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Killing of Mayor's 2 Dogs Justified, Pr. George's Finds
Officers in Raid Threatened, Sheriff Says
The Prince George's County Sheriff's Office has concluded in an internal review that its deputies were justified when they shot and killed two dogs belonging to the mayor of Berwyn Heights during a July drug raid, Sheriff Michael Jackson said yesterday.
The sheriff said that one dog was engaging an officer and that the other was running toward a second officer at the time the black Labs were shot, but the ruling did not satisfy the mayor, who said the inquiry was incomplete and misleading.
Jackson released the results of the review in response to a scientific examination of the dogs' carcasses by a veterinarian with the Maryland Department of Agriculture at the request of Mayor Cheye Calvo. The necropsy concluded one dog was shot four times and the other twice, including once in the dog's back legs.
Calvo said the necropsy has bolstered his contention that neither dog was threatening law enforcement officers during the raid and that one dog was shot from behind as he fled into a back room.
A sheriff's department SWAT team and county police narcotics officers burst into the mayor's home July 29 after police intercepted a 32-pound package of marijuana addressed to Trinity Tomsic, Calvo's wife.
Police cleared Calvo and Tomsic of wrongdoing, saying they were victims of a drug smuggling scheme in which drug-filled packages addressed to unsuspecting recipients were intercepted by a FedEx deliveryman.
Calvo rejected Jackson's conclusions yesterday, saying sheriff's deputies have not interviewed him or his mother-in-law about their accounts of the incident. Both were home at the time of the raid. Their arms were bound behind their backs, and they were questioned about the package while the body of one dog lay nearby.
"The fact that they've done an internal review without contacting the victims of their raid, the people whose house they stormed through, shows they're not very interested in the actual facts," he said.
Read the rest of this story at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402746.htmlKilling of Mayor's 2 Dogs Justified, Pr. George's Finds
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KHOU reports on an investigation into the deaths of eight dogs in an animal control officer's truck.
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com#/video/us/2008/09/03/dnt.tx.dogs.die.lunch.khou#/video/us/2008/09/03/dnt.tx.dogs.die.lunch.khou#/video/us/2008/09/03/dnt.tx.dogs.die.lunch.khouKHOU reports on an investigation into the deaths of eight dogs in an animal control... more
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PHOTOCREDIT: Farm Sanctuary Calves in 'veal crates'
What is a sheet of paper? For my writer husband, a sheet of paper signifies a myriad world of stories to tell, for a first grader it may represent a canvas for great art, but for most chickens in California, a sheet of paper represents home.
That is because egg-producing chickens spend their entire lives in barren conditions, several chickens cramped in a cage with personal space that is smaller than an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. These chickens cannot spread their wings or do anything else that comes naturally to them like pecking or grooming or acting like, well, chickens. Battery cages are cruel and unusual punishment for creatures who did nothing to deserve such treatment. The same is to be said for pigs in gestation crates and baby cows in veal crates. photo credit: Farm Sanctuary
That's why I'm looking forward to Election Day, when my fellow California voters will turn their attention to a unique and important proposition that will phase out some of the state's most cruel and inhumane factory farming practices.
Proposition 2--the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act--will simply ensure that certain farm animals in California can turn around and extend their limbs. When approved, it will phase out three of the worst factory farm abuses: veal crates for calves, battery cages for egg-laying hens, and gestation crates for breeding pigs.
photo credit: East Bay Animal Advocates
It's not much to ask factory farms to merely give animals a bit of room to move, but as we saw earlier this year with a shocking undercover investigation into a California dairy cow slaughter plant, we can't trust factory farms to regulate themselves.
It's early in the election cycle, but there's already a tidal wave of support for Prop 2, with hundreds of endorsements including Senator Feinstein, The California Democratic Party, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, and city councils like Los Angeles and Davis. Groups like The Humane Society of the United States, Center for Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Sierra Club-California have endorsed, as well as hundreds of California veterinarians and the California Veterinary Medical Association. Almost 800,000 California voters signed petitions to place the initiative on November's ballot.
At the same time that humane groups are getting the word out about Prop 2, agribusiness companies and factory farms are funneling millions of dollars into a massive opposition campaign. This is despite the fact that Arizona and Florida voters have overwhelmingly approved similar citizen initiatives, and state legislators in Colorado and Oregon have passed similar laws.
For those of us who care about animal welfare, there's never been a better time to donate and get involved--even for people who don't live in California.
PHOTOCREDIT: Farm Sanctuary Calves in 'veal crates'
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El Paso County Officials Plan to Use Cruel Traps to Capture Dogs
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Officials in El Paso County, Colorado, have allocated thousands of taxpayer dollars to fund a heartless arrangement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a misguided effort to rid the community of homeless and roaming dogs. The county plans to have the USDA set leghold and snare traps—torturous devices that maim and kill animals—in various locations throughout the community.
