Serbia: Time To Make The Press Accountable – Your Assistance Required.

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

UPDATE 10/2/18

 

The following photos are in relation to a private dogcatcher firm named Avenija MB.

This firm has political support by leading political parties, and it works in 52 municipality cities all over Serbia.

These photos show how this leading dogcatcher firm work.

 

They put 20-30 dogs (sometimes as many as 49) into this trailer and transport them from locations all over Serbia.

The dogs are in-microchipped, in-vaccinated, and when put together in this trailer, there is much fighting.  Yes, 30+ dogs crammed into this trailer.

 

This procedure is in opposition to Serbian laws, but the political parties support this way of dealing with the street dog issue.

Sadly in Serbia, there is no independent media to really take up the fight for animal advocates.  It is a mafia type system making lots of money out of dog catching; when the money should really be put into sterilisation and the reduction of dog numbers on the streets.

As we have said before; there are some people who are making big money out of this business operation, and by ignoring the laws of the land.

 

Here (for example) is video footage from animal friends Vier Pfoten (Austrian AW organisation) taken back in 2008.

 The dog has been fully treated by VP – which includes being sterilised, microchipped and vaccinated against Rabies.  To show this, the dog has a Red button tag fitted to ear to clearly identify to dog catchers that it has been fully sterilised and vaccinated.

Regardless of all the treatment and a clearly visible red ear tag, the dog is still darted ready for capture and disposal by a balaclava wearing dog catcher !   – He is also clearly visible in the video:

 

 

This video above was taken 10 Years Ago !! – and nothing in Serbia has progressed for animals and their welfare.

So, dogs being sterilised and vaccinated by animal welfare organisations – something which the Serbian government should really be doing in order to reduce street dog numbers; and still the dog caching organisations (working for the authorities) ignore the red button ear tag and continue to catch the dog as part of their ‘collections’.  This dog, like all the others, has a bounty on its head; the companies and / or authorities will be paid a dividend from the taxpayers contributions to government to get this dog off the streets.  Money, time and effort wasted by VP (Austria) for sterilisation and vaccination; and yet more money rolling in to authorities and management from the Serbian government to cover the capture and killing of this dog.

As we have said so many times; the government and authorities do NOT want to adopt a stray / street dog sterilisation because over time it will reduce stray dog numbers; thus solving a long term problem for Serbia.  By not sterilising dogs, the authorities can guarantee that there will be a constant new source of street dogs for them to capture and claim back official money from the government – the head bounty.  Where does the money go ? – ask the seniors who run this style of a system.

The money being paid out by the government as ‘head count bounties’ for each dog caught and killed, would more than support the finances required for a national long term sterilisation and vaccination programme.  But the government and authorities do not want to know about this. 

Why ? – because some people are maybe living very comfortably thank you from the system the way it currently operates.

 

The following are videos of Avenija MB, who catch and put dogs into this unlawful trailer.

The dogs are then often transported long distances – 500 to 1,000km.  They go in all seasons, including Winter and Summer.

As you can see in the video above (dog with red ear tag), they still catch dogs that are fully identified as being sterilised and vaccinated.

The owner of this private firm is Mrs Andjelija Stevanovic; which is allegedly operated with her son Mr Nenad Stevanovic. 

We are informed that they have very close links with a politician named  Mr  Zoran Babic – who we are informed is also the Director of a National firm named Koridor  Srbije.  Mr Babic is a very close friend of the President of Serbia Mr.Aleksandar Vucic.

As we say; any wonder why there is no enthusiasm for a national sterilisation programme !!!

 

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A campaign has now started in Serbia which is aimed at getting the Press and media to adopt a different attitude to the way they deal with the issue of stray dogs.

Their approach has always been very negative; yet they do very little, if anything, to show up the Serbian governments attitude of what they should be doing under Serbian constitutional law – providing stray dogs with care.

 

Below is a copy of the letter which has been submitted to the Journalists Association of Serbia.  It fully describes how people are feeling about the Serbian press / media coverage regarding stray dogs.

** ACTION ** – This is where we need your (international) supporter help with this campaign.

 

These are the e mail addresses to which we would like you to send mails.

You could send a copy of this post by selecting and copying the post link at the top of this article.

