Cruelty
158 creative works found
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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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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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Jesse
by Julie MarksThe 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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An Orangutan pondering something
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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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Don’t Support animal cruelty, don’t support the circus
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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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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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Portraits of Hope
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This little fellow is only 3-4 weeks old. We found him in our neighbor’s bushes,crying pitifully for his mommy. Someone had thrown him in there, since our neighborhood has no strays. He spent a few weeks with us, grew strong and confidient and then moved in with a loving family.
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One summer years ago after graduate school, I treated myself to a trip with friends to Africa. My photo of the Crested Crane is the only photograph I have uploaded so far. Now I am scanning the many photos I took to capture the majestic beauty of animals in their natural habitat and enjoying the amazing connections animals have with each other. This photo of a baby Hippo lying on his mother’s back is a great example of the strong bonds of family in the animal world. My attachments to the animals in my life have guided, taught, and helped heal me in ways too numerous to count. I have many photographs that tell many stories of my animal companions and the many I have rescued in disbelief of the neglect and cruelty that innocent animals, both wild and domestic have suffered at the hands of our species. Seeing them in person heightened my awareness of their beauty and vulnerability and my belief that it is our responsibility to protect them from danger and further threat to their existence. Please view this in the larger format,
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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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This is a second photo of my first Irish Setter, Jesse. In order to understand the full impact of our story, please read the narrative paired with my photograph titled Jesse. I described our first meeting at a pet store when I first saw this starving little girl, a product of a cruel puppy mill. This photo was taken at 10 weeks old, two weeks after I brought her home with a bloated stomach from starvation, a very fearful pup who did not display the normal interaction when puppies interact with humans, especially their first family. She did not wag her tail, lick my face or engage in any eye contact. Her first meal was pepto bismol and rice and slowly she graduated to medicinal pet food provided by the vet. She was neglected and as a result of her brutal entrance into the world was not trusting of human beings. After about 6 months of touching her, looking into her distant eyes like an animal captured in an autistic capsule, she looked at me and we never looked back to those unbearable days at the puppy mill where human greed is paramount without any regard for the puppy’s welfare. It is all about money and the unbearable consequences are suffered by the most vulnerable pups, many who do not survive. Some puppy mills have been closed due to their cruel and intolerable treatment of these beautiful animals, but we have a long way to go to stop people from producing puppies in unclean and dirty factories that spread disease throughout the kennel. I described in her adult photo how Jessie looked, the pain and discomfort clearly revealed in her beautiful amber eyes. She was my first love who became my best friend, teacher and most beloved companion. After twenty-five years, I still miss her and the wisdom and profound love she gave us with abundant gratitude for the many years we were fortunate to treasure her. I have always loved this photograph. It reveals that with commitment and work with abused and neglected animals, they do respond to our nuturance and return it with immeasureable love and devotion.
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Over the last few months, I have been unloading boxes of books and was surprised to find my photos from a trip to Africa in the late 1970’s. The photos of two albums of my my trip were still very much intact. Using modern digital tools, the photographs are much improved and reflect my life long interest in photography and my love of animals. I thought I identified myself as an amateur photographer two years ago when I bought my first digital camera. In retrospect, I have chronicled my life and family trips through thousands of images that I never had the motivation or time to explore. I want to share with you my images of these beautiful animals, many taken in Kenya and Serenghetti Park in Tanzania, Africa. Over the years wildlife extinction has increased to the point that many animals are endangered that threatens their extinction as well as ours. I am glad I saw these animals many years ago before humans increased their invasion of animal habitats. This photograph of herds of different species intermingling in peace sets an example for humans to create a world of universal harmony. I doubt you will see a herd of Zebras declaring a war on a family of Wilderbeasts. We are the beasts that have invaded their territory, killing animals for commodities and like the Harry Harlow’s famous Rhesus Monkey experiment torturing them with animal experimentation. Like the two herds in this photo, we must learn to relate in harmony with all of earth’s creatures before it may no longer be an opportunity as more animals are killed and their natural habitats destroyed. Please view this magnifcent landscape in the larger format.
