The cats are in the Highland Park area.

From: Jacquelyn Gonzales <jgonzales@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Subject: URGENT: Cats Being Trapped and Taken to Pound by Neighbor After Their Owner Died - photos

I am crossposting this email on behalf of Julia Pennington. There are a total of 8 cats that she needs help with. Three are tame and the rest are feral or semi-feral. Please read story below and if you can help, please contact Julia at the following email address: http://us.mc816.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julia@adogsliferescue.org

Thank you,

Jacquelyn


--- On Tue, 1/19/10, julia pennington <julia@adogsliferescue.org> wrote:

From: julia pennington <julia@adogsliferescue.org>
Subject: Cat being trapped and taken to pound by neighbor after their owner died - photos
To: "julia pennington" <julia@adogsliferescue.org>
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 8:10 PM

URGENT!

These cats were left with no one when their guardian died a few weeks a go. Now a disgruntled, cat hating neighbor has gotten a permit to begin trapping to "get rid of" them! Several people have been taking turns feeding while a plan was being worked out on how these kitties could be rescued and re-homed before the house was sold. However, now everything has become even more urgent. This same neighbor has also already expressed interest in buying the property where the cats are living feeling like she would get a good deal. So besides hating cats she clearly has another agenda as well.

Please help to save the lives of these kitties by networking to anyone who may can help. The first three seen here are starting to come close enough to the feeders to be touched! It is thought that they lived inside the house with the owner much of the time, but are now freaked out with her absence. If they could go to homes where they can be inside they most likely come around to trusting people.

The others seem to be feral. If anyone has a safe yard where they could be relocated please let us know ASAP. In addition to the ones shown here there are three others (one brown siamese, one blue grey and one grey and white) who were too camera shy to get a good image.

If you can help please contact us ASAP - http://us.mc816.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=julia@adogsliferescue.org. The neighbor is planning to start her trapping to hurt these cats at the end of this week.

Germany: ‘Fox Week’ Sees Hunters Killing Thousands of Beautiful Animals – ** Please Crosspost ! **

http://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/germany-fox-week-sees-hunters-killing-thousands-of-beautiful-animals-please-crosspost/

Dear colleagues,

please find photos of this week’s find in the animal body disposal unit here:
6 freshly shot foxes (3 last week already) from last weekend presumably.
It is the German Hunters’ annual “fox week” apparently, where they specifically kill large numbers of foxes.
All these pics (except for ‘hunter forum’ one referenced below) were taken at an animal disposal collection point in my area (Stuttgart area). This is really just a bin – a rubbish bin in a freezer – where people deposit animal bodies and parts to be disposed of: run-over pets, slaughter waste, “euthanized” animals, kills by hunters – entire or just skins, legs/feet, heads ..

Foxes are a regular feature of this bin, and with the current annual “fox weeks” in Germany thousands of foxes are being shot these days up and down the country.


It’s been 9 in 7 days so far in this ONE location.

Please crosspost and send this link and photos Worldwide - SAV.


Filed under: CAMPAIGNS - Global Animal Welfare Issues, GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional, GLOBAL PETITIONS - Anything Animal, Anywhere !, PHOTOGRAPHS - **WARNING** (Animal Suffering), SUPPORTERS, The "Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) ALLIANCE

DOG BURIED ALIVE

http://www.barkingmad.co.za/LearningCenters.aspx?ID=f697ca1b-c712-42e9-981a-d5e7215f3728

HIGHVELD RIDGE SPCA INSPECTOR SAVE DOG FROM SLOW DEATH



Once again Animal Welfare Inspector Jabu has come to the rescue of a dog, this time a little fox terrier that was found "buried alive"



On Sunday morning a man passing by a secluded area some where between SECUNDA and Standerton, heard a yelping noise, he looked around but could not see anything, and so continued on his way. On Monday morning when passing the same place he once again heard the noise. This time he stopped and located the source of the noise.



To his shock and horror he found a fox terrier type dog buried in a mound of earth, right up to ITS ears. Yip! just like when we where kids on the beach, Just the little head left sticking out. The big difference, this was a remote area and no one was supposed to find the dog.



The kind soul immediately contacted the SPCA's emergency line and Jabu was on the scene shortly afterwards. He and a colleague dug up the mound and freed the dog, who immediately made sure his tail end was clean before he followed his rescuer to the SPCA vehicle. Once Jabu got the dog to the bakkie he gave it water - it drank and drank - about 2 liters non stop.



"Lucky" is now safely at the SPCA kennels, non the worse for his ordeal.