 

We need to make it very clear to the Press that they are NOT doing their job.

 

Mails to go to the following:

petar.jeremic@uns.rs ; nino.brajovic@uns.rs ; vladimir.radomirovic@uns.rs ; press@uns.org.rs ; administrator@nuns.rs ; press.sluzba@nuns.rs ; sekretar@nuns.rs ; predsednik@nuns.rs ; citaoci@ringier.rs ; redakcija@newsblic.rs

 

Rather that constantly attacking the dogs on the streets, the Journalists Association is in an ideal situation to both show the lack of government / regional authority compliance with Serbian law – and also to put pressure on the government and authorities that sterilisation on a mass national level is the only way that the number of strays is ever going to be reduced.

We know, and have proven so many times on this site, that there are a lot of people in important positions in government and regional government who are making a great deal of money out of the continual rounding up and killing of street dogs.  Without undertaking sterilisation there is a constant supply of street dogs to be captured and killed – and very productive bounties paid to some in authority for doing it.

People in power do NOT want a reduction in the number of street dogs; otherwise their corrupt income will reduce.  They say ‘to hell’ with the Constitutional Court (of Serbia) and what it says.  This careless and non compliance with enforcing the national law makes it look as if Serbia is in an ideal position to become an EU member state – simply because the EU Commissions do very little to enforce EU law also when it comes to animals and their welfare.  Reg 1/2005 and all that.

Here is the open letter which has been produced by Serbian campaigners and which we are asking you to support by sending a copy of this post or the letter to the e mail addresses given above.

 

Open Letter:

Journalists’ Association of Serbia

Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia

28.07.2017.

Open letter

Respected Sir/Madam,

We are deeply disappointed, indignant and disgusted by the media prosecution that has been occurred for years against homeless dogs.

Homeless dogs are in the media mentioned exclusively and only in a negative connotation, to widespread sensationalist news about bites of dangerous, raging dogs from horrid packs, which are always called “strays”, following  with titles like “Dread”, “Horror”,
“Dog bite a child”, “Dogs attacked a mother with a kid”, etc.

Those types of texts are accompanied with images of huge dogs with wide open jaws, taken from Internet, which are not connected at all with the text. Such texts are superficial, without any details, do not point at the source of real problem, and their target is always the homeless dog, even when they are about dogs who do have owners and make false charges of dog bites.

There are many of these false charges because of high money compensation, which is drawn from municipal budgets. The truth is always befogged.


Such manner of reporting, superficial and wrongful, leads to spreading of hate among citizens toward dogs, and have dangerous long term consequences.
Brutal behavior to dogs that has owners or homeless dogs is immense, even without spreading of hate. This kind of journalism only encourages that hate. So, inhumane society emerges, which has no compassion for the weaker beings and primitivism is promoted.


If the reason for such warmonger texts is to increase newspapers circulation, per system – sensational news sell newspapers (which certainly is not justified and sludge the role of journalist profession), why then sensational news are not also: “Kids set on fire puppies in the school yard”, “Teenagers pushed a firecracker in a mouth of homeless dog and light it”, “Man hanged dog with a belt”, “Puppy’s legs cut off”, “Dying  dog thrown into a garbage container alive”, “Hunters in Kosovska Mitrovica killed 20 homeless dogs on the streets”, “Dogs in the shelter in Vršac eat each other”, “Mass poisoning of dogs in Serbian towns”…..

Isn’t this news? Or this news is unattractive to the media? Why?

Spreading hatred towards dogs by the media has many consequences. Besides that encourage brutality towards dogs, it also encourages the hatred of citizens towards animal welfare volunteers, so people are divided on being either haters and lovers.

This leads to a conflict and create a false image that Animal Welfare Associations aims to have dogs on streets because they feed them and remove from streets, for which they need money funds.

Unfortunately, there are no texts about positive examples of their humanity, rescues, adoptions and how they invest their own money, time and work. This topic is not popular.

Homeless dogs are very often in the media when there is need to publish interviews with the director of Public Communal Company and managers of incorrectly named companies “zoo-hygiene’s” – in which they denounce crimes in their facilities, torture of dogs, stilling food and money funds for animal “humane care”, dog slaughter, and how hungry dogs eat each other in there public shelters. Like in the cases of shelters in Loznica, Požega, Vršac, Ovča etc, etc.

