NEWS AND COMMENT: It looks as if Gucci has tripped up big-time. The company has a new range of clothes, accessories and shoes named after the...
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South Carolina needs a statutory penalty preventing animal abusers from possessing an animal
In South Carolina if a person is convicted of animal abuse under state animal welfare laws, they do not receive a statutory, automatic punishment which bans...
Continue reading...Famous Frodo, the last of Michael Vick’s dogfighting ring, dies
I guess the world has heard about Michael Vick’s dogfighting ring. Vick earned the largest pay check of any NFL player in his time. Apparently, he...
Continue reading...Monster mess of koala conservation in Australia
There appears to be a shocking failure in the conservation of the koala in Australia which has been highlighted by a catastrophe in Cape Bridgewater, Victoria....
Continue reading...Increasingly popular vegan and vegetarian foods results in more cruelty against macaques
More people than ever before are becoming vegetarians or vegan. They want to do something to stop the meat-trade which contributes to global warming through forest...
Continue reading...Woman foxhunter slaps ‘uncooperative’ horse in face and kicks it
NEWS AND COMMENT: I will start this article by showing two screenshot images from a Twitter video made by the Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs from a Cottesmore...
Continue reading...Good example of association between domestic violence and animal cruelty
We know that the sort of person who commits domestic violence will often enjoy violence against animals. The two go together. This is a good example....
Continue reading...Distinguished racehorses killed inhumanely and sometimes in front of other horses at abattoir
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 in...
Continue reading...The phrase “to be treated worse than a dog” needs to be dropped
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. This...
Continue reading...An amusing cat video or a mild case of cat abuse?
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 probably...
Continue reading...Jeremy Paxman shoots grey squirrels sat on his toilet
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 the...
Continue reading...University laboratory manager allegedly decapitated over 200 mice
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 decapitated...
Continue reading...Shame: Prince Charles loves foxhunting
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, supported...
Continue reading...Fishing considered to be exercise under UK Covid-19 lockdown
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 is...
Continue reading...What is ‘bucking bronco’?
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’ has...
Continue reading...Poisoned ham kills many street cats in Kemer, Turkey
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...
Continue reading...Mahatma Gandhi would say that modern China is immoral
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 by...
Continue reading...Smellicopter is an immoral device
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 as...
Continue reading...UK: keeping monkeys as pets is to be banned
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 anybody...
Continue reading...Chicken comes to boy on request for a hug
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 and...
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