Sometimes “Rainbow Bridge” Prayers Are Answered

My dog went to heaven !

A touching story from the United States.

Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her. I told her that I thought we could so she dictated these words:

Dear God,

Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.

I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim.. I am sending a picture of her so when you see her. You will know that she is my dog. I really miss her.

Love, Meredith.

We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith an d addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office. A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch addressed, ‘To Meredith ,’ in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it. In side was a book by Mr. Rogers called, ‘When a Pet Dies.’ Taped to the in side front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey & Meredith and this note:



Dear Meredith,


Abbey arrived safely in heaven.


Having the picture was a big help. I recognized Abbey right away.


Abbey isn’t sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don’t need our bodies in heaven, I don’t have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.


Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you.


I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much.


By the way, I’m easy to find, I am wherever there is love.


Love,
God

 

 

Please Give Your Support to a New Petition for Serbian Animals

Please give just one minute of your time and support the No Kill
Strategy petition which is now running to change the authorities views on
stray animal control within Serbia.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com:80/1/no-kill-sterilisation-strategy

 

 

Petition Wording:-

 

 

“No-kill sterilisation strategy”

Target:

President of Democracy Party  and President of Republic of Serbia 

Sponsored by: 

Paola Ghidotti – OIPA 

In the Republic of Serbia, dogs and cats experience inhumane capture and death in a never ending attempt by authorities to control the stray animal populations of towns and cities.  Throughout their short lives, animals live a pitiful existence.  These often unwanted animals fight and scavenge for a pittance of food and water in an always increasingly hostile environment.  And yet despite their suffering; stray and unwanted dogs and cats maintain the ability to REPRODUCE – make new little cats and dogs !  And so, the repetitive cycle goes on, routinely uncontrolled and with no future planning by the authorities.

Through a fear of disease and with a lack of knowledge and, quite often, suitable and adequate resources, many authorities throughout Serbia use the most barbarically cruel and ineffective methods of stray animal population control.  Once captured by the “Shinters” (animal catching) teams, animals are often confined to cages without any food or water for many days prior to their deaths.  Death is administered in many ways by the Serbian Government authorities.

But there is an alternative

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About Serbian Animals Voice

 

Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) is an organisation which campaigns for the better treatment of all animals within the Balkans states; especially on behalf of stray / street animals.  SAV is a completely non-violent organisation which undertakes all of its campaigning through information networking and the written word.  SAV has a worldwide supporter network.

In the Republic of Serbia, dogs and cats experience inhumane capture and death in a never ending attempt by authorities to control the stray animal populations of towns and cities.  Throughout their short lives, animals live a pitiful existence.  These often unwanted animals fight and scavenge for a pittance of food and water in an always increasingly hostile environment.  And yet despite their suffering; stray and unwanted dogs and cats maintain the ability to REPRODUCE – make new little cats and dogs !  And so, the repetitive cycle goes on, routinely uncontrolled and with no future planning by the authorities.

Through a fear of disease and with a lack of knowledge and, quite often, suitable and adequate resources, many authorities throughout Serbia use the most barbarically cruel and ineffective methods of stray animal population control.  Once captured by the “Shinters” (animal catching) teams, animals are often confined to cages without any food or water for many days prior to their deaths.  Death is administered in many ways by the Serbian Government authorities.

·           by paralysis of the respiratory system through T-61 injections into the heart or lungs – T-61 being a neuromuscular blocking agent which is no longer used in the United States

·           injection of Nuvan and Kreozan poisons; causing death by suffocation

·           burying alive,

·           clubbing to death; often undertaken by authority sanitary services hiring mentally retarded gypsies to kill animals on their behalf

·           sealing animals in plastic bags and disposing of them on garbage dumps

·           compacting (crushing) animals in authority refuse collection vehicles

But there is an alternative

·           The Sterilisation and identification of stray animals.

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To His Excellency the President of the Democracy Party, and President of Republic of Serbia :

Dear Mr. Boris Tadic

 

Considering that it is the duty of humans to respect animals and to ensure that these benefit from legislation which protects them in an adequate and effective way;

Considering that that duty is increasingly recognised and valued not only within the Serbian society but also across the world, and that it has been driving governments, parliaments and municipalities from several regions of the world to take advanced legislative and practical steps to protect animals;

Considering that, in spite of the latter being also a duty of the Serbian  State, this state has not been matching it, or meeting its responsibilities in this field, in a satisfactory way, thus leaving Serbian`s animals cruelly abandoned and victims of the state’s indifference, which, both by actions and omissions, has been permitting that many and serious harms committed against animals may happen in an environment of almost total impunity;

