World Animals news:
- Baby Monkey's Ordeal
- One- Eyed Camel
- The misery of animals in India
More animalnews:
- Pakistan - 4 October, 2007
World Animal Day exists to celebrate animal life and humankind's special relationship with the animal.
Animal Save Movement, Pakistan, celebrated international animal welfare day on 4th October, 2007, with a fruitful gathering at which many healthy, beautiful children, prominent lawyers, political and social workers and animal friends participated. Participants took an oath to protect the welfare of animals and birds, to not eat meat. And to continue peaceful compaingns against cruelty to animals and birds. We took an oath also that we continue to strive for day when no animal and birds will live in fear or pain »
- Bangalore Administration is killing all the stray dogs in the city. Please open the link given below and sign the petition and mail to as many people as you can
Killing dogs : NOT THE WAY OUT!!
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Great news for animals in Italy
- WAR] Scottrade Stops Trading LSRI (Huntingdon Life Sciences)
Kijk, onlangs stuurde ik jullie een voorbeeldbrief ivm met HLS. Ge ziet dankzij de protesten is er weer eens een bedrijf dat stopt met het ondersteunen van HLS.
Goed!!! Dank jullie.
Bonjour, je vous ai envoyé récemment une lettre modèle avec pas mal de courriels, au sujet de HLS.
Bien, Centcom vient d'annoncer que la compagnie Scottrade arrête ses négociations avec HLS. Vous voyez, les protestations aident. Merci.
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SCOTTRADE STOPS TRADING LSRI
"another LSRI market maker bites the bust"
Friday's protests against HLS were spirited and effective. Our group visited Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hank McKinnell (CEO of Pfizer) and Dr. Joseph Fezcko (also of Pfizer). Our 5th protest at Scottrade was cut short when employees of Scottrade's Grand Central office on Park Avenue came out to chat with us and to tell us that they were no longer making a market for LSRI. All New York branches of Scottrade had previously received information packets about HLS, including DVD's of The Truth", the video documentation of the undercover investigation into the cruelty at HLS.
The Assistant Branch Manager invited a representative of Win Animal Rights into his office and presented proof positive that Scottrade has issued a companywide "No Buy/No Sell" for LSRI (ticker symbol for Huntingdon Life Sciences). A business woman in the area who was supportive of our cause stopped and spoke with the Scottrade employees and urged them to send a written statement to WAR indicating that they would not trade LSRI in the future. The Assistant Branch Manager promised to communicate with Scottrade's corporate compliance department about issuing such a statement and said that he would never recommend LSRI to any of his clients, as it was "a very bad investment".
Until further notice, please discontinue calls/e-mails/letters to Scottrade. We were gratified to see another slow trading day for LSRI. Only one trade for 150 shares was completed at the price of $10.10.
Don't forget that Saturday's protests will proceed as scheduled, rain or shine. Dress for the weather....hot and humid.....and make sure to wear comfortable shoes and bring a loud energetic voice.
Saturday, June 24, 2006 at 2:00 PM
Meet at: Hunter College Station, Lexington Ave. & 68th St.
*Sunday, June 25, 2006 at 6:00 PM
Meet at: Union Square in front of Whole Foods, 14th Street & Broadway
*On Sunday afternoon, there will be a "Queers for Animals" contingent marching in New York;s PRIDE PARADE. On Saturday, we will be posting meet-up details for anyone that wishes to participate in the parade.
WAR Events Calendar:
http://calendar.yahoo.com/winanimalrights
Be part of history. Help stop the torture and killing at Huntingdon Life Sciences.
For more info contact Win Animal Rights at: centcom@war-online.org
Call: 646.267.9934 or visit the WAR website at: http://war-online.org
Baby Monkey’s Ordeal
On 20-07-04 PFA Agra got a distress call from a concerned citizen informing us that the general pubic was beating an adult monkey for the sole purpose of snatching her baby for personal gains. A baby was clinging to her and in spite of the crazed beating the mother would not let go of her baby.
Our workers rushed to the spot only to see that the mother had been electrocuted by one of the many electric cables that criss-cross all across the Agra skyline. Besides being an eyesore they are potentially dangerous for all.
The mother monkey fell on to the hard road and it compounded her injuries.
