Uk (England): Thanks for all your Support – A Christmas Message

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

SAV Christmas

Well, today (19/12) it was going to be a pond clearing day by volunteers at the local Forestry Commission http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/HCOU-5YHJS7   area called ‘Jeskyns’ :

Newsletter Link:  http://www.forestry.gov.uk/website/forestry.nsf/byunique/infd-6drl75  

But for some reason; don’t ask why, but just possibly because it was around 4 degrees below Zero, there were too not many volunteers to go into the water; none to be exact.  So, in order to have some fun and celebrate the end of a great year protecting both wildlife and woodland in the area, why not have a Winter Barbeque !

So that is what we did.

Here are a few piccys of the volunteers very cold but very enjoyable few hours out in the Winter sun.

A lot of the time I personally was thinking about the Balkans dogs and cats who are having to survive conditions like we experienced here on an everlasting basis at the moment.  They are not able to fill themselves with food or go into somewhere warm when the need arises.  They are always hungry and they are always cold.  What we experienced today for a few hours is a 24/7 situation for all Balkans strays.

2010 will see SAV continuing to fight for the animals of the Balkans states, especially for the stray and sometimes owned, roaming animals.  The fight will continue to press governments and authorities to undertake humane, No Kill sterilisation, vaccination, microchipping and identification procedures in order that owners of roaming animals can be traced and identified, and by the adoption of programmes towards the humane sterilisation of strays, the ever growing ‘pyramid of stray animals’ is gradually reduced.

One unspayed female (bitch) dog, her male (dog) mate and all of their subsequent offspring, as they mature and if none of them are ever sterilised, will produce between them a staggering 67,000 dogs within the next 6 years.

 

That is just one pair of animals.  Belgrade City in Serbia kills over 9,000 strays each year as part of the ‘control’ programme.  A small drop in the ocean.  A policy of humane, sterilisation and no kill for just one pair as detailed above, would in effect, prevent 67,000 further strays being born onto the streets.

Can the Serbian government not understand this ? – it appears not as they are showing no leadership and management in attempting to reduce stray animal numbers, other than the blinkered view that killing off a percentage of strays on the streets will resolve all of the problem.  It will not.

Cats under the same conditions as the dogs detailed would produce 11,606,077 new cats onto the streets in around 9 years.

 

We have been greeted with some great news from our buddies in India today – read all about it on our post at:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/india-excellent-news-high-court-allows-strays-to-be-fed-as-a-central-reason-to-the-sterlization-and-immunization-scheme-for-controlling-stray-dog-population-numbers-and-preventing-the-spread-of-r/

We hope that this same kind of approach to stray animal understanding and welfare controls could be adopted by Balkans states.  We live in hope that the Balkans government understanding light actually switches on in the near future rather than remain firmly off.

Whatever and whenever, we will continue to be a voice for both Serbian and other Balkans states animals, and we will be presenting evidence and information to the European Union Enlargement / Accession Commission whenever it is felt necessary.  We have very recently supported the call of EU Animal Welfare Intergroup / Eurogroup President Dr. Caroline Lucas in expressing our concerns about the situation at Vardariste holding facility in Macedonia.  The full story and some pictures from our Vardariste photo archive, as well as a copy of Dr. Lucas’ can be seen at the following:

https://serbiananimalsvoice.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/macedonia-sav-now-supports-eu-eurogroup-for-animals-by-formally-writing-letter-to-eu-commissioners-expressing-concerns-about-conditions-and-animal-suffering-at-vardariste-holding-facility-skopje-ma/

A copy of SAV’s letter to Commissioner Vassiliou and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner  can be viewed by clicking on the following link: 

Commissioner letter Macedonia Dec 2009

The year of 2009 has seen a few ‘highs’ but an awful lot of ‘lows’.  But the lows make us all ever more determined to move forward with new campaigns and actions in 2010.  2009 campaigns, along with other campaigns we are involved in outside of the SAV ‘box’, such as investigating long distance live animal transport in the EU, teach us many things, and we hope that we can group all our experiences, the highs and the lows together, to tackle balkans animal abuse as a more stronger and effective group in the future.