Considering that the Serbian State, both by not taking proactive, modern, effective and adequate legislative measures, by not even conducting a satisfactory prevention, enforcement and penalization activity regarding the existing animal protection regulations, by not forbidding cruel, unacceptable and absolutely unnecessary practises, and also by involving some of its institutions, among which are the municipalities, in the cruel treatment of animals, has originated serious problems affecting animals in the country; and also

 

Considering that the majority of the Serbian people – a very significant one, in many aspects, and overwhelming, in so many others – believes that animals in Serbia are, in fact, extremely unprotected and should, in several areas, be urgently and strongly protected by the Serbian State;


I call on the Serbian Parliament and urge the Democracy Party  to:


1. Propose and/or approve, establish and enact a new animal protection law -to be shaped as an Animal Protection Code – that is

 a) wide-ranging, in a way that it establishes animal protection regulations affecting all areas in which these are somehow used and involved,

b) coherent, clear and specific, in a way that its provisions can be understood, respected and enforced in a clear way and without causing any doubts,

 c) strongly restrictive, establishing

i) unequivocally the prohibitions which are due to be defined,

ii) strong penalties to the infringements of the law, and

iii) exclusive legal permissions to hold animals in captivity and/or to inflict pain, suffering and/or death to animals only in the cases in which that is strictly necessary and justified, also rigidly and clearly regulating those permissions, and

d) easy to enforce, in a way that the agencies and officials which are responsible for enforcing the law and making sure it is respected may execute their enforcement work in the most direct, fast and effective manner, so that the infringements may be punished as swiftly and efficiently as possible, also to be accompanied of immediate and precautionary measures to protect the affected animals´ safety and integrity measures – which should be also immediately put to practice by these very agencies and officials;


and


2. To additionally consider and incorporate in the preparation of this new animal protection law – which is requested to be established and enacted shaped as an Animal Protection Code taking into consideration all the aspects mentioned in the previous point – all the elements which are outlined and advocated in the fair, extensive and comprehensive guiding proposal for a Serbian Animal Protection Code presented in the documents NO KILL sterilisation strategy, written by Friend-EPAR/OIPAmember league www.epar.org.yu


  and “Law&order&justice for all” , written by Friend-EPAR/OIPAmember league/alliance for Animal Rights 
www.epar.org.yu   and promoted by this organisation and several other members  and supporters  of Alliance for Animal Rights and Serbian Animals Voice https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/ ,  to accomplish a modern, effective, progressist and fair Animal Protection Code in relation to the needs of the legislative protection of animals in Serbia and to the Serbian State’s duties in this field.

 


Thanking you in advance for the attention which, I trust, you will give to my request,


Yours, respectfully,

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

THANK YOU

 

 

 

22nd July – A Message from Slavica

Please take action and forward widely

LAW & ORDER & JUSTICE FOR ALL

– NO KILL STERILISATION STRATEGY, withouth killing stray pets

-to forbid religious ritual slaughtering

-to forbid experiments on animals

-to forbid dog-cat breeding  and  trade = abusing animals

-to forbid use animals in circuses and

-to forbid  zoo s  jails

-to forbid hunting

 

 

Please urge the President of the DEMOCRACY Party Group in the Serbian Parliament to officially support the “No-kill sterilisation strategy” – Guiding Proposal for a Serbian Animal Protection Code, its principles, objectives and the rules it aims to establish

 

You can read  detailes  about  No kill sterilisation strategy  on  www.epar.org.yu

If you can, please also send the same message through postal, mail or fax to:

 

Mr. Boris Tadic

 

 

President of Democracy Party  and President of Republic of Serbia  kontakt.predsednik@predsednik.yu

tel / fax 00381 11 36 32 007  and  fax  00 381 11 3030 868

11000 Beograd,

Andricev   venac 1

381 Serbia

 

On behalf of all animals in Serbia, we thank you for your support and participation, which are truly vital for the success of this campaign to change the future of animals in this country.

 

To His Excellency the President of the Democracy Party, and President of Republic of Serbia :

 

Dear Mr. Boris Tadic

 

Considering that it is the duty of humans to respect animals and to ensure that these benefit from legislation which protects them in an adequate and effective way;

Considering that that duty is increasingly recognised and valued not only within the Serbian society but also across the world, and that it has been driving governments, parliaments and municipalities from several regions of the world to take advanced legislative and practical steps to protect animals;

Considering that, in spite of the latter being also a duty of the Serbian  State, this state has not been matching it, or meeting its responsibilities in this field, in a satisfactory way, thus leaving Serbian`s animals cruelly abandoned and victims of the state’s indifference, which, both by actions and omissions, has been permitting that many and serious harms committed against animals may happen in an environment of almost total impunity;