How can you help - easy - If you hear any one talking about this incident let us know so that we can bring such a uncaring person to court and leave his/her fate to the residing magistrate.

Please contact the SPCA on 017 632 2654 or 082 222 1122 to report emergency situations like this one.

Congratulations Jabu, your fast action stopped cruelty in its tracks.



Your donation to the Highveld Ridge SPCA makes a difference, it helps pay Inspector Jabu's salary and vehicle costs so that he can react swiftly to complaints of cruelty - contact the Highveld Ridge SPCA on 017 632 2654 or spcahvdr@vodamail.co.za to find out just how you can donate

Animal sanctuary may close! Urgent help needed!!

Hillfields Animal Sanctuary will close if the public do not pull together & act immediately! http://www.hillfields-animal-sanctuary.com/ Linda Tudor has been rescuing & caring for the animals at her sanctuary for more than 30 years, helped by her daughter Charlotte. All the animals have been rescued from cruelty, abuse, neglect and abandonment. More than 300 rescued animals are now living out the rest of their lives free from the threat of further cruelty, finally at peace in the sanctuary - their home. Just one example: Blossom has been with the sanctuary since she was just 2 weeks old. Like many other calves she did not spend any time with nor was she allowed to drink from her mother and was destined for the traumatic journey to Holland to be fattened up in a veal crate. Hillfield's is now her home and at night she snuggles up in the barn with goats and a donkey. However, owing to crippling debt that has been forced upon the family in  further private devastating circumstances through no fault of their own, the sanctuary will now close if immediate funds are not raised and the animals' safety is therefore at risk. Please do not let this happen to such a wonderful lady, her daughter & these innocent animals! We must act now to raise funds, through fundraising, collections, publicizing the situation through the media & raising awareness or immediately setting up a standing order, whatever you can afford, however little, but please please DO SOMETHING & DON'T LEAVE IT TO  SOMEONE ELSE! PLEASE if you can donate, and crosspost far and wide. Cheques can be sent to: Hillfields Animal Sanctuary Green Hill Blackwell Bromsgrove Worcestershire B60 1BL The phone no is 0121 445 3828. Contact Wendy at basiltherat@webtribe.net The website is http://www.hillfields-animal-sanctuary.com/

Lucy - A shocking story

Original Message:
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Hi All

Not sure if you have seen or heard about these story, happened in South Africa last week. Both are horrible.

There are such sick people in this world........

Story 1

So shocking!!!

*** PLEASE BE WARNED THAT THE PHOTOS ARE TRULY AWFUL – DON’T LOOK AT THEM IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU’LL GET UPSET…

 Pictures at end

I am sorry that these pics and the story are not nice, but this doggie deserves to get attention and have its story heard! Word has also gone out to ETV, Argus, Cape Times, KFM etc.

Hello everyone,

This is one of the saddest stories we have to tell! The pictures are the hardest to look at, i know, but it needs to be seen!

Andre and I went to the SPCA Wellington as we often do to go donate some doggy biscuits, cat litter and rub some of the doggies. We then left to go to the rubbish dump to desperse of our rubbish when a man stopped us to ask if we had a knife. We wanted to know why, so he said come and look! He hopped into the bakkie with us and we proceeded to underneath the R44 bridge next to the railway line, where Andre and I discovered one of the MOST GRUESOME acts of cruelty that the word CRUEL CAN NOT DESCRIBE! Please read below, her story, i tried to put it in words but it's so hard for me, im in shock too! The pictures will tell you her own story!

The terror and fear in this doggie is unexplainable! Andre cut her loose and gave her to me to hold, we could see some relief as she took another breath, and as he gave her to me, a train roared past OVER THE EXACT SPOT WHERE SHE WAS A MOMENT AGO! How many trains have gone over her before we found her, is hard to imagine as the trauma she must have faced feeling and seeing the train approach her and she couldn't get away.

We rushed to Marketstreet Animal Hospital where she is presently with our great Vet's Dr.Du Plessis and Dr.van Deventer and Assistant Nurse Adri, who dropped everything to help stabilise her.

We want to go big with this story PLEASE the media need to know about this, we need the public to help us with her and we need the public to see this cruelty.

Circulating this email to your contacts could help too, please.

She is a very strong, special girl!

She has to be stabilized for 2-3 days then Andries Venter, Chief Inspectorate of the Good Hope SPCA offered to do further medical remedial operations by their great team of Vets.

THANK YOU SO MUCH ANDRIES FOR THIS, FOR THE CHANCE TO GIVE HER LIFE AGAIN!

