The blink-and-you-miss-it seal hunt, and its powerful legacy

By Azzo Rezori, CBC News

It came. I blinked. And it was over.

This year’s seal hunt, a non-event that took no more than two weeks.

“Sadly, our fight is not over”, insists this year’s statement by Cheryl Fink, director of wildlife campaign in Canada for the IFAW, or International Fund for Animal Welfare.

The statement comes with a video which shows quite hum-drum footage of seals leaving inevitable trails of blood as they’re being shot, hakapicked, and dragged across the ice …

CBC.ca – May 24, 2015 at 07:51 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoun…

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ROLDA: It’s not too late for Susy!

STOP SUSY’S PAIN!
Susy is NOT a ROLDA dog, she is a street dog. Like every summer, she is full of ticks and fleas. Like Susy, thousands of other adult dogs and puppies live a nightmare, suffering not only because of extreme heat, but also because of the external parasites who cause skin problems, itching, who also can transmit terrible diseases to people working with these dogs.

Luckily, for this problem, we have a solution!
But … we need you to make our solution possible and applicable, to put an end to hundreds of dogs’ suffering during next summer months!
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Sheep Suffer Verbal Abuse, PETA Claims

Australian sheep shearers accused of verbal cruelty

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff

(Newser) – Shearing sheep is one thing, activists say—and shearing them while shouting abusive language is quite another. That became the main argument in a recent PETA case against Australian sheep shearers who allegedly have potty mouths, ABC News Australia ( www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-21… ) reports …

Newser – May 23, 2015 at 5:00 PM
www.newser.com/story/207179/sh…

More information:

Is it OK to swear at sheep?
PETA complaint has Australian authorities investigating trash talk
www.wnd.com/2015/05/is-it-ok-t…

Read the full story:
time.com/3891987/sheep-swear-s…

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