Cruelty
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An Orangutan pondering something
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Please Help
by Julie LangfordLovely Oink
Lovely Oink
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This painterly photo has distinctive images. I see the profile of a horse’s head with a white and blue face on the left side and his nostril in the middle. Another striking eye with contrasting color is on the right. The pastel colors are quite striking with great lighting and vivid colors. The bark of trees offers us surprising imagery after focusing on the illustrations under the veneer of peeling bark. It is truly nature’s “secret canvas.” The blue horse looks like he might have a small tear in his beautiful blue eye considering the fate of his equine friends who have been abused, neglected and killed due to human consumption and greed. I am an active animal activist and donate any proceeds I receive from my photography to groups to preserve animals, both wildlife and domestic. I will upload an editorial I wrote on the crisis affecting Mustangs and have contributed to many organizations to stop the brutality and violence against these majestic creatures. I admire everyone who is active in fightening the cruelty that has victimized our precious wildlife with some species at great risk of extinction. Our planet’s ecosystem also is in great peril suffering the consequences of man’s destruction of the natural environment.
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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. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition This project, S.O.S. (Save Our Seals) is something our group has been working on for several weeks now. All proceeds from sales will be donated to Sea Shepherd. 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!! Thank you to the following Voices for Animals artists that made this project possible: Angela F. / Bethwyn Mills / Carmen Mandel-Cesareo / Chris Coetzee / Crockpot Productions / Cynthia Adams / Danae Leach / Dawn Davies / dimarie / dropSoul / Eric Allen / Eyal Nahmias / hahpistuff / Jocelyn Hyers / Leah Jaarveth / lexa dedman / Lloyd’s Journey / Matt Tworkowski / Patricia Anne McCarty / pinkyjain / Rhonda L. Hall / Sarah Bentvizen / Tom Godfrey / Tommy Jo / yanmos
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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. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition This project, S.O.S. (Save Our Seals) is something our group has been working on for several weeks now. All proceeds from sales will be donated to Sea Shepherd. 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!! Thank you to the following Voices for Animals artists that made this project possible: Angela F. / Bethwyn Mills / Carmen Mandel-Cesareo / Chris Coetzee / Crockpot Productions / Cynthia Adams / Danae Leach / Dawn Davies / dimarie / dropSoul / Eric Allen / Eyal Nahmias / hahpistuff / Jocelyn Hyers / Leah Jaarveth / lexa dedman / Lloyd’s Journey / Matt Tworkowski / Patricia Anne McCarty / pinkyjain / Rhonda L. Hall / Sarah Bentvizen / Tom Godfrey / Tommy Jo / yanmos
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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. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition This project, S.O.S. (Save Our Seals) is something our group has been working on for several weeks now. All proceeds from sales will be donated to Sea Shepherd. 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!! Thank you to the following Voices for Animals artists that made this project possible: Angela F. / Bethwyn Mills / Carmen Mandel-Cesareo / Chris Coetzee / Crockpot Productions / Cynthia Adams / Danae Leach / Dawn Davies / dimarie / dropSoul / Eric Allen / Eyal Nahmias / hahpistuff / Jocelyn Hyers / Leah Jaarveth / lexa dedman / Lloyd’s Journey / Matt Tworkowski / Patricia Anne McCarty / pinkyjain / Rhonda L. Hall / Sarah Bentvizen / Tom Godfrey / Tommy Jo / yanmos
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If You Love Animals - Please Sign to Get This Man Stopped!!!
