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Best Regards, Venus
Month: February 2019
Kind-hearted Estonian workers rushed to rescue a dog in distress from a freezing river on Wednesday – unaware of the fact they were actually about to bundle a wild wolf into their car.
The “dog” was treated by vets at an animal clinic
The men were working on the Sindi dam on the Parnu river when they spotted the animal trapped in the icy water.
After clearing a path through the ice, they took the frozen canine to a clinic for medical care. Only then was it revealed they had been carrying a wolf.
The wolf was covered in ice when pulled from the near-frozen water
The Estonian Union for the Protection of Animals (EUPA) said the wolf had low blood pressure when it arrived at the veterinarian’s office, which may have explained its docile nature after the men carried it to their car to warm it up.
Speaking to the Estonian newspaper Postimees, one of the men, Rando Kartsepp, said: “We had to carry him over the slope. He weighed a fair bit.”
“He was calm, slept on my legs. When I wanted to stretch them, he raised his head for a moment,” he added.
Veterinarians had some suspicions over the large dog’s true nature, but it was a local hunter, familiar with the region’s wolves, who finally confirmed it for what it was: a young male wolf, about a year old!!
“He was calm, slept on my legs,” Mr Kartsepp said of the journey to the vet’s office
Armed with this new information, clinic staff decided to put the wolf in a cage after treatment – in case it became less docile once it recovered.
The EUPA said it paid for the animal’s treatment, and that “luckily, everything turned out well”.
- EU moves to protect big beasts
- Danes tag first wolf pack in 200 years
- France to let wolf population grow
The wolf recovered from its brush with death within the day and, after being fitted with a GPS collar by researchers from the national environmental agency, was released back into the wild.
“We are so happy for the outcome of the story, and wish to thank all the participants – especially these men who rescued the wolf and the doctors of the clinic who were not afraid to treat and nurture the wild animal,” EUPA said.
Estonia is home to hundreds of wolves, only a handful of which have been collared in recent years. As a species, they usually avoid humans.
It was picked as Estonia’s national animal last year by a group of nature organisations.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47330924
My comment: We are all very happy that there are brave people with empathy and respect for the lives of other beings!! The wolf is now once in the wild.
If the wolf is to come back, then man must also share the habitat with him, and we must learn to live with wolf packs again, as was the case before the extinction of the wolf. The greatest danger is certainly that we humans believe that nature is exclusively an economic area and that everything that threatens it must be killed with a shotgun. We have to accept that this habitat is not just ours.
Germany should learn something from Estonia. Because here in the media prevail intentionally wrong advice for the peasants and disinformation for the population, a dirty propaganda which has no other goal than the elimination of a wonderful wild animal , that the hunters regard as a competitor to their lust for murder.
My best regards, Venus
One animal at a time has become thousands of rescued animals
Thank you for sharing our videos. We can see from the comments that viewers are from all corners of the world, united in compassion and enthusiasm to help more animals in more ways than ever before. The donations these views bring about save a precious life, and another, and another. When we started Animal Aid Unlimited our motto was “one animal at a time.” Our mission today includes training activists in street animal first aid techniques, humane education, vegan outreach, but at the end of the day, the idea remains: one by one you’re saving someone astounding, innocent and in desperate trouble.
Thank you for being a force for help.
This baby was alive, and then some! What an incredible recovery
Her head was flipped backwards and lay in a pool of blood. Her neck seemed broken, but when we came close, we saw her breathing. We scooped her up and hurried her to our hospital and immediately began treating her for brain swelling and pain.
Her consciousness came and went, but she was unable to control her movement. Standing and even eating was completely impossible and her eyes were dull. We feared the worst. But slowly her life force stirred and progress began. Meet Jellybean today. Please help us rescue the next precious street animal.
This is team-work and we need you on this team. Please donate today for street animal rescue.
Toggle had a talking Mommy!
This happy-ending story began as one of the saddest, when a mother dog cried out in anguish, seeming to beg us to help her badly wounded baby. She didn’t stop trying desperately to communicate as we gently lifted her puppy who had two deep wounds and placed him in the ambulance. We couldn’t bring her along because she had 4 other babies to watch over. We would try our best to save her sweetheart and bring him home, and how we wished and hoped she would somehow understand. Her little one was so brave, and never struggled throughout his wound dressings. But he had a lingering problem: the wounds hurt him so badly he couldn’t walk for several days. We weren’t sure if the nerve damage was permanent. But Toggle was comforted throughout the days of his healing, and while we fell in love with his incredibly sweet nature, we knew there was someone very important waiting for him back home. Watch this incredible reunion of Toggle and his family.
Please donate, so that families who need each other won’t be torn apart.
Biscuit is so cheerful even a terrible wound couldn’t stop his joy
We got a call that a dog’s ear was torn off and as we approached we expected him to cry in agony. But instead, this extraordinary sweetheart wagged his tail, gobbled down his biscuit treats, and gave our rescue team the sense that he knew for sure that he was on his way to safety. Meet this unforgettable ambassador of love, who lost his ear but who will definitely win your heart.