Considering that the Serbian State, both by not taking proactive, modern, effective and adequate legislative measures, by not even conducting a satisfactory prevention, enforcement and penalization activity regarding the existing animal protection regulations, by not forbidding cruel, unacceptable and absolutely unnecessary practises, and also by involving some of its institutions, among which are the municipalities, in the cruel treatment of animals, has originated serious problems affecting animals in the country; and also

 

Considering that the majority of the Serbian people – a very significant one, in many aspects, and overwhelming, in so many others – believes that animals in Serbia are, in fact, extremely unprotected and should, in several areas, be urgently and strongly protected by the Serbian State;


I call on the Serbian Parliament and urge the Democracy Party  to:

1. Propose and/or approve, establish and enact a new animal protection law – to be shaped as an Animal Protection Code – that is

 a) wide-ranging, in a way that it establishes animal protection regulations affecting all areas in which these are somehow used and involved,

b) coherent, clear and specific, in a way that its provisions can be understood, respected and enforced in a clear way and without causing any doubts,

 c) strongly restrictive, establishing

i) unequivocally the prohibitions which are due to be defined,

ii) strong penalties to the infringements of the law, and

iii) exclusive legal permissions to hold animals in captivity and/or to inflict pain, suffering and/or death to animals only in the cases in which that is strictly necessary and justified, also rigidly and clearly regulating those permissions, and

d) easy to enforce, in a way that the agencies and officials which are responsible for enforcing the law and making sure it is respected may execute their enforcement work in the most direct, fast and effective manner, so that the infringements may be punished as swiftly and efficiently as possible, also to be accompanied of immediate and precautionary measures to protect the affected animals´ safety and integrity – measures which should be also immediately put to practice by these very agencies and officials;

 

 

 


and

2. To additionally consider and incorporate in the preparation of this new animal protection law – which is requested to be established and enacted shaped as an Animal Protection Code taking into consideration all the aspects mentioned in the previous point – all the elements which are outlined and advocated in the fair, extensive and comprehensive guiding proposal for a Serbian Animal Protection Code presented in the documents NO KILL sterilisation strategy”, writen by Friend-EPAR/OIPAmember league www.epar.org.yu

  and “Law&order&justice for all” , written by Friend-EPAR/OIPAmember league/alliance for Animal Rights  www.epar.org.yu

  and promoted by this organisation and several other members  and supporters  of Alliance for Animal Rights and Serbian Animals Voice https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/

 ,  to accomplish a modern, effective, progressist and fair Animal Protection Code in relation to the needs of the legislative protection of animals in Serbia and to the Serbian State’s duties in this field.

 


Thanking you in advance for the attention which, I trust, you will give to my request,

 

 


Yours, respectfully,

Name: Slavica Mazak Beslic

Friend-EPAR/OIPA/Alliance   for  Animal Rights/SAV/GAARP

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/

www.epar.org.yu

 

 

 

Town: Subotica

Country: Serbia

E-mail: epar@yunord.net

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Please make as generous a donation as you can TODAY to enable Friend-EPAR/OIPAmember league   to continue and better its work to forward animal protection in this country:

 

Make a bank transfer to the following account:

otp Bank, Hungary,Szeged

Account number: 11775355-37518886

IBAN: HU31117753553751888600000000

BIC/SWIFT: 0TPVHUHB

 

Make a regular donation by cheque or money order and posting it to us at: by postal address:

Friend-EPAR/OIPA member league

Matka Vukovica 9

24000Subotica

381 SERBIA 

 

Friend-EPAR/OIPA/Alliance for Animal Rights  ::

No More Crimes Without Punishment ::

No  More killings healthy pet animals – by false  euthanasia,

   No more: painfull killing on behalf of God

 

All sentient beings ARE persons-All persons have an EQUAL right to live

Various Animal Petitions to Add Your Name To

SAV are always happy to help campaigners get extra signatures for their petitions.

Details of any petitions (links) can be left in the ‘Comments’ section of this site; which will enable us to access and advertise within the petions (this) Category.

Please send us any links and we will advertise as soon as we can.

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Current petitions:

1)  Millions of animals suffer and die in China for the global export. Join FOUR PAWS’ protest and demand obligatory animal welfare standards in the European trade.

https://www.secureconnect.at/4paws.org.uk/petition/0807/

 

 

2)  Tell the Bush administration to stop the slaughter of gray wolves!

