CALIFORNIA, US – NEWS AND VIEWS: I am going to have to be brutally honest about this. Some people love the way Maritza Rubalcava has applied fake nails to her dog’s claws and made TikTok videos out of it. She … Continue reading →
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 knew his cat would complain with that strange feline sound that we have heared … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: Florida’s lawmakers are set to ban the tethering of pets and leaving them unsupervised. A bill is currently being debated: Senate Bill 650. There is full support on both sides of the house. An influential group voiced … Continue reading →
Farm staff were filmed kicking live trout along the floor. Test Valley Trout Farming supplies ChalkStream®, a brand under which fish from the fish farms are marketed. Chalk Stream has received glowing reports including endorsements from Jamie Oliver and Tom … Continue reading →
Consumers should boycott pork as most pigs die in terror and pain gasping for breath. Slaughterhouse pigs suffer before death. Millions of pigs suffer poor welfare at slaughterhouses. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs report that almost 90% … Continue reading →
It is always useful to know the most pet-friendly states in the USA. This chart relates to 2020. Safewise.com produced the data in the image. They rank states based on the following information: percentage of pet-friendly apartments, pets-left in-car laws, … Continue reading →
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 foxhunting as does his wife the Duchess of Cornwall. In November 2004, The Guardian … Continue reading →
Animal rights were and are inherently benefited by Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for human rights. The two go hand-in-hand. It’s not surprising because the human is the human-animal. We have to accept that no matter how arrogant we might … Continue reading →
Ultimately this is about animal welfare (as per the website’s goals) because when conservative-minded people are too right wing they are less likely to be animal advocates and more likely to enjoy shooting them for pleasure. Everybody on the planet … Continue reading →
Carp describes various species of an oily freshwater fish native to Europe and Asia which is consumed in many parts of the world. In Poland this species of fish faces a very difficult and abusive time at Christmas. Historically carp … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: The county of Weixin, Yunnan province, had laid down the law on dog-walking because of complaints of dog bites. They had ruled that dogs in urban areas could not roam free but had to be kept tied … Continue reading →
It’s all over the news and it’s going to have quite a big impact on the rapidly growing vegan movement. Food manufacturers have had to catch up. People are concerned about the environment and they are more knowledgeable about how … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: Jane Goodall is known worldwide and is internationally respected as a primatologist and anthropologist. She is one of the best known animal advocates on the planet and she will please a lot of people concerned with animal … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Since 2018 UK slaughterhouses have been required to have security cameras inside their facilities to detect potential breaches of animal welfare. The Gressingham Duck slaughterhouse, in Redgrave, Sussex did not have these cameras but, fortunately, Animal … Continue reading →
How…and I mean really how can these people live with themselves? Do they feel any bit of remorse or guilt at all? Humanity just makes me so sick. – Vic Toms If you can’t stand to watch than how can … Continue reading →
The sentence can be found on the PETA website. I think it needs to be discussed as best we can. It does actually pose some very difficult philosophical questions about human behaviour which falls between immorality and illegality. The point … Continue reading →
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 animal rescue. You might know that you can select a still image to be presented … Continue reading →
In America there is a shortage of rhesus macaque monkeys for animal testing purposes. There was a shortage years before the coronavirus pandemic but now US research centres are saying that there are not enough to go around and there … Continue reading →
NEWS AND OPINION: I can say with confidence and without any possibility of defamation that an animal testing laboratory in or near Hamburg, Germany called Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) was found to be treating animals barbarically and they … Continue reading →
In the UK in 2019 there was a change in the law regarding animals in entertainment which means that actors cannot handle animals like a true veterinarian because to do so would be to do something to an animal that … Continue reading →
