Animal Abuse-Just for us to look good!!

Fur Farming:..... ANIMALS SKINNED ALIVE!

Tears are literally streaming form my eyes while posting this.

The fur farming industry is horrifically cruel. Animals are skinned alive fully conscious for their fur, after being beaten and having their bones broken. They survive after being skinned for up to ten minutes in unimaginable agony.
They live their lives crushed in to tiny cages, being driven mad. The animals receive no veterinary attention and are just left to suffer. A worker was quoted as saying "There is nothing wrong with treating the animals this way. They are going to die anyway."

This is a huge industry where millions upon millions of innocent animals are regularly meeting this fate, prevalently in Asian countries, such as China and the Philippines. 

Below:

This raccoon dog was skinned alive and thrown on to a pile of many others that had just been forced to endure the same agony. Many of the animals were still alive and in unimaginable pain. In this video still, this raccoon dog managed to lift it's head up and look at the person doing the under cover filming, as if to plead with them to stop it's agony. 


Below:

Rabbit still alive and in agony after being skinned alive for it's fur. 
 

 

WARNING: Real Fur Labelled As Faux Fur
Most people have a conscience and so would never dream of wearing real fur. Imitation, or faux fur has been available for a long time as an alternative. However, worryingly, it has been found that real fur is being sold all over the world labelled as faux fur.

 

Animal Abuse-How can you wear me?

 FARMING OF FUR.......Please do not support!!!! 

Obviously fur coats are only for the most heartless, unfeeling of people that are full of ugliness. Fur coats require numerous innocent animals to be put through the appalling fur farming process just for one of these cruellest of coats to be made.

There are a lot of coats and jackets for males and females, with fur trims on the hoods, collars or cuffs, etc. There are also furry boots, gloves with fur trims, furry hats and many other garments.

Even certain toys and ornamental animals are made with real fur, when you may not expect them to be.

Animals Used for Fur:


Beavers


 Chinchillas

 
Dogs and Cats



Foxes


Minks


Rabbits


Raccoons

Seals



Bears




Read more:

http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-clothing/fur/animals-used-fur/#ixzz3HDQFTBQQ

Animal Abuse-Once again for you to live!

Vivisection Testing - What Really Happens......
It is reported that over 100 million animals each year suffer and are murdered at the hands of:

 

1. Cosmetic, Chemical, Drug and Food Companies
2. Medical Research Laboratories
3. University Laboratories
4. Medical Training Exercises

Just to name but a few. They suffer unimaginable psychological and physical suffering. Albino Rabbits, and Dogs, for example, are often used for the Draize acute toxicity test.

This is where a substance such as a cosmetic or food ingredient is dropped into the eye or on the skin of a restrained, conscious animal, left for a while then removed to record its effects.

Effects can range from redness and swelling, to haemorrhaging and blindness. The animals are killed if they do not recover, otherwise they are tested on again. The pain they experience can only be imagined.

Below: Rabbit Experimentation - Eye Irritancy Tests where chemicals are put into the eye and it is forced shut to keep the chemical in for at least 10 minutes to see what damage it does. We can only imagine the pain.

Animal Abuse-I suffer for you to live!

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION !

Animal Experimentation IS NOT REQUIRED to advance human medical science in modern society. Because humans respond so differently to other animals, using other animals to test on is unreliable at best, and fatally dangerous at worst, for humans.

Cruel beyond words, the torturing and sacrificing of animals is what goes on in hidden laboratories in Research Facilities every day.

 Monkey Screaming In Agony After Being Injected



Vivisection means the cutting up of a living animal. However animals are dissected, infected with diseases, burned and blinded to name but a few of the atrocities that are inflicted on these poor defenceless animals.

Vivisection hinders medical advancement and is risky for humans because the results of this sadistic research cannot be applied to animals.

What the Scientists also fail to tell you is that advances such as curing cancer in mice has been in place for years, but cannot be transferred to humans.

All that time wasted, and cruelty inflicted, and absolutely no progress made in treating and curing cancer in humans.

This page brings you the TRUTH about what goes on in Research Facilities. Animal Experimentation is disgustingly wrong, and must be stopped, NOW.

Please leave a comment if you support ending this.

Animal Abuse-You don't need to do this.

I give my life just to beautify you!!!!

