Posted on August 28, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The badger cull is to be extended into Dorset following pilots in Gloucestershire and Somerset, the government has announced.
Ministers and the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) say culling badgers will curb tuberculosis (TB) in cattle, but protesters say it has little effect.
Licences have been granted to allow six weeks of continuous culling in the three counties until 31 January
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Posted on August 27, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Dear Mark,
The secret ingredient in McDonaldâs Chicken McNuggets is brutal animal cruelty.
Thatâs the finding of a new MFA undercover investigation at a McDonaldâs Chicken McNugget supplierâTyson Foodsâthat exposed horrific animal abuse, including:
Birds painfully beaten, stabbed, and impaled on makeshift clubs spiked with nails and then thrown into buckets to slowly die
Factory farm owners stepping on the heads of live chickens and then pulling their wings or bodies to break their necks
Chickens bred to grow so fast they became crippled under their own weight and frequently died from organ failure
Hundreds of thousands of birds crammed into filthy, windowless sheds forced to live for weeks in their own waste
After six short weeks, the surviving birds are grabbed by their legs, wings, and necks and violently slammed into transport cratesâoften suffering broken bones in the processâand trucked to slaughter.
You may remember that last month we exposed unimaginable animal abuse at another Tyson factory farm. As shocking as it is, cruelty and violence run rampant in the poultry industry.
There are no federal laws to protect chickens during their lives on factory farms, and most states specifically exclude chickens from anti-cruelty laws.
Thatâs why it is so important for McDonaldâs to implement meaningful animal welfare policies and oversight at its supplier farms. As the worldâs largest fast-food chain and a top customer to Tyson Foods, McDonaldâs has both the power and ethical responsibility to prevent egregious cruelty to millions of animals.
Please, take a moment to sign our petition calling on McDonaldâs to stop unconscionable animal abuse in its supply chain. Then please share the hidden-camera video with friends and encourage them to take action too.
And remember, as individual consumers who care about animals, the most powerful choice we can make is to leave chickens and other animals off our plates.
Sincerely,
Nathan Runkle
President
P.S. Help us continue exposing cruelty to animals. Please make a special tax-deductible donation to support our vital undercover investigations aimed at exposing and ending abuse of animals at factory farms. Click here to make a donation.
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Posted on August 26, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Whilst we were just adding the info and video link about ‘Twinnsie’ to ‘About Us’ Â https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-us/Â Â today, when we have been sent the following message from the same team member !
As you can read below, it is great to see that at least some authorities have faith in the belief that sterilisation in street animals is the way forward to reducing their numbers – what a pity that the Serbian government is so very short sighted !
Here is the message sent to us today from Twinnsie:
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Dear Mark,
Hi there, it is your sponsor dog Twinnsie here. I may have told you before how nervous I am and how I can never go on walks? Well, something amazing has happened! There was this long-term volunteer here at Soi Dog recently that really gained my trust and helped me feel much more confident. Before I knew it she was taking me on daily walks around the lake! It is so exciting to be able to get out and about, even though I still get nervous to walk past other people and I continue to shy away from many things whilst on the lead. If you find it hard to believe that it is actually me in the picture, it is because I have also had a haircut! Of course, I am still very shy and nervous and very few volunteers are able to approach me. They say I am still a long way away from being a well socialised pet, but I am in the best of places to learn trust. I am so grateful to you for being my sponsor and for your continued confidence in me. It means a lot!
That is enough from me for now. Let me instead tell you some of the stuff that is going on at the shelter.
So far, 2015 has already been a life changing year for countless animals here. The Adoptions Team has been working very hard to not only find forever homes for an increasing number of dogs rescued from the dog meat trade, but also for many of the longer term residents at our shelter here in Phuket. No less than 17 sponsor dogs have been adopted this year! Many of these have already completed their required quarantine periods and left for their forever homes somewhere in the world. We are glad to hear reports that all the ones that have already left, are happily settling into their new loving homes where care is being put into meeting all their individual personalities and needs. This is a testimony to the efforts of the adoptions team to match each dog with the right adopter!
