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Drivers Stop Their Car to Rescue Dog Who Leads Them to a Surprise
By:Laura S. September 29, 2015
Written by Edina Pasic in Sarajevo, Bosnia
In the middle of the busy highway we saw a female dog running totally confused between cars and trucks. The cars were passing very fast, so I screamed. My teammate Caki stopped the car and tried to get over to her slowly. She was so scared that she started to run away from him. Luckily he managed to chase her over to a widening, so I called on her while Caki went back to get the car. We had left it in the middle of the highway.
After a while, I didn’t even know what I was talking to her about anymore. I begged her to stay there with me. She looked at me obediently. Her eyes were sad and looked bad. She was full of scars. I cried with her. Her breasts were hanging to the floor.
Luckily we had some food in the car. When we gave her some food she ate very fast. It was hard to believe, she ate big cans of food. She was so puffed that we didn’t know if she was with puppies or if she had already had them. We also gave her some doggy crackers. She ate two, took the third in her mouth and started to walk away from us, back towards the highway. It was warm. The cracker (she was planning to give to her puppies) melted in her mouth. She swallowed it and continued going towards the road.
We realized that she had puppies waiting for her, since she was going back. I followed her on foot and Caki with the car. She didn’t run from me anymore. We walked on the edge of the highway together. My heart stopped every time a big truck or a car rushed by. I’ll never forget that. Even now, while I’m writing this, I start to cry.
We walked for about 1.5 kilometers. Just imagine how far she has walked to find food. Imagine how hungry she must have been. She kept turning around to see if I was still following her, like she was taking me to see her babies. We came to a hill and she started going up. There was only one house there, only one. We went to the house and she led me to a shed. I heard the puppies cry for their mother. I couldn’t see how many there were because the shed was filled with clutter.
I decided to knock on the front door of the house and ask them about this little family. An older man opened the door and immediately got mad when I asked about them. I was already upset about this poor dog, so this was the last thing I needed. He told me he was planning to take them somewhere far away when his son came over with the car. He had already planned this for a very long time, but sadly for him and luckily for them, he didn’t have a car. I asked him to help me gather them up and I would take them with me. He was shocked. I asked him how many babies there were. He told me that she had originally given birth to five puppies, but three had died and only two survived. Poor Mimosa was wagging her tail when the owner of the house came towards her. Even though he didn’t love her, she still loved him.
His wife, being more humane then him, started to cry and told me she had been feeding them in secret from her husband. These poor lives. We first placed the puppies in a box, then the mother. She didn’t protest, she trusted me. I started to cry again. Thinking back, I think it was more from the shock.
To learn more or to help with Edina and Caki’s rescue of hundreds of dogs and cats each year, click the link below.
She Gave Me Kisses the Whole Way
The mommy gave me kisses the whole way. She’s now in a pension with her son and daughter, waiting for their forever homes. She’s great with people. When she’s outside with her babies at the pension, she growls at the other dogs that get too close to her babies, looking out for them. She is very kind. We are now struggling to keep them safe here until they get new homes. I rescue hundreds of animals like these all year long. Learn more about the effort to support Edina and Caki’s animal rescue work in Bosnia.
Help Give Animals a New Life After Years of Laboratory Experiments
On June 6, 2011 ARME received a call that 9 beagles were being released from a life of research inside a laboratory.
The dogs had lived their entire lives inside a research laboratory, knowing nothing except the confines of metal cages. They had known no soft human touch, no warm bed, no companionship, no love.
For today’s Daily Action, see what happens when, after years of being poked and prodded, these beagles were FREE!This lucky group of dogs are just a few of the many Beagle Freedom Project has since freed from laboratories across the U.S. Explore howyoucan join Beagle Freedom Project’s mission of rescuing animals used in research laboratories and give them a chance at life in a loving forever home.
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Urge the EPA to Save Bees!
Many of the foods we eat depend on the crops pollinated by honeybees. Due to the increased agricultural use of insecticides, these bees are disappearing at an alarming rate. To ensure our food security, the EPA must take the needed steps to save bees.
For today’s Secondary Action, tell the EPA to protect bees and other pollinators.
Native pollinators like bees play an essential role in the environment and are an indispensable part of our agricultural system. Many foods that we eat depend on crops pollinated by honeybees and 90% of all flowering plants require pollinators to reproduce. But in recent years, bees and other pollinators have been disappearing at alarming rates, causing widespread concern that these important species could be wiped out altogether.
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After 37 Years, Mila the Elephant Meets Another of Her Kind
by Alicia Graef, February 24, 2014
The dream of a former caretaker at the Franklin Zoo in New Zealand is finally being realized with the sweet introduction of two elephants, Mila and Mary.
Mila, who is now 41, has spent almost her entire life alone. She was born in Namibia in 1973 and, like many others who find themselves in captivity, was taken from her home and her family shortly after.
Mary is the first elephant Mila has seen in 37 years.
The two meet through a barrier at the San Diego Zoo for the first time.
Mila and Mary’s introduction is as heartwarming as they come, and clearly part of an effort to do what’s best for Mila at this point. However, a more important part of her story is how she got here in the first place and why she spent so much time alone.
After being torn from her family, Mila was moved to a zoo in Honolulu where she was reportedly bullied by other elephants. When she was 4-years-old, Mila was bought by trainer Tony Ratcliffe and flown to New Zealand to join the Whirling Brothers Circus. There she was known as Jumbo and was taught tricks, with the use of a bullhook, that she would be forced to perform for crowds for more than 30 years.