With your help more sweethearts can be saved. Please donate.
Abused donkey with legs lacerated rescued
This gentle donkey, Angelo, had collapsed when his legs were lacerated by plastic rope, tied together to prevent him from running away, and nearly ending his life. His owner was so negligent he didn’t untie them even after they first started cutting into his skin, deeper and deeper until the rope reached the bone. Donkeys are at great risk of abuse, because many owners believe they’ll get more profit the less they spend on the welfare of their donkeys, who often get poor quality food, no freedom to graze, (donkey owners rarely own land for donkeys to graze, so if they’re not chained they are roaming on busy streets), and very little rest. The donkeys suffer in a cycle of poverty and exploitation.
Our growing experience with the suffering of working animals continues to affirm for us the belief that all animals deserve their freedom to be who they are, to fulfill their own interests and lives, free from the bondage of serving humans.
Please donate today for humane education in India.
Celebrate the staff: Babulal
It takes a special soul to turn up day after day and year after year to clean up after animals. Babulal Gameti joined the team 12 years ago and we’ve never been the same since. In all his time here he has kept up a willingness to say yes despite weather that’s hot, rainy, cold, dark; animals who are noisy, incontinent, and whose activities can make cleaning around them challenging. Babulal has lived in Hawala all his life, and has accompanied us through 2 hospital moves. Whether he is heating water for a hot water bottle, washing blankets or scrubbing a floor, Babulal is always ready for a smile of kindness
UK ‘Marc the Vet’ Visits AAU
This month we welcomed celebrity vet Marc Abraham, known in the UK as “Marc the Vet” who came on behalf of the UK newspaper The Telegraph to write a travel feature about Animal Aid Unlimited. Marc was one of the most kind, enthusiastic and sweet guests we’ve ever had. In addition to being an amazing vet, he has led the UK’s anti-puppy mill “Lucy’s Law” campaign to prohibit the sale of puppies and kittens by pet shops, online dealers and other 3rd party sellers.
Marc jumped in to all aspects of Animal Aid’s hospital life–going out on rescues, assisting in surgery, joining school presentations and assisting in street treatments–all in just 5 days. We can’t wait to see the travel feature but moreover, Animal Aid made a new friend.
Perverse and illegal: tables of elephant feet and leopard skin confiscated in Cologne, Germany.
According to a report by the committee against the bird murder, the city of Cologne yesterday proceeded against a company that wanted to sell two tables made of the real feet of elephants and a leopard skin for a four-figure amount on behalf of the customer.
These are hunting trophies, which despite strict marketing ban, offered and therefore confiscated by the authorities.
African elephants and leopards are endangered and are listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention (CITES).
Trade in wild specimens is strictly prohibited. The provider is now being investigated for violating the Federal Nature Conservation Act and the EU Species Protection Ordinance.
https://www.facebook.com/Komitee.CABS/
My comment: Next year comes the new design creation on the market: tables with poachers’ legs, and carpets made of skinned elephant trainers.
Orders can be made from now on.
My best regards, Venus
Book burning at the Berlin Opera Square, 1933
Today, this terrible statement of the fascism of that time is over and forbidden.
But fascism against animals, in all forms of sadism, of paranoid authority and the hideous criminality of “democratic” societies, is still legal, it rules everywhere and degrades the human species into a fascist beast.
Karlheinz Leopold Deschner (1924 – 2014) was a German researcher and writer who achieved public attention in Europe for his trenchant and fiercely critical treatment of Christianity in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular.
“Who leaves the church: a ray of hope for me; who does not eat any more animals: my brother. ” Karlheinz Deschner
My best regards to all, Venus
All tourists who fly to Thailand to ride elephants, or to do stupid selfies with wild animals, should know one thing: A wilderness elephant will never voluntarily allow it to be caressed or carry people on its back – they are captured, tortured, and then serve as tourist attractions.
To make an elephant carry tourists for hours through the wilderness, (which in the natural state is its actual home), must be broken before his will.
In Sri Lanka and Thailand elephant babies are captured illegally. Many travel operators even convey that they are doing something good for the animals; in reality it is a bawling animal torture!
In the hunt for them, the poachers kill up to five adult animals that want to protect their offspring, writes the animal welfare association Pro Wildlife. Then an elephant baby is trapped in a very small cage or hole in the ground where it can not move. The elephant babies are then beaten with sticks, starved for many days and deprived of sleep. The cruel “training” lasts until it has learned to fear and obey people, until he no longer shows resistance.
This custom is known in Thailand as Phajaan.
The following video shows what we mean by “broken will”.
Visiting an elephant park or elephant riding in Thailand brings a lot of money to the organizers. But many visitors do not seem to know this dark side behind this cruel business.
Not only in Thailand are the elephants captured. 30,000 euros is worth a cub. Therefore, many elephants are also imported from other countries, for example from Myanmar! There are many videos documenting this cruel procedure.
