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India: Happy New Year From ‘Animal Aid Unlimited’.

Dear Mark,     

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.

Click ‘watch on youtube’ to see video:

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.

For someone who needs you: donate today.

Edith finds happiness after tragedy

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.

Even after tragedy, happiness can come again! Please donate today

Saving the life of a street animal looks good on you.

100% of the proceeds go to our street animal rescues.

Shop now – https://shop.animalaidunlimited.org/

We thank you deeply for all you do, are, and inspire for animals

Founding family Erika, Claire and Jim, and the Animal Aid Unlimited team.

Regards Mark

England: If You Shop Online At Amazon, Dont Use the Normal Route – Use ‘Amazon Smile’ Instead and Get Amazon to Donate Money to A Charity of Your Choice. Its Easy, Its Free – Its Still Amazon, So Use It !

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

MissionTo 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.

United Kingdom charities have received

£18,557,857.86 as of December 2022


All worldwide charities have received

£381,995,657.00 as of December 2022

Regards Mark

England (South Coast): It Started As A Christmas Walk Along the Beach For 2 Ladies – But Ended With Them Fully Dressed, Spending 20 Minutes In The Icy Sea Rescuing A Stranded Dolphin.

The incident happened in Hastings, East Sussex on December 29 (Picture: SWNS)© Provided by Metro

England – South Coast – Women out for a Christmas Walk end up saving a stranded dolphin.

Two women jumped into icy sea to rescue dolphin trapped in rock gulley by tide (msn.com)

Something real special at Christmas – well done them !

Regards Mark

They battled with the icy waves for about 20 minutes (Picture: SWNS)© Provided by Metro

The animal was finally freed before swimming off in the direction of Bexhill (Picture: SWNS)© Provided by Metro

USA: Reasons for Hope By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. “Overall, 2022 was a pretty good year for nonhumans and a model for the future”.

Overall, 2022 was a pretty good year for nonhumans and a model for the future.

During the past month, many people have written to me and asked me to summarize some good news for the plight of nonhuman animals (animals) from the past year of 2022. It’s far too easy to focus on the downside of animal well-being and many people are tired of hearing all the bad things—there are many—but, as it turns out, there were many victories for other animals during the past year.1 This is not to say that much more can’t be done

Read the full article at:

Reasons for Hope: What Went Right for Animals in 2022 | Psychology Today

Regards Mark

Spain: Animal Lovers and Activists Walk In Madrid Against Animal Abandonment.

Animal lovers in Madrid showed some puppy love during this festive period, as they embarked on the San Perrestre walk against animal abandonment.

The annual event, which was organised by the animal protection group El Refugio, reminds us that dogs are not just for Christmas.

“This is the third time we have come to support the shelter and we are very happy to support especially the dogs that need a home,” said one participant.

The event aims to highlight the growing need to adopt cats and dogs that have been abandoned and neglected.

Read full story at:

Animal lovers in Madrid embark on dog walk against animal abandonment (yahoo.com)

Regards Mark

Voices: Ten of the biggest victories for animal welfare in 2022.

What a beautiful voice !!

We are all animals: sentient, sensitive, and emotionally complex. But other species aren’t always treated with the respect, dignity, and compassion they deserve. Humans have long exploited other animals for experimentation, food, clothing, and entertainment. But this year (2022) saw a big shift in that mindset.

Here are 10 ways the world became a kinder place in 2022:

Fur isn’t fashion

England scraps glue traps

Living, feeling beings are not laboratory equipment

Saving bears

No foie gras at Buckingham Palace

Freedom for dolphins

Beagle rescue

A knockout blow to blood sport

We repeat: living, feeling beings are not laboratory equipment

Check out the article by visiting:

Voices: Ten of the biggest victories for animal welfare in 2022 (msn.com)

Regards Mark

England (London): New Years Eve Fireworks 2022 into 2023. Enjoy !

There have been some amazing new year firework displays all over the world; but London is ‘our patch’ so we want to show you what happened here – 31st December 2022.

Party time in London ! – the 2022 / into 23 new years eve firework display.

At 3 min 30 secs it is great to see recognition and support for the Ukrainian people and other nations around the world.

I hope that 2023 turns out to be a lot better for our Ukrainian friends; that they witness the end of the war started by Russia, and that they can eventually start returning home to enjoy their wonderful nation again.

Lets hope 2023 is a better year for all.

Regards Mark

England: Keep On Keeping On For ALL Animals In 2023.

This is one of my favourite U2 tracks – and it is always the first to be played by me on new years day – this has now become a kind of tradition.  Enjoy:

I want to wish all fellow activists and campaigners a wonderful 2023 in their continued fight for better welfare and the rights of animals.   You can see some very positive progress on several issues in the last few posts. 

The campaigns can, and will, get stronger every day.  If you saw progress in 22, then wait to see what wonders happen in 2023.

Keep up the fight to gain the victories you all deserve;

Best wishes and all the best for 2023.

Harp Seal â•fi sub order: Pinnipedia (wordpress.com)

Sometimes you have to step off the path a bit !

As you can read in the link (Part 2) below, things got a little edgy to start with – especially when the Belgian police took out their guns and threatened us – but after some discussions all settled down and we carried on.

russian-seals-part-2-marks-campaign-stories.doc (live.com)

Cut to Charing Cross station sometime around Easter 1997. – I had made the relatively short journey up to London from my home in North Kent, to the place where everybody on the campaign that day had planned to meet, which was just outside the entrance to Downing Street. Once off the train, I shot down into the underground toilets at Charing Cross station, where I changed from my travelling clothes into those of this ‘Russian seal hunter’.

London – home of the Brash, Outrageous, and Free !

I must admit, the walk from the station through Trafalgar Square and up the Mall to Downing Street did get me a few glances from all sorts of people going about their business in the city.

The fact that I was carrying two life-size whitecoat seal pups splattered in blood and wrapped in transparent plastic bags, plus a large baseball bat sort of added to my ‘interest appeal’ I suppose you can call it ‘interest or attention grabbing’ on that walk. But what the hell, I was there to get attention for the campaign to stop Russian seal pups being butchered, so what did it matter
what I personally looked like walking the streets of London ?; After all, there are probably many people who walk around the city dressed in similar kind of garb every day.

But who cares ? – I did not.

See Downing St. photo below.

Regards Mark

Looking Back – Crating the British Prime Minister Instead of the Calves.

Fighting to Stop the Russian Seal Pup Slaughter – Downing Street London. By the way, we won, it was stopped !

A 2022 Year End Message From Animals Asia – Watch the Video to See Massive Bile Bear Progress In Vietnam.

2022. This is your kindness in action.

17 December 2022, 08:00AM

The brilliant Jill – dreams into reality !

As you’re reading this, please smile and take a bow. Because you’re responsible for exposing and closing one of the most egregious crimes against the welfare and conservation of animals that the world has ever seen.

Today, because of your constant faith and encouragement, a cruel, barbaric and utterly unnecessary industry is coming to an end. And perhaps just as extraordinary, the perpetrators of this industry are not being punished, but thanked.

Read more at  2022. This is your kindness in action. (animalsasia.org)

Regards Mark