With this one-side reporting is encouraging corruption, which in the domain of Zoo-hygiene and “humane care” already exceeds inconceivable limits. No one is interested in the corruption or not dare to write a text on this topic. But, that corruption is the cause and essence of everything what is happening.

Homeless dogs are the golden cocks and collateral damage of our society; the media proclaimed them as the number one enemy of our nation, fear and hatred is growing among the citizens, the public is mislead how dogs creates enormous costs for the state – all this is excuse to steal money from municipal budgets for their fake “humane care”.

Money, of course, goes into human private pockets and these poor hated beings are not important at all.

Why this is not an article topic? Is research journalism gone?


Why is not a topic over 3000 dog kennels and that only 3 are registered in APR?

This is the reason why many dogs end up in streets and increase the number of homeless animals, sadly this problem doesn’t bother the Veterinary Directorate, which is in charge to control the welfare of dogs in kennels.

Would it not be a sensational story about rackets and people who have jobs but don’t have to pay taxes?

Isn’t it sensational news how dog-catchers attack an animal welfare activist and civilians, as well how Avenija MB insults the citizens, how the municipal authorities, who have with Avenija MB a suspicious contract about purchases, insult animal welfare activists, there revanchism, threats??????

These apparently are not topics about which citizens – who finance municipal budgets and their thievery in the name of “humane care of homeless dogs”, as well by local authorities and Public Communal Company “Zoo-hygiene” – should read and know.


For them stories are about bites, spreading hatred and calling to lynch homeless dogs, who are not guilty because people abandon them, throw them onto the street, because “Zoo-hygiene’s” don’t do their job honestly, with love and respect the Animal Welfare Law, and because they are born in the society in which offenders who do not respect laws are unpunished.

This is also a topic to be talked about in the media, concerning these “dangerous strays”.

If a role of the media is to inform us truthfully, to educate and ennoble, then on this subject, for now, they fail.


We sincerely hope there is will for change and that media coverage about homeless dogs, instead of perpetual talking about “strays”, will stop repetition of same many-decade-old mantra – Dog bites, Horror – while municipality budget funds for solving the problem of homeless dogs are being devoured and their number is growing, and nothing is done to find the solution.

The role of the media to solve the problem of homeless dogs in the streets of Serbia is extremely important, but it seems that the media are not interested to personally take some responsibility. We hope that will be changes on this topic.
Otherwise, the vicious cycle of nonsense and inhumanity will continue.

These are some of the titles…

https://www.blic.rs/vesti/beograd/uzas-u-batajnici-copor-pasa-lutalica-napao-kolica-sa-bebom-majka-izujedana/7k59ct5

http://niskevesti.rs/drzala-dete-u-narucju-dok-je-copor-pasa-ujedao/  

http://mitrovica.info/muke-gradana-vlast-nemocna-jesu-li-nam-psi-postali-vazniji-od-dece/

http://www.okradio.rs/vesti/specijali/u-fokusu/jos-miliona-za-pse-lutalice-_61334.html

http://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/beograd/2836152-uznemirujuci-video-uzas-na-dedinju-kvrolocni-mesanac-rasporio-stomak-malom-psu-vlasnik-ga-branio-na-kraju-je-i-on-izujedan-foto

 

Best regards,
With hope that many things will change.

 

Signatories:

Animal Welfare and Nature Protection Associations

 

PRIJATELJ  Ub, zastupnik Suzana Gojković

SOLIDARNO ZA ŽIVOTINJE I PRIRODU Beograd, zastupnik Aleksandra Dudić

BELKA Majdanpek, zastupnik Igor Janković

SPASKE Kraljevo, zastupnik Danijela Jović

ORPAK Kruševac, zastupnik Lela Bucek

BORSKE ŠAPE Bor, zastupnik Nikola Nedeljković

TERA Zemun

BORBA ZA ŽIVOT Vranje, zastupnik Tanja Lakičević

PROTEKTA Vlasotince, zastupnik Borka Mitić

BOBI  Gornji Milanovac

ZAŠTITA POMOĆ I UDOMLJAVANJE VRANJE, zastupnik Marko Spirić

KOALICIJA ZA ŽIVOT NO KILL COALITION Beograd, zastupnik Mirjana Raščanin

KOALICIJA ZA ŽIVOT NO KILL COALITION ogranak Dimitrovgrad, zastupnik Melita Stavrev.

