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61. Prevent return of Amersham horses prior to animal cruelty trial 
In early January 2008 the RSPCA, assisted by other equine welfare organisations, removed over 100 horses, ponies and donkeys from Spindles Farm, Amersham and charges of animal cruelty were brought against the Gray family. Most of the animals required extensive veterinary treatment and nursing care to start them on the road to good health and some will need continued care for many months to come.
The farm's owner, James Gray, made a formal application to Oxford Magistrates Court on Friday, 4th April 2008 to have the animals returned. The Deputy District Judge ruled to return 29 of these animals into the care of the family, deemed to be family pets, and to send another 82 to public auction. This decision has been greeted with outrage and dismay by the welfare agencies caring for the animals as the case against the Gray family for offences under section 4 and section 9 of the Animal Welfare Act (2006) is yet to be heard.
It is not in the best interests of the animals for these rulings to take place and the RSPCA will investigate all other avenues of appeal. Members of the public are invited to sign this petition to show their support for the RSPCA and the other equine welfare organisations currently caring for these animals in order to secure their future welfare.
I purchased two puppies from a "Licenced Breeder" both Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. The owner lied to me about everything & my little puppy was extremely ill with Kennel cough & bronchitis. She nearly died & is half the normal weight.
It turns out they were bought from a PUPPY FARMER... who continues to sell sick & dying puppies....
My little puppy Lola has been on constant treatment costing £400 + and she is starting to recover. The puppies were suppose to be Kennel Club registered and they are NOT.
63. Stop animal cruelty in circuses
Behind the scenes, elephant trainer Tim Frisco instructs would-be trainers how to dominate elephants and make them perform circus tricks. “Sink that hook into ’em. When you hear that screaming, then you know you got their attention.”
An elephant trumpets in agony as Frisco’s bullhook, with its sharp metal hook and spiked end, tears through her sensitive skin. Frisco, a Carson & Barnes elephant trainer, learned the trade from his father, a former trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
The fact is, animals do not naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance on balls, or jump through rings of fire. To force them to perform these confusing and physically uncomfortable tricks, trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bullhooks, and other painful tools of the trade.
We applaud trapeze artists, jugglers, clowns, tightrope walkers, and acrobats, but let’s leave animals in peace. Sweden, Austria, Costa Rica, India, Finland, and Singapore have all banned or restricted the use of animals in entertainment—it’s time for the U.S. to do the same.
64. Animal Testing -- Stop It Now!
Many people are morally opposed to experiments on animals, even if they are of supposed medical benefit. Such people are often portrayed as wishing to sacrifice medical progress to avoid animal suffering.
The government and the media dismiss their concerns by labelling them 'anti-science': a convenient, but totally false, stereotype. But what if there were no medical benefits from experiments on animals? What if they were actually an obstacle to medical progress: misleading scientists, harming patients by their unreliability and wasting precious funds that would be better spent on patient-oriented research?
If that were really the case, then stopping animal experimentation would be in everyone's best interests: truly a win-win situation!
Every year, millions of animals are killed for our benefits -- but the main thing that disgusts me is how many animals really are affected by it.
Nearly 90% of animals that are tested on die due to the chemicals in the cosmetics -- anyone else find this alarming and disgusting?
65. Quebec desperately needs to upgrade it's animal-welfare laws
journalist:MAX HARROLD
>The Gazette-Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Speeding down the runway in Dorval May 21, Air
Canada passengers bound for Paris heard a lot more than just the jet's engines wailing.
Dogs were yelping in the cargo hold beneath them.
The estimated 70 to 100 healthy beagles were among many regular - and perfectly legal - trans-Atlantic shipments by Air Canada of dogs destined for medical experiments.
Passengers on the flight found the sound of the dogs very distressing.
"All we could hear during the boarding and before the takeoff was barking, crying and whimpering," said one passenger in business class on Flight 870 who did not want to be identified.
After landing in Paris, passengers saw three pallets with cages of two dogs each being unloaded from the Airbus 330 aircraft.
"Their tails were wagging through the cages," said one
passenger, who also asked not to be identified.
"We were shocked to hear some flight attendants say this goes on regularly - dogs get shipped to Paris for experiments."
