How many racehorses are slaughtered each year in the UK? Answer: thousands often under inhumane circumstances. Sadly, we can more or less answer the question… Read More »Distinguished racehorses killed inhumanely and sometimes in front of other horses at abattoir
In the interests of dog and animal welfare, it is time that humankind stopped comparing the ill-treatment of people with the typical treatment of dogs.… Read More »The phrase “to be treated worse than a dog” needs to be dropped
You decide. I have decided. The bloke pushed over the dry cat food container deliberately to make the video. It was all planned obviously. He… Read More »An amusing cat video or a mild case of cat abuse?
In a kind of a rant, Jeremy Paxman has admitted to enjoying shooting grey squirrels with an air rifle while sat on his crapper with… Read More »Jeremy Paxman shoots grey squirrels sat on his toilet
NEWS AND COMMENT: At an employment tribunal, the applicant, Robert Pawlak, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Exeter, alleged that Deborah Galley illegally… Read More »University laboratory manager allegedly decapitated over 200 mice
I have read today that Prince Charles bought Highgrove, his home in Gloucestershire, because it was near the Beaufort Hunt. He clearly, at the time,… Read More »Shame: Prince Charles loves foxhunting
COMMENT: This is very questionable but I acccept it. In the UK people have to remain at home during the current lockdown because the NHS… Read More »Fishing considered to be exercise under UK Covid-19 lockdown
A bucking bronco is a half-broken horse that is difficult to handle. You hear the phrase used in the old Western movies. The name ‘bronco’… Read More »What is ‘bucking bronco’?
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… Read More »Poisoned ham kills many street cats in Kemer, Turkey
Pretty well everyone knows the famous Mahatma Gandhi saying which I repeat here: “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged… Read More »Mahatma Gandhi would say that modern China is immoral
The smellicopter is part man-made and part insect made. It is a drone, attached to which are a pair of moth antennae. It’s been lauded… Read More »Smellicopter is an immoral device
Keeping monkeys as pets causes suffering for the animals and it endangers their survival in the wild. The UK government is preparing to announce that… Read More »UK: keeping monkeys as pets is to be banned
A chicken comes to a boy on a farm for a hug on the boy’s request. It’s a silent request but it is there nonetheless… Read More »Chicken comes to boy on request for a hug
NEWS AND VIEWS: The Chinese are destroying coral reefs over vast areas in two ways and it is highly distressing. I don’t know how anybody… Read More »China is destroying coral reefs in two ways
OPINION – COMMENT: It is said that Chinese bullfighting is more humane than Spanish bullfighting because the bulls fight themselves whereas in Spain the bulls… Read More »In Chinese bullfighting the bulls fight each other
There is a disturbing story in The Times newspaper today, Wednesday 18th 2020, in which it is reported that fishermen off South America’s Atlantic coast… Read More »Fishermen of South America’s Atlantic coast mutilate seabirds
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… Read More »Ex-zookeeper stole two penguins from his old workplace
NEWS AND VIEWS – PHILIPPINES: it is reported that a police officer was killed by a fighting cockerel when the bird’s bladed spur struck his… Read More »Fighting cock kills police officer
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… Read More »Deer hunters use whips to force a stag to run
Because of the highly competitive nature of YouTube, I am seeing upsetting images being used as the icon image when searching for a video on… Read More »YouTube video makers are using clickbait still images to catch the eye