EPAR-OIPA SRBIJA, Subotica, zastupnik Prim. mr. sci. dr. med. Slavica Mazak Bešlić

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You can find out a great deal more on the cruelty inflicted by the Serbian government and regional authorities – the money making dog killers who seem to be ignored by the press in their coverage, by visiting  the following

– in our opinion the press would have a lot to cover if they wished; but are they also being told to keep quiet about it all and only to cover stories on those terrible street dogs ?

How far does this go ? – right to the very top we would suggest !

 

The following is about 20% of the data we have on our campaign work in Serbia over the last 12 years or more.

Mr Press – we hope that with the following you would have been able to throw a story or 100 together about how corrupt the Serbian animal welfare system is regarding street dog catching and killing by the authorities. 

But you seem incapable of telling the truth.  Who we ask, is stopping you ?

Browse through the following links; if you are REAL Press people then maybe you can do some follow ups on these.  If you don’t, then we know exactly who pulls your strings !

 

And so we need to let the world  know, as we do – https://clustrmaps.com/site/h5no

A few (Say 20%) of our past posts:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-serbian-animals/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/?s=pozega

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2010/10/17/serbia-investigation-exposes-veterinarian-paid-1-5-million-dinars-for-killing-1148-dogs-in-just-one-city-nis-no-wonder-there-is-no-enthusiasm-for-a-no-kill-strategy/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2010/09/09/serbia-9910-expose-on-veterinary-corruption-procedures-how-they-can-be-paid-2-or-3-times-for-doing-just-one-job/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/04/20/serbia-the-illegal-activities-of-the-dogcatchers-of-avenija-mb/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/?s=loznica

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/04/12/serbia-take-action-with-letter-to-serbian-and-eu-politicians-regarding-illegal-non-lawful-actions-of-serbian-dogcatchers/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/03/19/serbia-mass-killing-of-stray-dogs-in-nis-serbia-a-pathetic-government-not-complying-with-the-law-inform-them-and-the-eu-now/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/02/12/thank-god-the-eu-enlargement-commission-is-enforcing-the-joke-called-the-rule-of-law-in-serbia-can-you-imagine-what-it-would-otherwise-be-like-for-animals-there/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/09/11/serbia-shelter-lesi-now-under-immediate-threat-from-authorities-100-stray-dogs-in-care-may-have-to-be-returned-to-the-streets-and-certain-death-please-act-immediately-thank-you/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/06/12/17534/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2011/12/31/serbia-petition-and-sample-letter-to-send-stop-the-vet-killer-mitko-davkovski/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2011/02/16/serbia-exposed-the-killer-vet-of-novi-sad-he-who-kills-in-excess-of-4000-stray-dogs-and-cats-each-year-despite-serbian-national-legislation-banning-him-from-2005/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2011/01/12/serbia-farm-animal-update-12111-throw-straw-in-the-liquid-excrement-and-let-them-get-on-with-it-nothing-really-changes-at-the-serbian-republic-veterinary-ministry/

 

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2010/11/08/serbia-campaigners-request-for-proof-relating-to-unlawful-acts-of-animal-killing-by-the-republic-veterinary-inspection/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2017/03/08/serbia-terrible-animal-suffering-on-farm-but-serbian-agricultural-ministry-say-all-is-ok/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2017/02/22/serbia-loznica-friday-242-the-current-last-rescue-loznica-entering-the-doors-of-hell-again/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2018/01/07/serbia-please-help-svetlana-help-the-strays-of-bor-facebook-link-below/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/10/24/eu-will-eu-strays-be-given-a-legal-voice-in-the-coming-weeks/

 

