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Following what PETA is calling the biggest animal seizure in California history, rescuers were so disturbed by what they saw that they needed crisis counseling. A warehouse near Los Angeles was full of some 20,000 rats, snakes, and other reptiles who faced long-term mistreatment; many were dead and the… …read more
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You know, your dad isn't the only one who likes to daintily lounge around the house in lady-garments. In fact, our canine friends in China have started quite the trend doing just that, simply mugging for the camera in basic yet stylish pantyhose. Either that, or maybe Chinese dog owners just have a demented – abusive? – sense of humor and/or taste in pet fashion. So, prepare to be… tickled? Nauseated? Motivated to donate to PETA? What else is there to say, it's frickin' dogs in frickin' pantyhose. How much more elaboration do you dopes really need.
By Neal Colgrass American hunters, watch out: The animal rights group PETA says it’s going to launch drones to make sure you’re abiding by the law, Fast Company reports. “PETA will soon have some impressive new weapons at its disposal to combat those who gun down deer and doves,” wrote PETA‘s Kaitlynn Kelly… …read more
An animal rights group may ruffle royal feathers with its call for Queen Elizabeth II to stop supporting pigeon racing because the sport is cruel.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims tens of thousands of birds die during pigeon races across the English Channel. It says it conducted an undercover investigation which found that in some races 75 percent of the birds disappear and are presumed dead.
PETA says it has written to the queen asking her to review her association with the sport.
Elizabeth is patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association and keeps several hundred racing pigeons on her Sandringham estate in eastern England.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment Thursday.
The daughter of former astronaut Mark Kelly was walking her dog Shiner on Goff Island Beach when the dog bolted, ripping the leash from her hand and fatally attacking a beached baby sea lion.
Video showed the owner and two other women struggling several minutes in vain to pull the dog off the sea lion. As his daughter screamed and cried, Kelly arrived and grabbed the collar. He shook the dog’s head until it released the bloodied mammal, which later died.
Kelly is married to former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in a shooting in Tucson, Ariz., in 2011. His daughters, Claudia and Claire, are from a previous marriage.
Laguna Beach police said they did not plan to press charges because it did not appear the owner was at fault in the attack Saturday, Capt. Jason Kravetz said Tuesday. The bulldog mix was leashed and legally on the beach below the exclusive Montage Resort.
Kravetz said, however, that authorities could not close the case until a necropsy is performed and investigators have checked with animal control in the dog’s hometown to see if it has a history of attacks. If there is a history of aggression, authorities could become involved.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also does not expect to take legal action, spokesman Jim Milbury said.
“We will have to wait for all the facts to come in, but it appears to be an unfortunate accident,” he said.
Federal law protects marine animals. The state has no jurisdiction, a spokeswoman said.
The Pacific Marine Mammal Center will determine the sea lion’s cause of death. Officers had removed the same sea lion from a storm drain earlier in the day, Kravetz said. Calls to the mammal center were not immediately returned.
“This is a regrettable and traumatic incident for the animals and the people involved,” said Madeline Bernstein, president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles. “Perhaps this will lead to more research and recommendations for peaceful coexistence between domestic animals and local wildlife.”
Chasing, hunting or attacking animals like cats and squirrels comes naturally to some dogs, PETA said in a statement. In this case it was a vulnerable sea lion.
PETA is at it again, and they’re getting a little quicker. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have come out against video games before – lambasting Mario for wearing raccoon skin and criticizing Pokemon for encouraging the enslavement of animals – and now they’re hitting Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag just a few days after its reveal. The issue? Early screenshots confirmed whaling, and PETA doesn’t like that. The organization said in statement provided to Venturebeat: …read more
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Animal rights group PETA has hit out at the supposed depiction of whaling in Ubisoft’s recently-announced Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
“Whaling – that is, shooting whales with harpoons and leaving them to struggle for an hour or more before they die or are hacked apart while they are still alive – may seem like something out of the history books, but this bloody industry still goes on today in the face of international condemnation, and it’s disgraceful for any game to glorify it,” reads a statement provided to VentureBeat.
There are 200 State Senators and Representatives in Massachusetts. Only 33 are Republicans; the rest are Democrats. Massachusetts sends only Democrats to represent her in the US Senate and Congress. Massachusetts obviously likes being subject to the whims of the hardcore Left, which is its choice; but willfully becoming the toys of the power-hungry unbalanced has its price. Whenever Democrats gain such total power, they become increasingly dangerous and their lunatic streak comes bubbling to the fore.
