Fleeing Ukrainian woman carries large elderly dog 10 miles across border on her shoulders (msn.com)
Wow !!!
Regards Mark
Category: General News
Regarding Mark’s article on the “Ukraine” case, I have the following to say:
I don’t stand behind this article at any level.
I detest the witch hunt against Russia and find it ridiculous that the world’s population has fallen en masse to the machinery of media propaganda and US manipulation
regards, Venus
WAV Comment – We are animal welfare campaign organisation, and as such it is not for us to pass views on the senseless ‘war’ which is currently being undertaken by Putin in the Ukraine. So, instead I am providing you with a few stories relating to animals suffering war in the Ukraine campaign, and the more than heroic support they are getting from their owners and from people they have never previously met, such as the wonderful Polish vets as you can read below.
There is tragedy also.
These stories show that despite the actions of some in ‘power’, there are always those people who are better and put compassion and the bettering / welfare of others before themselves, regardless of their personal risk and placement.
Please click on the link at the end of each story to see all the associated photographs.
Regards Mark
Ukrainians won’t be separated from beloved pets as residents shelter from Russian attack with cats and dogs
Animal charities have been helping refugees bring their pets to safety as Ukranians face the “impossible decision” of whether to leave their beloved animals behind.
Some people are refusing to leave without their pets, while others are taking their animals with them as they flee Russia’s invasion.
Several countries including Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have eased rules on taking animals across borders so refugees don’t have to abandon their pets, animal rights charity PETA said.
It said it has been working on Ukraine’s border to “shepherd animals out safely”.
Meanwhile, as missiles fall on their homes and cities, many Ukrainians have turned to pets for comfort – bringing dogs and cats with them to air raid shelters.
In Kyiv, where people have been taking cover from Russian airstrikes in underground stations, platforms are lined with pet carriers.
At first, authorities stopped people bringing animals, but then turned a blind eye. Pets have been huddling alongside their owners in the capital’s Pecherskaya station.
Across Ukraine there have been stories of people deciding to stay put to protect their pets.
Animal shelter owner Andrea Cisternino has been dubbed a “hero” for refusing to leave the 400 rescue dogs, cats, sheep and goats he looks after in Kyiv.
Cisternino, from Italy, said he would “rather die” than let the animals face the war alone.
One stranded student refused to return home to northern India without his pet dog.
Rishabh Kaushik and rescue dog Maliboo are reportedly now in Hungary and set to board a flight home after the Indian government also relaxed rules to allow people fleeing Ukraine to bring their pets with them.
PETA said it had been “deeply moved” by accounts of refugees walking great distances with their animals in their arms.
It said: “Many already traumatised people were being faced with the impossible decision of leaving their beloved animals behind due to the protocol for non-commercial movement of companion animals into the EU.”
“The current regulations for bringing companion animals into the EU and the UK are impossible for refugees to follow in a state of war.
“They require that animals such as dogs and cats be vaccinated and microchipped and have a titre test for rabies – and many animals don’t meet the criteria.”
The charity said several countries have made the process easier for refugees, and it is urging the government to relax the UK’s rules.
It has provided advice for Ukrainians arriving at border crossings with pets.
Ukrainians won’t be separated from beloved pets as residents shelter from Russian attack with cats and dogs (msn.com)
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On International Women’s Day, we recognize the countless women working to create a world where animals are respected and protected. The contribution of women to the fight for justice for animals is vital and cannot be ignored.
Women throughout history have led the animal protection movement, from the first animal shelter in America founded by Caroline Earle White, to the first suffragettes who gathered at vegetarian restaurants.
Women in the animal rights movement are becoming stronger, united and present, not only in the fight for animal liberation, but also in the convergence that this social justice movement has with the feminist fight.
For decades, bold, brave and passionate women have been on the front lines, defending animals and fighting to create a more compassionate and just world.
Fortunately, many people around the world are working to end animal cruelty.
But among all these people, and in the front line, we find many women.
Indeed, the animal rights movement is a movement led primarily by women.
In hunting sabotage, in actions in bullfighting arenas, in rescuing animals from stables and laboratories, in undercover filming… courageous and determined women are present.
We pay tribute and honor to all the courageous women of the animal rights movement.
My best regards to all, Venus
7 March 2022
Animal Equality
Investigation
Click below – ‘Watch on YouTube’:
Animal Equality has released disturbing undercover footage of deliberate violence and neglect on Madox Farm, a large dairy farm in Carmarthenshire, South Wales, which holds over 650 cows and their calves.
Animal Equality’s investigator covertly filmed troubling scenes spanning several months, including a number of serious legal violations. The footage reveals workers kicking and punching cows in the face and stomach, twisting their tails, and hitting them with sharp, metal shovels.
Footage from the investigation was broadcast to millions of people on BBC One’s Panorama. The program also featured an interview with Animal Equality’s investigator, who spoke about the violent methods he witnessed farm workers using to attempt to get a cow who had collapsed back to her feet.