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/09/09/serbia-official-request-to-have-all-serbian-zoos-closed-down/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/07/29/serbia-pitiful-footage-of-a-polar-baer-at-belgrade-zoo-and-what-will-the-serbian-government-do-nothing-as-usual/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2012/08/06/serbia-can-we-go-and-see-the-animals-having-fun-at-the-zoo-daddy-the-real-side-of-palic-zoo-serbia-and-the-animals-that-exist-there/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2011/07/27/serbia-270711-investigation-reveals-illegal-zoo-operating-and-a-minister-who-does-not-have-a-clue-about-things/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2011/07/11/serbia-we-now-have-serbian-zoo-standards-documentation-is-this-legislation-a-paper-smokescreen-for-animal-prisons/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2011/07/04/expose-040711-serbian-zoos-–-a-move-to-improvements-in-serbian-zoo-animals-living-conditions-using-the-eu-commission/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/07/30/england-uk-we-now-undertake-new-work-for-bears-and-other-zoo-animals-in-serbia/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/08/22/serbia-disturbing-abuse-criminal-charge-but-will-authorities-and-eu-actually-do-anything/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/07/29/serbia-pitiful-footage-of-a-polar-baer-at-belgrade-zoo-and-what-will-the-serbian-government-do-nothing-as-usual/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2017/06/12/serbia-yet-another-legal-shelter-facing-threats-from-municipal-authority/

 

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2017/03/08/serbia-terrible-animal-suffering-on-farm-but-serbian-agricultural-ministry-say-all-is-ok/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/03/19/serbia-mass-killing-of-stray-dogs-in-nis-serbia-a-pathetic-government-not-complying-with-the-law-inform-them-and-the-eu-now/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2016/02/12/thank-god-the-eu-enlargement-commission-is-enforcing-the-joke-called-the-rule-of-law-in-serbia-can-you-imagine-what-it-would-otherwise-be-like-for-animals-there/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/08/19/serbia-serbian-police-do-not-enforce-the-rule-of-law-asrequired-by-the-eu-commission-why-does-the-eu-turn-a-blind-eye-whilst-giving-serbia-millions-of-euros/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/08/13/serbia-italy-the-links-between-hunting-endangered-eu-red-list-birds/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/08/03/eu-serbia-mass-animal-and-bird-killings-exports-to-the-eu-despite-eu-bans-yet-the-eu-enlargement-commission-does-very-little-despite-the-1-5-billion-euros-given-to-serbia-pre-eu-accession/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/07/20/serbia-please-take-action-for-the-dogs-at-loznica-graphic-photos-sample-letter-e-mail-addresses-please-send/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/07/05/serbia-germany-a-request-for-help-by-german-campaigners-regarding-loznica-serbia-shelter-facilities-and-a-mayor-who-does-not-want-to-talk/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/04/09/9415-the-eu-enlargement-commission-appears-to-be-failing-serbian-animals-we-have-still-had-no-response-to-our-letter-of-february-according-to-the-commission-today-so-now-we-respond-by-askin/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/04/01/serbia-campaigners-know-the-law-it-seems-the-serbian-government-regional-authorities-and-possibly-eu-enlargement-commission-dont-why/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/03/04/32514/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/01/19/serbia-charge-made-against-subotica-city-council-for-non-compliance-with-serbian-animal-welfare-legislation/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2015/01/13/serbia-global-almost-250000-people-save-dog-sanctuary-from-eviction-on-christmas/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2014/11/04/serbia-4112014-today-is-day-number-96-that-the-minister-has-not-taken-action/

 

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2014/11/01/serbia-11114-the-full-facts-of-the-nani-abduction-by-hunters-police-from-family-mitic-now-presented-to-mr-m-davenport-eu-ambassador-to-serbia/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2014/10/27/in-2013-the-eu-provided-serbia-with-208-million-euros-to-ensure-application-of-the-rule-of-law-guaranteeing-democracy-ensuring-human-rights-why-then-has-the-serbian-government-failed-w/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2014/09/08/serbia-criminal-charge-now-made-regarding-the-city-of-subotica-having-no-official-program-to-control-its-stray-animal-numbers/

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2014/04/03/serbia-petitions-to-sign-re-death-camps-for-stray-dogs/

TIME FOR THE PRESS TO REPORT ALL THE STORY

– NOT JUST ONE SMALL PART OF IT.

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Behind Secure Walls, Today, Tomorrow, The Day After, All Day – Everyday !

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

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8/2/18: Various Petitions and Video Link.