The Lethal Dose 50 Percent (LD50) test. 
The Lethal Dose 50 Percent (LD50) test is where Rabbits, Dogs, Cats, Mice and Guinea Pigs are used to test lipsticks, skin-care products, shampoos and nail polish.

Ingredients equating 50% of the animals body weight is forced into the animal orally or intravenously. The aim is to find the dose which kills half the animal sample, which is a minimum of 50 animals per experiment.

The multitude of tests that are conducted on animals is truly sickening. Monkeys are documented to have lost fingers and limbs through testing, and even through the lack of care they receive after testing.

For example, bandages are not applied to the burned body of the animal after chemical testing. This leads to infection and disease, not to mention the pain and distress they suffer.


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Dog Burned Untreated After Chemical Testing At the Shriner's Hospital, Cincinnati, USA.

 

Animal Abuse-I will do without the food!

Just imagine they kill me to test the food I have to eat!!!

The testing of cosmetics, household cleaners, and surprisingly, dog food, results in millions of animals suffering and dying from poisoning and burning every year, at the demand of cruel corporations. These corporations are the owners of leading, well known brands consumers buy.

Below: Producers of IAMS and EUKANUBA dog food test on animals

Animal Abuse-I support this!

The animals support this!!!!!

 

A Better Way - Humane Research
The frustrating thing for me is animal experimentation can so easily be avoided and replaced with advanced humane, non-animal methods.

The belief that animal experimentation is necessary to progress medical research is wrong. In fact, what produces positive results in animals, can prove to be very dangerous to humans.

Time and money should be poured into the following techniques: In Vitro Research
This is where research is conducted in external, controlled environments such as a test tube. It is a proven technique that produces very accurate results for medical research.

Penicillin is just one of thousands of treatments for humans that were discovered through In vitro research. Why experiment on an animals when this works better?

In addition drugs like Thalidomide, Zomax, and DES were all tested on animals and judged safe. We know now this was very much not the case.

Advances In Technology The technology available to research scientists, chemists and others from the medical and commercial worlds really does negate the need for animal experimentation.

MRI and CAT Scans, DNA Sequencing, Advanced Microscopes and X-rays all enable the medical world to look inside the human body.

Advances in Computers New computer power and advances in Mathematics have resulted in new treatments for diseases such as Breast cancer and AIDS.

New prosthetics for people who have lost limbs, or who have broken their backs and also on the market today. No animal experimentation needed!

Epidemiology Epidemiology studies diseases in the human body. This techniques discovered links between diet and heart disease, and smoking and lung cancer.

Genetics Genetic research identified human predisposition to hereditary problems such as cancer and heart disease. Advances in DNA technology may lead to cures for such conditions.

The scientists that use DNA sequencing in animal experimentation are really wasting their time. Why not study humans instead?

Clinical Studies Clinical Studies observe and analyse patient conditions to advance solutions to given problems. Leukaemia, thyroid disease and HIV therapies have all come from Clinical studies.

Autopsies Autopsies identify and clarify human diseases with absolute clarity. They are expensive, but the research information that can be found from them are worth the investment.

I am pleased to say that some Countries in Europe have diverted funds from animal experimentation to autopsies with positive results.

Post-Marketing Drug Surveillance (PDMS)This is a system that enables the general public to report on the effects and side effects of approved drugs. This enables the research labs to refine the safety of such drugs.

Animal Abuse-A picture paints one word.....Demons!

The Journey To Slaughter

 Below: Worker Kicking a Cow On Her Way To Slaughter

                           

Finally, the lorry stops. You hope you will be given a drink, but instead you and your friends are forced in to a building. The unfamiliar and disturbing sights and smells terrify you and your friends.

You are all trapped. You are forced forward by someone poking you with a stick that gives you horrible electric shocks. You panic as you see a person hold a bolt gun to your friends head. In horror you see you friend fall.

Now it is your turn. You have never felt such terror. The stun gun fires a bolt into your head, causing you extreme agony... but you are still conscious. The workers don't care as they hoist you upside down for your throat to be cut...

 

Below: Helpless cow hung upside down having it's throat slit.

                             

Below: Frightened pig about to be stunned. It is sometimes not carried out effectively, leaving lots of animals fully conscious throughout the agonising slaughter house process.

