when we give the other animals back their natural rights,
we are losing nothing other than the privilege of torture and murder.
Who wants to assert that he doesn’t want to waive this “right” with pleasure and at all times?
Best regards and a good night from Venus
Today (8/3) I issued a post about a dog in Colombia (?) which had all its puppies killed and was then teased.
Over the day a few mails have been sent in to us; some saying that the incident probably happened in Pakistan or Egypt; and not Colombia. Also, this incident may be 4 years old and the people responsible for the crime have never been caught.
So what do we do ? – I will probably now delete the post; it was done with all good intentions, but maybe inaccurate; so is effectively worthless. If accusations are made that the info is wrong, then we would really like to see it backed with factual evidence rather than just ‘hearsay’.
This, and similar petitions, do not really give you a lot of faith in putting petitions onto the site – maybe we now need to rethink what we do in future. Do we publish anything or not ?
If anyone can give us the real facts of this case we would love to hear and see it.
For the meantime I guess we now remove the post;
Regards Mark.
If every nonhuman woman is no longer raped, her children are no longer born in chains, her children are no longer robbed, her body is no longer used as a machine, if all nonhuman women are equal to us, humans, then we have a reason to celebrate Women’s Day.
Best regards to all, Venus
Bavaria is a federal state that thrives economically, but hunting has remained at a pre-civilizational level in the vastness of the country.
There is war against wildlife here. Animal protection is systematically undermined by nature users – hunters, farmers, forest owners, anglers, pond owners – in close cooperation with local politicians and state authorities.
That remains of wild animals after hunting. Image: B. PelliIn Bavaria, wild rabbits, raccoons and raccoon dogs do not even have the grace period provided for in the federal hunting law during the rearing of young animals. The animals are legally hunted all year round, regardless of whether they look after young animals or not. The young animals starve or freeze to death.
Whether the raccoon mom will come back… – the chances are worse in Bavaria than in other federal states. Parents can be shot! against the federal regulation. Picture: Heiko Anders
In Bavaria, it often doesn’t matter whether existing hunting laws are observed or not. Minister of Agriculture Michaela Kaliber (CSU=Christian Social Union) cannot rely on the hunters’ self-control by the hunters: in Bavaria, the parent animals required for rearing were and are strictly hunted this year in January, February and March, despite the fact that the foxes have set in this year killed.
This often happens during so-called fox or predatory game weeks. The first fox pups are born in Bavaria in January.
Strictly speaking, fox fathers required for rearing are eliminated by hunters in December, because as soon as the male has mated – usually from mid-November to the end of November – he will be a future parent.
Roe deer, deer or chamois are no better off in Bavaria. “Forest before game” is the motto that has been laid down in the Bavarian Forest Act in 2005 at the instigation of forest owners, foresters and the Ecological Hunting Association.
Driven hunts, in which many dozen hunters and drivers take part with their dogs, regularly take place in Bavaria right into the middle of winter. Actually the time when the metabolism of deer and deer is down to survive the sparse season with little food.
Hunting regulations do not even exist on paper for these hunts, which are carried out in particular by the Bavarian State Forests, but also by other large forest owners such as the noble Thurn and Taxis or the Princely House of Waldburg-Zeil.
Animals are shot in the belly, the lower jaw is blown away with heavy bullets or they are bitten by dog packs that get out of control.
Lecturers from the Bavarian Forest University in the state capital are using inhumane slogans such as “Only a dead deer is a good deer” or “You don’t have to look at what deer is for deer. The main thing is to make your finger crooked ” (!!!)
It is also the case that the authorities deliberately tolerate serious violations not only against the foxes, but also against the deer.
A long-time hunter puts it this way: “State forest, prince and so many hunting cooperatives don’t give a shit about legal norms.”
In rural areas in Bavaria there is a targeted and successful mood against returning species. Otters, beavers, cormorants, wolves and lynxes are used as scapegoats to distract from their own deficits, both in the protection of rivers and in the misguided agricultural policy.
In Bavaria, around 80,000 cormorants have been shot with a” special” permit in the past ten years. Picture: Michael Hamann
“Exceptions” for the shooting down of cormorants and beavers are said to have been made even in nature and bird protection areas such as Lake Chiemsee. In many places, beacon buildings are systematically destroyed and put away with the toleration of local politicians. Any illegal activity will not be prosecuted.
Those who dare to intervene are often threatened.
Many of the problems attributed to the animals are man-made and could be solved without the animal cruelty measures shown. The intense hunt, due to the immense disturbances in the rhythm of life, helps the roe deer to bite young trees at all.
In parts of Switzerland, a quiet zone model is successfully practiced, which has also been imitated in the forests of those of Gemmingen: on around 25-30 percent of the area, large hunting-free areas and unhunted grazing areas are created. Deer, roe deer or chamois find retreat there. Without the constant pressure to hunt, they regularly find food there and do not become “forest pests”.