Even with "padding," the steel jaws of leghold traps powerfully grip animals, and they don't always get animals by the legs. The traps often clamp down on sensitive parts of animals' bodies, such as their feet, heads, eyes, muzzles, and abdomens. So-called "padded" leghold traps offer nothing more than a thin strip of synthetic material between the steel jaws and the animals' limbs, and padding does not reduce the terror and pain that animals endure when the traps clamp down on them.
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Snare traps encircle animals' necks or bodies with wire. As a trapped animal struggles to escape, the loop tightens and slowly strangles the animal. The use of these medieval torture devices cannot be justified under any circumstances. No animal—wild or domestic—should be made to suffer and potentially die in these horrible traps when humane alternatives are widely used and commercially available. Animals can be easily and humanely captured with live traps.
Humane box traps, which are commonly used by animal care and control agencies to capture unsocialized and frightened animals, can be used to capture dogs who cannot be caught with a treat and a leash, an age old method that hasn't even been tried in this case. In addition, El Paso County has an existing contractual agreement with a local humane society that provides animal control services in other areas of the county, and the group's doors are always open to animals in need. But instead, El Paso County has contracted the USDA to torturously trap and cruelly kill homeless dogs.
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WSPA Animal Rescue
Please watch video: https://www.wspa.org.au/campaigns/orangutan_bos/index.asp?ID=A0808E01
There is a place of refuge for these beautiful creatures, but now it too needs saving.
There is something so tragic about a baby orangutan sitting alone on the rainforest floor. Too scared to even move. Her mother nowhere in sight. The tragedy lies in this baby's chance of survival if left without help.
For every orphaned orangutan that lives through such an ordeal, there are on average three mothers and two infants who have perished. It is vital those fortunate enough to survive are given the care they need to one day return to a remote part of the forest where they belong. Safe. Protected. Home.
Run by Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS), the Nyaru Menteng Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre is the largest primate sanctuary in the world - and a lifeline for the many hundreds of orphaned, injured and abused orangutans who call it home.
With ninety per cent of their natural habitat gone, the threats orangutans face now, and in the future, are terrifying.
https://www.wspa.org.au/campaigns/orangutan_bos/index.asp?ID=A0808E01
Machete attacks on orangutans are common and often fatal for the adults, leaving orphaned infants alive and traumatised. Sadly, some are captured and sold into the pet trade experiencing poor care, disease, injury and psychological trauma which all take their toll on these poor creatures. Many can expect a life of beatings, solitude, confinement and malnutrition.
Amidst this suffering there is hope. Last year, you helped save the Nyaru Menteng Sanctuary from imminent closure. We now need your help to keep it open and running so it can continue its life saving work for orphaned and injured orangutans, and teach them the independence they need to one day return to the wild where they rightfully belong.
Without additional funding, the sanctuary still risks closure. Orangutans could be handed over to the local government for a life of confinement with no prospect of release. Caged and uncared for, we could lose an entire orangutan generation.
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Exotic animals are trapped within a 65 ft enclosure in Grainger County, Tennessee, and being cruely hunted and killed for sport and profit, without hope of escape or a chance of survival. They live in this enclosed area for the reason of being shot at by people as 'sport'. There are even treestands inside the area. This is inhumane, and horrible, and should not be allowed to have ever been opened.
Please look at the animals on this website, and please forward and sign this petition:
http://www.clinchmountainhuntingadventures.net/SPECIES-INFO.html
Petition Link: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/animals-being-brutally-killed-in-canned-hunts-in-clinch-mountain-tennessee-with-no-chance-of
To view news video of actual footage, and animals walking right up to the camera, along with neighbor's protest go here: http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=61587&catid=2
News Release:
Along the quiet Dry Valley Road in Grainger County, a cow is about as exotic as you'll get.
That was before Robert Haun moved in and brought dozens of animals with him.
"You just can't go anywhere and get ONE," Haun said of the exotic animals. "Some people
have phobias of flying or not being able to afford the expense to go across sea and get ONE, so we're bringing IT to them."
"They're going TO HAVE TO go into the woods and sit down and hunt and walk and look and stalk for the animal that they choose, and it's not ALWAYS going to be a hundred percent success," Haun said.
He's responding to some criticism from some neighbors and animal rights supporters.
The Grainger County Humane Society opposes the hunting preserve, calling it a "canned hunt," but members make clear they do not oppose hunting.
"I was horrified," neighbor Betty Rich said. "I'm almost 80 years old, and I did not know that these facilities existed in this country."
Rich has written a letter to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, asking commissioners to consider changing their rules about the hunting preserves.
Right now, the preserves have to be a minimum of 20 acres. Rich says that's not nearly enough. She's pushing for 1,000 acres.
She and her daughter also are collecting signatures for a petition they plan to send to the state legislature.
"I'm against raising exotic animals domestically and putting them in a fence and shooting them for trophies. I'm against that. I think it's wrong," she said.
