Live Dogs Used As a Shark Bait !

( The incredible cruelty; this rescued dog has had a super sized fishing hook skewered through his snout so it can be dragged behind a boat as live shark bait)

~ A veterinarian successfully treated one of the canines, a six-month-old dog with a large fishhook through its snout (see photo), at an SPA (Société Protectrice des Animaux, or Animal Protective Society) clinic in Réunion's capital, St.-Denis.
Unlike most of the hooked animals, the dog was someone's pet, according to Saliha Hadj-Djilani, a reporter for the Thirty Million Friends Foundation's TV program. The dog had apparently escaped its captors and was taken to the SPA by a concerned citizen. Fully recovered, the animal is now home with its owners.

The other two cases uncovered by Thirty Million Friends were strays. They now live in France with new owners.

The foundation plans to finance a sterilization program on the island to reduce the stray overpopulation. But the job won't be easy. Hutin said many locals view the strays as vermin. "There's no value to the life of a dog there," she said.The Bardot organization has been fighting the practice for a decade. But this is the first time Réunion politicians have reacted strongly and swiftly to stop it, Roche said.

Last month, it became illegal for fishing boats to carry any live or dead dogs or cats in Reunion Capital , St'Denise. ~

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Petition To Stop The Use Of Live Animals As Shark Bait

Horror as Philippines Horses Are Forced to Fight to the Death!

On Sundays or fiesta days in the Philippines the so called "sport" of Horse Fighting is illiegally conducted. Two stallions are pitted against each other and results in horrific injuries and deaths and often last for hours.

Some stallions are hit so hard in the head their eyes are popped from their sockets. If death doesnt result from the kicks and bites and gruesome injuries, then the horses are inhumanely slaughtered and barbecued and fed to the crowd. Others limp around in the arena with a glazed look in their eyes or break limbs as they try to escape from the bloody arena.

These stallions fight due a mare on heat which is used as bait in the arena for up to six hours - often she is hit by stray blows from the stallions and has to suffer being mated by the winning stallion of each bout - up to 30 times in one tournament. The more blood shed, the louder the crowd during these fights.

Although horse-fighting is illegal in the Philippines, corruption and lack of enforcement ensure that the tournaments continue - and with apparent official sanction.Matches are featured on TV, and local businesses sponsor horses and tournaments. Local authorities offer prize money.The tournaments are promoted as a "cultural tradition", but in fact they are largely organised and controlled by crime syndicates, who rake in huge profits from gambling.

By signing this petition you are urging the Government of the Philippines to uphold its own Laws and ban this barbaric "traditional" sport.

The petition :

We, the undersigned, call on the Government of the Philippines to uphold Animal Welfare Legislation and bring the cruel and barbaric sport of horse fighting and the inhumane slaughter of horses to an end.

The Undersigned may also consider boycotting travel to the Philippines while Horse Fighting in this country continues.

( Online petition - Ban Horse Fighting In The Philippines)

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Make DENMARK STOP!!!

While it may seem liar even today continues to be made this time of year BRUTAL, Dantesque, bloody slaughter in the Faroe Islands, which belong to Denmark . A country supposedly 'civilization' AND EUROPEAN UNION country. For many people this attack to life is unknown , to sensitivity. IN THIS bloody slaughter to attend Moz to 'show' entering adulthood (!) Is absolutely incredible that no one does A SHIT to prevent this barbarism that are committed against Calderon, an intelligent dolphin who has the particularity of approaching People out of sheer curiosity. fwd this everywhere, PLEASE...

Dog cruelly beaten by workers! ( Dog rescued by Sabrina Yeap , managing partner of Furry Friends Farm in Kundang, Selangor, Malaysia )

Furry Friends Farm and The Remembering Sheena Campaign held a Press Conference on December 14, 2006 to highlight the plight of Joy, a stray dog that had been so cruelly beaten by Indonesian workers that his lower jaw was crushed.

At about 9am on Dec 2, 2006, Sabrina Yeap, managing partner of the Furry Friends Farm (FFF), rescued a dog at the Ki-Park Sri Utara construction site belonging to developer, Kepong Industrial Park Sdn Bhd (KIP Group). The site is situated about 10km from the Batu Caves roundabout, heading towards Sungei Buloh and Kepong, malaysia.

The lower jaw of the dog was dangling and his tongue was hanging out. Two eye-witnesses who pleaded with Sabrina to help the dog, said they had seen him being beaten by Indonesian foreign workers who kept calling the dog “haram” ( illicit ) as he was attacked.

Sabrina took the dog, which she later named Joy, to the veterinary clinic. Joy’s lower jaw was so badly injured it had to be surgically removed, but the tongue was saved despite having lacerations and blood clots.

As representative of RSC, I spoke to Mr Kok Pick Tong, one of the four managing directors of KIP Group which employs the workers that ill-treated Joy.

I requested permission for Dr Habeeb Rahman Ibramsa, who lectures in Quran and Sunnah Studies at the International Islamic University in Gombak, Selangor, to give a talk to all their foreign workers on Islam’s clear stand of compassion towards animals, including dogs. Mr Kok refused to co-operate.



On December 4, 2006, RSC sent an official letter to Mr Kok making this request along with the request by FFF for the KIP Group to bear all of Joy’s medical expenses and maintenance at the FFF, an animal shelter which has decided to adopt Joy. Mr. Kok has ignored all letters and telephone calls from RSC.

