Animal Cruelty

[la-ur-en]

Recently i was reading the sunday paper, and on it was an article, i cant remember the name but here is what happned!

Article 1: Three or four teenagers got a dog, and beat it up, then went to the local train station, and tied the dog to the railings, the dog trying to struggle free broke two legs, then, half an hour later, having getting things thrown at them like stones, cans, glass bottles, the train came!

This article made me feel sick, the hair on the back of my neck stood on end, how could somebody do this? Animals dont deserve to be beaten, they are helpless, they cannot fight the strenght that humans have... If it wasn't for animals, none of us would be alive, as there would be no evolution, so nothing would have delevoped!

Article 2: In some places in china, this is what they think is normal:
They buy over 10,000 dogs (mostly grey hounds) and sell them, but not in the kind of way you may be thinking of!
They pull the dogs to front legs, over there back, and tie them together (causing the legs to dislocate) then they throw them in a large lorry, they go on a long trip, keeping the dogs without any food or water, for 72 hours, then when they get there, they thrown the dogs in what looks like a large skip (like the ones you get at a dump), because it is quite a long way down, some of them get crushed, and die, but some survive, which isn't as good as it sounds, because they have to go through the pain of the next thing that happens. In this skip, each dog gets pulled through a kind of tunnel, and its head gets chopped off, and the body is sold for meat (for soup, or just grilled meat) the dogs fur is then shaved off, and used for handbags...
Some of you, at the moment, may be sitting with your dog running about the house, or sitting next to you, how thankful are you that your dog was put in a nice home, instead of getting killed for meat?

Article 3: Anyone here ever went on holiday, and went to one of your local shows, that include the following?
Dolphins/whales
Bears

In parts of america, there are tourist attractions, where people can meet the dolphins/whales, have a swim with them, then go watch a show containing them, this is all very well, but what really happens behind that curtain?
The dolphins are kept in small enclosed spaces, then put straight into work the next day, and places in the USA like RSPCA say that dolphins should only work once a week, and kept under good conditions, most places do keep at these standards, but some, are quite bad, dolphins symbolise freedom, joy, grace and serenity, but these places turn them angry and tempermental, which then causes the dolphin to become depressed, and stop eating, usually they die of depression, last year i took a trip to america, and went to a place where you could swim with dolphins, and the standard were great, they lived next to the sea, obviously they had a fence so the dolphins could escape, but they had atleast 300 to 350 acres of land to be themselves, and a personal bit where they would do there work!

In a India they have a special type of 'sport' called 'bear dancing' this is where they put a bear infront of large crowds, and make it dance, but instead of training it to ACTUALLY dance freely, they put a large ring through its nose, and attach it to a rope, which the owner holds and pulls, and put hot plates under its feet, and chain its feet to the ground, so they cannot run away, the plates are atleast 200°c (20°c more than some ceramic hair straightners) these conditions cause the bear pain, so trying to avoid the pain in its nose with the hook, it moves its head forward and back, then to avoid the heat on its feet, it jumps up and down frantically, this show lasts for about 2 minutes, they then take the bear, and lock it up in a cage, with no water, and limited food, the next day, after about 50 shows that day, has to make a 35 mile journey to the next destination, on foot, while the owner goes in a cart! Here is the diary
3-5 weeks old, kidnapped, mother killed, then makes journey, some died on the way cause of dehydration, starvation and trauma.

When reached there destination, it is time for the piercing of their ultra-sensitive muzzle. The bear is held down by a group of men while an iron needle, previously heated in a coal fire, is inserted into the squealing bear cub.(no fertilisation is used for this).

They then insert a rope which usually gets infected into the piercing.

Then it is time to dance, in some places, they use hot plates, in others they use large, heavy sticks to hit them with.

Before the bear is one year old, its incisor and canine teeth are ripped out and sold as lucky charms. These are usually fairly expensive to buy. As the toothless bear is unable to eat its normal diet, it is limited to lentils and chapatis. This often gives the bears terminal intestinal disorders.

Does this make you sick? If so support WSPA (World Society for the Protection of Animals). These people try to keep the law going, as they have made a law to stop bear trading in India, but the law is hardly existing!

I also hate animal testing, if you need to buy a make up product, MAKE SURE you read the back, if it says it has been tested on animals, throw it away, only go for make-up that has the small sign on the back saying 'Not tested on animals' or '(shop name) does not test these products on animals'.

Everyone who hurts an animal, deserves to suffer in serious pain the rest of there lifes, most of these people dont just hurt one animal but thousands! I HATE THEM, god if could just get the message across to people, and have the power to stop it, i would!

Thats all from me(i dont want to bore you with the thousands of storys/experiences i have had) if you have any storys, please post them...
Thanx!

Edit: here is a link to a website that also helps stop bear dancing, and shows pictures http://www.animalsvoice.com/PAGES/archive/beardnce.html

* Edited by Janeh - This section is for complaining about habbohotel, please post in the correct section

[Mentor]

I personly disgree with spening money on protecting animals before protecting humans.
I think humans deserve first priorty.