                          

It could be said that the ones that are stunned effectively are the lucky ones in the slaughter house, considering around 40% are not and feel every moment of the agonising torture.

Live Export conditions are horrific. As in all areas of farming and the meat industry, animals are seen as commodities, or money, rather than living, breathing fellow animals.

The abuse continues every day. Even in Countries such as the USA and the UK, Companies break laws all the time with regards to how animals should be treated.

Below: Nothing Protects these innocent Dogs, crammed in to cages victims of the barbaric and cruel dog meat trade.

                           

Below: The buyer of these live dogs will take them home and slaughter them for meat in any number of horrific ways. Many dogs are boiled alive.

                           

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What Happens in Slaughter Houses?

Below: Hen about to have her throat cut in a slaughter house

                

Animals slaughtered to provide Halal meat is also done without stunning. Muslims believe that as long as the knife is sharp and the slaughter can be done in one go, it is the kindest way and acceptable. I wonder if they would think the same if they themselves were faced with this death?

 

Animal Abuse-Demons......Part 2!

Animal Abuse In Slaughter Houses

Because slaughter house slaughter of farm animals is legal, it is not considered animal abuse in the eyes of the law.
There are countless documented cases of other behaviour that IS considered to be animal abuse in slaughter houses. This is where the workers wilfully cause the animals more suffering than is legal.  Many of these cases are not reported and go undocumented.

Here is just one example of a slaughter house where animal abuse was uncovered:

In 2011, Abattoir Staff at a Slaughter house in Essex, UK, run by a Cheale Meats, where up to 6000 pigs are killed every week, were seen striking the pigs with paddles and stubbing out cigarettes in their faces.

Another worker punched a pig in the face, and others were filmed kicking them. Often the pigs were not stunned correctly, leaving them in screaming agony as they bleed to death.

Unbelievably though, the Food Standards Agency in the UK refuse to prosecute those involved.

In other cases such as this, pigs are repeatedly electrocuted with iron prods, by laughing workers. The people who do that kind of job lack compassion for animals, otherwise they could not do it. Their actions demonstrate their lack of respect and empathy for animals.

Why do you think you have the right t do these senseless acts?

 

Below: Pig being abused in a slaughter house by having cigarettes stubbed out on her face

 

                           

Below: Abuse of animals during the slaughter process is all too common. This Piglet was viciously jumped on Before Being Electrocuted

                            

Below: Pig being abused in a slaughter house crying out in pain from electrocution

                            

Below: pig being abused in slaughter house
bleeding to death after having throat slit whilst not properly stunned.

                          

Australian Cattle have been subjected to the most horrific abuse in Indonesian abattoirs, all in the name of the meat industry.

Undercover footage for a programme called Four Corners Tonight on the Australian ABC1 Channel showed animals being kicked and beaten.

Their throats were hacked at, their eyes gouged and their tails broken. Some of the cattle were conscious when they were dismembered.

 

Below: Indonesian slaughter house abuse video still from the video that was shown on the Four corners Tonight Programme

                        

Iowa's agricultural Industry are trying to make undercover filming of farm animal abuse illegal. This means people trying to protect farm animals from cruelty by filming abuse can be prosecuted! Such laws will only increase animal abuse and protect animal abusers.

 

What do you think about this?

 

Animal Abuse-I don't like my tattoo!

Please pray for us!

 

Calves of dairy cows, forcibly impregnated so they keep producing milk, become victims of the slaughter house.

Animals on Farms and Ranches often don't get the veterinary help they need because it costs too much and the farmers and ranch owners do not want to cut in to their profits.

Many animals are known to have died of dehydration, have frozen to death, or suffered other horrible deaths due to inadequate care.

Cows are often branded so farmers and ranchers can identify their cattle. This method is agonising for the animal, just as it would be for a human.

Below: Cow Branding in America :Look at the Pain and Terror in this Cows Eyes.

                           

Cows that are 'Downed' - a term used by cattle ranchers for cows that are so traumatised, exhausted or injured that they cannot stand, are often beaten to force them up again, and dragged to slaughter. This of course causes them even more pain.

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Animal Abuse-Just to make you aware.

THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE: THE HORRIFYING CRUELTY

The horrors that go on in the slaughter house are something the meat industry do not want you to know.

