NEWS AND COMMENT: The American XL bully dog story is worse than we thought. This type of dog is going to be banned in the UK because it is killing and injuring people and their pets. The shocking news today is that this dog type (it is not a registered breed) is being trained by …
NEWS AND VIEWS – WALES, UK: This is an uplifting story and we could do with more uplifting stories particularly when they involve animals. Hope is a disabled random-bred dog with a massive heart. And the story should give us heart that disabled animals and people can do wonderful things in the right environment and …
The RSPCA report that there has been a rise in dog cruelty and abuse for the second year in a row in the UK. The charity confirmed that they had 9,776 reports of intentional harm to dogs in 2022 compared to 8,176 in 2021. In 2020 there were 7,691 cases of intentional harm to dogs. …
The Animal Save Movement on Twitter says this about the video: This footage was recently filmed over a 2.5-week period at the property of one of Australia’s leading greyhound trainers. It shows dogs and puppies being kicked, punched, dragged and beaten. If this is the industry’s best, imagine the worst. Greyhound racing equals animal cruelty. …
The National Assembly of Vietnam is the highest government organisation and the highest-level representative body of the people of Vietnam and the excellent news from The Phuket News of Sunday, July 16, 2023, is that this body wants to “tackle [the] dog and cat meat trade”. It’s a rather vague headline. I would rather see …
Vietnamese government wants to phase out cat and dog meat Read More »
This information refers to the UK. My thanks to The Times newspaper of today and the article by Tom Witherow, Shayma Bakht and Tom Ball.
For the past few days, if you search on Twitter for information about dogs by typing ‘dogs’ into the search box on Twitter you get reams of Chinese uploads of pretty girls. They seem to be dating websites in China but that is a big guess as Google Translate can’t translate the Chinese (which is …
Chinese hijack Twitter search for ‘dogs’ to present dating websites Read More »
This is a complicated question because the law varies on a country-by-country basis and there may be variations in the law at a state or perhaps county level in some countries such as the USA. In general terms, in the UK it is illegal for a veterinarian to crop a Doberman’s ears unless it is …
Is Doberman ear cropping legal and how do they do it? Read More »
This is a video on Twitter. I don’t know the background. It appears to be America. It appears to show two teenage kids who have bumped into a stray dog on the street who is submissive and compliant. They use that quality to abuse the dog. They giggle while they try and drown the dog …
I am baffled by kids who try and drown a stray dog for fun. How bad can it get? Read More »
In a protest against the abuses suffered by racing greyhounds in the UK after they are no longer useful as racers, the animal rights group, Animal Rising, have announced on Twitter their plan to disrupt the Greyhound Derby final at Towcester Racecourse on July 1st, 2023. It is a bold public announcement which has attracted …
Twitter feeds a customised list of tweets to users. I know that. But it doesn’t make it any easier to digest. What is wrong with humans that they have to be so consistently cruel to animals? A lot of people don’t think about animal cruelty as they live in their little human-centric bubble. Or they …
What’s wrong with humans? Two tweets of animal cruelty. Read More »
In China an estimated 10 million to 20 million dogs are killed annually for the dog meat industry in the country. In the UK around 10 million pigs are killed annually for consumption. This statistic provides a comparison. Dogs in China can be considered to be ‘free livestock’. No farming costs. Just roundup and transportation …
“Opposing dog meat consumption is hypocritical” – Weibo users discuss dog meat Read More »
Well, this is an interesting video as it shows an alleged dog abuser and killer in a pre-trial court hearing representing himself as he sacked his attorney. This gave him the opportunity to allegedly perjure himself. I use the word ‘allegedly’ and ‘alleged’ to protect myself from defamation as the trial is pending. It’ll happen …
Alleged sadistic dog abuser and ‘murderer’ sacked his attorney and perjured himself Read More »
Words can’t really describe the emotions on seeing this dog rescue. This poor dog has suffered so patiently probably for most of his/her life and on a short chain. It is a horrible and hurtful thought. Anyone with a heart will be hurt is seeing the first part of this video. The mood lifts when …
Old mange-ridden dog rescued at last after a years on a short chain (hard to see) Read More »
NEWS AND VIEWS: The point of this article is that the police did not have to shoot these dogs. I’m not saying the dogs weren’t difficult but it seems to me that they were not out of control because they were on leads and see the video immediately below – they were behaving normally. It …
Protest after police agitate two dogs and then shoot them dead Read More »
