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Rescued former laboratory research cat finds a loving home
Xander the black feline spent the first 3 years of his life, being experimented, in a windowless lab, confined in a small wire cage.
Here’s the story of a rescued former laboratory research cat who found a loving home.
Story via Kitty Army
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The police are murdering us slowly
Teargas is the most popular choice for the police to disperse the protesters, also their preferred weapons.
Since June, there are cases where people (including protesters, journalists and passersby) were hit by the teargas can and injured.
The worst thing is, the latest batch of teargas used by the police is made in China, and journalists and experts have noticed the dioxin it releases is high, whenever the police use the teargas, they are poisoning all the people in the scene. And the chemical is also affecting the ecological environment in Hongkong.
(Trigger warning)
Dead bodies of birds, squirrels and hawks are founded in districts that were bombarded with teargas.
The use of teargas not only is damaging to people’s health (dioxin can caused cancer and miscarriages) , it is having an irreversible impact on our environment.
“She was abandoned in a trash can in freezing temperatures. Her eye was punctured so they had to remove it. She’s recovering now and looks like a pirate.” Thankfully someone rescued her
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IMAGE OF TWO COWS SEEKING COMFORT IN ONE ANOTHER WHILE AWAITING SLAUGHTER (image details at bottom of post)
“I have unfortunately been inside slaughterhouses and can tell you that the animals are not willingly walking up to the end of the kill line and sticking their necks out. These animals fight with every bit of strength they have left at the end of that kill line. They don’t want to die and they know it’s coming.”
~Cayce Mell (Peaceable Kingdom)
VIDEO -I Am Scared and Do Not Want To Die (Please watch - nothing graphic)
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BigPicture photography Competition,
The competition’s winning images and finalists highlight Earth’s biodiversity and illustrate the many threats that our planet faces. Each photo, in its own way, inspires viewers to protect and conserve the remarkable diversity of life on Earth. Below, we present the winners and some of our personal favorites from this year’s competition.
“Hope in a Burned Plantation” (2020), Mallacoota, Australia / Jo-Anne McArthur Photography,
Iconic Australia is captured in this particular moment as a resilient kangaroo pauses in a burned eucalyptus plantation. Nearly three billion animals perished or were displaced in the cataclysmic Australian bushfires of 2019 and 2020. This eastern grey kangaroo and her joey represent the lucky survivors, escaping from an area that had been transformed by humans for farming and then devastated by fire.
“Treasure on Ice” (2020), Svalbard, Norway / Marek Jackowski Photography,
A polar bear lies forlornly on a tiny floating chunk of ice, in an image evoking global warming…
“Sign of the Tides” (2020), Monterey, California / Ralph Pace Photography,
In this perfectly composed photograph, a discarded face mask in the shape of a sea turtle attracts a notoriously curious California sea lion. Shot in November 2020, this was the first time the photographer saw a mask underwater, but unfortunately he has seen many since. The effects of the pandemic will likely linger on our oceans for years to come.
All photographs courtesy of BigPicture winners and finalists.
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HAPPY WORLD ANIMAL DAY!
World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October 4.
It is the 96th World Animal Welfare Day on 4th October, 2021 with the theme for world animal day 2021 is “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet.”
It’s celebrated in different ways in every country, irrespective of nationality, religion, faith or political ideology.
Through increased awareness and education we can create a world where animals are always recognised as sentient beings and full regard is always paid to their welfare.
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Rare red wolf shot in North Carolina was left alive, drowned in mud
A rare red wolf was found shot in the spine and left alive to drown in the mud in North Carolina.
A necropsy of the animal, which was found in Tyrrell County, showed that its lungs were full of mud, indicating it had been severely injured by the shot but was initially still alive. It had eventually died as it lay in the muddy farm field, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a statement. Animal welfare campaign, Help Ashville Bears, reposted the incident to its Facebook page, and said the wolf had died a gruesome death.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it is offering a $5,000 reward for any information that would lead to “the successful prosecution” of the case.
