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The Animal Rescue Site $100,000 Shelter+Challenge Click on that link and type in Small Angels for the shelter name and MD for the state (drop down box). Then click on Search and when the page comes back for the foster group Small Angels, VOTE and confirm your vote. You can do this every day. It will help my friends' group. They foster wee homeless pet rats and other small creatures. If you would like to read their wonderful blog, go to Rat in a Box  | ||||||||||
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Stop Cruelty to Hens **Video and many links on site 'An undercover investigation has revealed shocking abuses at IHOP's egg supplier. As you can see, the footage reveals filthy conditions, sick and injured hens, and birds forced to live in cages with the decomposing corpses of their cage-mates.'  | ||||||||||
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deviantART is having a few hiccups today, so if the link doesna work right away, come back in a minute. The story of this extraordinary pigeon is just great! Click the link or the photo. True story by fangedfem.deviantart.com  | ||||||||||
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 pissed offIndependent.co.uk Tuesday, 15 September 2009  Lovingly hand-reared by pupils in a Kent school, Marcus the lamb met his end in an abattoir. Marcus the lamb, who was hand-reared by children at a Kent primary school, is dead. The school's headteacher defied protests by a small number of parents, backed by animal rights groups and animal lovers, and yesterday stuck to a decision to have Marcus slaughtered. His carcass will be auctioned to pay for more farm animals. Andrea Chapman, head of Lydd Primary School, Romney Marsh, appealed to the public yesterday to "move on" for the sake of the children's education. "The decision to send the wether lamb for meat, which has the support of the school council and staff, the governing body and the majority of parents, has now been carried out," she said. Ms Chapman added that the children have had it explained to them ever since the school began rearing pets that animals such as Marcus are eaten as meat. "When we started the farm in spring 2009, the aim was to educate the children in all aspects of farming life and everything that implies," she said. The school has been the centre of controversy since a small group of parents protested last week about the decision to kill the lamb. The television chat show host Paul O'Grady offered to buy Marcus, as did several animal sanctuaries. ______________ Those of you with logged in Livejournal accounts can follow the original source link and easily make a comment on this story. I did: This will teach the children, all right... ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kiss_of_rage wrote:Tuesday, 15 September 2009 at 04:55 am (UTC) It will teach them the ways of the selfish people in this world who only think of money as a bottom line, who have no compassion or empathy, who are cruel, small-minded and just downright nasty and vile. Humane people offered to buy the lamb. There was no reason to slaughter it. I hope someday someone or something educates Ms Chapman in what for her will be a whole new realm of understanding: the world of feelings and sensitivity.
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BBC 14 Sept 09 A war hero pigeon who received a medal for his bravery is to be honoured in his home town of Carnlough.  Paddy the pigeon, who was bred in the townland of Moyleen, was the first bird to fly back with news of the D-Day landings in Normandy in World War II.Now, a plaque is being put up at Carnlough harbour in honour of the only Irish pigeon to receive a Dickin medal. Paddy the pigeon from Carnlough was a war hero Paddy received the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross for a secret mission codenamed "U2". Two days after D-Day, 30 pigeons were transported to France by a unit of the 1st US Army.  Paddy's task began in Normandy at around 0815 BST on 12 June, when he was released while carrying coded information on the Allied advance.Paddy received a bravery medal He returned to his loft in Hampshire in just four hours and 50 minutes, the fastest time recorded by a message-carrying pigeon during the Normandy landings. After the war, the bird was returned to his owner in Carnlough, where he died in 1954, aged eleven years old. At a special ceremony next Saturday the plaque will be unveiled by John McMullan, a well-known local pigeon breeder and friend of Captain Andrew Hughes, an army officer, who owned Paddy. A song about the famous pigeon will have its first public airing at the event. | ||||||||||
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Telegraph.co.uk 27 Aug 2009 Lucky, the duckling who fractured her leg but was able to walk again wearing a specially-made sandal, has died.  Owner Allison Morgan, 44, of Newport, south Wales, said that Lucky had died undergoing surgery to rectify her handicap.The duckling initially faced a bleak future when she fractured her leg in an accident and her foot healed facing the wrong way. Two-month-old Lucky, breaking-in her new sandal, at home in Newport Mrs Morgan called in local cobbler Kelvin Reddicliffe whose duck footwear design meant Lucky avoided being put down. It meant the Muscovy duckling was able to keep up with the two other ducks which also waddle around Mrs Morgan's garden. But Lucky failed to survive surgery on her foot at a local vet's on Monday. ( >>Read on ) | ||||||||||
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BBC 19 August 2009 The case of a Northern Ireland dog on death row for being a banned breed is to go to the Court of Appeal.  Bruce, a Staffordshire-bull terrier cross, was seized by North Down Borough Council dog control officers in 2007.It was ruled to be a banned pit-bull type and a magistrate has ordered its destruction, but owner Shannon Brown is appealing the ruling. "He has never harmed anyone or ever would, if he did I would have put my hand up to it," she said. Shannon Brown said the Bruce does not pose a threat to people An online petition calling for the dog, found as a puppy in Bangor, County Down, by Ms Brown, had received nearly 16,000 signatures. She is getting legal aid to fight the case, which has cost the local council about £17,000. The council said it was acting to meet its "statutory responsibilities" under the Dangerous Dogs (NI) Order 1991. ( >>Continued ) | ||||||||||
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 Lily the Barbary lion...now  Lily's new mate, Simon Belfast Telegraph Wednesday, 5 August 2009 Belfast's most famous big cat - Lily the rare hand-reared Barbary lion - has left the city for an assignation in eastern Europe, it was announced today. The two-year-old is on her way to a new life in the Hodonin Zoo in the Czech Republic and a date with four-year-old Simon with whom it is hoped she will eventually mate. Barbary lions are extinct in the wild and there are less than 100 in captivity around the world, under 40 in Europe. Lily rose to stardom soon after her birth in 2007 when she was rejected by her mother and hand-reared by zoo keeper Linda Frew in her family home.  Ms Frew was sad to see her charge leave, but said: "The time has come for her departure and my job is done. I feel proud that I have helped Lily for a short part of her life.Article about Lily as growing baby "I hope she will enjoy her new surroundings and settle with Simon and the other lions at Hodonin Zoo." Lily is taking a two-day road trip to her new home. Zoo keepers from the Czech zoo arrived in Belfast last night and picked her up in a specially adapted lion-friendly transport box. A ferry to Scotland, drive down to the Channel Tunnel and then 10 hours across Europe to Hodonin was the chosen route, all overseen by a zoo vet. Lily left behind parents Fidda and Qays and brother Charlie in Belfast - another Czech zoo, Olomouc, took delivery of second brother Boris in July. Simon's sister Buzetta will be meeting up with Boris as part of the lion dating game. | ||||||||||
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'Lily was the model for the painting of a little cat mezmerized by the fire flies. Lily (a 'special needs' cat) is available for adoption at Tabby's Place.' The link is to Lily's special page, but you can look around the whole website. This is a wonderful cage-free sanctuary for hopeless cases, kitties no one else wants or can take in. They are cared for and treated medically and adopted out to loving homes if possible. If you canny adopt, you can still donate to the kitties' care. The photos of the cats for adoption are so sweet. The artist who painted Lily's picture donates a portion of the money she receives from her art to help animals in need. | ||||||||||
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