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

Sign: Justice for Puppy Beaten with Hammer and Put in Microwave

In a savage act of cruelty, a tiny puppy named Sparky was reportedly beaten with a hammer in Lurgan, Ireland, then put in a microwave to cook.

The barbaric killing of this innocent animal was then posted on Snapchat and other social media.

The remains of this tormented puppy were found in a trash bin, along with the hammer that served as the murder weapon. The attackers have been identified as two males, ages 23 and 16.

Petition link – https://ladyfreethinker.org/sign-justice-puppy-beaten-hammer-put-microwave/

 

 

Teen Accused of Hurling Kitten Into Lake to Drown Must be Punished

Target: Birgit Fladager, District Attorney for Stanislaus County, California

Goal: Demand that the teenager who allegedly threw a kitten into a large body of water, possibly killing the cat, receive the maximum penalty by law.

A frightened kitten was allegedly hurled into a large body of water in a shocking case of animal cruelty. A video, reportedly showing a teenager gleefully throwing the kitten, went viral on social media. Demand justice for this innocent kitten.

Petition link – https://animalpetitions.org/561226/punish-teen-who-allegedly-hurled-kitten-into-body-of-water/

 

Mark,

Simple science tells us that oil and water do not mix.

Yet President Trump has proposed expanding offshore oil and gas drilling in areas of the ocean where sea turtles, whales, and birds live. This is a phenomenally bad idea.

And Turtle Island Restoration Network is fighting against it – from the local county government level all the way to the White House.

We need you to join the fight to protect our oceans by making a donation today.

We were in the waters and on the beaches when the Deepwater Horizon spill struck the Gulf of Mexico. We all the saw images of birds and sea turtles soaked in oil. Even today, years later, the impact resonates.

Spills and accidents are regular events with the oil industry. The next major spill in our oceans is not a question of “if” but of “when.”

We can’t fight back without you.

Please make a gift so together we can fight to protect sea turtles and other animals from oil spills in our oceans.

Thanks,

Peter Fugazzotto, Strategic Programs Director
Turtle Island Restoration Network

Dear Mark,

You have made another rescue possible. THANK YOU!

I emailed you last week about Masoud and Terez, two young lion cubs born in an illegal zoo in Bulgaria. Weeks of hard work, protests and support from around the world have paid off. Masoud and Terez are finally home.

Early this morning, the two lion cubs arrived safely at our FELIDA Big Cat Centre in the Netherlands after a long journey across Europe. At FELIDA, Masoud and Terez will finally receive the specialised veterinary care they need. The two cubs are now staying in a cozy, indoor enclosure while they adapt to their new surroundings.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrTuWQQH98Y

 

 

Thank you for giving Masoud and Terez a better life. This rescue was only possible with the support of people like you, the protesters in Bulgaria and the help of the Bulgarian Prime Minister Bojko Borissow.

Together we can make a difference. 

 

Warmest regards,

Saige Jennings
FOUR PAWS UK

P.S. This rescue was only possible with the generosity of our supporters. If you would like to further support our work, please make a donation today. Your gift could help provide long-term care for Masoud and Terez in their new life and help other animals around the world.

 

 

Dear Mark — Founder ‘Serbian Animals Voice’,

With the world focusing on PyeongChang, right now is the opportunity to increase pressure to ban the dog meat trade in South Korea, and we need your help.

The lives of animals trapped in this industry are cut short after having known only fear and misery on the farms where they are raised for slaughter. Please help us fight the cruelty during this critical time.

You can help: Urge the South Korean government to protect dogs and cats from this horror »

With you by our side, Humane Society International is committed to ending the dog meat trade. We’re raising public and political awareness of the cruelty involved and expanding support for a phase-out of South Korea’s dog meat farms. A vital step toward this goal is the legal recognition of all dogs and cats as companion animals.

 

Please help us achieve this protection by signing your name right now.

Speak out now on behalf of animals and appeal for an end to this brutality »

Next month, we’ll deliver our petition calling for an end to the dog meat trade—with signatures from caring people around the world—to President Moon Jae-in.

I hope you’ll add your name, too, and help save animals.

Thank you for your compassion.

Sincerely,

Kitty Block
President
Humane Society International

 

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Serbia: Felix Shelter Latest 7/2/18 – Can You Help Samson ?