Managers on Madox Farm were also found on several occasions to knowingly leave cows to suffer in severe, prolonged pain. On one occasion a cow was left in excruciating pain after her unborn calf had died inside of her. Despite a veterinarian who was visiting the farm recommending prompt euthanasia, which would have put the cow out of her misery, the on-site manager opted to delay action. The veterinarian was recorded saying that “this is one place where they’d rather just save the money”. The cow died overnight.
Animal Equality has investigated four UK dairy farms over the past six years and found violent treatment of cows and/or illegalities on each one. They assert that it is never the case of just one farm or worker being a ‘bad apple’ – the entire dairy industry is built on exploitation and as a result, animal suffering is at its core.
Animal Equality is therefore demanding that the UK Government puts in place critical changes to the law to license farms, increase farm inspections and better protect farmed animals. They want to ensure that animal abusers are held accountable.
Read more at source
Join their crucial call by adding your name to Animal Equality’s petition.
Regards Mark
Iditarod
What we are told:
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
| Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race | |
| Date | March |
| Location | Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, United States |
| Event type | Sled Dog Race |
| Distance | 938 mi (1,510 km) |
| Established | 1973 |
| Course records | Mitch Seavey, 2017, 8d 3h 40m 13s |
| Official site | iditarod.com |
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, more commonly known as The Iditarod, is an annual long-distance sled dog race run in early March. It travels from Anchorage to Nome, entirely within the US state of Alaska. Mushers and a team of 14 dogs, of which at least 5 must be on the towline at the finish line, cover the distance in 8–15 days or more. The Iditarod began in 1973 as an event to test the best sled dog mushers and teams but evolved into today’s highly competitive race.
Teams generally race through blizzards causing whiteout conditions, sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds which can cause the wind chill to reach −100 °F (−73 °C). A ceremonial start occurs in the city of Anchorage and is followed by the official restart in Willow, a city 80 miles (129 km) north of Anchorage. The restart was originally in Wasilla through 2007, but due to too little snow, the restart has been at Willow since 2008. The trail runs from Willow up the Rainy Pass of the Alaska Range into the sparsely populated interior, and then along the shore of the Bering Sea, finally reaching Nome in western Alaska. The trail is through a rugged landscape of tundra and spruce forests, over hills and mountain passes, and across rivers. While the start in Anchorage is in the middle of a large urban center, most of the route passes through widely separated towns and villages, and small Athabaskan and Iñupiat settlements. The Iditarod is regarded as a symbolic link to the early history of the state and is connected to many traditions commemorating the legacy of dog mushing.
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – Wikipedia
Our recent posts -see the full list, including videos, by clicking on the following:
Search Results for “iditarod” – World Animals Voice
Search Results for “musher” – World Animals Voice
Race Map – click on ‘Checkpoints’ for more details of each.
Race Map – Iditarod
Main website Iditarod
Dog Care ? – see our video links given above – Leaders in Dog Care – Iditarod
Regards Mark
From the Facebook page of the Austrian philosopher and animal ethicist Helmut F. Kaplan:
“Obscene from an animal perspective *:
Human suffering is lamented, animal suffering is ignored
Photo: Frankfurter Allgemeine
Animals are deliberately exposed to the conditions of nuclear war to determine how long they will survive and how they will die.
Animals are tied up and shot at with guns to explore the effects of new munitions.
Animals are ruthlessly frightened, expelled, injured and destroyed in the “opening” of nature, in the demolition of buildings, in the construction of roads, in the construction of dams and so on and so on.
Flocks of birds that impede airport operations are ruthlessly massacred.
Gassing and poisoning squads are on the move everywhere and without interruption in order to “exterminate” “vermin” and other “pests” in the most brutal way.
Not to mention from the round-the-clock, routine massacres in experimental laboratories and slaughterhouses around the world” ( from his book “Animal Rights and Human Rights: One Unit”)
* (His statement came after an article in the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine” entitled: “The situation in Ukraine: the population is already on the brink”).
https://www.facebook.com/tierrechte/
“Animals are almost always in the position of being (much) weaker than humans!
By nature, because we are mostly rationally and practically superior to them, ‘by civilization’, because we scientifically optimized and technically perfected exploit and kill them in animal factories and slaughterhouses. In experimental laboratories, animals are even deliberately humiliated and terrorized.” (Helmut F. Kaplan)
He said everything, actually.
Who else wants to comment here…
regards and good night, Venus
Philip is the Patron of this organisation, WAV:
Regards Mark
A new bill has been introduced to spare primates a life of misery and suffering as “pets.”
The Captive Primate Safety Act will ban the trade of prohibited primate species in the United States for private possession.
Please urge your U.S. congressional legislators to end the cruel primate pet trade today!
The Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA) would ban the “importation, exportation, transportation, sale, receipt, acquisition, and purchase of any ‘prohibited primate species’ for private possession.”
