by Sandra Kyle | Dec 15, 2020 | Animal Rights, animals in captivity
Humans have used, abused and slaughtered other animals since we have been walking upright. The power imbalance between us and other animals means that it is at best difficult, at worst futile, for them to resist us. But there have always been ‘rebel’...
by Sandra Kyle | Apr 20, 2020 | animals in captivity, ocean
‘If Honey’s death wasn’t tragic enough, even more so is the fact that even after getting international attention, she could not escape her tiny watery prison and spent the last year and a half of her life miserable. What about all the other captive marine animals...
by Sandra Kyle | