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 tiger as it is the Chinese Year of the Tiger. Great but their advertising material has caused a huge …
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 them possessing or owning an animal for a set period of time. Most American states have such a law. …
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 blames others for taking that paycheck from him. He says that others “didn’t have my best interests at heart”. …
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. Am I missing something? Am I getting a clear and correct message from the Internet? The Australians profess to …
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 destruction and methane production and which incorporates cruelty to animals. So, becoming a vegan or vegetarian is good for …
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 Hunt followed by the video. They are self-explanatory. The RSPCA is investigating. The Hertfordshire Hunt Saboteurs said: “Yesterday we …
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. It is a story by KIRO 7 News from the Ranier Beach area of Seattle, USA. Zach Grayson held …
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 the first sentence from an article in The Times today about the cruel death of racehorses as shown in …
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 is what the phrase “to be treated worse than the dog” means. It implies, very strongly, that dogs are …