Because Quebec's animalprotection law is vague and weakly enforced, the province provides a steady source of dogs for laboratories both here and abroad, animal rights activists said.
"Fifty per cent of all dogs used for medical research in
Canada are used in Quebec," said Liz White, a director of the Animal Alliance of Canada, a national animal rights group.
Figures found on the website the Canadian Council on Animal Care, a government-funded organization that monitors animal research, show 5,610 dogs were "used" in Quebec in 2005. That same year, 5,127 dogs were used in all the other provinces combined.
Despite a tough new provincial animal-welfare law enacted 2004, "Quebec is a frontier province for animal abusers," White said. "There are very few bylaws, there is a high euthanasia rate (by pet owners), and the claim rate for lost pets is very low."
The Quebecatmosphere helps medical researchers trade in animals, she said.
Only four inspectors enforce Quebec's animal-welfare law, which allows for fines of $200 to $15,000 for repeat offenders. In Ontario, more than 200 inspectors enforce animal-welfare regulations.
Suzanne Lecomte, chief inspector with Anima-Quebec, a
not-for-profit agency that applies the new law, said the "law is vague. It says simply you cannot compromise the safety and welfare of the animal." Linda Robertson, director of the Monteregie SPCA, said beagles are often used in research because they are particularly docile. "You can do with a beagle whatever you want," she said. "It's not going to bite you." The breed can be tailor-made to develop certain cancers, she added. Pierre Barnoti, executive director of the SPCA in Montreal, said his group has been aware of the air shipments for years. "Our investigators have checked out the dogs' health and they're fine," Barnoti said. "These are not puppy mill dogs," he said.
Claude Morin, president of Air Canada Cargo, confirmed the existence of animal shipments for medical research.
"It's completely legal," Morin said. "The animals are treated perfectly (en route).We don't really ask too many questions about where they're going. Clients don't have to tell us anything." Air Canadaspokesperson Isabelle Arthur said a 1998 ruling by the Canadian Transportation Agency forbids the airline from refusing to ship animals simply because of their purpose. The ruling was made after Air Canada refused to carry monkeys intended for vivisection.
But Jadrino Huot, a spokesperson for the CTA, said the ruling was made to force Air Canada to apply its own policies and that the airline was entirely within its rights to change its policies. "Air travel is a deregulated industry," he said. "They set their own policies." One Air Canada flight attendant, who asked not to be identi- fied, said the dog shipments have been kept "hush, hush.""It's a business," she said. "They shouldn't be doing this."
mharrold@thegazette.canwest.com
The Gazette (Montreal) 2007
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=0010ae9f-d017-444f-8bb8-3b69dedf7528&k=56127
These days more and more Australian animals are being traded as livestock.
These animals are suffering greatly and some even die from the torture of travelling on a boat.
The hunting of animals is supported in many states in America, and not just in America, in the whole world.
In the case where hunting keeps your family alive it is entirely accepted, but hunting for sport is another matter altogether.
68. Shut Down Huntingdon Life Sciences
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is Europe’s largest contract animal testing laboratory.
They have about 70,000 animals on site, including rabbits, cats, hamsters, dogs, guinea-pigs, birds and monkeys. These animals are destined to suffer and die in cruel, useless experiments.
69. Help stop animal testing now
Recently, I have read leaflet upon leaflet of disgusting and disrespectful treatment towards animals. I simply feel that none of the beatings or gassings on dogs, cats, and any other animal is necessary.
We have valid proof and information to support our statement and are quite frankly disgusted to read our findings. We would like to try and stop the pure cruelty that happens to these living animals. I quote out of a HUNTINGDON LAB LEAFLET 'No animal ever sees daylight at Huntingdon and no animal ever leaves Huntingdon alive.
Please help us to stop this cruelty to these poor, innocent animals.
I saw a picture of someone’s pet animal that they have killed and I was distraught. Many animals and pets are getting killed every year for either food or just for fun.
I hear people talking about wanting to hurt their own pets and wildlife that don't need to be disturbed. We don't think they should get away with this any longer. In America they can arrest them if they see any thing wrong with the animal. In Australia the animals just get taken away. How is that stopping people from hurting these poor animals?