I would like to thank everyone for their involvement, support and hundreds of comments which have been left on the SAV site.  Every one is read fully, I can assure you.  Very limited resources do not allow replies to everyone who comments, but we thank you for them; please keep them coming !

Finally, I would like to wish you all a very enjoyable, cruelty-free Christmas this festive season.  Regards go to all your friends and family.

2010 is a new year, with new problems and hopefully new solutions and campaigns to resolve them.  We are not going anywhere, so we look forward to enjoying your company once again at SAV in the new year of 2010.

SAV Christmas

Regards and thanks

Mark – SAV – Kent, England, Uk.

Think of them this Christmas time –

 

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India: Excellent News – High Court Allows Strays to be Fed as a Central Reason to the Sterlization and Immunization Scheme for CONTROLLING STRAY DOG POPULATION NUMBERS, and Preventing the Spread of Rabies

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

 

 

Some really excellent news from India – congratulations to all the campaigners there who have had the courage to fight in the courts, to win and as a result, save so many animals.

Thanks also to the Judges who understood and accepted the reasons put before them.

A fantastic result ! – well done everyone involved – especially Anjali and Rishi.

What a pity this example cannot be learned from and followed in many other nations, especially the Balkans,  where stray numbers need humane management through sterilisation rather than immediate death, the ‘way’ of the blinkered government and authorities of the Balkans states.

SAV

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It is with deep satisfaction that I share this information with all.  

9 petitions, including 2 filed by the Animal Welfare Organizations, Citizens for the Welfare and Protection of Animals, and Friendicoes SECA, were listed for hearing today, before the High Court of Delhi. The Government of the N.C.T. of Delhi ; the Delhi Police [through the Commissioner of Police, and the S.H.O. of the area where each of the petitioners reside, or (A.W.O.s) operate] ; the M.C.D. ; and the A.W.B.I., are respondents to the petitions.

The petitioners had simply sought that the police be directed to take cognizance of their complaints if they face hostility when tending to, and feeding community dogs. (As we all know, the police sometimes tends to be rather obtuse when it comes to animal related issues.) The matters, before Justice V.K. Jain, i.e. the judge we were before today, had increasingly become an enquiry into ‘why feeding?’ – he seems to share the prejudice that a lot of people carry vis-a-vis stray dogs.

Anyways, we had placed the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules before him ; and the AWBI, vide the counter affidavit that it filed, had stressed that feeding is very central to the sterlization, immunization scheme for controlling stray dog population, and the spread of rabies.  

Our contention was that without befriending and partially domesticating the dogs through feeding them, how on earth would Animal Welfare Organizations/private individuals/local authorities, etc. catch them for sterilization and vaccination – the latter of the two being a procedure that has to be repeated each year.  

After some back and forth, this is the order that the Court passed :

That dogs will be fed, but that the AWBI, in consultation with the AWOs operating in each area, and the RWAs of the colonies concerned, and the local police, will identify areas in colonies where stray animals can be fed ;

That dogs have to be fed, because they have to be confined to the territories they inhabit, so that they can be vaccinated year after year – and the best method of confining them to the territories they are at, is to feed them ; and

That the police will protect the representatives / members / associates of AWOs, who feed these dogs.

The AWBI is to start with the 4 to 5 colonies of Delhi where the petitioners reside / operate out of, and later, decide about other colonies of Delhi as well, i.e. decide upon areas where dogs can be fed.

A very heartening step forward for our animal friends.

Rgds

Anjali Sharma

Rishi Dev,

Citizens For Animal Rights (CFAR),
New Delhi.

