Compassion

Trejos and Sam

Retired man burned to death protecting his friend’s dog in the back of his car in the Hawaii wildfires

You might have heard of the Hawaii wildfires. Specifically, they were on the island of Maui. They’ve claimed 96 lives so far. Jeff Bogar lived on the island. He is a retired Maui fire captain. His close friend was Franklin Trejos. All the accounts say that Trejos was a really good man. He looked after …

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Mark Skage rescued a moose calf and it cost him his job

Petroleum lorry driver sacked for giving a moose calf a lift in his cab

NEWS AND VIEWS – BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA: There are a few interesting aspects to this story. Firstly, it’s rather strange because Mark Skage is a hunter based on what I see on his Facebook page. He likes to shoot animals for fun but showed real compassion to a moose calf and it cost him his …

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Security guards enjoying the moment

Culture change in China desired as indicated by support of fan’s football pitch invasion

An 18-year-old football fan who idolises Lionel Messi, the world’s most famous and perhaps most talented footballer and an Argentinian team member, has captured the imagination of the Chinese public by bravely jumping down from the stands in a dangerous manoeuvre and running onto the pitch at the Workers’ Stadium during a friendly match between …

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Is King Charles III wearing a real bearskin hat at trooping the colour?

Did Charles III wear a real bearskin hat at trooping the colour?

As far as I know King Charles III wore a genuine bearskin hat at trooping the colour today (17th June 2023) as he led the way on his black horse (Canadian steed ‘Noble’). If so, he is doing his role as the monarch a disservice. This was an opportunity to make a big statement for …

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Novak Djokovic is NOT completely vegan

All the websites on the Internet are telling me that Novak Djokovic is a vegan. His diet is certainly fantastic and super-healthy. It requires self-discipline which he has in abundance. However, a recent article in The Times following his victory at The French Open tells me quite conclusively that Novak is not truly vegan because …

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Penned dog hunting in Ontario is cruel and objectionable

Ontario’s extremist sport hunters enjoy ‘penned dog hunting’

This is another form of gratuitous violence against wild animals enjoyed by a small section of society in Ontario, Canada; the extremist sport hunters. They are a blood thirsty lot, aren’t they? Without morals and any vestige of sensitivity towards the sentience of animals. Their behavior baffles most people. Penned hunting of wild animals such …

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Ten common house spiders in the USA

Leave house spiders inside the home if you can

Removing spiders from the home is problematic. Animal advocate Nathan Winograd has told me that one’s instinct to remove a spider from your home is problematic as many species of spider in any country make your home their home. They are house spiders. It depends on your attitude. If you hate spiders and are terrified …

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Male chicks thrown out alive with garbage

Sound up. Male chicks thrown out alive with the garbage. Listen to their cries and remember.

This is the message that you can’t as a decent meat-eating person ignore: go vegan. And I say that as a meat-eater. But over a period of about 8 years, I have gradually weaned myself of meat. I still eat a small amount of chicken but that’ about it. It has taken a long time …

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Dogs on the way to their brutal deaths at a dog meat market in China

25,000-30,000 dogs are being slaughtered DAILY for food in China

It is estimated that 25,000-30,000 dogs are being slaughtered DAILY for food in China, the world’s largest consumer of dog meat (source: https://plushbearsshelter.org). This truck was seen on Shanxi Yuncheng Expressway, May 23rd 2023. What do people in general thing about this? I know that many people in the West hate it. Detest it. We …

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Calves separated from their mothers are placed in tiny enclosures

Putting calves in tiny enclosures after being torn from their mums is cruel and unproductive

PETA says: Dairy farming is a cruel industry that profits from the exploitation and suffering of animals. Mother cows and their calves are separated, the milk meant for these babies is taken for human consumption (bad idea – see end of page). Go vegan. I agree with them. The more I study the husbandry of …

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Piglet tail-docking

Piglet tail docking is unethical from two standpoints

Just like dogs, pigs use their tails to express their emotions, wagging them when happy and hiding them between their legs when they are stressed or scared. Yet this [tail docking] is done to piglets without aesthetic. – Kim Rathbone on Twitter I’ve just bumped into piglet tail docking on Twitter. There’s a picture of …

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Dog in cage in Vietnam waiting to be brutally slaughtered for their flesh to feed humans

Cultural sensitivities allow Vietnamese dog meat traders to barbarically kill dogs

Twitter understands me! Whenever I go to Twitter, they offer up to me images that incense me. They drive me to blog about them. To rage inside. To cry inside. To feel powerless. To feel impotent. I can’t stop this Vietnamese dog cruelty. Just writing that sentence risks a backlash from a Vietnamese person who’ll …

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Shark rescued from beech at Cape Code.

People rescue a great white shark that beached itself chasing a seagull (video)

Location: Cape Cod, Massachusetts. How did they know it was chasing a seagull and got too excited! And are sharks sometimes this careless? Was the shark ill? Or did they lose their bearings because of sonar used by submarines? A lot of questions and no answers. The guys who rescued the shark knew what they …

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Treating animals as inanimate objects by putting them in tiny cages where they can't move when they are prizes

Puppy as a prize put in a tiny cage so he can’t move (animals become ‘objects’)

Animals as prizes put in tiny cages so they can’t move (animals become ‘objects’). The Twitter tweet states: “May 1st, Kaifeng, Henan China Animals put in small cages as prizes. The little dog couldn’t stretch his limbs inside, and was trembling every time someone threw a circle.” Sorry but this disgusts me. A demonstration of …

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Cedar and the 9-year-old girl EL

Pet goat seized by police under court order, barbecued and eaten (the story behind this)

There is quite an involved but interesting story behind the headline but essentially, a nine-year-old girl (‘EL’) took her a goat called ‘Cedar’ to the Shasta County District Fair (‘Fair’) under what is called a 4-H program where children raise and then sell their animals for slaughter. Although Cedar was taken to the Fair for …

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