat lovers, in general. But like every country even if you have many people who like cats there’s always somebody who hates them. In this instance … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court of Poland grants improved animal rights to carp, a freshwater fish

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on December 8, 2020 by MikeBDecember 8, 2020

Carp describes various species of an oily freshwater fish native to Europe and Asia which is consumed in many parts of the world. In Poland this species of fish faces a very difficult and abusive time at Christmas. Historically carp … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, animal law, animal rights, animal welfare and rights, fish, fishing, good news, human animal relationship, marine wildlife, news, Poland

Most kittens are declawed before they are 8 months old

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on November 27, 2020 by MikeBNovember 27, 2020
Declawing is like this

In the tweet on this page, The Paw Project is saying that the reason why kittens are being declawed at such a young age is to avoid owners being scratched but if they were trained in those early years beyond … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged america, animal cruelty, cats, declawing, kittens, North America, veterinarian

Ducks abused at slaughterhouse supplying Waitrose, UK

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on November 12, 2020 by MikeBNovember 12, 2020
Gressingham Duck

NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Since 2018 UK slaughterhouses have been required to have security cameras inside their facilities to detect potential breaches of animal welfare. The Gressingham Duck slaughterhouse, in Redgrave, Sussex did not have these cameras but, fortunately, Animal … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged abattoir, animal cruelty, animal rights, birds

Ex-zookeeper stole two penguins from his old workplace

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on October 31, 2020 by MikeBOctober 31, 2020
Bradley Tomes

NEWS AND COMMENT: Bradley Tomes, 25, used to work at Southlake Safari Zoo in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK, until 2016. He’s just been convicted of the theft of rare birds from the zoo, in July and October 2018, and has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal abuse, animal cruelty, crime, news

Deer hunters use whips to force a stag to run

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on October 7, 2020 by MikeBOctober 7, 2020
Stag forced to run with whips

Investigators from the League Against Cruel Sports filmed two hunters from the Devon and Somerset Staghounds using whips to force a red deer stag to carry on running to allow them to continue having their fun before shooting the animal. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal abuse, animal advocate, animal cruelty, deer hunting, news, short hunting

An end to the barbaric boiling of lobsters?

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on August 31, 2020 by MikeBSeptember 1, 2020
Crustastun in use

ANALYSIS: It’s about time. It is said that when a living lobster is placed into boiling water it screams in pain. As I recall, it’s been proved that they do. And there’s no reason why they shouldn’t feel pain. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal abuse, animal cruelty, euthanasia, lobsters, marine wildlife, news

Tesco and Lidl ban beef from a farm where cows were abused

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on August 26, 2020 by MikeBAugust 26, 2020
Berryfields Farm near Daventry, Northamptonshire

The Times reports on a disturbing case of the abuse of cows at a UK farm. The farm has been named as Berryfields Farm near Daventry, Northamptonshire. The cows were allegedly beaten with pipes, kicked and had their tails twisted. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, cows, livestock, news

Monkeys used as coconut-picking machines

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on August 11, 2020 by MikeBAugust 21, 2020
Coconut monkey

NEWS-VIEWS: PETA allege that monkeys in Thailand are forced to climb trees to pick coconuts for milk which is sold by brands such as Chaokoh. When the monkeys are not working PETA report that they are confined to cramped cages … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty, Animal rights, Compassion, Interspecies relationships | Tagged animal law, news, Primates, Thailand

Fish feel pain and humans treat them cruelly

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on July 13, 2020 by MikeBJuly 14, 2020
Fish in nets

For many thousands of years, for aeons, humans have fished both to feed themselves and for sport and entertainment. Trillions of fish have died at the hands of these human activities – a huge, metaphorical pile of pain. It is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, fish, marine wildlife, pain, sentience

Coronavirus: bats get a bad press

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 14, 2020 by MikeBApril 14, 2020
Wet market China

It almost seems settled that bats in China are the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. There is a lot of talk about bats passing the Covid-19 virus to pangolins and pangolins passing it to people in the Wuhan wet market … Continue reading →

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Security camera picks up pet sitter throwing puppy to a hard floor

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on August 7, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Pet sitter throws Labrador puppy to hard floor

A pet sitter commissioned under a smartphone app called Rover was recorded on a security camera throwing a defenceless Labrador puppy onto a hard kitchen floor. The puppy, Lucy, struggled to get to her feet afterwards. The busines that runs … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, dog, dog abuse

How many animal abuse posts are Facebook moderators seeing?

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on July 1, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg has publicised his efforts to moderate off the Facebook platform unacceptable posts, pictures and videos of bestiality, terrorism and beheadings. The moderators claim that they are poorly paid and that the confidentiality agreement prevents them discussing their work … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal welfare and rights

Bearskin hats are still made out of genuine bearskin in 2019. Shame on the MoD.

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on June 3, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Trump meets troops in bearskin caps

Believe it or not, in 2019, British troops still wear genuine bearskin caps on ceremonial occasions and have failed to substitute bearskin with a synthetic material.

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Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, conservation

Ellie Knoller is accused of beating two puppies to death and nearly killing a third

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on May 30, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Knoller and Kuncman

Ellie Knoller and Jessica Kuncman. The man with a woman’s name is an alleged dog killer – photo: NCDA Well, I was surprised at this story. The name deceived me. “Ellie’ is a female name so I’d thought that a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, dogs

St John’s woman found guilty of allowing dogs to escape tennis court and kill a cat

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on May 29, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Woman allowed her two dogs to escape a tennis court and kill a cat

A woman, Crystal Smith, living in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, took two of her four dogs for a walk. She went to a tennis court where she had been before and let them roam freely there after closing the gate … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, animal law

Olé – take that you bastards!!!

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on May 28, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Pamplona festival bull chases man

OLE – take that you bastards!!!!! @RickyGervais RT if you want a GLOBAL ban on ALL #BullFighting NOW!!! pic.twitter.com/IvooqTmxlX — PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE (@Protect_Wldlife) May 24, 2019

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Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty, animal welfare and rights

Cat declawing is like chopping off someone’s fingers at the last knuckle with a cigar cutter

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on May 19, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Declawing is like this

To drive the point home, when you ask your vet to declaw your cat you are asking her to do the human equivalent of chopping off the fingers of a person at the last knuckle with a cigar cutter. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal welfare and rights, cats, welfare

You can buy seal sausages in Russia and animal advocates are disgusted

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 23, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019
Seal meat can

Animal advocates in Russia are disgusted at the sale of seal sausages manufactured by a company based in the Magadan region on the Sea of Okhotsk. This is 3,600 miles from Moscow. We are told in The Times that about … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal cruelty | Tagged animal cruelty

Woman literally throws bag of newborn puppies onto pile of trash

Animal-human relationship avatarPosted on April 21, 2019 by MikeBDecember 11, 2019

The callousness of it is truly shocking. Security cameras shows what appears to be a young women stepping out of her car with what looks like a plastic bag and throws it onto other plastic bags containing rubbish. This is … Continue reading →

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