an urgent plea from lyn white of animals australia...

if you watched the abc's 7.30 report last night no doubt you found this as sickening, appalling, and heartbreaking as i did...

"Despite intense public scrutiny of the cruel live export trade, tens of thousands of breeding animals are slipping through a veritable live export 'loophole'. As seen on ABC's 730 program, the consequences are horrifying...

When these Australian dairy cows were sent to Qatar, they were heavily pregnant. Though the risks they face were no less than other exported animals, they were not part of any Government-sanctioned 'supply chain'. In fact, when breeding animals leave Australia, no-one knows exactly where they will end up, or what suffering might await them.

Due to the brave efforts of two Australian whilstleblowers, shocking images reveal the extent of cruelty and neglect that these animals have been forced to endure. Within a one week period, one in every four animals died of thirst or malnutrition. Mother cows, unable to nourish their calves, helplessly watched on as their babies perished in the squalid conditions.

Alarmingly, these aren't the first animals to suffer harrowing deaths on this property. Of 10,000 Australian 'breeding sheep' who arrived in February, only 3,000 remain alive. Many of the lambs born to these undernourished animals also perished.

The images are tragic, in every respect. But even more tragic, is that soon, hundreds more Australian dairy cattle will be sent to this same property in Qatar — unless we stop it.

URGENT! Save the #ForgottenAnimals of live export #BanLiveExport

I urgently need your help to support our calls to have this shipment stopped immediately." ... read more and find out what you can do at animals australia...

taking a stand against exploitation...

yet again i was proud to be one of the thousands of supporters around australia who turned out to support oscar's law - the movement forged to fight for the abolition of puppy factories...

meet oscar, the boy whose rescue created a movement...

hard to believe this is the same wee boy hey!

debra tranter (founder of oscar's law, member of animal liberation victoria and writer of the blog prisoners for profit) brought many of us to tears, as did trish burke (founder of pets haven animal shelter)... one other speaker that i found incredibly inspirational was elizabeth anile, founder of ataac (australian teens against animal cruelty) when she spoke of the moment she 'made the connection' and decided to give up all animal products and fight against animal enslavement - hopefully she will inspire a generation with her vision...

there were other speakers - politicians not worth the mention (i don't believe any of their crap no matter what party they belong to), and derryn hinch (it's good that he supports oscar's law but he is always one to 'push his own barrow' at the same time!)... the main rally finished with a couple of 'the northshore boys' performing the song they wrote, named - what else - 'oscar's law' and then it was a march and gathering in the treasury gardens for stalls full of information on different campaigns to end animal brutality...

the lack of major news coverage is extremely disappointing - channel 7 had a short tv news piece where they stated 2,000 supporters rallied in melbourne - yet now if you read the story online that figure has been 'downgraded' to 350 supporters - even more disappointing was the abc which had nothing on the tv news, but an online article touted the lie of 350 supporters - i would have estimated around 3,000 from the view i had - i will be interested to hear the 'official' figure... sadly i guess that shows the power and might of the industry and the vested interests involved...

then there's the complicity of silence of the many who 'turn a blind eye' - 'if i don't see it, don't read about it, don't listen, it doesn't exist'... until people stop ignoring the reality of cruelty and exploitation, get outraged, get political and get out there and demonstrate in large numbers,  nothing will change... we hold lives in our hands - help give voice to the voiceless!!

i was hoping there would be some clips uploaded of the rally by now - but no, not yet! but i did buy the wee petey an oscar's law bandanna and you can see her wearing it in this short, quick clip i uploaded when i got home - you also get an idea of how tiny she really is, standing next to the watering can - oh, the bandanna's quite large on her too - she's really not much bigger than oscar...

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saving sweet petey...

meet ex-inmate 919942 - ex because she is now part of my family, rescued from the lost dogs home last week...

scanned inmate picture

it's been a big day for a wee girl...

she is sweet, petite and the perfect addition to round out this family! 

we won't ever know her story, but she is around 5 years old, has had many litters of puppies, wasn't spayed or microchipped when she arrived at the lost dogs home as a 'stray' - both procedures have been 'performed' now though - she is similar in size to shadow-lad, but somehow next to the little girl he looks enormous!! (and he's only a wee feline boy!) - he of course has to keep a close eye on her at the moment and follow her everywhere! hmm, maybe stalk her is more to the point! but they seem to be working out a healthy (dis)respect for each other!

i will, of course, share more of this wee one in the following days, but now i have to get ready for the oscar's law rally in melbourne -hopefully it will be even bigger than last year's rally...

 

I WANT OSCAR'S LAW.... NOW!!!

i hope to see you there..........