THANK YOU YEAL THAT WE COULD RUSH HER TO THE VET FOR TREATMENT BUT MOST OF ALL THANK YOU THAT WE CAN GIVE HER A CHANCE CAUSE SHE DESERVES IT!!!!

After her operation Andre and I will teach her to love and trust a human again. Then when she is healthy, she will show us who her previous owner is, even if it takes us months, we will find the perpetrator and Lucky Lucy will have her justice!

MY NAME IS LUCKY LUCY AND TODAY I WAS TIED TO A RAILWAY LINE SO A TRAIN COULD HIT ME!

ALL I REMEMBER IS THAT I WAS HAPPY AND PLAYING, I WAS FED AND DIDN’T GO HUNGRY, PERHAPS MY OWNER DID LOVE ME AT ONE STAGE CAUSE I LIVED WELL AND WARM, I WAS CLEAN AND HAD FRIENDS TO PLAY WITH AND I FOUND A BOYFIREND AND CARRIED HIS BABIES,  BUT THEN SUDDENLY FOR SOME REASON SOMETHING CHANGED IN MY OWNER.

 HE WENT LOOKING FOR A STRONG ROPE, SOMETHING THAT COULDN’T SNAP OR GET LOOSE AND HE TOOK ME WITH HIM, WHICH I THOUGHT WOULD BE THE USUAL STROLL YOU GO ON WITH YOUR OWNER, BUT THEN WE WERE AT THE TRAIN TRACKS AND HE GRABBED ME, TOOK MY BACK HIND LEGS AND STRETCHED THEM OUT TO BE TIED TO MY FRONT LEGS, THEN MY BODY, STRETCHED, WAS TIED TO THE RAILWAY LINE, THEN HE TOOK MY HEAD AND TIED IT TO THE BOLT THAT HOLDS THE TRACK IN PLACE, MY HEAD MUST HAVE BEEN A CENTIMETER AWAY FROM THE TRACK.

THEN HE TURNED AND WALKED AWAY, DIDN’T EVEN LOOK BACK, I THOUGHT AT FIRST THIS MUST BE A GAME BUT HE DISSAPEARED. I DIDN’T K NOW WHAT WAS GOING ON, THEN I FELT THE VIBRATION, THEN I SAW THIS HUGE TRAIN COMING AT ME AND I COULDN’T MOVE, I TRIED WITH ALL MY STRENGTH BUT I JUST COULDN’T MOVE……….

 

THE TRAIN WENT OVER MY LEG, MY PAW WAS GONE AND MY MUSCLE HAD BEEN RIPPED FROM MY ALREADY SMASHED BONE!

I DIDN’T FEEL ANYMORE, I JUST LAY DEADSTILL AND WAITED TO DIE CAUSE A FEW MORE TRAINS PASSED OVER ME…..I JUST CLOSED MY EYES…..

 

OUT OF NOWHERE THIS MAN SAW ME, HE SCREAMED AND RAN AWAY ONLY TO COME BACK WITH TWO PEOPLE, THEY JUMPED OUT THE CAR AND CUT MY NECK AND PAWS FROM THE ROPES. I DON’T KNOW IF MY LIFE WAS NOW GOING TO BE OVER COMPLETELY CAUSE WHO WOULD KEEP SOMEONE IN MY STATE ALIVE?

BUT AT THE HOSPITAL I HEARD THE LADY AND MAN SAY, “HOLD ON FOR US GIRL, DON’T GIVE UP, WE WILL GIVE YOU LIFE!”

Now I will try my best to pull through, I know they are asking everyone to pray for me, so I will pray for me too

Groundhog Day Prediction May Spell More Misery for Elephants in Zoos

/http://www.idanews.org/featured/groundhog-day-prediction-may-spell-more-misery-for-elephants-in-zoos/

