Posted on December 11, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Another year at Cat Shelter Felix is quickly coming to an end. We’ve had bad days, worse days, sad days, good days and the best days…
We’ve learned some lessons, especially regarding certain people we thought we could trust, unexpected failures, empty words and broken promises. But we’ve also been blessed with many old and new magnificent friends who were by our side through thick and thin. Katrina Fillo is one of them, and thanks to her, the efforts she’s made and everyone who has decided to step in and take part in her auction, our kitties will receive the first portion of heating gas, so there will be no more freezing time for a while. Thank you all so much! And a special thank you to Katrina, the kind person who lives on the other side of the globe and who still found a place in her heart for our furry residents. No words can express how grateful we are.
The same goes to our friends who have shared our sorrows and joys over all of these years and who always think about our kitties, no matter what. Everything we are able to do is a mutual effort, because none of this would be possible without support from all of you.
We’ve started this year with a little over 100 cats, and we’ll end this year with 150 of them, more or less. We’ve lost some of them, but they will never be forgotten and we already miss them dearly. Willow, Milton, Venus, Serena, Alethe, Frca, Tufnica, Augusta, Ziggy, Zack, to name just a few, are no longer with us and recently two of our seniors have passed away peacefully due to their old age, Okac and Trecac. Every loss is difficult and we’ll never get used to saying the last goodbye to our companions we have loved so much.
We were also able to help and save dozens of new furry fighters: Srna, Tessa, Ebony, Argos, Jack, Finn, Hailey, Sheena, Orin, brave mom Raena and her five babies, plus one orphaned little one, the four cats who lost their owner and their home, and many, many more. We’ve also managed to get our outside chained link fencing replaced with a new and better one, so our kitties are safe from any harm and can no longer escape.
And although we don’t feel like we’re just running in place anymore, we’re still far from our goal. There are still veterinary debts that need to be paid off since our kitties get ill all the time due to this cold weather. We also need to pay out our debts for wet canned food and get new quantities of food soon, because we’re almost out of it and the holidays are approaching soon… Yes, we’re scared if we’ll be able to provide all of our residents with food. Their annual vaccine shots against rabies are mandatory and obligatory but we’re not even close to getting this done and we have only three weeks more left.
So please, if you think that every living being on this planet deserves the same amount of love, care and nurture, help us keep our residents happy and safe. They are not asking for any kind of luxury, we only need to fulfill their most basic needs.
Every donations counts, as there is no such thing as a small contribution.
Please help them to get through yet another winter or at least be at peace during the upcoming holiday season. Let them learn they’re not just cats, unimportant and replaceable. Show them they’re unique and priceless. Make them finally know they count to someone.
Felix – Felinolosko drustvo, Subotica, Serbia
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Posted on December 11, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
SAV Comment – Terrible news. We hope that others will pick up the fight to undertake all the dedicated work JP did. His work and efforts to protect animals being abused for fun will be sadly missed. Thank you for your compassion and respect for all living beings Jean Pierre.
Hi Mark,
I have just read today that the famous anti-corrida fighter Jean Pierre Garrigues has died. He was only 53 years old.
I am very sad, I knew him from the media and the press reports as an activist that even the aficionados were afraid of him.
Because he acted directly during a bullfight, and has often managed to cancel a fight; he was a very passionate anti-bullfighting activist.
Posted on December 10, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Today is the day of human rights.
I read that on the first page of a local newspaper.
Since 1948, the Human Rights Day is celebrated annually on the 10th of December. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” says the UN Human Rights Charter.
Article 3 says: “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
Article 4 says: “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”
As I was leafing through the newspaper, I came across three advertisements about animals, under the category “Agricultural Products”:
The first was: “Fresh offspring to sell directly from the farm. Please pre-order, our slaughter animals are limited because of holidays “!
Then: “turkeys – half or whole, from free-range, ready to roast dismantled directly from farm”.
And the third ad: “Slaughter rabbits, especially low priced, as well as one lamb slaughtered fresh on order to sell”.
And then I thought of the animals I fight for.
I thought of their rights, for which there is no charter.
Why should human beings alone have the right to life, freedom and security, and deny the same rights to other beings capable of suffering?
Who gives us the right to still keep animals as slaves, to torture them and thus to decide that animals have no right to life, freedom and happiness?
And if human rights oppose slavery, torture, discrimination and violence, under what law may this injustice be the daily routine for billions of chickens, pigs, cattle, fish and innumerable other non-human animals?
But even if all of this is not totally abolished with respect to people, and massive human rights violations are condemned, the criminal treatment of animals is taken for granted.
I refuse to put human rights first.
People are not more important, they are not better, and they do not deserve to live privileged in relation to animals.
And I hate people who turn my holidays into mourning days, because no matter what kind of animal, these days mean massive killing days for the animals.
People celebrate by taking animals’ lives. In the midst of the misery, suffering and unhappiness of animals, people are happy and exuberant, do not waste a second of their thoughts on life, what they have taken – whether the Christmas goose in Germany, the carp in Austria, the turkey in the US.
No! I reject the dictatorship of human rights.
I am against the hypocrisy of equal rights, based only on human superiority.
Just hours ago, the ground team from Animals Asia visited the farm and took these upsetting pictures:
Likely captured from the wild as innocent cubs, for more than 12 years they have used as machines and treated as disposable objects. These sweet, gentle moon bears have had half their lives have stolen already.
It is the season of goodwill – please give anything you can to help support the recue of these 6 bears by AA; who have promised now to undertake a full rescue of all animals.
Posted on December 5, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
8/12 is the anniversary of the death of my beloved ‘Golda’.
Despite her loss for several years now it is not really any easier; I came to the conclusion many years ago that no matter how hard you try to improve things, money is the most evil thing on the planet; or maybe the second worst, after all the human shit we have that get a kick out of animal and human abuse for the gain of making a few pennies more.
Today, Tuesday 5/12, there has been a major meeting in Africa regarding the huge amount of plastic that is being dumped into the sea – and killing marine life as a result. The equivalent of one loaded garbage truck of plastic dumped into the sea EVERY SINGLE MINUTE so they are saying on the BBC.
Man alone is doing a fine and productive job of fucking up the whole planet – be it Trump and his anti environment protecting policies; the Chinese and there continual abuse of both animals and the planet – they (as a nation) dump around 25% of all plastics into the oceans according to info I have this week; the Bear Bile issues which the wonderful Jill is working so hard to stop; the killing of donkeys with sledgehammers etc – it just goes on.
We have a wonderful one off planet – so why do some dickheads just want to trash it all ?
The fight goes on but very often it can be very depressing with all the bad news and negativity which arrives at the ‘Inbox’ every single day.
Many world leaders are in a position to make a real change to animal welfare and environment. Many of them don’t really give a toss – their personal positions are far more important than saving the planet. ‘Tin Gods’ I think they call them. Boy the EU alone is full of them; we have seen this for so long; they have names like Junker and Tusk and Van Goethem; persons who ignore the evidence presented to them but who also dance to the blinkered tune of financial gain.
They make me want to puke – all over their so very well cut suits !
I am gonna get down off my soapbox now – and as I say, the fight goes on for better or worse.
There is a wonderful North American Cree Indian Prophecy that reads:
Only when the last tree has been cut down, Only when the last river has been poisoned, Only when the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
I guess you could update that now to include people that pull out of Paris climate agreements, the dumping of plastic in the oceans, the use of ‘clean’ coal; etc.
‘Money cannot be eaten’ – oh if the worlds pig shit thick politicians were to even get a partial grip of this, then we and the animals may be in a much better place.
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 