Please Don't Hurt Me
Every year sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps and leave their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Veterinarians who studied a past hunt concluded that the hunters failed to comply with Canada’s basic animal welfare standards and that 42 percent of the seals appeared to have been skinned alive.
Despite Canada’s ‘new and improved’ methods being implemented this year, sealers are still slaughtering these pups in the same way they have for previous years. It’s unconscionable.
For more information, please visit any of the following websites for first-hand accounts and ways you can help save the seals.
If you would like to get more involved, please join us here on Red Bubble in the Voices for Animals group. The more supporters we have, the louder our collective voice will be!!
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cevaro, 6 months ago
thank you for this
tamoopy, 6 months ago
Very poignant image. Its inconceivable that people would do such evil, and I think it’s really important that we are reminded of such atrocities since it is all to easy to forget when we are sat in our comfy chairs thinking we haven’t got a care in the world. I will be going on the websites that you have listed, although I may find the images too harrowing. Thanks for making me aware once again.
Hoffard, 6 months ago
Great drawing Lorie! Love it!
pinkyjain, 6 months ago
Such a stunning & powerful image
dropSoul, 6 months ago
Wow!
Crockpot in reply to Hoffard’s comment, 6 months ago
Thanks but the credit goes to Mike on this one. :)
I’ll relay the message!!
Crockpot in reply to cevaro’s comment, 6 months ago
You’re quite welcome. I hope it will serve to inspire people to get involved and speak out against this horrifying event!
Crockpot in reply to tamoopy’s comment, 6 months ago
Very well said! It’s too true. Those of us that aren’t faced with these events on a regular basis get way too comfortable in our own day to day lives. It’s easy to forget what goes on outside our own comfort zone ~ and even worse, it’s easy to ignore.
I hope to change all that. I know it’s a huge task I’m taking on, but I have to try.
yanmos, 6 months ago
very nice drawing Lorie!
Hoffard, 6 months ago
Well done Mike!
yanmos, 6 months ago
oops… so Mike!
tamoopy, 6 months ago
Yeah, I agree. It is a huge task, but you obviously feel strongly about it, and its inspiring that you are reaching out to as many people as possible. It’s a sad fact that those that have the most power (in this overly materialistic world) seem to wait until it’s too late before even thinking about taking action. The voice of the ‘little’ man is often shoved into the background and the innocent (the seals and all our animals) are seen as nothing more than pound signs or in some cases a nuisance, which must be got rid of by any means necessary. I believe strongly in what you are doing and wish you luck. You are not alone.
Crockpot in reply to tamoopy’s comment, 6 months ago
Thank you so much for your kind and supportive words ~ it really does mean a lot to me. :)
tamoopy, 6 months ago
Your very, very welcome.
Forest Friends..., 6 months ago
Nice work!
Cynthia Adams, 6 months ago
Cool image Lorie…tamoopy has spoken well…onwards and upwards folks…no time to spare..!!
ECGardner, 6 months ago
Another very powerful piece… Way to give a voice to the voiceless, Lorie. You’re doing awesome work.
Cindy Lemoi, 6 months ago
Excellent work ! Great image to get the point across. Well done !!
Helen Bascom, 6 months ago
Superb message. But human beings care so little for their own they enslave, abuse, rape and murder the own children. Most human beings have no respect for life in any form. Keep up the fabulous work.
Carmen Mandel-..., 6 months ago
Lorie, for every Seal soul portrayed allow me to wish:
May the souls of the all innocent creatures killed by these horrific deeds enlighten many more compassionate individuals to finally overpower the greedy, cruel and sickening objectives and market that fuel this horrendous activity.
Excellent and courageous initiative, Lorie. No effort goes in vain, no deed is too little …
KEITH R. WILL..., 6 months ago
very imaginative thanks for supporting the effort
Lucindawind, 6 months ago
I HATE the seal hunt !
frozenfa, 6 months ago
argh!! don’t shoot!!
HATE those stinking hunters!!! grrr…
Krys Bailey, 6 months ago
A powerful and emotive image! I too am supporting the campaign for banning this heinous act of cruelty! Images like this will help make more people aware and hopefully get more support for the cause! Thank you!
Crockpot, 5 months ago
mariarty, 5 months ago
A powerful image, a good way to get your point across. It sickens me thinking what happens to the seals. Keep up the good work.