Posted on June 11, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The League Against Cruel Sports was established in 1924 and campaigns to end cruelty to animals in sport.
Horror of Hunting – Celebrity Reactions
Thirteen years on from legislation intended to ban fox hunting in Scotland, a League Against Cruel Sports Scotland investigation provides video evidence that the practice of hunting foxes with dogs appears to be continuing in the Scottish countryside in much the same way that it did before the ban, with the same rituals and cruelty.
Exposé: Death Pit in the Countryside – Investigation 2015
Published on 15 Apr 2015
The annual slaughter of migratory birds in Malta has begun. The League travelled into hunting territory early in the morning to monitor the shooting and be on the look out for any illegal activity.
This so-called Prime Minister (David Cameron) wishes to overturn the hunting ban and allow the killing of British wildlife for fun – we say ‘You Dickhead’.
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Posted on June 9, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Something kind of ‘weird’ from the UK around 1979/80’ ish. One of my favourite tracks by a brilliant vocalist – Hugh Cornwell – ex Stranglers front man. Played this all the time – a real hit with my friends – weird ?, well yes, probably; but then we were at the time !!. ‘Nosferatu’ – a great album. It was the time of Siouxsie Sioux etc – the best of British ‘different’ music at the time – Mark.
The other night I chanced upon an irate caterpillar
He was irate he had a darting face
Crinkled with old forms Appendage arms spread out fanlike glancing
His string noise boxes
The rest were a howling wolf
Afraid to be left upright against sleeping forte
Calling to the caterpillar
Throughout the time span
Wanting to be fed wanting attention Wanting waiting full of tension
They don’t crowd the spiderlike object
They didn’t object at least not many
Just waiting for the next creak
From his aching limbs to reach their brains through
Cup-like objects stuck on the sides of their heads
No-one joked no-one spoke
They became embarrassed and planted contempt
Under their haunches
When the caterpillar rested
His appendages ummed
His appendages arred
But not connecting with
The string noise boxes
And… They…all just gazed
‘Nosferatu’ is a great album; if different !
‘Wrong way round’ and ‘Puppets’:
The late Ian Dury puts in a cameo, as the Ring Master in” Wrong Way Round” “Ere she is, ere she is, the one you`ve all bin waitin for”!!
The Clash (London Calling) sing backing vocals on ‘Puppets’
‘London Calling’ – The Clash: a classic album of its time
Siouxsie and the Banshees – ‘Shadowtime’ – she is from ‘Kent’ where we are – a super Kent girl !
More recent from Hugh – ‘Going to the City’:
With Brilliant Caz Campbell on Bass.
Bring on Gothic and alternative music – they were good times !!
Various animal petitions to sign up to:
Thank You – SAV.
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Posted on June 7, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Come on folks, please donate anything you can – even 1 Euro; it makes a huge difference. This facility is too good to close down, as it has over 500 dogs in its care. It needs funds – we have got the ball rolling today – please give anything using the secure site – first link below – Thank You.
To donate and see lots more, please click on the following:
June 2015 – Things have reached a very critical situation at shelter ‘Alex’.
If you can help this dog shelter which has been running for years to help animals around the Subotica region, then please do so. It does not matter the size of your donation – anything at all will help with the dailt costs.
Andrea, who is a volunteer at the shelter, sends the following plea for help:
Today, things have escalated in shelter “Alex” to the point where the only person who runs the shelter has no strength to run it anymore and is willing to surrender it to other people. The pressure comes from another which is getting lots of support.
The shelter is full. No matter how hard we try to advertise the shelter, to share our dogs, to introduce other people with the work of the shelter, and publish each donation we receive to be as transparent as possible, simply it doesn’t go. There is no money.
Alex, with kind heart helps the dog, but in vain. Nobody else steps in with a minimum donation or a can of food, or to provide a ride to the vet or provide a temporary home for a dog. Nobody helps. Adrijana and Dragan kill themselves from all the work they do during winter and summer, hot and cold temperatures, rain and sun, while I only maintain the fb page of the shelter.
There are 500 dogs at the shelter.
In shelter “Alex” there are dogs who have been saved going back to 2003 and they are still alive. Everybody is welcomed in the shelter “Alex”. People can come and see the dogs, pet them, take them for a walk.
At this present time things are extremely difficult. Adrijana has helped at the shelter for many years but she is now finding it almost impossible to continue as financial donations are few and far between; yet the animals need to be cared for – veterinary costs, food costs, shelter maintenance costs, etc, etc.
Without Adrijana or more help with donations, the fate of all the animals at the shelter is uncertain. Please somebody help!! – give anything that you can to help, please; we do not know what more we can do than to simply ask people if they can help the shelter with a donation of any size – THANK YOU.