Not surprisingly, the latest example of what Democrats will do to their subject victims comes from Massachusetts. A New Bedford Democrat has introduced a bill that would hand over the determination of what is and what is not proper and “acceptable” treatment of animals to private citizen PETA types.
As in all other states, animal cruelty is already a crime in Massachusetts. But of course, writing new freedom-restricting laws is seen as a “birth right” of liberals; so that hasn’t stopped a New Bedford State Senator from cranking out a new, more oppressive law.
This law would let private citizens watch how you train your dog and determine whether or not to sue you on behalf of the animal. If you own a farm, a PETA-type loony could stand at the edge of your land writing down what he/she didn’t like and haul you into court on behalf of your livestock.
One of these self-appointed “Livestock and wildlife lawyers” could watch you legally hunting on your own land and have you served with papers ordering you to defend yourself in court against charges of animal cruelty. Would anyone want to defend against animal cruelty charges in a state dripping with liberal Democrats?
Imagine having to pay for legal council in a lawsuit where the other side not only had endlessly deep pockets (bet on that), but where the judge in the case was appointed by loony liberal Democrats intent upon reasserting their power over us at every opportunity!
Not long ago, something like this could be laughed off as the ravings of the “kook fringe” of the Democrat Party. Those days are over. There is no “kook fringe” of the Democrat Party anymore. It’s just the Democrat Party showing us what it is.
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A Sunshine State senator will be the latest to traipse through Florida’s Everglades in search of wild pythons up to 15 feet long.
Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) will join the hunt on Thursday as part of the state’s month-long “Python Challenge,” in which nearly 1,000 people have signed up for the chance to collect a bounty for catching and killing Burmese pythons. The challenge, which began this past Saturday, is aimed at helping to control the exploding population of the non-native snakes, which have devastated Florida’s eco-system. Anyone is eligible for the hunt, so long as they participated in a 30-minute course and paid a $25 fee.
“These snakes don’t belong in the Everglades,” Nelson said.”They’re causing real problems in one of Florida’s greatest treasures.”
Just last year, Nelson announced a rule that prohibits the sale and importation of exotic snakes like the Burmese python.
The challenge has seen a large cross-section of people signing up from far and near.
“The truth, I’m entering out of boredom,” said Ron Powell, 58, a retired firefighter who lives in Bradenton. “I’m a 40-year-old adrenaline junkie and I just retired. You can only fish and play golf so often. I’m looking forward to being down in the glades.”
Andres Schabelman, a 28-year-old Harvard graduate living in San Francisco, is making the trip out of a desire to help Florida’s ecology.
“We were motivated by helping with the sustainability of the ecosystem,” said Schabelman, who will make his way down to Florida next weekend with three like-minded friends. “We are going in with excitement, but also caution. We have been working on a plan of attack.
“I’m fairly aware of the dangers that exist in the wild,” he added. “We will be doing things the proper way.”
Carli Segelson, spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which is sponsoring the contest, said cash prizes of up to $1,500 will be given to hunters who catch the largest and most pythons. The pythons that have nearly eradicated entire native species such as deer, bobcats and rabbits are believed to be traceable to abandoned pets and pythons released from a breeding facility destroyed during Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated that as many as 100,000 exist in the Everglades. Although the snakes are not venomous, experts say they could potentially pose a deadly threat to small children. They kill by squeezing, then swallowing, their prey.
“Aside from the obvious goal of reducing the Burmese python population in the Everglades, we also hope to educate the public about Burmese pythons in Florida and how people can help limit the impact of this and other invasive species in Florida,” Segelson said. “We are also using the Challenge to gauge the effectiveness of using an incentive-based model as one tool to address a challenging invasive species management problem.”
The online tutorial recommends that hunters use machetes to decapitate their quarry, or dispatch them with bullets.
Some critics, mainly People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, have spoken out against the hunt saying that decapitation of the snakes — which is considered a valid form of euthanization for the hunt — is borderline barbaric and sent a letter to Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission earlier this week.
“This bounty hunt is misguided in the first place, but allowing hunters to decapitate pythons — who remain alive and in agony and who will writhe for an hour even after their heads have been cut off — is despicably cruel,” PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk in a released statement. “Many of these animals were once someone’s ‘pets,’ who have since been thrown out like garbage, and the FWC has an obligation to ensure that they don’t suffer any more than they already have.”
Officials for PETA urged the wildlife commission to curb the recommended method to kill pythons to “immediate destruction of the brain by gunshot or captive-bolt gun.”
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