The meat industry likes to portray happy farm animals, but how could any animal feel anything but terror and pain when faced with the suffering of factory farming
and the slaughter process?

Beating, boiling and dismembering animals alive is common-place in today's slaughter houses.

Human demand for meat has led to quicker production demands, which means the meat industry's production line stops for nothing, especially sick, disabled and not effectively stunned animals.

This ordeal is happening RIGHT NOW, EVERY SECOND to innocent animals, and is funded by each person who buys meat. See what buying meat pays for.

Below: Battery Hens in a typical broiler House. They spend their whole lives in these tiny cages, hardly able to move. only being taken out to be slaughtered.

                         

As soon as they are born, chickens in the egg industry are sexed and accepted, or rejected. The rejected chicks are disposed off by either being suffocated, or being ground up alive in a grinding machine.

Below: A rejected chick is just about to fall off the conveyor belt in to a grinding machine that will grind him up alive.

 

Animal Abuse-So I could win a bet!

GRAND NATIONAL HORSE RACE & HORSE ABUSE

 

Facts about the world of horse racing:

1. Since 13th March 2007 there have been 816 on-course thoroughbred horse fatalities in Britain alone.
2. Around 420 horses are raced to death every year (including non-thoroughbred horses and of-course deaths caused by racing).
3. About 38% die on racecourses.
4. Others are destroyed as a result of training injuries. These injuries could be treated, but because the horse will no longer be able to make money by racing, money is not "wasted" on treating them.

Below: Neglected and starving ex-race horse rescued by Florida T.R.A.C. Pictured with member Natalie Fawkes.

Below: Ex-race horse Traveller was sold for £20,000 just three years before he was rescued by LEARN rescue in a starving and neglected state along with three other horses starved and neglected by Dwight McCloud at a farm in Somerville. Whisper with the huge back burn caused by Kerosene was one of them. The chemical had burned through the skin and some muscle, and maggots were also eating the tissue. The pain will have been unbearable. The horses were so hungry, they were trying to eat wood shavings in the stall, among other inedible materials. (Credit: Howland Mansfield)

 

Below: Every year, around 300 racehorses die on British race tracks. In addition to the hundreds raced to death, thousands more are killed, or abandoned to neglectful or abusive situations, every year because they can no longer run fast enough to be profitable. (Credit: Animal Aid)

 

The owner of According To Pete expressed his grief about his horse being put to death after falling and suffering a fractured leg. He said he would never again consider entering another animal in the Grand National horse race and added "You always think it's going to be someone else's horse".

British comedian, Ricky Gervais, writer of hit comedy 'The Office' said he would not watch the Grand National in protest of the cruelty. He added :

 

"I don't think people should make horses jump over things being whipped and when they injure themselves they are put down because they are not worth having around because of economic reasons."

Animal Abuse-Apparently not rare enough to spare my life!

Rare albino deer bagged by 11-year-old

Michigan's Gavin Dingman shoots white animal with crossbow on hunting trip with his father; story generates wide range of emotional feedback

October 22, 2014 by Pete Thomas



Gavin Dingman, 11, poses with albino deer; photo via Facebook

An 11-year-old Michigan hunter last week killed a rare albino deer while on a hunting trip with his father.

This week, the story is generating a wide range of emotional feedback on Facebook.

Gavin’s father, Mick Dingman, told Livingston Daily that he and his son had spotted the white deer several times in recent years, and that other hunters had talked about trying to bag the animal.

An admittedly nervous Gavin used a crossbow from 30 yards to harvest the 12-point trophy buck, and the news quickly spread in hunting circles.

“He kind of feels like a rock star right now,” Mick Dingman said. “Everyone is calling, all of the hunting shows and hunting magazines.”

Sentiments being expressed on the WZZM 13 Facebook page , where the albino deer story has been shared more than 4,000 times, are somewhat mixed. (WZZM 13 is a Livingston Daily partner.)

“He should have let it live. There are plenty of others out there,” reads one of hundreds of comments.

“If it’s rare, why the hell would he kill it?” reads another.

“I’m fine with hunting, just hate the ‘Hey look, it’s different, let’s shoot it’ ideas. Shoot it with a camera and let the unique one live,” reads yet another.

Deer-hunting in Michigan is an extremely popular pastime, so it’s not surprising that so many wrote in defence of Gavin Dingman.