On December 6, 2006, RSC wrote to Dr. Subramaniam, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting, the Minister of Housing and Local Government, Tan Seri Datuk Seri Panglima Bernard Dompok, Minister in charge of the Public Complaints Bureau, and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.


The letters were sent out to these parties appealing to the government to be more pro-active in the area of animal welfare in Malaysia.

There has been much public outcry over the banning of a select number of dogs in Shah Alam, the mass “murder” of Mr Eng Her Sun’s dogs by the Seremban Municipal Council’s death squad, the cruel culling of birds by the Department of Veterinary Services during the bird flu scare, the increase in pet dumping and abuse of stray animals and pets.

RSC invited lecturer in Quran and Sunnah Studies at the International Islamic University in Gombak to give a talk to the Indonesian workers but the developer did not allow it.

Hence, RSC and FFF are calling for the Government to support their education programmes that are aimed at ending this needless violence towards animals. Next year is Visit Malaysia Year 2007, and already tourists are squirming at Malaysia’s ill-treatment and cruelty to animals – from wildlife to domestic pets.

“We are not asking the government to find and punish the people who did this to Joy, although the laws of Malaysia provide for this. We are calling on the Government to support our public education projects by persuading the developer, KIP Group, to allow us to educate their workers,” said Sabrina Yeap.

“I wish to end this ignorance that the Quran supports violence against animals, and am willing to give lectures, presentations and screen videos that support what I am saying. I hope the public, Government officials, foreign workers and others who need to hear this truth will attend,” said Dr. Habeeb Rahman Ibramsa, Lecturer in Quran and Sunnah Studies at the International Islamic University, Gombak, Selangor. "

Today Joy has to carry on living without his lower jaw and teeth. He can only eat soft food for the rest of his life. RSC was invited to a meeting called "Dasar Kawalan Anjing" (Guidelines to Control Dogs) in February this year, along with 30 other NGOs by Dr. Subramaniam Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.

To-date nothing has been done by the government and we are wondering what the meeting was for. They should instead have held a meeting called "Dasar Kawalan Manusia" (Guidelines to Control Humans)

A pet cemetery, the first in Malaysia.

Is it worth it??

Since the emergence of the internet, reading The Star has somewhat become my daily routine. It is a source of mainstream media without half of the advertisement content in it and worrying to pull over by the streets to buy a copy. As I was reading today's paper, there was an article in it which took my attention. I have to admit that it was a rather radical business idea, and I'm not sure of its acceptance, logically, but seeing Malaysians have somewhat evolved to be more 'kiasu' like their Singaporean counterparts, I think it will be a successful venture after all.

Nirvana Memorial Park, which I think is situated in semenyih , has opened up a 20 000 sq feet pet cemetery which is exclusive for dogs and cats only. The senior marketing manager of the cemetery,oops..I mean park, said that it was designed with a children's theme park in mind since most pet owners' are children. And just like any other thing in Malaysia, nothing comes free - or even cheap. You would need to fork out some RM 6800.00 to have your dead pet collected and then buried, and of course, not forgetting the Malaysian culture, there has to be an early bird special, so it's RM4800.00 now.

It is a very nice idea, at least someone has finally come to appreciate pets. But the irony of it, is the cost. As stated earlier, it was designed keeping kids in mind as they're the main pet owners, but the charges..I don't think any average kid would be able to fork out Rm6800.00 for their pets burial. Or at least I know that I would not be able to afford that. I wonder how much does it cost to buy a pet nowadays. As I remember, a friend of mine bought a pup for about RM 500.00 only a year ago. Has the price of pets inflated just like almost everything else in Malaysia?

"Personally, I don't see a point where I would, even if I could, where I would be spending so much money for my pet to be kept so far away from me, left underground to rot and decay with worms and all other kind of parasites infesting on them. I mean, common..let's be a little bit more logical here as how close are we to our pets. How many Malaysians do actually spend their money on pets. To start of with, we don't even have pet insurance. There isn't a single company out there that I know of who has pet insurance on the table being offered. And I am not going further on this, it could be my next business idea."

Being so backward in all these, I do not see the logic of jumping all the steps in between and coming up with a burial ground for pets. It is a common thing in certain developed nations to have them, but these countries would literally hang you upside down before ripping you apart if you were to abuse an animal. Although this is a very radical to be, profitable business idea, I personally feel that we are too far behind before we can come up with a cemetery of this sort.

It is more important to instill appreciation to the animals and maintaining healthy lifestyle with your pet before thinking of where to bury them and be cool about having spent so much money burying them. Come on, spend you money on you pets while they are still alive rather then when their dead, just like what you should be doing to your parents, and of course make sure the dates on the tombstone is correct to the least.

So, would I ever use this facility to let my 3 cats rest in peace in future? - I don't think so. Not only because I can't afford it, but even if I could, I would prefer to have them cremated, and to keep their ashes in an urn, close to me...

Really heart touching...

A dog was knocked down by a car and died on the middle of the road. Later another dog seen beside the corpse of the dog, he tried to wake his friend up by using his leg.

When his attempts to wake his friend failed, he tried to push his friend to the side of the road.
But the weight of his friend was proven too heavy to him.

Though the traffic is busy and dangerous , he juz will not go away from his friend. Just stand beside his friend howling and crying.

A lot of people saw this incident and feel very touched. How even a dog can show his loyalty and love to his friend...