Article 51A of the Indian Constitution . . .
” It shall be the duty of every citizen of India . . .  to have compassion for all living creatures . . .  “

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Montenegro: Mud, Rain, Cold and always Hunger – cruel conditions at the Kontor asylum

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

 

Hier wird ganz  DRINGEND  HILFE  für die armen Seelen benötigt !!! 

We urgently need help for these poor souls !!!!  

Schlamm, Regen, Kälte und immer wieder Hunger – grausame Zustände im Asyl Kotor

Mud, Rain, Cold and always Hunger – cruel conditions at the Kontor asylum

http://www.tierhilfe-montenegro.de/berichte/montenegro/asyl_tivat_kotor/asyl_tivat_kotor.htm 

Die Tiere im Asyl sterben. Es ist kalt geworden in Montenegro und der Regen ist eisig. Über hundert Hunde haben nichts zu fressen und kein warmes oder kaum ein trockenes Plätzchen. Die Gelder sind verbraucht.

The animals at the asylum are dying. It has gone cold in Montenegro and the rain is icy. Over one hundred dogs have nothing to eat and no warm or dry place to withdraw to. The money is used up. 

Lungenentzündung und Blutdurchfälle sind das Todesurteil für diese Tiere.

Pneumonia and bloody diarrhea are the death sentence for these animals.

Der Mann mit der Sense ist rund um die Uhr beschäftigt.

The grim reaper is busy 24 hours a day.
 
Es sterben zu viele Tiere. Die Welpen jaulen und zittern vor Hunger und Kälte.  Die Stadt gestattet erst im Januar die Überdachung zu bauen.
Das werden diese Tiere nicht mehr erleben.

Von Podgorica, dem Tierheim, das so viele Tiere tötet, kamen die ausrangierten alten Boxen. Dort standen sie in Zwingern, jetzt sollen sie im Freien vor Regen schützen.

Too many animals are dying. The pups wail and tremble for want of food and warmth. And the council’s permission for the building of the sheltering canopy does not allow us to start work before January. The animals will not live to see it …

We have been given old discarded boxes from Podgorica, the killing shelter. They were used inside kennels – here, they are supposed to shelter the animals from the rain.

Sie sind kaputt und das Wasser läuft rein. Sie nützen gar nichts.
Man hat sie auf einen Haufen geschmissen … und die Stadt lässt uns nicht bauen, trotz Zusagen!

But they are broken, leaky and wet. They are of no use.

They have been thrown onto a pile .. and the council will not let us build our canopy, despite assurances to the contrary.

Es ist ein Verbrechen was dort geschieht. Wir klagen diese Leute an. Was sind das für Menschen in dieser Verwaltung, wer hilft diesen Tieren!

What’s happening here is a crime. We accuse these people. What people are those at the council ? Who helps these animals ?

Die Hunde sind in Käfige eingesperrt, können nicht selbst auf Futtersuche gehen. In Freiheit hätten sie die Chance zu überleben.

The dogs are locked into cages, and cannot go in search of food. In freedom they’d have a chance of survival. 

Die Tiere brauchen uns ! Bitte lasst sie nicht im Stich ! 

Wir haben versprochen, die Tiere über den Winter zu bringen.

The animals needs us ! Please do not abandon them !

We have promised to bring them through the winter. 

Leider nützen nur Geldspenden, denn das Futter bekommen wir kaum über die Grenzen.
Und wenn, dann nur kleinere Mengen.           
Es sind 7 Grenzen zu passieren.

Unfortunately only money donations are any good, as we cannot transport food over the borders. And if, only in small quantities.

There are 7 borders to pass (from Germany).
Bitte, helft uns ..

Please, help us ..

KONTOVERBINDUNG / ACCOUNT DETAILS:

Renate Heimann

(renateheimann@gmx.de)

“Tierhilfe Montenegro”
Sparkasse Leipzig
BLZ / bank code: 86055592
Konto-Nr. / account number: 1801498950
 
Internationale Konto-Nr. (IBAN) /international account number (IBAN): DE81860555921801498950
Internationale Bankidentifikation (BIC) / International bank identification (BIC) : WELADE8LXXX

 

 

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Uk: Lots of Snow in England Today !