“Get over it. The law says it’s legal. Back off the kid!!! Way to go kiddo!!” reads one comment.

“He paid good money for his license. He can use it for anything HE chooses, ” reads another. “Whether it be a brown deer or an albino buck, the state of Michigan gave him permission to kill it. Leave the kid alone. He did nothing wrong. He harvested a great trophy.”

Some of the commenters criticized WZZM 13 for posting the story on Facebook, opening Gavin to criticism.

“WZZM should stick with reporting news, not trying to make an 11-year-old boy feel guilty for shooting a deer, during deer season,” reads one comment.

Albino deer and leucistic deer (not a true albino) possess genetic defects that cause the white pigmentation.

Some native cultures revere the white animals, and believe that they possess the spirits of ancestors.

This story brings to mind the killing last October of a rare albino “spirit moose” in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Three hunters involved in that expedition were harshly criticized on social media sites, and ultimately issued a formal apology to the Mi’kmaq people.

It’s unclear whether any native groups have spoken out against Gavin Dingman’s killing of the white deer in Michigan.

The boy’s description of his big moment: “My dad was just like, ‘Take a deep breath. Are you sure you can take the shot? If you’re not 100 percent, we don’t want to injure it.’ ”

The family plans to pay a taxidermist to create a full body mount of the deer.

WZZM 13 cites a report that claims that one out of 20,000 deer are born 

Please share your view on this story!

Animal Abuse-Thanks for sparing me!

God's intervention in Dallas ...

I'm extremely glad that God intervened in Dallas and saved Nina's best friend unlike what happened in Spain.

Wasn't this a step in the right direction?
 

Nina Pham, 26, who tested positive for Ebola said she was happy to know her dog was being cared for. 

Unlike Excalibur, the dog owned by a Spanish nursing assistant infected with Ebola that was euthanized last week, the canine in Dallas will be sent to a new location to await its owner's recovery, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said.

"We just felt the dog is very important to this hero of a health-care giver and we're going to do anything we can to help," Rawlings said in an interview in Dallas. The dog will be moved from the house to a safe location and be cared for by the city, he said. "I believe the pet hasn't caught anything."

Rawlings wouldn't give the dog's name or breed.

 

Animal-rights activists had protested all night outside the apartment block in Alcorcon, near Madrid, where the 12-year-old Excalibur lived with the health worker diagnosed with Ebola on Oct. 6. There's no evidence pets play an active role in transmitting the deadly viral disease to humans, according to the World Organization for Animal Health.

 

Some of us still have hearts!!!!!Check this link out.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-15/dallas-seeks-donations-to-care-for-ebola-victim-s-dog.html?cmpid=yhoo

Animal Abuse-Did he deserve to die?

Ebola Patient's Dog Euthanized.

I have been following the Ebola crisis a bit since it emerged. How unfortunate for those who have contracted the deadly disease. These are good Samaritans who have been selflessly trying to assist the infected.

Although I sympathize with those who have contracted the virus and understand the severity of a possible outbreak, I became enraged when I saw the following issue on BBC news some time ago.

 

Please have a read. What do you think? Shouldn't the dog have been given the same opportunity as a human being to continue living?

 

My God ......he was not even sick!!!!!!

 

Shouldn't he have been quarantined and observed for the same incubation period and then tested? Couldn't they have learnt something from this observation? 

 

Ebola Patient's Dog Excalibur Euthanized Despite Outcry

 

The pet dog of the Spanish Ebola patient was euthanized today despite a plea from the owner to spare the pet and a worldwide outcry.

Javier Limon, who owned the dog along with Ebola patient Teresa Romero Ramos, burst into tears when told the mixed breed dog Excalibur had been put down.

Limon is in quarantine while his wife is being treated for Ebola in an isolation unit at a Madrid hospital.

Spain’s Ministry of Health confirmed the dog had been euthanized, and said it was sedated before it was put down.

Police escorted a health team into the building and scuffled with animal rights activists who tried to prevent them from entering the apartment. Protesters screamed "killer" as they tried to block the ambulance.

Police with batons later cleared a path as they left the building with the dog.

Madrid officials feared that the dog could be carrying the virus even though it would not develop symptoms, could possibly pass it to humans with a bite or a lick.

