Posted on March 13, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Donations for food:
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Message:
Lina’s animal rescue in Coka, Serbia has tried desperately to keep her shelter open despite lack of funding.
There are approx 30 dogs being cared for and they have been without food now for a few days.
FIVE of these dogs are READY FOR TRAVEL to be adopted ( all required testing, vaccines, certificates are completed).
Due to lack of funding and the recent loss of electricity ( and no help in sight) the founder is struggling to find a solution and may end up opening the gates in the hopes that these dogs may have a better chance on the streets.
I have been a dedicated supporter for approx 2 years and have been impressed with the dedication, knowledge, high level of integrity and enormous level of care given to these unfortunate animals.
Is there ANYTHING you can do to help?
Here is the link to their Facebook page where you can find out more about them.
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Posted on March 10, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Petitions and More, March 9
SAV Comment – all the petition links are supplied directly to us. We appreciate that some of the will probably not work, but we cannot check each individual one; time does not allow. Please select and try anything that you see below.
http://act.wildhorsepreservation.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=22399 US-info. Help pass federal legislation to protect the Corolla wild horses, a rare breed of Spanish Colonial mustangs who have lived for more than 500 years on North Carolina’s Outer Banks! Ask to support the Burr-Tillis Amendment (#3175) to S. 2012 !
http://www.sosvox.org/en/petitions.html Ingresa, login first. Peticiones. Choose your language. After signing, go back to ‘Petitions’, scroll down for the other Petitions
http://animaldefender.org/407/ Save The Wenling Zoo Tigers From Their Daily Abuse And Mistreatment!
http://chn.ge/1M4FsMs Ukraine. Close advocacy, promotion of animal cruelty on resource “vredy.biz” ; this is a serious violation of the basic principles and objectives of the European Union which is the basis of tolerance and of a civilized society!
https://www.change.org/p/ms-jayna-leach-please-save-panama-city-beach-from-big-lick-animal-cruelty/u/15694475 Please email Tourisme board members! info@sugarsands.com; aphillips@corpfla.com; goberst@pcbgov.com; rrussell@pcbgov.com; david.chapman@royalamerican.com; mspswi@aol.com; ypatronis@aol.com; gwalsingham@aol.com; mthomas@baycountyfl.gov; drowe@visitpanamacitybeach.com; dsale@hmsclaw.com
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Posted on March 10, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Target: Rolando Zapata Bello, Governor of Yucatan
Goal: End festival in which ducks are strangled and other animals beaten to death.
Every year in a small city in Mexico, the Kots Kaal Pato festival occurs. Kots Kaal Pato roughly translates into “strangle the duck.” In Citilcum, a city in Izamel, Yucatan, festivalgoers bind a duck to a wooden frame and then proceed to stamp over each other to try to rip off the bird’s head.
If that is not barbaric enough, news sources have reported children grabbing local animals, like iguanas and opossums, and stuffing them into pinatas. Then the pinata is beaten and bashed while the live animals are stuck inside.
Sign this petition and demand these barbaric events be put to an end. These animals should not be forced to go through this pain ever again.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Bello,
Every year in the small city of Citilcum, the Kots Kaal Pato festival occurs. At this festival, countless animals are tortured for entertainment.
According to news sources, children grab small animals like iguanas and opossums, stuff them into pinatas, and then bash the pinata until they are bored. If the animal survives that torturous ordeal, then they will likely die from being repeatedly stepped on while stuck in the hectic crowds. However, that is not all that occurs. In addition, a duck is bound to a wooden frame and festivalgoers stamp over each other while trying to rip the duck’s head off.
These disgusting acts of barbaric torture must be put to an end. Please consider putting an end to this savage festival and save countless lives from unnecessary pain and death.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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Posted on March 9, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment – At least in death, sadly Tilikum will be ‘free’ from the years of suffering, and hopefully will have a new life somewhere swimming fine and free ! – anything that can reduce the profits of abuse establishments is good news to us – SeaWorld just don’t get the message sent by most sensible people !
Tilikum, SeaWorld’s Notorious Killer Whale,
Is Near Death
The 35-year-old orca, taken from his mother at the age of two, killed three people during his years of captivity, galvanizing animal activists against the company.
The great and fearsome Tilikum, the world’s most famous killer whale, is near the end of his tragedy-filled life.
On Tuesday, SeaWorld Orlando in Florida, where Tilikum has lived for the past 23 years, issued a statement announcing that the 12,000-pound orca is suffering from an untreatable lung infection.
The killer whale gained global notoriety in February 2010 when he dragged trainer Dawn Brancheau into his pool and brutally rammed her to death. She was the third person killed by Tilikum.
“We are saddened to report that over the past few weeks, Tilikum’s behavior has become increasingly lethargic, and the SeaWorld veterinary and animal care teams are concerned that his health is beginning to deteriorate,” the statement said.