There was a worldwide indignation when the video from the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand’s Chon Buri appeared on the Internet. Elephants like to swim, they do that in the wild. They use water to cool themselves, to clean themselves, and just walk around. At the Khao Kheow Open Zoo, however, they are forced to hold such a water show for the tourists day after day. This is anything but natural.
A video from a tourist attraction shows how a Thai zoo offers the prospect of swimming elephants in the front row. Not only does the elephant swim, it also does some awkward tricks before gasping for air again. He is not alone, a trainer is there. On the other side of the glass are hundreds of unsuspecting men, women and children who enjoy their zoo visit and do not know how this elephant tortured for years to offer that stupid fun.
Such trainers are called Mahouts in Thailand, the “elephant watchers”. When they receive a baby elephant, it is tied up or locked in a small hole. It has to starve, gets punches with a metal hook, until he breaks its will. The Mahout will accompany the enslaved elephant for life and make sure with his bullhook that he never fails to obey.
https://netzfrauen.org/2018/12/03/thailand-2/
My comment: On command they dance and dance.., like puppets, juggling with their trunks, painting pictures and stacking logs. Accompanied by loud circus music, lightning, stupid laughter and thunderous applause of the audience. Elephant Show calls this the entertainment industry, which works the most with mafia methods.
Under the miserable conditions of slavery in which the animals live, they hardly multiply any more. Current figures speak of an estimated 2,500 to 3,000 animals still living wild in Thailand’s forests. But other sources report that there are only about 500 free-living animals left; 300 of them in the north of the country.
But we do not give up, we keep fighting! We inform, we research, we remain loyal and active for our fellow creatures.
Please sign the Petition: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/de/149/479/353/these-swimming-elephants-are-having-anything-but-fun.-help-get-their-freedom
My best regards, Venus
Does anyone need a comment on this?
Regards, Venus
Dear readers,
For today I do not have to comment on a foreign post.
Today it’s about a very bizarre conversation that I had a week ago with a colleague.
It was in the elevator of the theater where I work, it was early morning and we all had rehearsal. That’s why the elevator was full.
I had noticed a few days ago that a woman colleague wore a fur jacket, every day an other model.
I was waiting for the right opportunity to ask her if she knew how the fur came to her body, what torture the animal has to suffer for it, and if not, I could tell her.
That morning, she and I stood side by side in the full elevator, and I found that opportunity was the right one to talk to.
I grabbed her jacket to check if it was really fur, it was very real !!!
“Is that real?” I asked her
The colleague smiled ironically.
“Yes, of course it’s real,” she said.
“Do you even know how fur is made, what the animal has to suffer so you wear this jacket?”
“Yes, I know it very well and I stand behind it” the colleague said.
“Behind what, are you? I said. “Behind the electric shocks that massacre the animal, or behind the skinned alive? ”
The colleague smiled and agreed with her head: “Yes, yes, behind all this I stand, I know how fur is made, we have a farm with rabbits in my homeland, we breed them and we make fur out of them” !!
In all these years of my animal rights activism, to this day I have heard many explanations from various people about the fur they wear. It was on the road during demonstrations, it was private encounters, it was at actions in front of fur shops. Almost all feel compelled to find a “logical” excuse for their “sin” and it sounded like an apology, the explanation they gave me.
I’ve never heard such a cynical, cheeky and despicable answer.
So I talked with a professional animal tormentor. That was a shocking experience for me.
The colleague comes from an eastern country where fur farms are still allowed.
To buy and to produce.
Two days after this conversation, I saw the colleague’s jacket in the wardrobe of our rehearsal room.
And then I decorated it nicely.
I’m an ASSHOLE. I’m wearing FUR
Since then she does not greet me anymore.
As if she already knew that I can not tolerate murderers!!
My best regards to all, Venus
Friday 22/2/19.
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Thanks and regards
Mark (England) and Venus (Germany).
WAV Comment – you now have your chance via this public consultation to make a difference and help Australian animals from never having to be (live) exported again. Please read the article from the RSPCA below and click on the link to make your voice heard. Be a voice for the suffering sheep ! – Thanks, WAV.
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Mark, you have been with us in our ongoing fight to end the suffering of sheep in the live export trade.
You – along with tens of thousands of other supporters – have already taken countless actions.
But we need your help one more time to help end the cruelty for good.
The government review panel has got the science right (at last!), when it comes to heat stress experienced by sheep onboard these journeys.
We’ve said all along that the evidence shows heat stress is unavoidable on board journeys to the Middle East in the high risk May to October period.
Now, the recently released Heat Stress Risk Assessment Review has been opened for public consultation, and all recommendations support what we have been calling for:
- a risk assessment based on welfare, not mortality,
- and one that will ultimately mean the end to the most horrific conditions experienced by thousands of Aussie sheep each year.
This is the review we’ve been waiting for – but live export lobbyists are desperately trying to stop these improvements and roll back these reforms.
Mark make no mistake – these reforms are the bare minimum of what needs to be done to protect our sheep.
Please take action today and add your voice to the RSPCA submission, supporting these vital improvements to protect Australian sheep from the live export industry.
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