She was paralysed waist downwards. However, her mother’s instincts made her cling on to her baby for dear life The PFA workers along with a few sympathetic people in the crowd got briskly to work and stopped the crowd from further injuring the monkey. She was by now too exhausted to fight back and we were able to collect her and her baby and take her to the PFA hospital. There she was given a complete check up and the prognosis was not good. She had received a severe beating from the crowd and the doctors had given her a couple of weeks at the most to survive. It was with a great difficulty that she had allowed us to check her up. Our primary concern was for the baby who would just not leave his mother. We named him Raja. In the room for monkeys we have provided ledges for them to climb up. When left alone Raja would love to jump up and down. We also put in a lot of soft toys donated to us by Jeni Robertson of U K. He would play with them. Beyond our expectations the mother showed signs of improvement. And we were left with the hope that she would survive albeit the use of her hind limbs. This optimistic attitude lay shattered when one day she fell from the ledge because her hind limbs progressively grew weaker and weaker. This f
All was the final nail in her coffin. She never ever recovered.
Till one day the expected happened. She died on 10-10-04 and the heartrending cries of Raja could be heard for days. We were all heart-broken. Raja had got used to human presence but the trauma of seeing his mother being beaten by the very dregs of society had made him distrust all humans. This we realised was a blessing in disguise. We tried to get Raja to come close but he would not really get over his initial distrust. One day we got a call for an adult monkey who was sick. We brought him to the hospital and put him in the same room as Raja. When God takes something He gives something. I firmly believe this. This monkey promptly took Raja under his wings. Raja had found an anchor and he clung to him. A miracle had taken place for instead of rejecting him he became a surrogate father.
Now, his own had adopted the orphan, Raja. This monkey soon recovered and that left us in a dilemma. He had to be taken back to he point of origin. What would be the effect on Raja? Here Divine Providence stepped in. The duo now started roaming freely round the hospital, with papa monkey teaching him the tricks of the trade of survival. One fine day both gallivanted out of the hospital and then came back in time for food. Each day they ventured further and further till one day (27-11-04) they bid farewell to the hospital forever.
Fare thee well dear Raja and may the spirit of your mother always guide you.
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One- Eyed Camel
On the 25th of August we got a call from an electrician, Mr Lekhraj that there was a camel abandoned by its owner along the road to the Taj Mahal. As is always the case our PFA Agra workers attended the call. On reaching the place it was found that the owner had indeed abandoned the camel because the camel’s left had been wounded. The maggots had got to it before we did.
We had taken the PFA ambulance to the site and with the help of the public we managed to get the camel onto it though it was a bit difficult because of its height. It was brought to the hospital and its treatment commenced
On closer examination it was discovered that there had been an injury to the eye and no treatment had been given to it by its callous owner whose sole purpose was to take the camel with its burden from one place to another with scant regard to its sufferings.
When things got worse the owner conveniently abandoned it on the road, without the thought of the hours of hard labour put in by the camel towards feeding his family by literally carrying their burden The camel had a guardian angel protecting it. This angel came in the form of Lekhraj who informed us and that is how we came into the picture.
Sadly we could not save the eye as maggots had completely infested the wound. We cleaned the wound and applied medication along with an injection of Ivectin 1 ml to kill them. The dressing continued till it was completely cured of its infestation. Thereafter, the recovery was quick and the camel regained its strength. It now freely roamed the hospital much to the chagrin of our gardener for it trampled the saplings and once it literally broke down a small wall of a kennel. Luckily there was no occupant in it.
Camels are beasts of burden and without long walks that it is used to it showed restlessness. We had to find a person who would willingly take on the task of using and looking after a one- eyed camel. On 26/9/04 we proudly handed it over to Mr. Basheer son of Mr. Bakshi of Sera Banjara village. We inspect it from time to time and it is fit and fine doing its karma of carrying load as a beast of burden is want to do.
God, Himself, takes care of his own.
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The misery of animals in India
Help comes step by step
India is a country with a very high population and also one of the poorest countries in the world. The misery of the animals doesn't interest anyone very much. Nevertheless there are some people who take care about abandoned, stray and ill-treated animals.
Holiday in India: impressive temples, magnificent palaces, beautiful women in colorful saris, but also a lot of poverty and animals living in misery.
My holiday luggage included also food for dogs and cats. Our first stop was Delhi. There I had already the possibility to give some of the food to emaciated dogs. They were very shy. When I threw the food towards them, at the first moment they run a bit away and after a little while they came back very hesitantly. Finally the dogs stayed with me when they found out there was something to eat. But as soon as a curious child approached, the dogs ran away immediately. Cats, I couldn't find at all.
