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If the screams and moans of
the animals used to provide for us could be heard, the sound would be deafening! If their misery and suffering could be felt by us, it
would be unbearable!.
HELP VIVA FIGHT THE MEGA DAIRY PRISON'S.
Viva are currently
fighting plans to stop a huge dairy prison. Cows already suffer horrendously for the dairy industry, and they need our help
to save them from these massive animal Belson's, before it's too late.
Without your help, these massive
animal prison's will spread across the UK. Could you live with this on your conscience, because I can't! So let's
do something about it!
Please contact Viva urgently on tel 0117 944 1000 - or check out their website www.viva.org.uk
ABUSE AT ANIMAL MARKET IN BUILGH WELLS
5th Dec 2009
The RSPCA are always asking for donations, yet seem very reluctant
to investigate animal cruelty at markets, unless they have a witness to the abuse and the animals are still in
situ. I was under the impression that the RSPCA had undercover investigators and not just inspectors to bring animal abusers
to justice, therefore preventing further suffering.
Just last Saturday, a member of the public tried unsuccessfully to
get through to the RSPCA to report around a hundred very dejected looking sheep left inside a pen at a
deserted market in Builgh Wells. These bedraggled muddied animals had been at this Market since Thursday (market
day is on a Friday) they'd had no food and more critically no water in over two days. When this lady approached
the animals, one lamb stood, then in despair, lay back down. Understandably, the witness to this cruelty told me she
cried.
Animal markets are a hot bed of animal cruelty, yet the RSPCA seem loathe to do anything about it, unless
a member of the public witnesses the abuse and an Inspector can turn out immediately to see it for himself.
So you might ask, where are all the undercover investigators? Or are these people ficticious and only availbale for TV programmes?
It would seem so!
If you live close to an animal market and are available to report
suffering, then please take incriminating photo's, revealing date, time and location and forward them to me at wacc@rocketmail.com You should also persist with your concerns as soon as possible to the RSPCA
03001234555
This animal welfare organisation are paid a lot of money from the public to look out for animals (and just
pets) in distress. Make your views known to them and don't let them fob you off with clinical one liners.
I once read that 90% of the worlds animal abuse is suffered by farm animals. And it’s easy to see why when you come across regular cases of neglect when taking to the hills. Mind you, you don’t need to go far to see how farm animals are treated, there are plenty of farms close to towns and villages with forlorn animals stuck in filthy sheds, in muck up to their knees.
But this story is about a dead lamb that we found after descending the ridge above Llyn Crafnant. As we approached, at first we thought he was asleep, but quickly realised he was dead but only just, he was still warm. I pulled him away from the wall and the first thing I noticed was his tongue, blue and very swollen, it also looked ulcerated and pustule and there was yellow discharge coming from his nostrils. I understood then, how he came to place his face inside that rock crevice, he must have been in sheer agony and the cool wall offered him some small relief from his suffering. A ewe close by was bleating pitifully, calling for her lamb; her desperate cries so heartbreaking, I’m not ashamed to say that I cried. I vowed to inform the authorities about it the next day, not least because I felt there might be a chance this lamb had died from “blue tongue” and I was concerned for the other lambs. Mind you I needn’t have bothered, Animal Health in Caernarfon were about as much use a chocolate fireguard. I gave them details of the area and where to find the body, but they rang me back a day later to say they couldn't find it. A week went by and I decided to go back and found what they couldn't, the rotting remains of the lamb that was now crawling with maggots. So not only had the farmer NOT removed the carcass as Vet Ms Humphries had "wrongly" assumed, but the farmer hadn’t even bothered to inspect his flock that week. I concluded that Animal Health, Caernarfon, were happy to leave the remains of this lamb [that may well have died from blue tongue] with the farmer they couldn’t even be bothered to identify. Now I’ll admit I'm not an expert on farm animal diseases, but the death of this poor animal should have been checked out properly, if only to rule out a rapidly spreading disease carried by mosquitos and which can devastate a whole flock, if they’re not immunised against it. I'm just amazed how these so-called health officials keep their jobs, when they’re clearly not up to it! I even spoke to a cyclist up at Crafnant who goes there regularly and was told he doesn't bother to inform the authorities anymore when he finds dead sheep, because they always tell him the same thing, “We've been to look and there's no evidence because the farmer removed the animals”. What are these people being paid for when they show no interest in reports from the public about dead animals left to rot? Personally, I’m sick of reporting distressing farm animal neglect and cruelty to authorities like Trading Standards and Animal Health Divisions, because they never do anything about complaints, unless of course it happens to be badgers that need killing? Is it any wonder that bTB is rife when lazy do little, publicly paid servants of the state are seemingly only interested in protecting farmers interests and not the animals, who as far they’re concerned can suffer and rot? Judi
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