Meanwhile, Haun is defending his facility, saying the acreage and foliage make it MORE THAN A FAIR CHASE for the animals. Plus, he points out he will also CATER to young hunters and people whose DISABILITIES may prevent them from hunting elsewhere.
"They just don't understand, they don't understand," Haun said of his critics. "They think it's up here behind a big, high fence, the animals have NOWHERE to go. As you can see, there's PLENTY of places for animals to HIDE that we CANNOT access."
Clinch Mountain Hunting Adventures is set to open in September. The prices range between $600 and $10,000.
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I am completely outraged at this. The only person who can help this poor girl with cerebral palsy is her mother who ignores her to the point of maggot infested bedsores and starvation. While the other sibling tried to call an ambulance on multiple occasions, the mother stops them. On top of it all, it could have all been stopped if someone from the state would have just gave a shit and visited her twice a week like they were SUPPOSE to. Instead they filled out the paperwork and forgot about her. I hope this woman rots to death in prison in the same horrific way she did to her own daughter, except she deserves it and i hope the people responsible in the state are tried and convicted.I am completely outraged at this. The only person who can help this poor girl with... more
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Can you watch this video?
And if you watch it, how much do you feel?
And what do you feel?
How many people have to see this until it no longer exists?
And when those people see it, how many of them will feel strongly,
and how many will not care?
Can a video really get you to care? And if a lot of people care,
does that mean anything? It is reassuring to know that other people
feel the same sense of horror that I do. But what good is that?
The wolf is still trapped. His cranium will still be smashed by that fur trapper.
I'm trying to make sense of this. I see that man's foot and I see the animal's crushed throat underneath, and I wonder how some humans can do what other humans could never.
DISCLAIMER: I could only watch about 1:20 of it.
I will watch the rest at some point.
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And if you watch it, how much do you feel?
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Former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are suing U.S. contractors in four states, alleging the contractors' employees tortured them.
The first complaint was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Others are being filed in Detroit; Columbus, Ohio; and Greenbelt, Maryland.
The complaints allege that innocent people who were arrested and taken to the prison were subjected to forced nudity, electrical shocks, mock executions and other inhumane treatment by employees of defense contractors CACI International and L-3 Communications, formerly Titan Corp.
The plaintiffs are represented by law firms in Philadelphia and Detroit and by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
In case you are wondering what happened at Abu-Gharib, go to this link: http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Abu-Ghraib-Prison-Photos11jun04.htmFormer detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are suing U.S. contractors in four... more
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This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh.
Bizunesh is 3 and weighs less than 10 pounds. "There is nothing ... I beg for milk," her mother says.
The rangy 3-year-old weighs less than 10 pounds, or 4 kilograms. Her long limbs, weak and folded like a praying mantis, cannot carry even her slight weight. She cannot speak. She doesn't want to eat. Health officials say she is permanently stunted.
Bizunesh -- whose name, sadly, means "plentiful" -- is one of untold numbers of children hit by this year's double blow of a countrywide drought and skyrocketing global food prices that has brought famine, once again, to Ethiopia.
"She should be bigger than this," said her mother Zewdunesh Feltam, rocking the listless child. "Before there was maize, different kinds of food. But now there is nothing ... I beg for milk from my neighbors."
The U.N. children's agency said in a statement Tuesday an estimated 126,000 Ethiopian children urgently need food and medical care because of severe malnutrition -- and called the crisis "the worst since the major humanitarian crisis of 2003."
The U.N. World Food Program estimates that 2.7 million Ethiopians will need emergency food aid because of late rains -- nearly double the number who needed help last year. An additional 5 million of Ethiopia's 80 million people receive aid each year because they never have enough food, whether harvests are good or not.This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the largest beef recall in its history Sunday, calling for the destruction of 143 million pounds of raw and frozen beef produced by a Chino slaughterhouse that has been accused of inhumane practices.The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the largest beef recall in its history... more
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This is sooo sad. And yes the three "O's" are necessary.
In Puerto Rico, thousands of unwanted cats and dogs were thrown off 50 foot bridges to their death instead of being euthanized.This is sooo sad. And yes the three "O's" are necessary.
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Twenty-eight dolphins from the South Pacific, flown to the Gulf emirate of Dubai this week despite opposition from wildlife groups, are adapting to their new home in a luxury hotel on a man-made island, the Gulf News reported on Saturday.
The five-star Palm Atlantis Hotel bought the wild bottlenose dolphins from the Solomon Islands, the paper reported, despite several international conservation groups decrying the decision by its government to allow the resumption of the live dolphin trade, saying it is inhumane.
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I feel that this is so wrong - these wonderful and highly intelligent animals should not be kept in small pools for the amusement of humans. Their natural environment is boundless and deep oceans and seas. Twenty-eight dolphins from the South Pacific, flown to the Gulf emirate of Dubai this... more
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