Limon, who along with two others have been quarantined for observation, pleaded in a video for help to convince authorities to spare his dog, claiming, "They want to kill him for no reason."

Hundreds of thousands of people signed a petition urging health authorities to spare Excalibur.

Limon's wife is a nurse's aide who contracted the disease after helping to care for a Spanish priest who had been working in West Africa. The priest died of Ebola.
 

An excerpt  taken from another news source.
 

"Excalibur wasn't showing symptoms and wasn't tested for Ebola before he was destroyed. Spanish health officials may have taken a precautionary approach that supports taking protective action in the absence of complete scientific proof of a risk, the International Society for Infectious Diseases' ProMED-mail program said in an e-mail."

Animal Abuse-Why didn't you want me?

Yellow Lab with 'paws up' returned to shelter after only one day

On October 17, this five-year-old yellow Labrador retriever's photo broke the hearts of readers as he reached his paws against his kennel begging for his freedom. He was described by volunteers and staff alike at the busy Carson Animal Care as being extremely smart, gorgeous and just full of love.

Sadly, the following update was posted on Saving Carson Shelter

Dogs' Facebook page earlier Tuesday:

"This beautiful angel was adopted yesterday and returned to the shelter today. Please SHARE, he must be so scared and confused. He is available now."

After a phone call this afternoon to the Carson Shelter, the National Pet Rescue Examiner was told the dog was returned because he was "animal aggressive." Was he properly introduced to the other pets in the home? Did he chase the family cat? There were no explanations, but he will now have to go through further evaluation at the shelter. At this time, there are still three interested parties for him, and the temperament test is scheduled later this week. An approved rescue organization may adopt him.

 

That's their loss. He's too sweet. Don't worry boy..... someone will take you!

Animal Abuse-Abandoned angles Rescued and thankful!

Quickread

Homeless Dogs Rescued From Junkyard Transform Into Beautiful, Loving Pups

Little strays Elmer and Elsie were scared and covered with motor oil when members of Hope For Paws found them alone in a Los Angeles-area junkyard.

Elsie was so terrified that upon seeing her rescuers, she darted well out of arm's reach underneath a low platform. It took time, but with characteristic patience and kindness, Hope For Paws' Eldad Hagar and Lisa Arturo eventually coaxed both of the pups out of their hiding places.

As with the other homeless dogs the Los Angeles-based animal rescue has saved, Elmer and Elsie's transformations weren't just physical. Even before the pair was given a much-needed bath and check up, it was clear that in their rescuers' care they were becoming more comfortable around people again, and -- however hesitantly -- affectionate. Soon, they were playing and cuddling with the best of rescue dogs.

Witnessing such change is the most gratifying part of the job for Hagar.

"The most rewarding [thing] is seeing the transformation of the animals from at their worst to at their best, then finding them amazing homes," he once told Modern Dog Magazine. Elmer and Elsie are currently up for adoption through Maltese Rescue California. According to their profiles, the adorably devoted pair are hoping to a find a forever home together.

Hats off to 'Hope For Paws'. We need more establishments like these.

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Animal Abuse-Thanks for rescuing me.

Animal cruelty case in Winter Park leads to felony arrest.

I was browsing through the net and came across this article. Please have a read and you must note the perpetrator's comment!!!!! Thank God we are all not like him.

Animal cruelty case in Winter Park leads to felony arrest:

 

Orange County Animal Services sent out a media advisory indicating that it had taken in a dog from Winter Park that was so severely emaciated and ill that the dog’s former owner is being charged with felony animal abuse.

According to OCAS, they received a call about a dog reported to be in poor condition on Oct. 2. Animal Services arrived and found the emaciated dog, named Zola, was so weak that she was unable to stand. According to the intake report from OCAS, she was covered in fleas and lying on a floor soaked with urine and faces

The dog’s owner, Aaron Dennis, told animal services that the dog had been losing weight, but that he hadn’t taken her to the vet to find out what was wrong. The report describes an apartment with “numerous items” thrown about and blood, urine and faeces on the floor. Though the dog was unable to get up, officers indicated that she struggled to wag her tail.

Dennis willingly relinquished the dog to animal services, but he stated that he was surprised that he could get into trouble for the condition she was in. “It was just a dog, he stated,” according to the report. He was arrested on third-degree felony cruelty to animal charges. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is handling the criminal case.