The species prohibited under this bill include chimpanzees, galagos, gibbons, gorillas, lemurs, lorises, monkeys, orangutans, tarsiers, or any hybrid of such a species.
Humans are primates and we share undeniable similarities with other primates.
We are all mammals with enhanced vision, large brains relative to our body size, front-facing eyes that allow for depth perception, five digits to grasp objects, and we experience slow growth and longer lifespans.
Females birth a few offspring throughout their lifespans, typically one at a time, and nurse their young.
Primates engage in complex social structures and communicate through vocalizations, facial expressions, gestures, touching, and more.
Just like humans, other primates can learn and have the ability to utilize tools to accomplish tasks.
They feel joy, fear, pain, anger, and grief.
Some species, such as chimpanzees, have even been known to have exceptional senses of humor and laugh at each others’ jokes.
Nonhuman primates are native to tropical and subtropical forests where they are adapted for temperature, precipitation, vegetation, diet, and space.
Confining these animals as “pets” deprives them of socialization with their species.
They are also denied the mental stimulation they would naturally experience as they are unable to explore and learn in their natural habitats.
Primates confined as “pets” are also unable to follow their instincts to procreate and care for their families, and are generally deprived of everything wild animals need to thrive.
Nonhuman primates are typically ripped away from their mothers and sold as babies.
As they grow, their wild nature makes it evident that they suffer in captivity and cannot be controlled, creating a dangerous situation for the animals and their captors.
Sadly, primates are not only exploited within the pet trade.
They are held captive for profits in zoos, experimented on in science labs, and used for entertainment purposes.
The Captive Primate Safety Act would end the primate pet trade only, but it is a significant step in the right direction.
https://www.idausa.org/campaign/wild-animals-and-habitats/latest-news/stop-primate-pet-trade/
And I mean…For every baby monkey that ends up in zoos or as pets, an average of ten adult monkeys die because they are highly sensitive animals that will defend their young at any cost.
The decline affects the species differently.
The number of chimpanzees has fallen by at least 40 percent, and there are still around 300,000 animals in West and Central Africa. The number of gorillas fell by at least 35 percent to an estimated 300,000 specimens.
All great ape species are threatened with extinction.
It is a highly lucrative business for the pet traders.
While the poachers get between $50 and $100 for the babies, the pet traders charge up to $250,000 for the monkeys.
The illegal trade in rare animal species is the fourth most lucrative illegal business in the world after drug and human trafficking.
Scientists estimate that unless concrete action is taken to help primates, they may become extinct within the next decade.
These animals are invaluable to tropical biodiversity as they are important for forest regeneration and stable ecosystems.
If they die out, that is an alarm signal that these habitats will no longer be usable for humans in the long term.
My best regards to all, Venus
“Forget the dog sledding propaganda you’ve been fed and see the reality on this video”.
https://www.facebook.com/official.peta
Some on that: The dogs used in the Iditarod have to walk up to 160 kilometers a day.
They traverse freezing winds, sub-zero temperatures, dangerous sheets of ice and blizzards in which they can hardly see anything.
While some dogs wear snowshoes, many dogs suffer cuts, bruises, and abrasions from walking the long distances on frozen ground.
Most states in the US have laws that prohibit animal overcharging—not so Alaska.
And the dogs also suffer off the track.
Most of the animals used in sled races are chained.
These dogs usually only have an upturned barrel or a run-down hut for protection.
Dogs that aren’t the best runners (like in the video) are often treated like faulty equipment.
In the past, such dogs have been beaten, shot, abandoned or abandoned in already overcrowded animal shelters.
Iditarod fatalities are not uncommon
At least 150 dogs used in the Iditarod have died since 2004. In 2015, dogs Stiffy and Wyatt died on the track.
Countless dogs are injured – for example, some dogs belonging to musher Yuka Honda, who crashed into a sled and was then run over by another!!
And Laura, a five-year-old dog who was reportedly virtually “blind” and often appeared “confused.”
Nevertheless, the musher Kelly Maixner let them compete.
In March 2020, over 220 dogs were withdrawn from the race because they were exhausted, ill or injured.
The good news: An international campaign against this cruelty to animals, numerous protests and the support of countless animal lovers showed success!
In 2019, Coca-Cola said goodbye as a sponsor of the race.
In January 2021, ExxonMobil also announced that it would no longer support the race from 2022.
In early 2022, the hotel chain Millennium Hotels and Resorts announced that it would end its sponsorship.
We must not let up. Endurance counts in animal protection.
This cruel dog sled race must no longer be encouraged and the suffering of the dogs must finally end.
The Formula 1 owners support the infamous Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska as a sponsor.
There is a petition against it.
If you haven’t already – please sign this petition and urge Formula 1 owners to stop supporting the deadly Iditarod sled dog race.
https://www.peta.de/aktiv/iditarod/#petition
My best regards to all, Venus
World Animals Voice 