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

Website – https://catshelterfelix.com/

Samson is unwell 😞

Samson is a huge FIV+ stray kitty boy which was probably between six and seven years old when we first took him in at the end of 2016.

He’s been having respiratory and eye problems on and off since he arrived at the shelter and has already been under treatment several times, but he’s constantly had copious eye discharge and used to hold his head down and low, like a mole.

We had the impression that something was wrong with his eyelids from the very beginning, but whenever we intended to deal with his problems once and for all, some other kitty needed to be taken to the vet more urgently and we simply couldn’t run into more debts.

However, he began to breathe heavily last week, his nose was stuffed up and his eyes were glued shut with pus, and we clearly saw it was an emergency. Samson was diagnosed with entropion and bronchitis on Sunday; surgical correction of entropion was performed on both of his eyes with temporary eyelid tacking. He couldn’t have permanent entropion surgery yet until he begins to breathe normally, because the vet was worried he wouldn’t survive the general anesthesia.

He is now receiving antibiotic injections and his eyes are being treated locally with eye drops and ointments. As soon as he gets well, he will have bilateral entropion surgery, so he will be able to keep his eyes wide open, like any healthy cat.

Hopefully things will work out and Samson will finally live the life he deserves.

Any kind of help for this beautiful house panther is more than welcome!

There is a donate button on our website: http://www.catshelterfelix.com
Felix: 355-1070729-96
Thank you!

 

 

 

 

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Serbia: Rescued Female Street Puppies Looking For A Forever Home – Can You Help ?

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

Kirsten Felbert

PIROT – Serbia.
2 female puppies looking for homes.

Please Share.
+- 4 months.

Rescued from the streets,
contact Milos 069 4228677


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PIROT – Hitno
2 zenke traze dom
+- 4 meseca, pronadjene na ulici
Milos 0694228677

 

View on SAV Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/SerbianAnimalsVoice/permalink/10155921396200516/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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UK: 6/2/18 – 100 Years Ago, British Women Seized The Moment. They Won The Right To Vote.

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

100 years ago, British women seized the moment.

On 6th February 1918, 100 years since the People Act was passed – and when women were first given the right to vote in the UK, today is a special day for women’s rights in the UK.  We celebrate !

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-02-06/vote-100-representation-of-the-people-act-centenary/

 

https://www.itv.com/news/2018-02-06/vote-100-representation-of-the-people-act-centenary/

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/women-suffrage-100-suffragettes-cannot-vote-right-house-of-commons-house-of-lords-democracy-a8196556.html

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/06/opinions/vote-100-opinion-catherine-mayer/index.html

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-42949970

 

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/how-brave-nottingham-women-were-1170116

 

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/vote-women-who-still-channel-14248794

 

http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/06/100-years-votes-women-female-heroes-led-suffrage-movement-7290194/

   

 

 

 

 

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Spain: Pig Farm Guilty Of Terrible Abuses In 2012 Is Now Exposed Again In 2018. So Much For EU Animal Welfare Enforcement !

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

All photos AE.

Back in 2012 we exposed work undertaken by Animal Equality regarding a pig farming facility in Murcia, Spain.  The animals are bred for the food company El
Pozo (the second largest pig meat producers in Spain).

The undercover footage that was obtained at the time (2012) showed:

  • Workers hitting pigs on their heads with iron bars, jumping on top of

    them, kicking them, and posing in front of a camera with the pigs

  • Workers attacking and killing pigs with metre length swords

 

  • The hitting of a pregnant pig with a bar before cutting her abdomen and

    uterus with a knife whilst she’s still conscious, then pulling of piglets

    out of her uterus and killing her because she isn’t fit for the

    slaughterhouse

 

  • This pig, tied and immobilised, unsuccessfully tries to escape while the

    workers for several minutes pulls out the piglets. They remove her

    intestines, liver and other internal organs while she suffers terribly.

    The animal is left in agony with internal organs spread over the ground

    until she dies several minutes later.