“Our teams are treating him with care and medication for what we believe is a bacterial infection in his lungs,” the statement continued. “However, the suspected bacteria is very resistant to treatment and a cure for his illness has not been found.”
In a video released with the statement, SeaWorld veterinarian Scott Gearhart, teary-eyed, addressed the camera.
“I wish I could say I was tremendously optimistic about Tilikum and his future, but he has a disease which is chronic and progressive and at some point might cause his death,” Gearhart said. “We have not found a cure for this disease at this point.”
Heather Murphy, an anti-captivity activist from central Florida and cofounder of Ocean Advocate News, went to see Tilikum on Tuesday.
“He was in the med pool, and he was barely moving,” Murphy said. “The entire time I was there, he stayed at the gate looking out. There were other whales hanging out at the gate with him on the other side. It’s all very sad.”
Tilikum is thought to be about 35. The average life expectancy for wild male orcas is about 30. He was captured and taken from his mother’s side off the coast of Iceland in 1983, when he was about two.
Brancheau’s death led to an international outcry against killer whale captivity, sparked a six-month investigation by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and led to a protracted legal battle in which SeaWorld unsuccessfully tried to have the worker-safety violation overturned.
Since then, Tilikum and SeaWorld have been the subject of my book, Death at SeaWorld, the 2013 documentary Blackfish, and a cascade of devastating publicity that resulted in tanking stock values, high-level-staff departures, and the introduction of a bill to ban orca captivity in California.
Brancheau was not the first person to fall victim to Tilikum’s fury. In 1991, when the orca was living at the now-defunct SeaLand of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, he pulled trainer Keltie Byrne into the water and, along with two female orcas in the pool, prevented the champion swimmer from escaping until she drowned.
The whale was sold to SeaWorld Orlando in 1992. Seven years later, a homeless man named Daniel Dukes was found naked, dead, and draped over Tilikum’s back after sneaking into his pool after the park closed.
Becca Bides, SeaWorld director of corporate communications, declined to answer several email questions about Tilikum, including the type of bacteria that has infected him, whether or not he is eating, and how long he might have to live.
In the video, Gearhart said that Tilikum is infected with “a type of bacteria that is found in a variety of species, including wild cetaceans,” without naming the pathogen. “If Tilikum had shown up with this disease in the wild, he would’ve been gone a long time ago.”
But Naomi Rose, a killer whale expert and marine-mammal scientist at the Animal Welfare Institute, took issue with that statement.
“Talk about speculation and going way beyond the data,” Rose said. “You don’t know if he would’ve had this disease in the wild—it’s nonsensical. SeaWorld is trying to say, ‘Look how long we kept him around.’ But how do you know he would be in this predicament if he wasn’t in captivity?”
Rose said that wild whales die from bacterial infections, but without disclosing the pathogen affecting Tilikum, Gearhart’s statement “is absolutely meaningless.”
Lori Marino, executive director of the Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy and a neurobiologist who has studied whales and dolphins for 25 years, said the stress of being held in a tank for most of his life could have led to Tilikum’s illness.
“There is a well-known syndrome of how chronic stress affects the immune system and how that leads to infection and mortality,” Marino said. “Chronic stress, including depression, essentially releases chronic stress hormones into the body, degrading the immune system, which leads to increased vulnerability to infection.”
We may never know what will kill Tilikum. SeaWorld is not required to release necropsy reports for its animals.
But the orca’s legacy will outlive the animal.
“We knew this was coming, but that doesn’t make this any easier,” Marino said. “It’s a sad ending to a sad story.”
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Posted on March 8, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
It’s nice to be important;
but it’s more important to be nice !
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Today, 8/3/16 is International Women’s Day.
Here is a link to what women had to do in the UK in the past to get their vote –
Links:
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Posted on March 8, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
All photos – EoA (NL)
We are running this as a support for Lesley at ‘Eyes on Animals’ in the Netherlands, and so we will discuss the future of the petition when we talk with her in the near future. My guess is it will probably continue for a few months yet – certainly until we hear back from the EU officials whom we have just written to on the subject – you can read our letter by going to the following link – https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/03/05/england-sav-now-formally-write-to-the-eu-regarding-eu-to-turkey-animal-transport/ – as well as a link to our letter, there is also a sample letter which you can copy, change if you want, and then send. E mail addresses are also included.
In the meantime, please keep the signatures coming in, and thank you to everyone who has supported, promoted the petition, and just recruited extra folk to sign. THANK YOU ALL.
Please keep signing and passing the links on !! – Mark – SAV.
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Posted on March 5, 2016 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
**UPDATE 1730hrs GMT 6/3/16**
Copy of SAV letter, EoA video of exports to Turkey from the EU, and a few photographs now sent to London Mayor Boris Johnson – supporter of a UK EXIT from the EU.
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All photos – Eyes on Animals (NL).
Mark has now written a letter on behalf of SAV to the EU regarding the situation for animals in transport at the EU / Turkish border.