Zola is now in the custody of Animal Services and receiving care from a local veterinarian.

 

More photos of Zola below, but they are somewhat upsetting. Don’t scroll down if you do not wish to see the emaciated dog.

 

 

 

 

UPDATE: According to OCAS, Zola is still hanging in there, and she’s continuing to receive supportive care.

 

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Orange County Animal Services says it will no longer label dogs by breed

 

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Animal Abuse-Not because of hormones!

Chickens Look Way Different Today, And Here's The Reason Why....

Chickens have changed. Today's broiler chickens are several times larger than broiler chickens of past decades -- and a new study by researchers in Canada offers an explanation for why the birds got so big.

(Story continues below photo.)

 

 

The chickens shown were all raised in the same manner and photographed at the same age. The Huffington Post added the dates to this image. (Poultry Science, Advanced Access, (2014) doi: 10.3382/ps.2014-04291, Figure 1) (Zuidhof et al, “Growth, efficiency, and yield of commercial broilers from 1957, 1978, and 2005")

For the study, the scientists raised three breeds of broiler chickens: one breed that was common in 1957, another from 1978, and a third from 2005, called the Ross 308 breed, CBC News reported.

"We fed them exactly the same things, so we did not provide hormones," lead author Dr. Martin Zuidhof, associate professor of agricultural science at the University of Alberta, told the CBC. "The only difference that was part of our study treatments was the genetics."

(The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has long banned the use of hormones in poultry production.)

What did the researchers find? The Ross 308 chickens grew to be much bigger than the 1978 breed and four times larger than the 1957 breed.

"We had never actually tested our 1978 line before, but where they fell were very consistent with what we believed would be the case based on historical selection for growth rate and efficiency," Zuidhof told the Canadian news channel CTV.

In other words, today's chickens are bigger simply because they were bred to be bigger. Should we be concerned about eating these big birds?

"There is no danger in eating larger chickens," Zuidhof told The Huffington Post in an email. "That would be comparable to saying it is more dangerous to eat bigger carrots because they’re bigger."

The study was published online in the journal Poultry Science on September 26, 2014.

Animal Abuse-For the love of money.

IVORY TRADE

 

The ivory trade is the primary reason that the elephant population world wide is diminishing at an alarming rate.

Other species killed for their ivory tusks are the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and mammoth.

Poachers move from place to place where the elephant population has not yet been obliterated, wiping it out wherever they go.

Despite an international ivory trade ban being in place, there has recently been a surge in this illegal and brutal practice.

Below: Poachers kill elephants using methods such as stoning them to death, using a poisoned dart which results in a slow and excruciatingly painful death for the animal, and by shooting them with machine guns. Poachers slaughter entire herds of elephants when they gather to drink at waterholes.

 

 

What Is Ivory Used For?

Poachers mercilessly kill elephants so they can sell their ivory tusks. Today, it is thought that most of the ivory is illegally smuggled to China and Thailand to make chop-sticks, jewellery, ornaments, hair accessories, and many other items.

In Asia, many people believe that products made with certain animal parts have medical and mystical powers. This is despite such medicinal powers having never been proven and actually having been dis-proven.

People will pay high prices for products they believe contain these powers.

Below: Various items made from ivory from elephants tusks

 

                
Just one tusk can be worth around £40,000 (UK),or $63,000 (US), once it is carved in to various items.

 

Below: A mother elephant holds her baby close, protecting it. Numerous baby elephants are left orphaned after their mothers are killed for their ivory tusks, which are worth around £80,000,or US $126,000 for a set of two, once they are made in to ivory items. If orphan baby elephants survive to grow tusks of their own, they too may well be killed by poachers, in one of a variety of painful, distressing and frightening ways.

 

                
Below: Around 35,000 elephants are slaughtered every year for their tusks, to supply the ivory trade. This is on the increase and nothing much is being done by countries to protect the elephants that live there. As a result, their existence as a species is endangered, due to the alarmingly high rate of continuous killings.
 

                

Below: Innocent elephants brutally killed, primarily for their ivory tusks. Part of the tusks are buried deep under the skin, so the poachers leave these beautiful animals terribly disfigured after hacking their heads apart in order to get all of the highly prized ivory.