It’s 2015. ALMOST 2016. I can’t take ANY “activist” seriously if they aren’t vegan. I can’t take ANY “movement” seriously, if it’s not SIMULTANEOUSLY campaigning for veganism and animal rights. The lowest form of civility on this planet is that which we extend to animals; I mean, human rights are important and they DEFINITELY need improvement–but AT LEAST we don’t have to worry about being LITERALLY raised for slaughter and eaten by a species that’s sharing this planet with us. AT LEAST we don’t scoop up homeless humans and euthanize them if their owners don’t claim them after a few weeks. AT LEAST we don’t have our skins LITERALLY peeled from our screaming, bleeding bodies, where we’re then thrown into a pile of other, skinless, blood and shit-soaked humans, writhing and crying and begging for death. AT LEAST we aren’t killed JUST so someone can make an ash tray out of our hands, or cut off our noses to make piano keys or get an erection. AT LEAST we don’t have our arms sliced off and our bodies discarded, just so someone else can eat shitty soup.
I mean, this list goes on and on and, again: I UNDERSTAND THAT WE FACE AN EGREGIOUS AMOUNT OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS FROM CORPORATE GOVERNMENTS THAT KEEP US AS WAGE SLAVES AND KILL US IN THE STREETS WITHOUT RECOURSE…
But you can’t say that you’d rather trade places with a chicken.
You can’t HONESTLY or INTELLIGENTLY say that you’d rather be a buffalo.
Because, when you can be LEGALLY slaughtered and eaten–served up at the table for celebrations ALL AROUND THE WORLD–there’s no greater SYSTEMIC threat to your existence and there’s NO HOPE for your survival.
So smack on whatever bumper stickers you want and scribble anything you’d like on your protest sign; but, if you aren’t ACTUALLY LIVING what you preach, about compassion and equality and fairness and justice, by living a VEGAN lifestyle and DEMANDING animal liberation alongside whatever your cause is, then YOU are JUST AS BAD as the oppressors you are trying to overthrow, because YOU–like your oppressors–haven’t dedicated yourself to being a voice and a champion for the MOST oppressed individuals on this planet, so YOU–like your oppressors–will continue to inflict the damage and terror and torture that you so desperately want to avoid, upon others who–despite their appearances–are not so different from you.
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Commercial layer hens have been genetically selected to lay a very high number of eggs and are therefore highly susceptible to poor bone strength and osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis is related to a nutritional imbalance, level of egg production, and the birds’ inability to move and keep their muscles and bones healthy.
The formation of eggshells requires the deposition of calcium. Since eggs are laid at a very high rate, this leads to a loss of bone calcium.
Osteoporosis is an end result of this process and is a widespread problem in commercial hens. It can result in an increased susceptibility to poor bone health and bone fractures.
With thanks to the HSPCA, Compassion in World Farming & Twyla Francois.
“Stolen Bones” with kind permission from Twyla Francois.
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Authoritiesfound them during a raid to remove all the living tigers from the controversial Tiger Temple, also known as Wat Pha Luang Ta Bu Yannasampanno.
TW/CW: Animal death
The government moved on Monday to put an end to the popular tourist destination. But controversy isn’t new to the Tiger Temple. The raid is just the latest in a tug-of-war that started in 2001 to bring the tigers under state control.
(A sedated tiger is stretchered as officials start moving tigers from the Tiger Temple.)
Here are the dates you need to know:
1999 - The temple receives its first tiger cub, which was found by a local village.
2001 - The temple and Thailand’s Wildlife Conservation Office (WHO) come to an agreement that the monks are allowed to take care of the tigers, as long as they don’t use them for profit or breed them.
(The WCO has since said the tigers were allowed to breed freely. Many of them suffer from chronic illnesses and blindness. The temple charges tourists to enter the compound and walk with the cats.)
(A tourist poses for a photograph with a tiger at the Tiger Temple in 2012.)
2008 - British wildlife charity Care for the Wild International releases a report revealing evidence that the tigers at the facility were regularly beaten with wooden sticks and clubs, being forced to sit in direct sunshine for hours, and being kept in poor conditions with inadequate food.
2010 - Three wildlife advocates appear in court to answer to defamation charges. In 2009, the three accused the temple of of possessing the tigers illegally, trading them near the temple and abusing them.
March 2016 - The temple releases a statement on its Facebook page, responding to a number of allegations. The post says the mortality rate for newborn tiger cubs at the temple is “comparatively low.” Buddhist custom says to cremate those cubs, but in 2010 the policy was changed. “Instead of cremation, the deceased cubs were preserved in jars or kept frozen,” the post reads.
May 2016 - Police and wildlife officials obtain a court order and begin transferring the temple’s 137 tigers. The bodies of the 40 dead cubs were found during that raid, in a freezer where the temple staff kept food, according to an official from the Department of National Parks.
(Officials collect samples for DNA testing from the carcasses of 40 tiger cubs found at the Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua Tiger Temple.)