The owners/idiots are getting away with it and getting more to hurt or even kill.
In 2006 the Canadian government allowed fishermen to club and shoot at least 354,344 seals in the North Atlantic—almost all of them babies as young as 12 days—just to earn a few extra bucks by selling seal skins. In fact 98 percent of the seals killed were three months of age or younger, and veterinary reports indicate that many seals have been skinned while still conscious and able to feel pain.
(http://www.hsus.org/protect_seals.html)
During the 3-year period of 2003-2005, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) allowed a kill quota of 975,000 baby and adult harp seals and 30,000 adult hood seals.
In 2004, 365,971 seals were slaughtered, and during the 2003 season 283,497 harp seals were killed. In 2002, the sealers slaughtered over 312,000 although the kill quota was set at 275,000. There were no legal consequences for the quota overkill.
(http://www.seashepherd.org/seals/seals_seal_hunt_facts.html)
We all know what's happened to the Atlantic cod fishery. Don't seals eat cod? Yes, harp seals do eat cod, among other things. But both sides now appear to agree that seals and cod can coexist. In March 2005, Greenpeace called on then federal Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan to "dispel the myth that seals are hampering the recovery of cod stocks." A letter from Greenpeace said, "the DFO has been a partner in perpetuating this myth."
But the DFO says sealing opponents are setting up a straw man (or seal, in this case) and then knocking it down. The federal government says anti-sealing groups are wrong to suggest that it's allowing the hunt to help cod stocks recover. "The commercial seal quota is established based on sound conservation principles, not an attempt to assist in the recovery of groundfish stocks," the DFO says. "Seals eat cod, but seals also eat other fish that prey on cod."
(http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sealhunt/)
72. End animal cruelty and slaughter
July 21, 2006
I feel it is wrong to treat animals with abuse their whole lives, and slaughter them.
Animals should at least get to live a good life before being slaughtered.
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http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=meet_your_meat
73. Stop Kentucky Fried Cruelty
April 23, 2006
After viewing the Kentucky Fried Cruelty video aired on several news stations, I wanted to DO something to stop not only the vicious criminal offenses that providers for KFC have done to the chicken, but for animals in general.
I am not PART of PETA. Their system is severly flawed. I ask that you sign this petition to speak out against animal cruelty, even if you've had a SLIGHT thought about it.
Please visit the following website, www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com and browse around, but perticularly view the Kentucky Fried Cruelty video.
You don't HAVE to support PETA, but please sign my petition!
My petition is to stop animal cruelty in south Korea, and to stop them because it is against the law. It needs to come to an end! Please help me.
I am giong to send the amount of signatures I get to the president once a month and hopefully he will make it illegal in the US, and possibly confince the forgein contries to stop. Please sign my petition.
75. Bring in an eye for eye punishment for animal cruelty in the UK
It's great that the government is finally getting around to increasing the punishment for animal cruelty, but the new proposed maximum punishments are still inadequate (the idea is that the maximum gaol sentence should be increased from 6 to 12 months, the maximum fine will go up from £5000 to $20,000 and people who are found guilty of animal cruelty would recieve life bans on keeping animals).
I am in favour of bringing in an eye for eye punishment for everyone who is guilty of animal cruelty. That way, the offender will be punished according to how much they made the animal suffer (which I would say is fair enough considering how little need there is for animal cruelty).
76. End Horse Slaughter, Animal Cruelty is Against the Law.
Horse slaughter is a cruel way of sending a horse to death. Animal Cruelty is against the law in most states here in the United States. So why isn't horse slaughter against the law?
Horse slaughter takes horses away from owners, being it a girl's pony, a show champion, even our wild horses. They get starved, which is cruelty, and then killed. It just isn't right to end a horse's life that way, just for possibly becoming lame.
This petiton is so that we can make people aware of how much animal cruelty there is out there and ways we can all help to stop this problem.
78. Stamp Out Animal Cruelty Worldwide
Please sign this petition to help stamp out animal cruelty! Many animals are killed for cosmetic testing, fur farming, fox hunting, entertainment and much more... these Animals have no voice.. you do.