The man who cloned a sheep is Prof Sir Ian Wilmut and he is in The Times obituaries today as she died on September 10, 2023 aged 79 after a long illness. I’m therefore able to say a few words about this embryologist’s famous work in which he created Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal …
The man who cloned a sheep said it would be criminally irresponsible to clone a human Read More »
Ninety-nine percent of the world’s human population love birds. But it seems that some administrators of buildings, in order to keep the building free of bird poop, decide to stick spiky devices on their building and sometimes even the branches of trees near the building. This is the only reason I can think of which …
Putting spikes on tree branches to stop birds perching is callous Read More »
Twitter feeds a customised list of tweets to users. I know that. But it doesn’t make it any easier to digest. What is wrong with humans that they have to be so consistently cruel to animals? A lot of people don’t think about animal cruelty as they live in their little human-centric bubble. Or they …
What’s wrong with humans? Two tweets of animal cruelty. Read More »
The picture (words added by me) from Twitter sums up what I mean about sport hunters being AHs (arseholes). Yep, I am being rude. Being rude is mild compared to the death and destruction that sport hunters hand out to wildlife often on the African continent where corrupt officials sell expensive licenses to shoot their …
Struge It has come to my notice that in parts of Macedonia (at least) the authorities have instigated the mass killing of stray dogs by it seems any means possible; often by shooting. For instance, there is a petition on the change.org website after the Mayor of Struge authorised these shootings. It has been signed …
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Is speciesism at the root of the human-to-animal problem; the abuse and cruelty? And, from my perspective, there is a problem with our relationship with animals. Not all of it is bad that’s obvious because there are hundreds of millions of great people who are compassionate towards animals and who don’t suffer from the affliction …
Everyone needs to learn about speciesism and ask tough questions Read More »
NEWS AND OPINION: The host of the Russian talk show 60 Minutes, Olga Skabeyeva, said: “In the once Great Britain it was revealed today that some restaurants will be serving squirrels in view of the fact that there are plenty of animals in the park, so why not eat them? Bear in mind there is …
Russians say that Britons have to rely on eating squirrel because of a food shortage! Read More »
This is a short note, as I call them, about King Charles III. I like writing about the Royal family of the UK because I don’t really like them. I am unsure whether there is a place for them in the UK in the 21st century because they are too expensive, too wealthy and too …
Allegedly King Charles III hates grey squirrels but loves the reds. Speciesism? Read More »
This is a nice mixture of animals and humans in a current context as the drama of the football World Cup is currently being played out in Qatar. The England team is staying at a high-quality beachfront hotel in Souq Al-Wakra, Doha. Back in the day, when Paul Gascoigne was playing for the England team, …
England football team entertain themselves with a card game called Wolf Read More »
Nathan Winograd, described by The Bark as “The voice of America’s displaced pets and the conscience of the animal sheltering industry”, tells me in a newsletter via email that a couple of professors of race and gender identity claim that a study they conducted demonstrates that shelter dogs with “Hispanic” and “black” names “have a …
Study shows shelter dogs with “black” or “Hispanic” names are less likely to be adopted Read More »