by Angela HarburnMy dear Animal Loving Red Bubblers – my good friend Elisabeth – ferndesign – posted this in her journal today – it is extremely distressi…
My dear Animal Loving Red Bubblers – my good friend Elisabeth – ferndesign – posted this in her journal today – it is extremely distressing to read. May I ask that you take a couple of moments to click on the link at the bottom and sign your name to the petition to stop this appalling thing happening. Please spread the word about this to your friends both on and off RB – the more people that put their name to this – the more chance it will be stopped! Thank you for taking the time to care for those that cannot speak for themselves! / Angela x Taken from ferndesign’s journal An Artist that shouldn’t be recognized in the Art world!!! In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death. For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s agony, until eventually he died. Does it look like art to you? But this is not all… the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the ‘installation’ was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008. PLEASE HELP STOP HIM. It takes a second to help put a stop to animal abuse – Sign the petetion to stop this by Clicking Here Another animal advocate and dear friend Sally Omar has added a further link that we can contact – please visit her journal page Click Here / if you wish to email PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to help get this terrible thing stopped – Thank you! xxx Additional Comment Added 14/04/08 – If anyone can suggest any other organisation that could be contacted to help stop this – please leave a comment to let us know – I will post it on as a further journal message. Thank you! xxx
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The love affair began on March 15th, 1975. I was in a pet store buying supplies for a trip I planned to take with two of my dogs. I was looking for a new bed for my dachshund, Ethel who was named after Ethel Mertz, the plump and fun loving cohort of Lucille Ball in the famous T.V. show, I Love Lucy. I glanced at the back of the store and was alarmed to see ten red puppies in a cage too small for half the litter. From a distance, I could see that the smallest puppy was on the bottom of the pile of her sisters and brothers looking distressed and miserable. My friend was ready to leave and kept calling me, but I was spellbound by the little red puppy with sparkling amber eyes. Often dogs in pet stores are delivered from puppy mills often mistreated, neglected and starving. One of my hopes is one day these cruel factories will be shut down with fines to the owners who perpetrate these unspeakable acts against our devoted best friends. I belong to PETA and the Humane Society who are working to shut down puppy mills to stop over-breeding puppies like Jesse in inhumane and intolerable conditions. Seeing first hand the emotional torment these puppies suffer is alarming and Jesse ignited my passionate mission to stop manufacturing puppies as if they were objects, not live sentient animals. Before I entered the pet store, I had only raised dachshunds never considering that I would want to buy another dog that day, a red Irish Setter that I knew would take a lot of my time to heal her wounds after her painful entrance into the world. Now at ten weeks, she glanced at me for a moment and quickly averted her eyes as if she felt there was danger if our eyes met for too long. My friend had been waiting for more than a hour that seemed like a minute to me as I was magnetically pulled into the cage of this sad and beautiful puppy. I felt she desperately needed attention to prevent further harm to her beautiful soul mirrored in her striking and very somber amber eyes. I hardly heard my friend speak when she asked me why I was taking so long pressed against the glass unable to pull myself out of this rip tide between me and this enigmatic puppy. Time stopped and nothing mattered. I knew I had to grab her now and start loving her back into being before it was too late. I named her Jesse and for six months, I sat on the kitchen floor looking at her, touching her gently and hoping she would begin to trust again. When I first brought her home, her belly was bloated from starvation and all she could swallow was Pepto- Bismol and some rice since it was obvious she was starving for many weeks. To say my efforts paid off is an understatement. Jesse grew into my first major attachment to a dog. We shared my bed and all that Malibu, CA had to offer, especially body surfing in the Pacific. She was a natural in the water enjoying the fury and the peace of the sea. Jesse sat for hours as if she was meditating never moving a muscle. She seemed to have gone back to a place so primal and private yet allowed me to be her silent partner as we both gazed at the majestic beauty of the sea. She allowed me to become a part of a mystical experience that enhanced her wisdom and grace. In retrospect, I saw her as my teacher, one who had given me a window into the autistic mind of the children I would later have the opportunity to treat in a special research group. We grew together and when she passed away, the great spirit that forced its way out of her body left me stunned yet feeling blessed to have known this magical soul. The most profound lesson Jesse taught me was about trust, patience and profound love. /
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Portraits of Hope
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This little fellow is only 4-5 weeks old. Someone had abandoned him and Noodle found him crying in our neighbor’s bushes. He’s a delightful little cat, now looking for a loving home.
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After being tempted to return someones dinner into the sea, i ‘captured’ this champ letting out some very painful breaths…and ink :S
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? -Shakespeare 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. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition 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!! All proceeds will be donated to Sea Shepherd.