A copy of the SAV letter and the Eyes on Animals (NL) video can be viewed by clicking on the following links –
Please note that in the letter, only our contact details and address have been removed from this copy – otherwise it is unchanged.
Copies of the letter are each being sent to those detailed at the start, and we are sending hard copies by registered snail mail so that they have to be signed for on arrival. This is our guarantee that they have been received, hopefully will be read (?), and that we should be supplied with a written response sometime in the future – hopefully before June and the UK In / Out referendum.
Regards SAV.
Help Us please – we need to get as many people to support the petition as we can. Please crosspost widely – Thank you.
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ADDITIONAL ACTION REQUIRED – SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND
Dear all,
Venus has very kindly produced a letter – here in both English and German; which can be copied and sent to the 3 e mail addresses which are provided: To Juncker, Tusk, and Schultz.
In order that we have an effect, please copy and send the letter to the 3 mails provided – please make sure you add your name and nationality at the end of the letter where indicated.
Thank you; and thanks to Venus for producing.
E mail the letter to the following please:
To Mr. Jean Claude Juncker – President of the European Commission.
Mr. Donald Tusk – President of the European Council
Mr. Martin Schultz – President of the European Parliament.
Dear Sirs,
About 5 years ago, EU and non EU citizens have expressed a wish with the unprecedented number of 1.3 million signatures. This action went down in history of democratic participation.
These citizens then demanded a limit of animal transport to 8 hours, and so was named this campaign “8hours campaign” against the agonizing, unlimited journeys of animals through Europe to their slaughter. Today these same citizens are more than ever disappointed by the ignorance and contempt by the EU Commission.
Disappointed because the European Commission has still opted for the lucrative and not for the animal friendly transport of animals. These still take days and are painful.
Disappointed because is still flowing blood from the trucks on the highway, the blood of animals, who are carted unnecessary for days, thirsty, starving, injured, half dead to whole Europe, although this is against the EU-Transport laws .
Disappointed because these “citizens’ initiatives” are systematically ignored from the European Commission, although they belong to the participation in the legislation in the EU after the Lisbon Treaty.
This disappointment has already reached the limit of anger within the EU countries. Because it is not just only an issue of animal rights. It is the betrayal of the European Commission on its citizens. It is the rejection of the European Commission to respect the decisions of their citizens who want nothing other than to improve an outdated Animal Transport Regulation.
This anger will reveal its first consequences in UK in the referendum. The power of the Internet is very large, you know better than we do. We can reach a lot of people, educate them, and eventually convince them. For or against EU. But which side are you on?
ADD YOUR NAME and Nationality.
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GERMAN COPY
President.Juncker@ec.europa.eu EC.SECRETARIAT@consilium.europa.eu europabuero@martin-schulz.eu
Dear Sirs, Vor ca. 5 Jahren hatten EU- und nicht EU- Bürger einen Wunsch geäußert, der mit der beispiellosen Zahl von 1,3 Millionen Unterschriften in die Geschichte der demokratischen Mitbestimmung eingegangen ist.
Diese Bürger verlangten damals ein Limit der Tiertransporten auf 8 Stunden, und so bekam diese Kampagne ihren Namen „8hours Kampagne“ gegen die qualvollen, unbegrenzten Fahrten der Tiere durch Europa zu ihrem Schlachtort.
Heute sind diese, dieselben Bürger mehr denn je enttäuscht von der Ignoranz und Verachtung der EU-Kommission.
Enttäuscht, weil die EU-Kommission nach wie vor für die lukrativen und nicht für die tiergerechten Tiertransporte entschieden hat. Sie dauern Tage lang und sind qualvoll.
Enttäuscht, weil von den LKW`s auf der Autobahnen immer noch Blut fließt, das Blut der Tiere, die unnötig Tage lang, durstig, verhungert, verletzt, halbtot durch Ganzeuropa ein gekarrt werden, ob wohl das gegen die EU-Gesetzten ist.
Enttäuscht, weil diese „Bürgerinitiativen“ von der EU-Kommission systematisch ignoriert werden, obwohl sie nach dem Lissabon Vertrag zu der Mitwirkung an der Gesetzgebung in der EU gehören.
Diese Enttäuschung hat schon die Grenze der Wut innerhalb der EU-Länder erreicht. Denn es ist nicht nur ein Thema der Tierrechte.
Es ist der Verrat der EU-Kommission an ihren Bürger. Es ist die Ablehnung der EU-Kommission, die Entscheidungen ihrer Bürger zu respektieren, die nichts anders wollen, als eine überholte Tiertransportverordnung zu verbessern.
Diese Wut wird ihre ersten Konsequenzen in UK bei dem Referendum des Volkes zeigen. Die Macht des Internets ist sehr groß, das wissen Sie besser als wir. Wir können viele erreichen, aufklären, und schließlich überzeugen. Für oder gegen EU. Auf welcher Seite stehen Sie?
ADD Your name and nationality.
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