Some of the adopted sponsor dogs will still require ongoing medical care for chronic conditions and some will need a lot of tender loving care to really blossom and overcome their shyness. Some others are quite advanced in years already, but we are so glad to hear that even so, these dogs have been given a chance to live out their lives in loving families of their own!
So it is great to know that the adoptions are going well and that many people decide to take a Soi dog into their lives. It is also great that our new dog hospital here at the shelter is coming along according to plan and that we can look forward to having really high standard veterinary facilities within the near future. There is still some fundraising going on for equipment and such, but the building is almost there. They say they hope to be able to open the doors to the patients within October.
In addition, you may be glad to know that Soi Dog has now started running mobile sterilization clinics outside of Phuket, in the province of Phang Nga. In order to humanely reduce the street dog populations and reduce their suffering from diseases, you need to target one area at a time until at least 70-80% of the animals there have been sterilised and vaccinated. With over 80,000 animals neutered on Phuket, this target has now been achieved. Phuket has also been declared the first rabies free province in Thailand, thanks to the Soi Dog vaccination program.
While the mobile clinic is now helping dogs outside the island, on Phuket extra effort is being put into sterilising more of the stray cat population too. Our shelter vets are now dedicating an increasing number of days to sterilising more cats on the island.
There are also plans to initiate large scale sterilisation and vaccination programs in Bangkok (which is home to almost one million stray dogs) before the end of this year.
So you can hear that everyone has been very busy as usual!
Thank you so much for being a part of all this and thank you for caring particularly about me! I am very lucky to have you sponsoring me.
Woofs and licks,
Twinnsie
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Twinnsie before the haircut:
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Posted on August 26, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
The money that is being asked to help this family is not a lot â we have donated this morning.
If everyone gave just a few Euros then we would reach the target within seconds. Please try to help by giving anything you can.
If you click on the youcaring link below then you can see lots more photographs. Thank you
Message – Please, help!!!!
This baby and mom tomorrow go back on the street, unfortunately there was no money for food or to accommodate and we have another 15 dogs that are hungry.
The last three days brought us new and big problems … A young dog from the street, girl named Dumbo, which has lost an eye due to a kick now has severe wound infection ..
Vet is struggling to keep the other eye and to save her life ……
We found mom and her five puppies thrown out in the street today, somebody threw them in the rain, in a small cardboard box…
for Dumbo and for this little family we urgently need help.. We need mone for treatment costs, for accommodation and food, and vaccines for babies and sterilization for mommy.
Vaccines for five babies are about 30 euros, 35 euros is sterilization for their mother, Dumboâs treatment is about 40 euros and accommodation and food for a small family for month  its about 50 euros, a total of 155 euros…
We still didnât pay our old debt and new problems are hitting hard⌠ I donât even have will for life today, and I have these little snouts looking at me, waiting for helpâŚ
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Posted on August 26, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Valerie is recovering nicely and is supposed to have the screws removed from her knee joint next week. She’s still kept in a cage but she doesn’t complain one bit đ A huge heartfelt thank you to all of you who have helped this beautiful kitty girl!
http://www.youcaring.com/danica-s-cat-shelter-felix-374463
Sneska has always been skinny and has never shown much interest in food, but over the last few months she has become so frail that it was heartbreaking to look at her â she wasnât just slender, she was gaunt. Her ribs were clearly visible beneath her skin, her hips protruded sharply and she looked almost skeletal, as if she had never eaten anything, which was sadly not far from the truth.
She was diagnosed with stomatitis back in June, the vet prescribed her a course of antibiotics and she seemed to be improving a little, but our happiness was short-lived. She quickly began to refuse food again, lose weight and was at serious risk of developing fatty liver or hepatic lipidosis due to chronic malnutrition. Very soon she reached the point where she ate two or three times a week at best, not because she had no appetite, but because chewing and swallowing apparently became difficult and painful for her. The additional problem is that she isnât a youngster anymore, her age is given as 13 or 14 years and we had no time to waste, so she was urgently taken to the vet for a thorough checkup which was done a few days ago.