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

My Beautiful ‘Golda’ out enjoying the snow in Kent, England,  today.

Mark – SAV Founder.

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Uk: Three workers suspended and CCTV installed in organic abattoir following cruelty allegations

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

 

Main Link:   http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/f/CAMPAIGNS/blog//4//?be_id=231 

WARNING  Animal Suffering / Death

View the screen grabs from the film

Three workers suspended and CCTV installed in organic abattoir following cruelty allegations

Posted 11 December 2009

Three slaughtermen have been suspended from a Soil Association-approved abattoir following an undercover investigation by Animal Aid that reveals what the government regulatory body, the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS), describes as ‘clear evidence of breaches of animal welfare legislation’.

The national campaign group’s footage of pigs and sheep being killed was shot secretly between October 19 and November 3 at Tom Lang Ltd, in Ashburton, Devon. The evidence was handed to the MHS. The film shows animals being kicked, slapped and thrown; improperly stunned; and even decapitated while they may still have been alive.

In a formal response to Animal Aid, the MHS has said that, as well as the suspension of the three workers, the plant operator has now installed CCTV ‘to record the slaughtering process’. This is in line with Animal Aid’s key campaign objective to see the compulsory introduction of CCTV in all British abattoirs and for the footage obtained to be periodically reviewed by an independent panel. The MHS has also announced that ‘evidence to support a potential prosecution of [T Lang’s] slaughterhouse operator and slaughterers is being collated’.

The Lang investigation is published less than four months after the release of 40 hours of Animal Aid footage shot secretly at three mainstream, non-organic abattoirs. That earlier footage showed ewes being stunned while baby lambs still suckled at their teats – as well as pigs and sheep being kicked, shoved and dragged. A slaughterman at one of the abattoirs – AC Hopkins, in Taunton, Somerset – faces prosecution under the animal welfare legislation.

Animal Aid declared at the time of publication of footage from those three abattoirs that it ‘convincingly disposes of the myth of stress- and pain-free humane slaughter’, given that the abattoirs in which filming took place were randomly selected. Tom Lang Ltd was also randomly selected for investigation, with a view to discovering how much better animals fare in a typical Soil Association-approved abattoir that produces organic meat. The new footage reveals that animals are at risk of random violence and practices that increase their pain and fear, whatever the system of killing.

Says Animal Aid Head of Campaigns, Kate Fowler:

‘The public is encouraged to believe that animals are killed in a humane, competent and considerate manner in mainstream British slaughterhouses. Our detailed secret filming over recent months in four establishments presents an unprecedented record of the horrors that are the everyday norm. We see animals subjected to random violence and incompetent practices that have clearly dismayed and alarmed the official industry regulatory body. That we should see such scenes in a Soil Association-approved abattoir will be especially distressing for those who expected better from such establishments. The evidence we have been accumulating points to a simple truth: the production and killing of animals for meat is an ugly, violent, business – however the final product is labelled. At the very least, CCTV must be installed in all British abattoirs so that some light is shone on the process. That won’t end the suffering but it could reduce it.’

More Information:

WARNING  Animal Suffering / Death

View the 25-minute film

View the 5-minute edited version of the film 

View the screen grabs from the film

View detailed findings from the investigation 

Read background notes on the Soil Association’s guidelines for animals at slaughter 

Find further information on vegetarian and vegan diets 

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India: Homes Required Plus Lots of other Things !

