Hamtramck council approves Islamic animal sacrifices at home
After several months of contentious debate and pressure from Muslim residents, Hamtramck City Council voted Tuesday night to allow the religious sacrifice of animals on residential property.
Muslims often slaughter animals during the holiday of Eid al-Adha and Hamtramck has one of the highest percentage of Muslim residents among cities in the U.S.
The all-Muslim city council voted 3-2, with Mayor Amer Ghalib casting an additional vote in favor making it 4-2, to amend a city ordinance to allow religious sacrifice of animals at home. After the vote to approve, applause broke out from members of the public, who packed the meeting to speak out before the vote.
PARRISH, Fla. (WWSB) – A former exotic animal dealer from Parrish, who was convicted earlier this year of illegally selling an endangered monkey to singer Chris Brown, has had his federal dealer’s license terminated, an animal rights groups says.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) bosses have celebrated Lisa Marie Presley’s commitment to animal rights following her death.
Lisa Lange, Senior Vice President of PETA, honoured Lisa Marie’s legacy as “a friend to animals” in a statement on Thursday, recalling how the singer/songwriter helped free a chimpanzee named after her and housed two dogs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Lisa Marie Presley was not only a talented singer-songwriter, loving wife, and mother but also a friend to animals,” Lange expressed. “After learning that an Elvis impersonator had named a chimpanzee after her and was exploiting her for profit, she successfully teamed up with PETA to achieve the release of her namesake to a sanctuary. And she didn’t stop there.
South Korea to ban bear farming, but what to do about hundreds of captive animals that remain?
South Korea’s successful restoration of a wild Asiatic black bear population to Jirisan National Park is a huge conservation success story. But the fortune of this wild population stands in contrast to the plight of more than 300 captive bears that remain on bear farms across the country, often in extremely poor conditions.
A series of major policy changes during the past year have included the announcement of a joint declaration between the South Korean government, bear farmers and NGOs to ban bear farming in the country by the start of 2026. After almost 30 years of policy deadlock over the fate of captive bears in South Korea, the joint declaration sets out a clear pathway towards the end of bear farming in the country.
Catching, neutering and relocating cats is a great method to control the population of stray cats.
Animal rights org. calls on Friesland to stop shooting stray cats
Friesland is the only Dutch province that still allows hunters to shoot and kill stray cats. Animal rights organization Dier&Recht is calling on the province to stop this practice immediately, calling it cruel and outdated, AD reports.
Shooting stray cats is allowed under Dutch law, based on Article 67 of the Flora and Fauna Act. According to Friesland, the practice is necessary to protect meadow birds. In 2021, the province killed over 250 cats, and 447 the year before.
Because of you, our helpline is a lifeline for street animals. 20 years ago there was no number to call if you saw an injured animal on the street in Udaipur. When we opened our helpline in 2002 we were thrilled to receive a few calls in a week. Today, thanks to your incredible support, our outreach staff attend to between 100-150 calls each day from 7AM to midnight, prioritizing the most critical animals, guiding the community, and dispatching our rescue teams where they are needed most.
Your support enabled us to care for over 800 animals each day, including our beloved permanent residents and those who were with us for the duration of their recovery.
Your support enabled us to care for over 800 animals each day, including our beloved permanent residents and those who were with us for the duration of their recovery.
Thousands of street treatment visits provided care to animals in their own neighbourhoods, involving the community and preventing hospitlization.
We deeply thank you for all the achievements you made possible for street animals in 2022 and we are excited to help even more animals this year!
Plans underway to expand spay and neuter in 2023!
We are excited to announce that we will be re-opening our sterilization center and will be significantly increasing our spay and neuter surgeries this year. After having to shut the center down during COVID, we’ve been enthusiastically working to build back our capacity to undertake this vitally needed work while continuing our rescue and hospital service. Stay posted for more updates on this coming soon!
Since Covid lockdowns you’ve heard our sad lament that we deeply missed our volunteers. But yes, they’re back! And the animals and staff could not be more delighted–and grateful.
Laughter and nurturing care rings out from those who come to help; new friendships are formed between people and animals, and Animal Aid is an even happier healing place–for our animals and our hearts!
Sage is one of the very BEST boys, but he had one of the worst injuries
When we got the call to receive this injured dog, we found him staggering in pain and confusion in the middle of the road, with wire embedded all the way around his neck, cutting down to the muscle. When we brought him back to our hospital we removed the wire and began his life-saving treatment–antibiotics, wound dressing, IV fluids and painkillers.
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We simply can’t imagine the pain he had endured for likely many weeks, judging from the damage the wire had caused to his entire neck. It’s just incredible that he even had the strength to continue searching for food and water despite such a horrific injury. Deepest thanks to our supporters, who enabled us to rescue Sage, and not only relieve his pain, but give him back his very life.
We received a call that a mother dog had severe burns all over her body. We found her nervously pacing near her injured babies, confused and almost as if asking for help. We do not know how she was burned but we suspect she may have been trying to save her babies, as her face was covered in painful blisters. Heartbreakingly, her puppies were severely injured and did not survive.
Her recovery was one of physical as well as emotional healing from the trauma she survived. Watch Edith’s story til the end–it will strengthen your hope in the power of love.
If you shop at Amazon, like many of us do now days; there is a way that you can still buy (through Amazon) and yet at the very same time, get Amazon to donate money to an animal organisation of your choice.
Instead of just selecting items directly from the main Amazon site, do a Google search for ‘Amazon Smile’.
My selected charity is the London based Brooke Hospital for Animals, for which I am able to view my donation status at any time: The Brooke do such fantastic work, so why not support them ?
Your current charity
The Brooke Hospital For Animals
Location: London
Mission: To promote the welfare and relieve the suffering of working equines and other animals in africa, asia, the middle east and south and central america, and in any other areas outside the united kingdom that the trustees may think fit, for the public benefit, in particular, but not exclusively, by: the support, promotion and provision of veterinary and other animal healthcare services whether in the context of veterinary clinics, animal hospitals, other animal healthcare facilities or…
Programmes: Activities: Makes grants to organisations, provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information, sponsors or undertakes research, Beneficiaries: Other defined groups, Purposes: Education/training, animals
Anything I purchase through Amazon is always made via Amazon Smile.
With my purchases over the last 12 months, as you can see below, I have got Amazon to donate £52-41 to the Brooke. Along with other Amazon Smile users, we have collected more than £24,000 for the Brooke.
You have generated
£52.41 as of 07 January 2023
My current charity,
The Brooke Hospital For Animals has received
£24,031.45 as of November 2022
It costs you nothing, and is simple to switch from Amazon to Amazon Smile every time you purchase. Not everyone knows about this, but for sure it is the way to do your shop and also donate to charity at the same time.
I would encourage everyone to shop via Amazon Smile instead of the normal Amazon site; why not shop and get money given to a charity of your choice instead of getting Amazon to donate nothing ?
Try it – Amazon Smile.
Every little bit counts
When millions of supporters shop using AmazonSmile, charitable donations quickly add up. Additional donations generated as a result of special offers may take several months to update.
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