Derek | September 22, 2011
(The Happy Yappers saga continues, with much gnashing of teeth from animal lovers who have condemned HY without so much as a single question as to the legitimacy of the NSPCA actions, media coverage, and subsequent pressure, not to mention the fact that such condemnation would rest on a single opinion, prejudiced by a personal [...]
Derek | July 18, 2011
The pictures accompanying the recent reports from Sweet Home Farm in Philippi in the Western Cape said it all: humans taking revenge against animals because a human child was killed by a pack of dogs. Some puppies were tossed on a train track and crushed by a passing train, while others were beaten to death [...]
Derek | April 3, 2011
(Dog Grooming parlours are not welfare organisations and their treatment of the animals may not be what you’d expect from animal lovers. It’s business, and I’ve heard many disturbing stories. Here’s one from Barbara Giddy. If you really have a need for having your dog groomed, get the ones that do it at your home, [...]
Derek | March 18, 2011
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” goes the adage, and it is completely appropriate to the domestic animal welfare scenario in South Africa. The major focus of most animal welfare organisations is on rescuing neglected, abused and lost animals. In the current crisis, where more and more animals arrive daily at [...]
Derek | March 9, 2011
The animal community, including the domestic animals in our care and the people who love them, is under siege, and the consequences are in our emails, in the media, and patent to anyone with even a modicum of common sense. The cause of these events are readily apparent to everyone, it seems, except Government: The [...]
Click here to have your RSS reader updated automatically when this Blog changes