The shooting down of foxes or raccoons is completely pointless. Because hunting is not able to regulate the population of these animals. The development of the number of raccoons cannot even be delayed by hunting. The only thing that is achieved by hunting prey is – besides satisfying their pursuers – the destruction of the social fabric of wild animals and the lowering of their average age.
A fox in Germany would not even be two years old- on average.
https://www.wildtierschutz-deutschland.de/single-post/Bayern
And I mean…Which is worse: swine fever or hunter and politician plague?
Almost two years ago, has the CSU (Christian Social Union) in the state parliamen enforced that “the Bavarian otter- management should be supplemented with “removal”, so it says in the group’s request. The term “removal” means catching otters in traps and and then execute. Although hunting for otters is prohibited.
In a pilot project, the government wants to allow three hunters to set up traps at fish farms. Otters are said to be caught in them and then shot.
The “Free State” of Bavaria simply wants to take the first step so that the hunt for the otter is back becomes socially acceptable.
It is an invention of sick psychopaths, politicians and hunters. Otters do not harm anyone, psycopaths do!
This reminds us of the cruel, brown times around 1941 when Göhring had applied for the “final solution” to the Jewish question” wich was therefore nothing other than the murder of the Jews at that time.
Annihilate, eliminate, or even exterminate would be the correct term for the shameful word “remove” for otter.
And we already know how do it.
My best regards to all, Venus
Petition now removed due to un reliable information.
Please see newer post of today – 8/3.
Regards Mark.
Regards and a good night from Venus
WAV Comment – wow is it so sad and dangerous that some nations now appear to want to be continually teaching their young children to go out and kill anything from such an early age; rather than teaching them respect for the environment and all the creatures that inhabit it.
This below is another of those ‘festivals’ which teaches kids all the wrong things from a very early age. Here is another:
https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2020/03/07/next-generation-of-mass-murderers/
A lot of evidence now obtained over many years by crime organisations in including the FBI; show that young kids who are taught to kill, by starting with animals, then move on to ‘human kills’ later in life. Want some evidence ? :
or:
Fortunately, in the UK and Germany, children are not let loose with deadly weapons to slaughter everything they can for stupid little ‘prizes’. We cannot say much more than we have shown this, and if parents (in these nations) still think that this is the right way to bring up children, then it is a very sad world in some places.
Rattlesnakes Beheaded by the Hundreds…
A sick, cruel festival in Sweetwater, Texas is encouraging children to behead helpless rattlesnakes and paint with their blood. This three-day-event, dubbed the Rattlesnake Roundup, rips innocent animals from their own environment to publicly torture them in front of crowds of people.
The Miss Snake Charmer pageant showcases teenage beauty queen contestants who chop off the pinned-down snakes’ heads. For a small fee, attendees, including children, can decapitate a snake, cover their hands in its blood, and slap a handprint on the white mural.
Animal cruelty should never be encouraged or associated with fun activities for kids. The event will take place in less than two weeks, so we urgently need your support.
Sign the petition to urge the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department to ban this barbaric event and show that the mass execution of Texas’ wildlife will not be tolerated.
Petition link – https://ladyfreethinker.org/petition-rattlesnake-roundup/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
Here are a few more pictures of this event that we (WAV) have found:
Environmental groups fear link between huge ships and spikes in dolphin deaths
Sat 7 Mar 2020 13.31 GMT First published on Sat 7 Mar 2020 11.12 GMT
Brexit offers the perfect opportunity to ban industrial supertrawler fishing boats from UK waters, according to campaigners.
The Margiris supertrawler, pictured, has a deadweight of 6,200 tonnes. Photograph: Saf Suleyman / Greenpeace PA
The factory-sized ships can be hundreds of feet long and have been criticised for indiscriminate fishing as they catch hundreds of thousands of fish in relatively short periods. Environmentalists fear their presence correlates with spikes in numbers of dolphins washing up dead.
Use of the ships is heavily regulated in some countries, as trawling has been criticised for the physical damage it inflicts on seabeds, but under the common fisheries policy, EU-registered vessels are legally entitled to fish in UK waters, subject to licence conditions, quota allocation and relevant fishing restrictions.
Campaigners fear supertrawlers are incompatible with sustainable management of fisheries and argue that the UK’s departure from the EU presents an opportunity for a new approach, as fishing rights to British waters are up for review.
“Our government likes to boast about its credentials as a global oceans champion, but what about protecting our seas here at home?” said Chris Thorne, Greenpeace’s oceans campaigner.
“Ministers should take a long, hard look at whether allowing supertrawlers to operate in UK waters is compatible with sustainable management of our waters, as well as investigating the impact of the UK’s industrial distant-water fleet in other countries’ waters.”
Calls for a ban on supertrawlers were made last year when the Lithuanian-registered Margiris – a 142-metre (465ft) boat with a deadweight of 6,200 tonnes, once considered the second largest in the world and banned from Australian waters – spent time off the south coast of England.
According to analysis by Greenpeace, Margiris was fishing in an area of the Channel designated by the government as a marine conservation zone. However, the government said it was monitored closely and no infringements were found.
