Sign the petition to stop the horrible killings of Black Bears!
The skin of Black Bears is used for ceremonial caps, who the queen’s guards wear. The MOD has spent more than £321,000 to kill Bears for these caps what can be easily replaced by high-tech synthetic materials sourced by leading faux-fur manufactures, but the MOD has said that it “lacks life” and “doesn’t bounce back”.
Find more information on the petition/campaign, visit unbearablecruelty.
The figures released by the Blue Cross for last year show that sadly our beloved pets are having bad times as well and the future does not look bright at all.
The Blue Cross said that they had an huge increase of 50% in 2008 from the previous year, that shows that more animals were being took in to the Blue Cross animal adoption centres. Some of the reasons were that pet owners lost their jobs or because they were forced to move house.
Also applications for the Blue Cross veterinary care fund (the veterinary care fund helps pet owners who can not afford to pay for essential treatment) have more than doubled in the last year. Over £340,000 was used to help pet owners who are on benefits or on a pension to pay for essential treatment for their pets. A further 65,000 consultations at the Blue Cross charity animal hospitals and vetenery clinics. Kim Hamilton (Blue Cross Chief Executive) said “Theses figures suggest that sadly our pets are starting to hit hard times, along with much of the rest of the country, pets and their owners will need our support more than ever this year 2009 and we will be pulling out all the stops to help them.”
For 2009 it does not look any better but the Blue Cross and other Charities are braced to help even more animals. Here is some other figures you might want to know.
Key Blue Cross achievements during 2008 are:
The Blue Cross is one of Britain’s oldest animal charities, but it receives no government funding so it relies on the support of the general public to help the animals in its care. For more information on supporting The Blue Cross, please visit www.bluecross.co.uk
A man gets a American Bulldog (called Bronx) drunk and then beats him with a broken chair leg.
The man is the first person in britain to be convicted of getting a dog drunk. “Bronx” was forced to drink lagar and vodka in his bowl, soon after the horrible man viciously hits him, however after this terrible act of cruelty, the man ONLY received a ONE year ban from keeping a “warm blooded mammal” and 150 hours of community service.
Lucky “Bronx” is expected to make a full recovery and hopefully he will be re-homed in the coming weeks.
Read more info and see some pictures of “Bronx” on Thisisbristol.co.uk