Andrea Sreiber
Volunteer at shelter “Alex”
About the shelter:
It is currently run by a lady named Adriana Nadj; this has been the case since 2010. She acts alone with big help by her boyfriend – that is great, but very difficult.
It was the first ‘no kill’ dog shelter in Serbia, founded in 2003. So this shelter has a long history and was involved with the original formation of SAV in England. As you can see from the following links, the shelter and SAV go back many years. In the earler days the shelter was run by Slavica, who is part of team SAV. When it was operated by Slavica, the shelter was known as ‘EPAR’. Here you can see some early SAV post links to the shelter when it was EPAR:
Things have not been easy for the shelter; in 2010 city officials attempted to gain access to the shelter in order to take the dogs so that they could all be killed.
Links –
The shelter has a historically important meaning for Serbia. There have been up to 1000 stray dogs living there in the past; some of which were re-homed and some which died at the shelter by natural death.
There are currently around 500 dogs at the shelter.
The shelter was opened on 18.01.2003.
At the time, Subotica legally permitted euthanasia of dogs and on Fridays, people could bring their dogs to be euthanized for free. The shelter couldn’t allow this, so people from the shelter took those dogs and carried them to the shelter instead. This was the first no-kill shelter in Serbia. Its goal is protection of animals and the environment.
The shelter covers the area of 12000m2 + an additional land of app. 3600m2 next to the shelter which Adrijana received as a gift to expend the shelter.
As both SAV and Serbian campaigners have always spoken out iat length about sterilisation of animals (strays and owned animals); ALL the animals under the care of the shelter have been spayed and neutered.
A large number; approximately 70% of the dogs, are old (some having been under the care of the shelter since 2003/2004). Old dogs often lose control of their legs or suffer from an illness of some internal organ; and so the vets are regularly called on to help – and this costs money all the time.
The shelter does not have sponsors to cover medical costs. It is now looking for donations and / or sponsors to help with daily operating costs.
Small boxes at the shelter contain up to six dogs grouped by personality, to prevent fights. Dogs are also spread across six fields, also grouped by personality, around 10-20 dogs are on the fields. Each field also has a small pond. There are covered boxes, which contain dogs known for attempting to jump over the box walls. The small boxes and the fields require repair of old covers and installation of new covers, to provide shade.
Since it was originally founded, the shelter has helped thousands of dogs, having rescued, adopted and treated them. Dogs will only be adopted out after a mandatory inspection of its potential new home. Adoption is not possible if the owner intends to keep the dog on a chain. Adoption also comes with a mandatory contract. In the case of any dog being found to be in inadequate conditions, the dog is taken back into the shelter. The owner is also permitted to return the dog to the shelter at any time if there are reasons that they cannot continue to have the animal.
The shelter is funded exclusively by donations, which are neither regular or reliable. The City of Subotica currently only provides a free garbage dumpster and provides nothing in the way of financial help, even though the shelter is doing the city a big help by taking dogs from the streets.
The shelter also purchased a van to carry food three times a week from a nearby factory, and the fuel costs vary between 8000 and 10000 RSD. Electricity costs are around 15000 RSD per month. The shelter requires building materials, cleaning supplies, food (granules and canned food, salami, bread, etc), blankets, fleas/ticks
products and money to cover the vet costs, bills, etc.
Here are a few recent links so that you can see the work that is being done to help animals:
So, after having hopefully given you an insight into the opertions of te shelter, all we kindly ask is if you would consider giving a donation; no matter how small, to help with the operating costs of the shelter.
Here at SAV, we do not like to keep asking supporters for financial help; but the situation (as you can see) of trying to help around 500 dogs is a very costly one.
Please give anything that you can;
Thank you very much. SAV
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Posted on June 2, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
From a little guy crying out in pain whenever he was touched – the latest super footage shows what a few months of dedicated care can do – a strong and healthy lad now !!
We know from our daily monitoring of the site that little ‘Budi’ has become a great favorite with many visitors.
Here are our previous links from February when Budi was rescued as a pitiful little guy who was in so much pain due to bad keeping from his captors that he was unable to move or sit up on his own.
Links to our original posts where you can see the initial terrible state that Budi was in – so much pain and hardly able to move:
Well some 4 months on it is really pleasing to see that he has come on in leaps and bounds – he has become an inquisitive young orangutan with a huge appetite for food and a strong will to survive.
Thanks to many global supporters, his life is no longer in danger and his health is improving every day. The change in little Budi has been remarkable.
Well here is the latest video showing his amazing progress – Budi and new friend Jemmi were recently introduced to some of the other orangutans at baby school for the very first time!