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Please read and sign.
by salsbells69clickhere Abhorrent treatment for art. If this g…
clickhere Abhorrent treatment for art. If this gets your blood boiling please sign the petition. Thanks all. Sal
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The Cruelty of Aerial Culling
by Estelle O'BrienI live in a narrow valley surrounded by beautiful mountains with rocky escarpments and rugged steep slopes. I climbed half way up there o…
I live in a narrow valley surrounded by beautiful mountains with rocky escarpments and rugged steep slopes. I climbed half way up there once to rescue one of my dogs who had gotten stuck on a ledge…the view was like looking down from an aeroplane. It took all of my courage and strength to climb up and I would never have done it if I didn’t love that little dog so much! Living high in the rocky mountain are three families of wild goats. They are lovely animals; intelligent, proud and nimble. They often came down from the mountain to graze in our back paddock and say hello. A year or two ago a neighbour found a kid and brought it to me to rear. I named her Millie (the Kid) and she lived in my chicken house with my chooks. She would jump up onto the roost with them at night to sleep. I soon won her confidence and tamed her and during the day she would play with me and follow me about my garden, helping me to trim the weeds. Goats are smart and funny, they love to interact and play. She was a beautiful friend for a while, she grew up sleek and strong and pure white…and one day she happily ran off with a mob of big black goats. We would catch glimpses of her sometimes high up on the mountain, a white princess among a bunch of long-haired black “bikie” goats! If we called out her name – a shout echoes around the hills- she would raise her head and give a little kick of recognition, as if remembering our kindness when she was an orphaned baby. A couple of weeks ago we had a letter from the Dept of Parks and Wildlife asking permission to shoot on our property, which we declined to give. A ranger subsequently appeared on our doorstep to try to convince us that the wild goats are a menace to society. Their argument is that there is some sort of plant that grows only up on the rugged rocky terrain on the top of our mountain and the goats are eating it. My answer to that is that the bush is so rough and rocky and rugged up there, it is only accessible by mountain climbing and helicopters -who would ever know whether a plant was or was not there? And which beaureacrat who thinks he’s God makes the decision that a plant is more important than an animal? He thought I was mad as a hatter when I told him I would tell the goats to hide- bad men were coming with guns. He thought my husband was even madder when he challenged the prevailing “wisdom” of killing animals from the air. He left without the permission he sought, and advised us that they would shoot around our boundary. The next day we heard the ominous deep ratta-tat of the helicopter as it flew over the mountain. The chopper was so loud it was almost deafening as it hovered above the trees, low enough to cause the leaves to swirl off. We only own the land half way up the mountain…the top belongs to the State Parks Authority and so they swept up and down our fenceline, pausing and hovering every time they saw goats. My horses were terrified, I ran out to their paddock to reassure them and keep them as calm as I could. Pilgrim had been galloping about in fear as the gunshots began, and both horses stood beside me with their heads over my shoulder as chopper thundered around and we heard BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG. Every time there was a rifle shot, the horses flinched in fear. I stood with them with tears running down my face as I heard each shot and thought of my dear little friends up the mountain. After about 45 minutes, their cruel work was done. I couldn’t bear to look, but Dennis had been watching them through binoculars. He saw the goats standing petrified on the rocks and saw them fall one by one, too scared to run away. He saw our little Millie lying on a rocky ledge high upon the mountain. I am crying again as I write about it…it is such a distressing thing to write about. But people should know what is done in the name of “conservation”. For hours afterwards we heard desperate bleating…some were probably injured and lying where they fell… to die a slow agonising death. It is too rough for us to climb to the top and try to help the ones who were gut shot. Even with the high powered army rifle they were using, it is impossible for the rangers to have clean shots from the air. It is so cruel. In Canberra the same week, they were culling some kangaroos, who were “over-grazing the native grasses” What rubbish- kangaroos don’t stay where there is no feed…they move on. But these kangaroos had some animal loving friends who were activists and attracted some publicity…and so the government made them tranquilize the roos before they killed them. Why do they think kangaroos can feel fear and pain… but goats can’t? Because it was done in the nation’s capital in view of the public, humane methods were used…but goats on a mountain where no-one can see what happens, is a different matter. Why is one animals life more important than anothers? Who makes these illogical decisions? I am a realist and I sometimes eat meat, so I am not against killing animals altogether…but only if it is to eat them and only if they are killed humanely. I would never buy caged chickens eggs or eat lot fed beef, both are terrible practices. But I cannot understand why so called civilized people think that aerial culling is acceptable. It is terribly cruel – they have no way of knowing how many animals they left up there injured to die slowly. It is barbaric and should be stopped.