Since the Bush administration stripped gray wolves of their endangered species protection in March, more than 100 have been gunned down outside Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, and hundreds more are being targeted for slaughter. Please tell the Interior Department to do its job of protecting wolves, instead of allowing them to be killed.


http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/save_yellowstone_wolves?qp_source=message%5faction

 

 

3)  On the 8th of July 2008 at 2 am in the morning an 8 year old female dog was butchered by 1 student from JNU , Yoronso (Ph.d student from JNU’s School of Social Science, (Centre for Political Studies)) and his two friends in Room #248 in the Kaveri hostel of JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) in New Delhi, India. She was beaten with a cricket bat and a curtain rod for an hour and then they started to cut her open while she was still alive. Due to the noise and blood gushing out from under the door the people in the hostel got alarmed, and the students and wardens intervened. The dog’s name was Kali.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com:80/1/jnu-dog-butchered-alive

 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com:80/1/horrific-murder-of-the-street-dog-in-delhi

 

 

St. Girons Shelter (France) to Close at the End of July

The shelter of St. Girons in the South of France will be closed at the end of July.

For many dogs this means a lethal injection. Many have already been transported off and were never seen again …

 

Please distribute this widely to everyone who might be able to help – in France and outside.

 

This link works:

 

http://www.hundenothilfe-frankreich.de/notfelle/st-girons/001.html

 

Contact Germany – Anke and Claudia at

 

anke@hundenothilfe-frankreich.de

claudia@hundenothilfe-frankreich.de

 

 

THANK YOU !!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Makes a Hit with Regina’s Song – Please Give it Your Support

Famous Uk musician Maria Daines has written a very moving song about Regina; the Spanish rescued dog who was abused and tortured.

Maria says about the song:

Dear all,

had to share this news, Regina’s song is really getting out there & being heard world wide!!! 

We HOPE it will help other animals in Spain in the future, let people know cruelty to animals MUST NOT be tolerated by government and society.

Please share the link with everyone you know.

About the song (and Regina)
Regina was a rescue dog living in Ribercan shelter in the town of Carcaixent Valencia, Spain. On 29th May 2008, thugs broke into the shelter and Regina was sexually abused, tortured and killed during the attack on the premises. Other dogs were frightened away from the shelter when their quarters were badly damaged but Regina was petrified and too timid to fight back.

We hope this song will help to alert people to the distressing problem of animal cruelty in Spain. This crime has not been investigated by the Spanish police or authorities. Laws must be implemented in Spain to protect stray dogs like Regina from criminals who see them as easy targets. Animal abuse leads to human abuse.

 

The Bright Eyes Society has offered a financial reward to help catch the person or persons responsible for this terrible crime against an innocent creature. Download proceeds from this song will be sent to Bright Eyes to increase the reward and one day may there be for justice for Regina. 

 

Regina’s song is available to play or download,
download proceeds will be donated to The Bright Eyes Society to increase the reward fund to help gain justice for Regina.

 

Today’s chart stats below on Soundclick –

Justice For Regina

# 18 in Pop (highest position was 18). Total songs: 88,139


# 2 in Adult Contemporary (highest position was 2). Total songs: 3,136

PLAY HERE –
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6704790

Many many thanks for all your support and let’s ROCK FOR ANIMALS TO LIVE IN PEACE!!!!!

 

Love from Maria xxxxxx

 

www.myspace.com/justiceforregina

www.maria-daines.com

www.myspace.com/mariadaines
www.myspace.com/justiceforregina
www.myspace.com/musicunitedforanimals

A petition for ‘Justice For Regina’ closed with over 10,000 signatures!!

 

 

 

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering?  Because government is not.  Why not?  Animals don’t vote. 
~Paul Harvey

 

Can You Help the EPAR Shelter Dogs this Winter by buying some Straw Bales ?

Dear all;
Slavica is asking if anyone would be willing to help support the purchase of straw bales which will be used as additional warmth for the dogs at the EPAR shelter this coming winter.
The shelter needs to have around 1,800 bales and now in the summer is the best time to purchse them.
Bales cost around 1 Euro each at the moment, but will be more expensive later in the year.  Slavica has had to spend a lot of her money on other essentials for the shelter and cannot afford to find this money also.
So please everyone, even if it is funds for a few bales or for a dozen or more, please dig deep and help the dogs to keep warmer this coming winter – lets get these straw bales purchhased now, before the prices go up.
Please e mail Slavica if you are able to help; her address is  epar@yunord.net
Thank You.
To make a direct donation, then please give to the following Bank:
Bank.           OTP Bank RT
                    6720 Szeged City
                    Klauzal Ter 5
                    Hungary
 
Acc.No.         11775355-37518886
IBAN             HU31117753553751888600000000
SWIFT           OTPVHUHB
Acc.Name      MAZAK-BESLIC JANOS