The overall number of voyages in UK waters by supertrawlers each year is unclear. One ship, the Kirkella, based in Hull, can catch 2.3 million fish on every two-month voyage but it is far smaller than Margiris.
Conservationists claim that anecdotal evidence suggests the ships wreak havoc on sea life.
“It’s just been a long stream of dolphin deaths, I have never seen anything quite like it,” said John Hourston, from the Blue Planet Society. “We have had several storms but dolphins do not die because of weather, they are great swimmers.”
He believes the evidence points to supertrawlers being responsible for an increase in stranded dolphins off the Sussex coast and the west of Ireland, but that scientific study is needed to incontrovertibly prove the link.
“We have just got mass dolphin die-offs and mass fishing fleets and the two correlate, but we need more evidence.”
At the very least, he said, these ships should fitted with CCTV cameras or have independent observers on board to monitor which fish are being caught.
“I am not talking about the inshore fishermen, I am talking about the industrial supertrawler fleets,” he said. “We should not be allowing supertrawlers in British waters.”
French campaigners have also highlighted how rising numbers of dead dolphins are being washed up on the coast of the Bay of Biscay after becoming caught up in large trawler nets. In 2017, researchers said the number of dead dolphins washing up on British and French shores was at its highest level in more than 14 years, echoing observations from Ireland.
The website of fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas, the owner of the Margiris, says it has an “excellent reputation for sustainable fishing”.
It added: “Our catch quotas are dictated by government and EU regulations, and are based on scientific advice. We fish without causing damage to the seabed, and without disturbing the ecological system.”
A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: “As an independent coastal state, we will have the right to decide who fishes in our waters and on what terms.
“This means we can design our own domestic fishing policy, one that supports our coastal communities and lets the UK lead the way on sustainable fishing.”
Hunting is a big part of life in the eastern Bay of Plenty and the Opotiki Little 3 – that took place over the weekend – encourages kids to get involved by attempting to bag the largest number of possums, magpie and rabbit.
Ōpōtiki youngsters have been getting stuck into a hunting competition designed just for them.
Hunting is a big part of life in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Source: Seven Sharp
Hunting is a big part of life in the eastern Bay of Plenty and the Opotiki Little 3 – that took place over the weekend – encourages kids to get involved by attempting to bag the largest number of possums, magpie and rabbit.
“This competition is about getting out there & giving it a go!” the event’s website states.
The event is exclusively for under 16s.
“It’s good for the environment,” one keen young shooter told Seven Sharp.
The competition was created three years ago by a group of hunting mums (!!!).
“We are a small committee of four women, and we do our best,” one of the organisers said.
They decided big hunting competitions in the area didn’t focus on families.
“Most of us have full time jobs as well as doing this but we do it for the kids so… it’s worth it to see their smiles!”
Check out the video above to see the youngsters in action!!!
And I mean … Those who want to become serial killers in the future must practice early!
Then we wonder if a human massacre happens.
By almost every massacre we learn too late that mass murderers have previously practiced on animals.
And in some cases even parents come as guides.
People who are violent on animals rarely leave it at that.
But as long as the victims belong to another species, nobody cares and the murder is “good for the environment”!
“The child first exercises mercy or cruelty on the animal – and then, when grown up, it is helpful or merciless towards its fellow human beings”. (Friedrich Froebel)
My best regards to all, Venus
https://www.capetownetc.com/news/abused-horse-gets-second-chance-at-life/
Cape of Goodhope SPCA chief inspector Jaco Pieterse was in for a major surprise when he was called to Manenberg on the evening of March 2 to find a helpless male horse stuck and terrified in a river.
“We suspect that Thunder has been stolen from his owner and ridden into the ground before being cruelly tied to the side of the river to drown. Thunder was sinking deeper into the clay soil and a rescue strategy was rapidly put in place to free him safely,” the SPCA said in a statement. “Our team struggled for more than an hour to bring Thunder to safety. He was exceptionally weak and almost ready to give up. Chief Inspector Pieterse and his team however, were absolutely not ready to give up on this boy.”
The City of Cape Town’s Fire & Rescue arrived to assist in the rescue efforts and in one last attempt, with help from bystanders, finally managed to free Thunder from the river bank.
Thunder is now safely in the care of the CoGH SPCA where he has received treatment and is being monitored in its Horse Care Unit. “Mannenberg is a highly volatile and dangerous area – normally our Inspectors will avoid this area after dark, however we could not leave this horse to suffer and the decision was clear despite the safety concerns. We never give up on an animal. Thank you to Fire and Rescue and the bystanders for assisting us in this rescue and showing compassion to an animal in need,” the SPCA said.
“Today we can report that Thunder is doing so much better- he has a few bumps and bruises from his ordeal. We have treated him with a course of pain medication to help ease his stiff hind quarters,” it added.
Please report any animal in distress to the CoGH SPCA on 021 7004158/9 or after hours on 083 326 1604. Alternatively email inspectorate@spca-ct.co.za for assistance.