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Alameda County Fair 2008 is finally over! / The track is the only 1 mile track in California. / This year it celebrated it’s 150th year. / This was my first time attending a race. / It was exciting but I’m not sure it’s my game. / By the end of the week there were two dead horses, besides the fact that I spoke to an employeee of the track that probably told me more than she should have about what some people do to prepare these horses for racing. / It made my heart sink. / I’m in the process of looking for a local foundation or a racehorse rescue that I can donate sales of my Fair race photos to. I will cahnge this up when I get the proper information. Copyright Notice: / All images are the property of ©Leah Highland and may not be used wholly or in part without the prior written permission by email, including copying, duplicating, manipulating, printing, / publishing (even on a web site), reproducing, storing, or transmitting by any means.
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The Woman Inside
by InfinityRainThe woman inside There is a person within myself / She longs to come out / Everyone can see the outside; / Isn’t it fun for them to whisp…
The woman inside There is a person within myself / She longs to come out / Everyone can see the outside; / Isn’t it fun for them to whisper. / They snicker and point / All they see is the outside. / Can’t they see the hurt? / I’ve tried and I’ve tried to free her. / She’s locked up so tight. / Starving, walking, pills, vomiting / Diets and fads. Exercise bikes, treadmills, videos and books / My heart breaks every time that I fail / Nobody sees that, I pretend I don’t hear / When they point, it’s like a sword cutting deep / Their laughter is like gunshots in my ears. / Everyone loves me, but just for a moment / They hear the woman that is locked up tight / They see the eyes, smile and hair. / They love what they imagine I am. / So long as I can hide from them everything else / They will stick around / But one day.. one day, they will see just what the others do.. / Then it’s silence in my life again, they go away / No good-bye thanks for the day / No hug or smile, no explanation at all. / They slink back to their holes / Back where they feel it’s perfect. /
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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. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition 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!! All proceeds will be donated to Sea Shepherd.
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? -Shakespeare 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. Sea Shepherd HSUS Canadian Seal Hunt Anti-Sealing Coalition 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!! All proceeds will be donated to Sea Shepherd.
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“Image created to advocate for the life of the Harp Seal population in Canada, target of a most horrific deed by Mankind. Show your compassion and join the plight to stop this barbaric activity.” / / “Mammals, among other creatures, are sentient. / We give birth, we nurse, we protect the young / We feel sorrow, we feel the warm sun and the chill of the night / We fear threats and know good-will / We express affection / We play, we mourn, we cry.” / / Text © Copyright Carmen Mandel-Cesáreo / Creator of Art for Conservation / / ============================================== / I donate 100% sales proceeds of this image to IFAW / / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / Learn more, became involved and help the Harp Seals cause / / /
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Help Oink, with Jen
by Julie LangfordPoor Oink! Jennifer is trying to help Oink Here Go take a look i…
Poor Oink! Jennifer is trying to help Oink Here Go take a look if you have a spare minute please Thanks Jul
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efficient wins
by Mummifiedefficient wins. you can now kill via computer. un-manned planes fly above the enemy, / an ocean away. create the command. / a comp…
News item last week. Testing being done on unmanned “dummy” planes that can now be controlled on another continent via computer. You press the button in X and the payload gets delivered onto Y. Efficient and cold. Just like war.
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Like other people, I am a big animal lover and can’t stand to see animals being subjected to cruelty. I was watching COPS last night and they showed a guy beating and kicking his dog. I was so angry! Wanted to reach through the TV and throttle him. So as I was laying in bed trying to sleep, this idea came to me. If only it was as easy as this….......! P.S A percentage of any profits made will go to help buy dog food to be dropped off at my local Animal Welfare League.
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Here’s your chance to let people know how you feel about Animal Experimentation. With modern technology there is no justification in most animal experimentation. Despite various moral codes, there unbelievable suffering still lies behind many cosmetics and drugs. Here’s a way to play your part in a more humane society.
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All artwork is © Rhonda L. Hall, All Rights Reserved. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify this image without my express consent.
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