 

 

You can see stills from the 2012 investigation here:

WARNING – MANY GRAPHIC IMAGES.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/animalequalityuk/sets/72157629399772727/

 

Video links:

 

http://www.animalequality.net/news/360/pigs-brutally-stabbed-swords-spanish-pig-farm-supply-leading-uk-supermarket-morrisons

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR67NeU22g8&feature=youtu.be

 

 

Original SAV posts from 2012:

 

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2012/02/23/spain-warning-animal-equality-uk-and-spain-expose-more-than-graphic-pig-abuse-at-mucian-farm/

 

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2012/03/04/spain-no-ag-gag-in-europe-and-so-the-manager-of-el-escobar-pig-farm-is-arrested/

 

After the investigation, and as you can read in the Animal Equality PR of 2012, the manager of the farm was arrested:

 

http://www.animalequality.net/news/363/manager-el-escobar-pig-farm-arrested

 

 

And so; it was very disturbing, but not surprising, that on 5/2/18; some 6 years later; we hear of yet further abuses at the same facility; via Animal Equality and Venus.

Here is the translation sent to us by Venus:

Video link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=iSDZnGFs7os

Animal Equality investigators documented extreme animal distress in a pig farm in Alhama de Murcia, Spain.

This Company-Farma, supplies the Spanish meat producer El Pozo, whose products are also available in Germany via Amazon and the supermarket chains Edeka and Rewe.

The cruel conditions in the factory have shocked even the veteran investigator team at Animal Equality.

 

–  Cut-off ears with marks are reminiscent of the tortured animals.

–  Many of the pigs show some serious injuries and unhealed fractures.

–  Dying and dead animals lie between the living conspecifics.
–  Countless animals are deformed by gigantic abscesses.
–  Some animals suffer from severe cases of intestinal breakage.

 

These conditions are an animal welfare scandal – and also a health risk to the public.

If parts of the animals in the slaughterhouse are classified as “edible”, they end up in El Pozo products on the supermarket shelf.

We have reported these conditions to the relevant authorities and are calling for the closure of the facility.

In addition, we demand from El Pozo to take all necessary measures to prevent such animal suffering in the future.

Help us increase the pressure on El Pozo by asking Amazon, Edeka and Rewe to ban El Pozo products.

Please sign this petition of animal equality!

AE Link including same video footage and a Petition:

https://www.animalequality.de/schweinehoelle-in-spanien/?utm_source=Animal+Equality+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5e9f38e951-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_14f361350f-5e9f38e951-48637465

 

Best regards from Venus

 

This further expose; some 6 years on from the first; just goes to show how ineffective the whole meat producing industry is in ensuring the welfare of animals in its system.  We have exposed this so many times.  There is a meat Mafia which ensures that regardless of what is found; industry supportive politicians will do anything to overturn the evidence and to get the finances for the industry rolling back in.

Is not the Live Exports ban by Brazil a typical example of this ?

 

“On the 5th of February we are told that the courts have introduced a ban on live exports:

The Federal Court in Brazil has just used evidence of his abuse to suspend live animal exports from the country — determining that live export does not reflect Brazil’s animal protection laws or its societal values, nor does it satisfy international standards to which Brazil is a signatory”.

 

SAV Link:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2018/02/05/brazil-breaking-news-brazil-has-stopped-live-animal-exports/

Yet within a few hours of the ban being enforced by the courts; we are then informed that the injunction halting live exports from Brazil has been LIFTED !

This just shows what can be done with friends in high places – and how the meat mafia is closely linked with some politicians to ensure that, regardless of the evidence of cruelty presented, ‘their’ industry will continue as it is, turning blind eyes to animal abuse and at the same time attempting to present a squeaky clean image to the public – the consumer of their products.

The pig farm abuses shown above happened in Spain.  Spain is a member state of the EU.  Once again as we have said so many times before, the EU likes to have so many rules and regulations written down on paper; but the main problem is that it continues by never enforcing them in the way of prosecutions.

You have to ask what the whole MEP / EU Commission system is about when heads are turned in opposite directions to the obvious cruelties which are being presented.

Please check out the AE website for any immediate news on this incident.

 

http://www.animalequality.net/

We will continue to keep you informed when we have updated news.  SAV.

 

Why pay money into an EU ‘club’ which allows this to happen again some 6 years on ?

The EU did not sort it then; they most probably wont now.

Why is the EU Commission not taking severe action against Spain ???

 

 

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