Concern about animals is unknown
In Jaipur I distributed food as well among dogs wherever I saw some. On the way from Jaipur to Agra I saw a mule break down totally exhausted. The owner on his cartlet drove the animal before him at a gallop in spite of the hot weather (over 40C°). When the driver of our car stopped and we got out fo help, a crowd of people came together in a very short time. They found it very strange that I was concerning so much about this mule. On our tour we also met a man with a bear he kept on a lead. Each time a car approached, he stepped on the street, pulling the animal behind him, intending the people to stop. The keeping of dancing bears is actually forbidden in India, the offenders can be punished with a fine or with jail up to five years.
Local Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
In Agra at the Fort, I found a young emaciated male dog with his sister. Feeding alone won't help much, so I decided to ask for a Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Surprisingly there existed one: People for Animals in Agra, an organisation with about 200 members. Dr. Surat Prasad, the president of this organisation, was ready to help immediately. I was really impressed by this efficiency and quick help. PFA Agra and the administration of the Fort agreed that the dogs which lived there would be fed regularly and castrated.
Drastic cases
While I was in Agra, this group was treating a bull which had been seriously injured by an axe, because he was on the wrong field. Among the patients was also a German shephard dog, abandoned by its owner. On the hind part of its body was a big wound open to the bones with maggots in it. They also looked after a young dog which could be saved at the last minute before three adult streetdogs pulled him apart. Moreover they looked after seven donkeys which were almost burned to death by a neighbour, which felt annoyed by those animals. Also injured animals which are hit by cars and just left alone, are treated by them as well as possible.
Construction of an animal shelter
The organisation PFA in Agra built some water-containers for the animals on different places in Agra and once a month they organize a free treatment day for the animals in the villages around Agra. Because it is very difficult to treat the animals succesfully on the street - they move and sometimes can't be found anymore - PFA Agra decided to built an animal shelter in Agra.
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After long negociations with the authorities they finally got land for the shelter. Now the shelter is nearly finished - it can only be done step by step, because it depends on the financial situation. But besides this the main problem is of course the money to finance the daily costs of the shelter. As one can imagine donations are scarce, the poverty of the people is too great. |
Mrs. Prasad gave me a book, written by Maneka Gandhi, the chairperson of People for Animals with an animal hospital in New Delhi. "Head and tails" describes the life of animals in India. I read it on my flight back from India to Germany and I was very shocked. Every year municipalities used to kill about 3 millions dogs very cruelly. As Maneka Gandhi told me, she brought this brutal treatment into court and won this case. A programme was initiated with sterilisation and immunisation of the dogs around the country and with the support of different organisations for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. But even if some positive results could be reached, there are still people who maltreat dogs or feed them with poisened meat, so that they die very painfully. Dogs are mostly annoying, are chased away and thrown stones at. They are hungry and must fight for every bit of food.
Cruel animal sacrifice
In her book, Mrs. Gandhi describes as well the killing of animals in the name of religion. As she says the sacrifice of animals in India is illegal under both state and central law, but it is still prevalent in many parts of the country. Foxes are trapped and mutilated (PFA has now been able to stop this), bulls are chased and tormented, and there are tribal rituals where wild animals are hunted. Four years ago she organized a workshop to train the animal mouvement to take action against these sacrifices. There has been some success to date.
Pedigree dogs are prefered
With the help of PFA Agra, I decided to adopt the emaciated young male dog from the Fort in Agra. When I went over to Delhi to take Indy with me to Berlin, he was left for one night at People for Animals in Delhi. I took this opportunity and visited the shelter and hospital from Mrs. Gandhi. You meet many kinds of animals over there: cattles, horses, camels, some monkeys and of course dogs in all shapes and colours, and above all puppies. When they come to the shelter the animals are in a desolate condition. Often they have sores with maggots in, which literally devour the animals. Many of these occupants have been hurt by accidents or have been ill-treated. The healthy and castrated dogs wait to be adopted, but this is not very easy in India. Ultimately they are released into the same area where they have been found and the local residents are informed about this action. Pedigree dogs, like German shephards, doberman and German spitz are also found in India. If somebody keeps a dog, then he prefers a pedigree.
Luck for Indy
In the meantime "Indy" has now been living about four years with me. He settled down wonderfully. By the way, when I went by taxi with him to the airport in Delhi, the driver asked me where I bought this beautiful dog and I told him: "I didn't buy him, he is a street dog. You just only have to look around: all of these dogs are beautiful, you only must treat them well."
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