During that time, she spent long periods shackled to a short chain in her trailer where she was observed swaying back and forth, which is a stereotypical behavior of an elephant who is suffering from psychological distress that has never been observed in the wild.
Cats today, in the crowded cities most people live, need to be taken care of to survive.
From being worshiped by Egyptians, they got burnt alive and tortured by the beastly Catholic Inquisition, to an unscrupulous commercialization and breeding … it is our decision what option we will offer them.
Abandoned cats (and dogs) in the street do not live, they just survive an average of 15 months, they die of hunger or by eating rubbish their teeth become loose and their organs deteriorated, rats transmit them diseases that they are no longer able to resist, they get AIDS (different virus from the one that affect humans, but similar symptoms and death if not treated), they get leukemia that is transmitted in water to those cats which have not been vaccinated against feline leukemia, they get Mycoplasma Haemofelis which is transmitted by fleas, and other illnesses, or cars hit them, stupid and evil people poison or torture them or kill them in different ways, etc.
It is for all these reasons, and many more, that cats and dogs are not animals to abandon to “their luck” in the streets. They are not lucky in the streets, they get luckier when good people adopt them responsibly as part of their families to live in their homes.
They are domestic because they need human care to live healthily and well.
Sterilization (neutering and spaying) is the key to help them, males are less aggressive so they do not hurt each other and do not get contagious diseases such as VIF, VILeF (AIDS and leukemia) or serious wounds, females do not have to fight to protect themselves, to defend their kittens, to get food or to die if there are complications when delivering the kittens. Newborns will not die under the wheel of a car, or in the mouth of a dog, or a disease, or of hunger, or of cold, or of hot, or in the hands of evil humans (like in the Inquisiton but today) …
If we cannot take care of them properly, we must, at least, sterilize and vaccinate those ones abandoned in the streets, and propose and organize a responsible adoption” in our communities. But since finding homes for all of them is really difficult, sterilization is the key to stop and reduce this suffering and cruelty that abandoned and abused animals suffer.
If we all do this, with cats and dogs in our neighbourhoods, we will easily help them to enjoy life and die with dignity.
It is our responsibility, we can all do something little to help them and to help ourselves get a better environment and community. And why not, a better world. If one day there are no more abused and abandoned animals, that day humans will have learnt to cherish our planet Earth and to live near happiness and dignity.
Teaching to respect animals is the best example you can give, it will then be transferred to any vulnerable creature, even humans are vulnerable when they are babies, or old, or ill, or in need… We can all be that abandoned cat or dog who needs care and respect.
If we continue ignoring the message nature is sending us, with for example the weather changes, and we keep on destroying everything around us on this planet, the next endangered species… will surely be us.
Cats today, in the crowded cities most people live, need to be taken care of to survive.
From being worshiped by Egyptians, they got burnt alive and tortured by the beastly Catholic Inquisition, to an unscrupulous commercialization and breeding … it is our decision what option we will offer them.
Abandoned cats (and dogs) in the street do not live, they just survive an average of 15 months, they die of hunger or by eating rubbish their teeth become loose and their organs deteriorated, rats transmit them diseases that they are no longer able to resist, they get AIDS (different virus from the one that affect humans, but similar symptoms and death if not treated), they get leukemia that is transmitted in water to those cats which have not been vaccinated against feline leukemia, they get Mycoplasma Haemofelis which is transmitted by fleas, and other illnesses, or cars hit them, stupid and evil people poison or torture them or kill them in different ways, etc.
It is for all these reasons, and many more, that cats and dogs are not animals to abandon to “their luck” in the streets. They are not lucky in the streets, they get luckier when good people adopt them responsibly as part of their families to live in their homes.
They are domestic because they need human care to live healthily and well.
Sterilization (neutering and spaying) is the key to help them, males are less aggressive so they do not hurt each other and do not get contagious diseases such as VIF, VILeF (AIDS and leukemia) or serious wounds, females do not have to fight to protect themselves, to defend their kittens, to get food or to die if there are complications when delivering the kittens. Newborns will not die under the wheel of a car, or in the mouth of a dog, or a disease, or of hunger, or of cold, or of hot, or in the hands of evil humans (like in the Inquisiton but today) …
If we cannot take care of them properly, we must, at least, sterilize and vaccinate those ones abandoned in the streets, and propose and organize a responsible adoption” in our communities. But since finding homes for all of them is really difficult, sterilization is the key to stop and reduce this suffering and cruelty that abandoned and abused animals suffer.
If we all do this, with cats and dogs in our neighbourhoods, we will easily help them to enjoy life and die with dignity.
It is our responsibility, we can all do something little to help them and to help ourselves get a better environment and community. And why not, a better world. If one day there are no more abused and abandoned animals, that day humans will have learnt to cherish our planet Earth and to live near happiness and dignity.
Teaching to respect animals is the best example you can give, it will then be transferred to any vulnerable creature, even humans are vulnerable when they are babies, or old, or ill, or in need… We can all be that abandoned cat or dog who needs care and respect.
If we continue ignoring the message nature is sending us, with for example the weather changes, and we keep on destroying everything around us on this planet, the next endangered species… will surely be us.
On June 6, 2011 ARME received a call that 9 beagles were being released from a life of research inside a laboratory.
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