The team at IAR has just sent over this fantastic footage and we’re delighted to be able to share it with you.
Budi has become a daily visitor to the centre where he can spend time with all the new friends he has made, learning how to become a specialist of the forest that his kind should be.
Access the following link and scroll down to see Budi and all his new friends at the sanctuary:
This just shows what love, attention and compassion can do in bringing something back from the deepest of deep.
We hope that will really enjoy the new footage of the little man who has grown to be so strong and agile now.
SAV.
Previous Photographs Below From Our Posts – despite what it says below abouut clicking to see the video; please click on this new link following to see the latest of Budi:
Youtube video link below of the same footage:
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Posted on May 31, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
With regard the new draft law in Serbia, things are happening and changing (hopefully for the better !) at an almost constant rate – it is very difficult to get in all the news and to keep issuing new posts; things are happening so fast.
So here are the main points that we have at the moment – it is good to see that major Serbian academics such as Mr. Dušan Kovačević , member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Art made some very strong comments in one of the national newspapers – see more below.
There are also petitions to be signed, and also there is a request for our campaigner friends that you do a simple sign opposing the killing, then take a photo of it with yourself, and send to Serbia to make an International wall of opposition to the killings.
Here are all the current news and links:
Slavica and EPAR have sent a Complaint to The Constitutional Court in agreement to article 82. of Law for the Constitutional Court, and to the government in agreement to article 8** The law about Government . and she ask that this Draft be put down and a new one be make by collaboration with all NGOs (as You can see there are more then 30 NGOs – interested public, and Law for ratification Aarhus Convention demands all be included in – 1. initial step of making Draft.
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Mr.Dusan Kovacevic, says:
Those who made Draft are idiots
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Dear Mark,
I hope that you can help us and I am expecting your answer.
Please, do not hesitate to ask me about anything related to the new draft law.
A media campaign has started. One of the greatest intellectuals in Serbia (Mr Kovacevic) has spoken for the most read newspapers (Blic) on Thursday.
He told the authorities that they should kill retired citizens after they kill all dogs and cats because we are so poor, and after that they should kill workers etc.
He is academician and a writer and he was sarcastic because poverty is always an excuse for killing dogs.
On Friday, he spoke for Radio Free Europe and said that there is a group of idiots at the Veterinary Directorate and that the idiots have to be stopped.
Today, Blic (national newspaper) published another article and Mr Kovacevic’s and I spoke about new draft law.
We have a lot to say, because most provisions are written so imprecisely that we are expecting new and new misapplications that will cost lives many animals.
Best regards,
Natasa Vukmirovic
Link Plus
Thursday:
People react positively, until now 63,200 people were reached on our Page:
Friday:
Saturday:
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PETITION REQUIRES MORE INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT
– Please sign and share.
Dear Mark
We desperately need more signatures on this petition to stop amendments to the Animal Welfare Law which will only mean suffering for Serbian animals.
WE NEED YOU! – PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE WIDELY!!!
Warm regards
Desanka
SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION
and SEND A PHOTO OF YOURSELF such as the one above, and with the wording in Red below, to:
Check out all the supporters you can join with by clicking here:
Make sure you include the following text:
SERBIA
– SAY NO TO CRUEL AMENDMENTS TO THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT
#protectserbiananimals
#theworldiswatching
Important – ** As well as including your name and nationality **
(this – your nationality, will send more of an international message)
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Her Royal Highness Steps In To Help Serbian Strays Action:
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Posted on May 30, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Short remark to all
What Slavica wrote is absolutely correct.
After the public hearing the law will be confirmed by the parliament and it is intended to become effective immediately in June. Everyone in Serbia told us the same and it is no surprise.
Once a Ministry has decided on the texting of a law the parliament will only confirm this – there hardly is any parliament in Europe that works differently – if they make changes to a draft it is usually a mealymouthed compromise.
It is only public pressure from the civil society that bring about real change.
Farm animals are allowed to be slaughtered without prior stunning. This is definitely against EU regulations. Yet another EU failure !
Longer Terms I cannot imagine that the EU Parliament and the EU Commission can ignore this new Serbian law. No one can claim they did not know.
I and numerous others have sent out an information email on Serbia’s intended new law to all members of the European Parliament and Andreas Erler of Eurogroup for Animals.
No one can claim they did not know.
This new law comes at a very short notice and all we could do is get out the message and a Group of German, Serbian and Croatian animal protectors working in Serbia have put up three petitions in Serbian, English and German – that have so far gathered over 10.000 signatures.
Whatever ideas any of you have that we could further do, pls tell us. We are ready to help.
Kind regards
Lisa
Send letters and mails of protest and utter disgust to the following:
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Posted on May 29, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 
