animalman | February 23, 2010
Over the last few weeks, we have featured several cases of neglect and cruelty – Councillor Woods’ dog, who was starved, and her puppies died; Lucky Lucy who escaped with her life after being tied to a railway track; the little fox terrier buried alive, also named Lucky; the horse that was still being used [...]
animalman | February 8, 2010
(It’s great when the public respond to situations, and it’s even better when the animal escapes what would have been a slow and agonising death. What kind of person does this to an animal? In my opinion they should be behind bars, since they are a threat to society. I would like to point out [...]
animalman | February 1, 2010
(Often, it is only a series of fortuitous events that leads to the discovery of cruelty, and this may well have gone unnoticed had it not been for the chance meeting of rescue workers with an unknown man. In many cases, it is only rescue workers that stand in the gap between cruelty and justice, [...]
animalman | January 25, 2010
(We have a serious problem when the police, the people assigned the duty of upholding the law, seem to look the other way when it comes to animals. Whether it is in ignoring the lawbreakers who light fireworks in the presence of animals, or obvious abuse in the cased detailed below, it seems the rule [...]
animalman | January 18, 2010
(There are some tough women working in animal welfare in South Africa, and they don’t come any tougher than Nikki Botha. Here is a copy of her recent response to some of the weakest justifications I have ever seen from a political party. If you want to see the letter from Geordin Hill-Lewis that prompted [...]