A UV scan has revealed that her kidneys arenât in great shape, although the levels of urea and creatinine in her blood are still within the limits of normal range and we have been told we can expect her to have pretty much a normal life span. The nature of her chewing and swallowing problems has finally been revealed â she had uremic stomatitis.
Right now she is being given injections every day, she eats the prescription renal diet mixed with some wet food because she doesnât like it very much, but at least she looks more cheerful and she even seems to be gaining weight, little by little. Of course, we have no way of knowing how long she will live, but can we all gather together to make the rest of her life as pleasant and comfortable as possible?
This sweet, good tempered and cuddly wisp of a girl has been through a lot so far and definitely deserves a dignified, pain-free and secure old age!
http://www.youcaring.com/danica-s-cat-shelter-felix-374463
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Posted on August 26, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
This 300 Pound Football Player Runs on a Vegan Diet
Becky Striepe
Eating vegan gets a lot of attention as a way to cleanse or lose weight, and I think that this method for promoting veganism isnât always helpful. It focuses on veganism as a crash diet, rather than a lifestyle choice. Thatâs why I was thrilled to run across the amazing story of defensive lineman David Carter who went vegan to improve his healthâand stayed vegan because heâs never felt better.
Carter was trying to reach a weight goal of 300 pounds. At 285 pounds, he was eating massive amounts of dairy products to up his weight, and he felt terrible. In a GQ interview, he described a life of chronic, debilitating pain from tendinitis that at first he blamed on his day job.
When Carter learned that dairy can sometimes exacerbate tendinitis, he decided to give eating vegan a try. He told GQ: âI realized I was making everything worse. I was feeding the tendinitis, the muscle fatigue, everything. So the next day I went vegan. The first thing I ate was a bean burger and havenât eaten meat since.â
When he first went vegan, he lost weight, so he adopted a strict weight gain eating plan to get him to reach his 300 pound goal. Carter was able to gain back the 40 pounds he lost plus that last 15 pounds on a plant-based diet.
Surprisingly, green smoothies seem to be his weight gain secret. Rather than use them as meal replacers, Carter drinks protein-rich 20 ounce green smoothies between meals every day, racking up a whopping 10,000 calories during what he calls âOperation Weight Gain.â
He says that white beans and sunflower seeds are his go-tos for protein along with whole grains and other beans, seeds, and nuts.
Check out his sample weight gain meal plan:
Since going vegan, Carter says that heâs never felt better. Within just a couple of months, his joint pain evaporated. Heâs able to lift more and run faster, and he has less body fatâmeaning more muscleâthan before going vegan.
Of course, most people on a vegan diet arenât trying to hit a 300 pound weight goal. This extreme constant eating isnât necessary for the average person on a vegan diet. Athletes have very different calorie requirements than someone who works a desk job, even if you are a regular exerciser.
Carter went vegan for the health benefits, but heâs stayed for the animals. Like a lot of peopleâincluding meâwho go vegan for health reasons, animal rights have become as important to him as his own health.
David Carter uses his clout as an NFL player to show that eating vegan doesnât have to mean feeling deprived. Heâs worked with animal advocacy groups like the Humane Society and Compassion Over Killing.
His Instagram accountâ@the300poundveganâis peppered with animal rights facts, and he says he loves proving to people that vegans come in all shapes and sizes.
Read more and see photos at:
 
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Posted on August 25, 2015 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
As you can see from the tabs and the site; there has been a bit of a cleanup today.
Nothing has actually been deleted but instead has been stored in archive.
The photos of the gorgeous girls have been removed, but you can still see small versions at the end of some posts to brighten up the day.
We will still have some âtime outsâ now and again just to give us a break from the cruelty. We hope you agree and think that things are better on the refined version â let us know via the ‘contact’ tab â it will be interesting to see if views go up or down as a result of the changes. We monitor visits every day and know how many visitors we get.
Lets see how it goes; for better or worse. As we say, things are in archive and so can be re posted if demand calls for it.
Regards SAV.
Please stick with us; there are still clean up changes to do; we hope to incorporate everything over the next few days.
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