Two dogs were swung around by their leashes and thrown into the street in a shocking case of animal cruelty. A gruesome video showed the dogs yelping as they hit the pavement. Demand justice for these poor dogs.
Two dogs and a cat were allegedly starved and neglected in a shocking case of animal cruelty. The dogs were reportedly severely emaciated, and the cat was locked in an enclosed room. Demand justice for these innocent animals.
Source: Punish Man Who Allegedly Starved and Neglected Two Dogs and a Cat
• You can kill as many non-game animals – porcupines, prairie dogs, rabbits, ground squirrels, Himalayan tahrs, skunks, feral hogs, bobcats and coyotes – as you like without a permit, sometimes for cash and fabulous prizes.
Just what does this say about our state?
New Mexico’s government-sponsored animal cruelty came to light again this week when a Placitas man released a fox from a foot-hold trap. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish told Gary Miles, the founder and owner of Placitas Animal Rescue, who responded to a runner’s call about the fox, that he could be arrested for being in possession of the fox.
Miles said the fox “escaped” after “it healed up real nice.”
State statute 19.32.2.11 (C) says, in part, “It shall be illegal to destroy, disturb or remove any trap, snare or trapped wildlife belonging to a licensed trapper without permission of the owner of the trap or snare.” It raises the question why, in 2018, New Mexico endorses the use of leg-hold and other traps on public land, devices that were invented in the 1800s and have been banned in more than 80 countries, and banned or severely restricted in at least eight states.
They were banned because they are archaic, cruel and indiscriminate.
The fox story came to light around a week after an Albuquerque gun shop sponsored a coyote-killing contest outside Bernalillo County. And while that contest was on private land, the arguments that the shooters are removing a predatory threat or gathering pelts and meat or a trophy are used to disguise the real intent: killing for killing’s sake. Many times, the carcasses are piled up and left to rot.
Coyotes, like bobcats, are keystone species and compensatory breeders; kill too many, and they not only will make more to fill the gap, but in the interim the rodent population explodes.
But hey, that’s just what wildlife biologists say. Why let science get in the way of blood sport?
The New Mexico Legislature stepped up and banned cockfighting because lawmakers saw it for what it is: barbaric cruelty that has no place in our state’s proud cultures.
They need to do the same for trapping and killing contests.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1117016/trapping-killing-contests-should-have-no-place-in-nm.html
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — A Little Rock man is Facebook-famous after he uploaded a video after his duck-hunting mishap nearly cost him his life.
“I have duck hunted for 30 years and it’s never happened to me, and it happened, just like that,” Covington said, remembering last week when he, his son, and his dog were hunting on the Arkansas River.
Covington had decided to hop back on the boat to go retrieve a couple decoys that were floating in the water.
“I saw my life jacket and I thought, ‘You know what, I’ve been doing this a million times, I don’t really need the jacket,’ and so I didn’t take it with me,” Covington explained.
Those almost became his famous last words.
“I walked to the front of the boat, and before you know it, I fell through the ice,” he added.
It happened in the blink of an eye. Covington says as ice water began saturating his heavy jacket and boots, his body became heavy, and he was pulled to the bottom of the river.
Paralyzed, and helpless, he explained he “struggled trying to get back up into the boat.”
But Covington wasn’t going to let himself die without putting up a fight first. As he grasped the side of the boat, he yelled at his son not to jump in and help him.
“I said, ‘Matt, don’t come in! You’re going to drown, too!”
If anything, Covington was not going to put his son in harm’s way.
“For me to drown, I would’ve been gone. But then what really made my upset was about me being a dad—I almost drowned in front of my son,” he explained.
It was a guilt he didn’t want his child to bear for the rest of his life.
Fortunately, Covington made it to the boat and pulled onto shore. But sadly, some aren’t as lucky as Covington was. He says many duck hunters lose their lives on icy bodies of water in the wintry weather.
“The bad thing is, being a person who runs a mentoring program to kids through hunting and fishing, and I didn’t have my life jacket on,” Covington explained.
His experience serves as a reminder that the “it won’t happen to me” mentality is within everyone. And instead of beating himself up over it, Covington is using his second shot at life as a reminder that you can never be too safe.
Here’s a link to Covington’s video that went viral: https://www.facebook.com/tommy.covington.1/posts/10215688293859534?pnref=story
A man left his Pomeranian mix outside the rescue when it wasn’t open and the poor thing froze to death. The Midwest has been freezing this last week. No dog can be left outside for any amount of time at this temperature, let alone a tiny dog like this. The dog was found completely frozen, with fleas frozen to its body and overgrown nails. This means that this dog was likely neglected and perhaps abused for a long while before it died a tragic death.
By Jackie Flynn Mogensen
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Early Saturday morning, Senate Republicans narrowly passed a controversial tax bill which — aside from overwhelmingly benefiting the rich — will open up 1.5-million acres of the pristine, 20-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil and gas drilling.
The fate of the ANWR has been a decades-long tug-of-war between Republicans and Democrats, with the right seeing the massive oil reserves within the park as a source of revenue for Alaska and the country, and the left insisting on preserving the land, which supports hundreds of bird species, arctic foxes, caribou, and polar bears. First designated a “wildlife range” in 1960 and then later a refuge in 1980, the land is also home to the Native Alaskan Gwich’in tribe, which relies on the land for subsistence.
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Distressing footage has emerged online showing a police officer in China mercifully beating a golden retriever to death. According to reports, Hu Hanlin chained the dog to the road barrier and then proceeded to beat him with a wooden club for 3 hours as pedestrians passed by, watching the bloody act in horror.
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/390/908/418/justice-for-golden-retriever-bludgeoned-to-death-by-cop/
By LaurenLewis
January 5, 2018
As family, friends, and admirers of pilot Bill Kinsinger hold their collective breath waiting for news of his whereabouts after his plane crashed Wednesday while en route to pick up an elderly dog.
Tragically, Kinsinger was approximately 20 minutes away from his destination when his plane crashed over the Gulf of Mexico. The kind-hearted Pilots N Paws volunteer was on his way to pick up Masaru, an 11-year-old husky who needed to be taken from Texas to Oklahoma for medical treatment and was just hours from being put down.
A Facebook page dedicated to saving Masaru also confirmed that the dog was not on the plane when it went missing.
Pilot Justin Blackburn was among several fellow pilots that continued Masaru’s rescue, landing the dog safely at 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City.
“Whatever happened to Bill you know, he did…
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The Trump Administration and the US fish and wildlife service were busy reinterpreting the federal law to remove vital protections from over a 1,000 species protected under the Migrating Bird Treaty Act. Under the changes, the administration will no longer prosecute companies who oil pits, power lines, and wind turbines incidentally kill birds protected under the Act.
Exposing the Big Game 