[Adzeh]

thats really eye opening, I cant beleive that thing about the dog.

[Hippygurl101]

I totally disagree with animal testing and Vivisection. I mean I know people try to justify it for helath and medical reasons but what they dotn know is that the majority of time it means nothnig. For product testing most companies just use it as a 'Not out fault we tested it on animals' to back them up.
Animals only actually predict correctly harmful side affects 5-25% of the time. Ironic how many people trust a product when it’s been tested, when realistically 75-95% of side affects on any scale of hazardous from it have never been realised. Thing is in America last year 100,000 people died from Adverse Drug Reactions from prescription medicines, which is more than the illegal drug deaths, put together.. So you want to rely on animal testing? I mean they labelled smoking 'safe' after early animal tests when if they had done real tests they would of realised that the toxins would cause cancer, which it did, and people died as a result of this mistake.
.. and also you know they managed to cure cancer in mice.. but yet couldnt transfer it to humans an obvious fact were different.

Pure and simple the animal’s only crime is being an animal. Vivisection is defined as the painful treatment of living animals for the purposes of scientific research, but when does our exploration for answers turn into an immoral practice that cruelly treats animals with little compensation in research significance?
(Ah La-ur-en doesnt it remind you of our old Imp thread on this..)

[la-ur-en]

I personly disgree with spening money on protecting animals before protecting humans.
I think humans deserve first priorty.

People can donate to humans and animals, it only costs £2.00 a month/week for both, which isn't alot!

P.s. Yes, i remember the thread on imp.net, ha, forgot about that there...

[-Soro-]

Yeah, animal cruelty is horrible - I'm really against it... I don't do anything about it though.

But in the middle east, things like torturing and eating dogs and cats is normal, they have different culture - sorry if you don't agree but I respect their tradition, they kill dogs just as we kill chickens.

Still, it's horrible and I don't like to watch anything like it.

[la-ur-en]

Yeah, animal cruelty is horrible - I'm really against it... I don't do anything about it though.

But in the middle east, things like torturing and eating dogs and cats is normal, they have different culture - sorry if you don't agree but I respect their tradition, they kill dogs just as we kill chickens.

Still, it's horrible and I don't like to watch anything like it.

That is all very well, i also don't agree with killing chickens, i am a vegetarian, and if i ever seen anybody hurting an animal, i would charge at them :evil: .
I wouldn't respect anyone who killed an animal, thing is, killing dogs is diffrent, billions of people have them as pets, they are what is called 'man's best friend' which is true! Also, chickens lay eggs every week, so if we didnt kill them (not saying i am agreeing with it) the population would rise right up, but dogs population doesn't, because usually only breeders' breed dogs, chickens have like 6 a week, where as dogs have 6 every 2 years!(minimum).
And not only is dog cruelty going on, just go onto www.animalsvoice.com then click on Image gallery, then click on a title and look at all the animals that are getting killed, tortured.
I really dont understand how you could respect them torturing a dog, killing them is one thing, but torturing them is completly out of order!

[Ziabotsu]

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[..::Tina::..]

I HATE people who are cruel to animals.
We have a cat and a dog from the RSPCA.
I don't know what happened to our cat, but we think she got kicked by her owners cos she isn't scared of us when she's on the table, but on the ground she runs away. Also she isn't normally scared when I come to her because I walk lightly.
But we know what happened to our dog - she wasn't really trained and her owner tried to take tissue paper out of her mouth, but when she wouldn't let her she hit her.

[-Soro-]

That is all very well, i also don't agree with killing chickens, i am a vegetarian, and if i ever seen anybody hurting an animal, i would charge at them :evil: .
I wouldn't respect anyone who killed an animal, thing is, killing dogs is diffrent, billions of people have them as pets, they are what is called 'man's best friend' which is true! Also, chickens lay eggs every week, so if we didnt kill them (not saying i am agreeing with it) the population would rise right up, but dogs population doesn't, because usually only breeders' breed dogs, chickens have like 6 a week, where as dogs have 6 every 2 years!(minimum).
And not only is dog cruelty going on, just go onto www.animalsvoice.com then click on Image gallery, then click on a title and look at all the animals that are getting killed, tortured.
I really dont understand how you could respect them torturing a dog, killing them is one thing, but torturing them is completly out of order!

We've been brought up to think as dogs as pets, I've studied this at school in RE a few years ago... We know dogs as pets, Asian's don't see anything wrong with it, but because of the way we've been brought up and the way we think, we look at it and think it's disgusting, they see it as normal.... I respect them eating them because it's their tradition, and know I don't respect ANYTHING being tortured. Torture is inhuman, sick, and evil.

Edit: I probably didn't make my previous post clear, but even if I did respect dog-torture or whatever, you cannot tell me what and what is not right - for all you know I'm Asian-born and I eat dogs every night. (which I'm not and I don't). :@