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details of my hope series Hope can be so cruel ….you want and need …and want more to get better ….so you hope ….and it just seems so cruel the more you want the more you fall …hope dangles its self in front of you ….just out of reach at times ….and all the hurt the pain goes with us ….we walk only half alive…mouth closed beause words seem to just get us in trouble or beause no one could understand this death …loss of hope … i put the pennies on my eyes with the date i was born but couldn’t handle putting and end date …thought it might be bad luck or something ..funny cuase i never believed in luck I must add also placing the cross on my head was difficult ..as you can see my finger print is with it …..writting on the langer veiw of this work is a prayer from ash wednesday in latin where the prayer takes place
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Mr Sir and I live in the same place. Not the same apartment number but one wall away. He’s not my cat and I’m not his human so I don’t want any flack about people starting to look like their pets! It just happens to be that we are the only two black things in the complex. Naturally he looks up to me [because he’s short] for social guidance since I’m the senior member of our unofficial duo. And I try to keep him straight about stuff like the proper hair/fur dye for pesky gray whiskers and how to talk to women without having a hand down the front of your pants. (He’s got that one down since he doesn’t wear pants but I still watch him to make sure he doesn’t do any backsliding). Mr Sir isn’t his full name and I can’t remember what it is. Something like ‘Mr Sir Rudolph the 14th’ maybe. He answers to just the “M” and “S” sounds so you can call him “Ms” and he’ll answer. And boy will he answer! This hairy furball talks more than a 12-year old girl with permission to use the home phone. And like humans, he has dozens of sounds/words and uses them all for maximum effect. Hunger? Here come the whine that will make a Siamese want to kill him. Bored? Every hear a cat grumble to itself? Disquieting to say the least. “Hello! I wanna visit!” As clear as a human child learning to talk, you look at him in wonder. Well, this week, Mr Sir made the leap from neighbour to houseguest. I come home and the single ‘mew’ is waiting at my door. Why? Did he get mixed up and think I was his owner (a Caucasian female at least 25 years younger than I) or forget what his apartment number is? Hands full, I have a choice: put down everything and pacify him until he gets bored and grumbles walking away, or; open the door and watch him race inside before me. Until he rips up something, fails to talk when he needs to go outside, or fights me for food, I guess I can stand a visitor for about 15 minutes while he explores and talks to me about how messy a housekeeper I am. Ungrateful. Simply ungrateful. Soon the warnings will be in the newspapers, the radio, the Internet, and the television. Mr Sir who’s sorta like that ‘indoor/outdoor’ carpet and covers the floor in both places, will be sequestered to his proper home and left to exercise his vocabulary upon everyone within earshot. It’s not his fault but it’s another variation of “Strange Fruit” so being black has its serious and unique risks. While I won’t be swinging from a lynching tree cuz I’m a ‘black cat’ (musical slang for a jazz musician), Mr Sir could be because Halloween is coming and there are people (who shouldn’t even be called ‘people’) who do terrible things to black cats. Mr Sir won’t be visiting for a while as he adjusts badly to becoming an ‘inside only’ feline. And I won’t have to fight him for the right to come into my own apartment first (or not to bat my keys in the doorknob or attack the mantis I’m shooting, but that’s another story). We will be forced apart for a bit but that’s OK. He may be horrifically annoyed I get to be outside and he doesn’t but he doesn’t know about “strange fruit” and I hope he never learns. Some disasters need to be keep ‘human only’. After all, why should a talking cat have to talk about crap like that??? PS I actually thought I took this shot with my ‘pocket rocket’: Olympus IR-500. But looking back at the files I see it came from the lens of my Nikon D80 at its closest focal point of 18mm! I obviously didn’t want to use flash for multiple reasons (not the least of which is animals have such reflective eyes that flashes make them hideous). So on full manual, I pulled off this shot in incandescent lighting from the front and the careful addition of some ISO and on-board noise reduction. While Mr Sir is amazing calm when warm and sleepy, I still shot him at high speed and the camera’s sharpest setting (most VIVID) to be sure I didn’t get any blur while capturing every nuance of his face and fur. This shot is as honest and accurate a shot can be of this great feline. There was enlargement for uploading but nothing more than a bit of cropping done to make it more intimate. In the full sized shot, the image is slightly larger than 1 to 1 macro as measured by Mr Sir’s my manually comparing his eyes to the larger Red Bubble image of his eyes. Any closer and his breath would have fogged the lens (and turned my stomach). LOL! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ / 50% of any profit made from the sale of this piece will go directly to the buyer’s choice between PAWS, PETA, and the SPCA.
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“She’s in our Hands” is a painting with combined digital painting elements, that was created to raise awareness and funding in the interests of protecting the precious Harp Seal, particularly from Canadian Seal-hunters. “She’s in our Hands”. Also features the popular “Animal Decree” poem by Skye Ryan-Evans. 50% of proceeds from sales goes towards Harpseals.org. Thank you for helping us to help them. ~ Skye Ryan-Evans © ~
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ok, so its just a play with previous characters and objects, still a different t-shirt though, still makes me smile and i’m pleased with it.
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i was originally going to call this Savaged but decided to call it Survival because thats what women do, they survive against all odds and this is a tribute to those women who stand tall and proud and make this world a safer place for their sisters and daughters….....this work was influenced by the style of Francis Bacon.. sketched in corel painter and then painted using artists oil brushes textures added….......
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SNAKESKIN / PETA – Would you? campaign Art direction / Photography / Styling / Hair / Graphic Design: Otilee – http://www.otilee.com / Makeup: Penny Antuar – http://www.modelmayhem.com/pennyantuar / Model: Lauren MacPherson / Copywriter: Kathrine Keen My friend Kate is in the final throws of finishing her advertising degree and is currently putting her graduate portfolio together. Copywriting being her forte and not confident with the art direction she asked me to step in to produce this series of hypothetical print ads for PETA. *Image art direction inspired by Olaf’s royal blood series ;) © Copyright Otilee 2009
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I don’t often create things that pertain directly to world affairs, current or otherwise, but this pretty much drew itself. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people treated each other better? Inkscape.
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Here’s my nod to the Halloween-horrors of life: the mask that isn’t a mask. It’s the face of cruelty and ignorance and greed and hate…all gussied up with feathers and pretty colors. Try to remove it and you’ll find that it’s not a mask at all. It’s the visage of evil, not a treat at all. Scanned image of me in a mask, with photo images of tree trunks added for texture and one image of my eyes (I don’t keep my eyes open for scanning…). Editing and digital painting done in Photoshop Elements 3, scanning completed in ArcSoft Photostudio and CanoScan8800F. /
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