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

 

 

Get lots of info and pictures on ALL the beautiful animals, and many more, by visiting:

www.straysrhot.blogspot.comanimalwelfare-india@yahoogroups.com

Hey friends,

its good to see new members joining the gang, and taking part in helping animals.

if its ok with all of u, i would like if we all introduced ourselves to each other.

i will start with myself-

charu shah- mumbai, love animals and try to get them good homes in bombay. also try to give whatever medication i can and spread news about using correct medication and help people in bringing up young pups and kittens.

shahcharu76@yahoo.com 

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Hi Friends,

2. Santosh Rajashekar – Bangalore – i work voluntarily for CUPA, work in different areas like adoptions of animals, fundraising, cruelty cases, human awareness and volunteers.

Thanks and Regards
Santosh Rajashekar
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3. Sourabh Edwankar (98201 22617)  – Volunteer for IDA & PAWS. A group of us work togather in Borivali/ Kandivali area of Mumbai. We do sterilisations, transport sick animals to hospitals, vaccinations.

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DELHI 

Help baby mischa find a home in delhi!!

Mischa was born on 28th Sept ‘09. She is beautiful, loving, very
intelligent, well-tempered and playful. Her de-worming has been done
and we need to get her adopted at the earliest.
For further details/adoption please contact Jasmine at 9810541178 or
9810808363.

Picture Attached

Sadhwi Sondhi

www.straysrhot.blogspot.com
www.saiashram.blogspot.com

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DELHI 

Forwarded message from Indira in DELHI –

Hi all,

Please I need help finding good homes for my puppies. All 8 and mother
are healthy and I have to return to thr USA in a week. I simply don’t
want them to end up om the street.The pups are around 7 weeks old now
Bizou (the mother) and possibly will go to the USA with me.

Thank you for your help

Indira
9971193392

Picture attached

Sadhwi Sondhi

www.straysrhot.blogspot.com
www.saiashram.blogspot.com 

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Please forward to find these pups find good homes!

These 6 pups were found in Bangalore by Sujaya and are now living near
her house in a compounded area. There are 5 males and 1 female about
one month old. All the puppies are adorable, healthy and are up for
immediate adoption in Bangalore. The vaccination and sterilization
will be taken care of by the foster parent when needed. To adopt them
please contact Sujaya at 9845193057.

Pictures attached

Sadhwi Sondhi

www.straysrhot.blogspot.com
www.saiashram.blogspot.com 

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Hi people,

Taking forward the initiative taken by Charu, I have floated a Google spreadsheet which is accessible to all. Here is the link:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjciVqtertUVdFRDQl9HdGlMNWVGSFhxenowbktxMWc&hl=en 

You can upload your details. Personal information like phone no., etc. is optional. If you want to add some new column, please go ahead. But before closing please click on this option from the dropdown menu: File——> Save & Close so that your details are saved.

I hope this will give us all an access more clearly to who all is there on the group and their interests, etc.

I have filled in the details of Charu, Rajashekhar and mine. Please let me know if you encounter any problem in accessing the above.

Thanks and Regards,

Disha Sharan.

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Uk: Videos To Watch and Enjoy – British Wildlife (BBC)

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

 

 

 

Beautiful wildlife on and around the British Isles.

Every year the BBC, which is world famous for its wildlife programmes, produces a series for Uk viewers relevant to the time of year.

The last series, ‘Autumnwatch’ presented a range of programmes, each dedicated to specific wildlife issues and animals around the Uk.  The programmes were presented by Chiris, Kate and Simon, have some excellent wildlife footage as well as being very educational.

The quirky, mad, nutty, have a good laugh side of the British and their humour is also shown in all of the programmes.

Click on the following link to get the ‘homepage’ video;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/autumnwatch/

then further select from a series of video clips underneath this, which include:

Pine Martens

Autumn Montage

Musical Montage

Best Bits

Cairngorms Ptarmigan

Dawn Rooks

Using the tabs along the top of the homepage, there are a host of other articles, issues and photographs all relating to British wildlife in the Autumn.

Enjoy !

SAV.

And finally:

http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1529569286?bctid=5524339001 

 

 

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