New survey shows scores of elephants spend winters warehoused in cruel conditions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Rafael, Calif. (February 2, 2010) - When Punxsutawney Phil crawls out of his burrow, what he finds may determine whether elephants living in cold-climate zoos will suffer another six weeks of miserable confinement. Zoo watchdog organization In Defense of Animals (IDA) today released an unprecedented survey showing that scores of elephants are warehoused throughout the long winter months, many of them hidden from the public.
"Elephants living in cold climates will be confined indoors for the vast majority of each day during the winter, standing in small concrete cages where they lack the space they need for healthy movement," says IDA captive elephant specialist Catherine Doyle. "Cold weather dramatically increases the suffering that elephants already endure in zoos, where they are dying prematurely from conditions caused by their inadequate environment."
According to IDA’s survey of 75 Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accredited zoos holding elephants in the U.S. and Canada:
•    31 out of 76 (41 percent) zoos holding elephants are situated in cities that experience long, frigid winters.
•    3 out of 4 of zoos holding elephants in cold climates have average mean temperatures below freezing for two to five consecutive months.
•    Approximately 40 percent of all elephants in AZA zoos will be confined indoors for much of the winter.
Increased confinement during the winter only adds to the physical and mental problems elephants suffer due to lack of space and being forced to stand long hours on cold, hard concrete floors. These include painful and often-fatal foot disease and arthritis, and aberrant behaviors such as aggression and repetitive rocking and swaying.
Zoos identified in the survey have a mean average temperature below 40 degrees – the temperature at which zoos typically keep elephants indoors – for three consecutive months or longer. While some zoos may allow elephants outside during cold weather it generally is only for brief periods – sometimes as little as half an hour. The rest of the elephants’ time is spent in areas as small as 20 x 20 square feet – the size of a two-car garage.
Elephants typically hail from semi-arid savannas and tropical and subtropical forests, where they walk tens of miles a day in huge home ranges. Designed for temperate climates, elephants have a limited ability to adjust to extremes in temperature and are at risk if subjected to consistently cold temperatures.
Zoos included in the survey
Brookfield Zoo (Illinois)
Buffalo Zoo (New York)
Buttonwood Park Zoo (Massachusetts)
Bronx Zoo (New York)
Calgary Zoo (Canada)
Cheyenne Mountain Park Zoo (Colorado)
Cincinnati Zoo (Ohio)
Cleveland Zoo (Ohio)
Columbus Zoo (Ohio)
Denver Zoo (Colorado)
Dickerson Park Zoo (Missouri)
Granby Zoo (Quebec, Canada)
Hogle Zoo (Utah)
Indianapolis Zoo (Indianapolis)
Kansas City Zoo (Kansas)
Lee Richardson Zoo (Kansas)
Louisville Zoo (Kentucky)
Maryland Zoo
Milwaukee Zoo (Wisconsin)
National Zoo (Washington, DC)
Niabi Zoo (Illinois)
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo (Nebraska)
Pittsburgh Zoo (Pennsylvania)
Roger Williams Park Zoo (Rhode Island)
Rosamond Gifford Zoo (New York)
Seneca Park Zoo (New York)
St. Louis Zoo (Missouri)
Sedgwick County Zoo (Kansas)
Toledo Zoo (Ohio)
Topeka Zoo (Kansas)
Toronto Zoo (Ontario, Canada)
For more information, please visit www.HelpElephants.com. To see the IDA survey report click here.
Contact:
Catherine Doyle, 323-301-5730, zoos@idausa.org

Ginger has crossed the rainbow bridge and Louie is all alone, 11 yo gsd shep lived entire life in shelters

Thank you Kathy for your Hope and Compassion

email - klcremer@aol.com

Subject: Ginger has crossed the rainbow bridge and Louie is all alone, 11 yo gsd shep lived entire life in shelters

I am sending this to all of the generous and animal loving people that I know in the hopes that you can help me. Many of you met Ginger and Louie several months ago when we worked desperately to find them a forever home when Pet Rescue closed. They had spent over 10 years together at Pet Rescue Miami and when the shelter was forced to stop operating, we all worked tirelessly to find a place for them to go where they would not be separated from each other. A most wonderful and giving human being offered them a place in an outdoor sanctuary in northern Florida. Unfortunately, 3 weeks after arriving at the new shelter, Ginger became ill and went into the hospital. Her caregiver went to the ends of the Earth to save her life and Ginger fought as hard as she could, but in the end we had to say goodbye to our feisty girl....and Louie had to say goodbye also. It has been many months now and although Louie has accepted that Ginger is not coming back, he is still a very lonely soul. Our hearts are breaking for him. He has lost the only home he ever knew and then his life long buddy.

 I know there is a family and home out there somewhere that could be made richer by adding Louie to their lives. He is a big teddy bear who loves to play with his squeaky toys and loves to play fetch. He loves his treats and really loves to take long walks. He used to be so patient with Ginger when we would walk them together. She couldn't keep up with him because she only had 3 legs and he used to wait for her to catch up. Louie would love to live his remaining years with a loving family, to play endless games of fetch with endless supply of squeaky toys and love. Even though he is in northern Florida, the home can be anywhere. We will get him wherever he needs to be to have what he has never had! The home he has waited for his entire life. In memory of Ginger, can we all do this for Louie? ..

Please send his story out to everyone you think will care.

email - klcremer@aol.com

Louie, of course, is the big teddy bear on the right with his squeaky toy. Next to him is our beloved Ginger.. Rest In Peace Beautiful Girl