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Canadian police officer kills an injured deer with an axe in suburbia on video

Canadian police officer kills a deer with an axe in suburbia on video in plain sight

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NEWS AND COMMENT: I am very critical of these police officers’ behavior and police behavior generally in this post. This is sheer horror and the horror was committed by a police officer of the Ontario Provincial Police. A resident, Marcey Danae, saw the brutal killing and videoed it. This is the mentality of some police …

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M-44 Device, Guy Connolly, US, Department of Agriculture National

3 US representatives introduce bill to ban cyanide bombs

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NEW AND VIEWS – UNITED STATES: What is a cyanide bomb? It sounds obnoxious and it is. It’s spring-loaded device filled with sodium cyanide used to kill predatory animals and ‘pest species’. The Center for Biological Diversity tells me that cyanide bombs are used under a US federal program called ‘wildlife services’ which is a …

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Security guards enjoying the moment

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

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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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Penned dog hunting in Ontario is cruel and objectionable

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

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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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Beagles in animal testing

In the UK, lab animals are not protected by major animal welfare legislation

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This is a weakness in UK animal welfare in my view. It’s a weakness in the legislation which has been highlighted by Laura Harris MP in the House of Commons in a debate which was very sparsely populated by members of Parliament by the way. Indicative of MP attitudes to animal welfare?? She refers to …

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Pitbull dog

Banning specific dog breeds or focusing on responsible dog ownership?

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Nathan Winograd has been strongly arguing for some time now that it is immoral and ineffective to ban certain dog breeds and instead the focus should be on dog caregiving and ensuring that it is responsible so that individual dogs behave in an acceptable way. Link to Nathan Winograd’s website He has run a very …

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Spain has decriminalised bestiality. Yes or No? Yes!

Spain allows people to have sex with animals provided it doesn’t cause injury

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I’ve not quite got to the bottom of the reasons behind this but the Spanish government has, it seems, quite recently decriminalised bestiality (sex with animals). You might say that they partially decriminalised it but I really think that you either allow it or you don’t allow it. Bestiality is either a crime or it …

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52-pound dog carried in backpack on NYC subway

Enterprising woman carries her 52-pound Samoyed dog in a backpack on NYC subway

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This enterprising woman, Jackie Hornung, carries her 52-pound white Samoyed dog in a backpack to beat the NYC subway rules which state: “No person may bring any animal on our into any conveyance or facility unless enclosed in a container.” – MTA. A lot of subway travellers have devised their own solution. None decided to …

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A wildlife trophy hunter in Africa and Sir Bill Wiggin MP

African nations complaining about a lack of consultation on UK’s trophy hunting ban

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NEWS AND OPINION: Representatives from South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia, countries where most of the trophy hunting takes place, are complaining to the British government that they weren’t consulted on the UK’s law which is currently being debated in Parliament to ban the importation of trophies from sport hunting exploits in Africa. British …

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The kind of enriched environment I envisage for domestic cats confined to the home

Strong trend in Australia to keep domestic cats inside full-time has a big DEFECT

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Once again, we are told that Australia is changing the face of cat domestication in order to protect their native species, often their small native mammals which are particularly vulnerable to domestic cat predation. This is because historically they never had to deal with cat predation and therefore, they have not armed themselves against it. …

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Trainee guide dogs Ron, Eve, Atlas and Fordi from the London office are super prepared!

Guide dog owners experience many demoralising access refusals

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Today, The Times newspaper reports on a facet of UK society which is shameful, and which demonstrates a degree of ignorance and lack of respect among service providers which urgently needs to be rectified. Shops and taxis are refusing to let guide dogs in. The problem is growing. Reasons for wrongly refusing guide dogs access …

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Liz Truss is not for animal welfare

UK’s new Prime Minister is a danger to animals

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NEWS and OPINION: I have been digging around to see how Liz Truss, the new PM, squares up in respect of animal welfare. It is a topic which is incredibly important to me, and progress was made under Boris Johnson to improve animal welfare thanks to the presence of his wife Carrie. Lord Goldsmith is …

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Pretty Chinese woman looking like a girl cooks a giant salamander and it is disgusting

Pretty Chinese girl cooks a giant salamander and it is disgusting

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I know I am discussing an entirely different culture to the one that I am familiar with, which is probably why this video is disgusting to me. Do you agree with me? This sweet-looking, petit, young woman in a schoolgirl’s skirt with a schoolgirl voice buys a Chinese giant salamander from a street trader. The …

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Kenny Snr with kudu antelope

Trophy hunters kill every three minutes

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I guess that, like me, you thought that trophy hunting was only for the rich and well-connected and therefore it didn’t happen that often despite being highly objectionable in the modern age. You would be very mistaken. Trophy hunters kill every three minutes according to a British parliamentary report. And it is interesting but sad …

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Balletic dance of death

Mexico City: Judge extends ban on bullfighting indefinitely

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NEWS AND COMMENT-MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: This might be the beginning of the end of bullfighting in Mexico, where it has been present in Mexico City since the 1520s. Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes apparently watched the first bullfights in the city soon after his 1521 conquest of the Aztec capital. For animal advocates this is excellent …

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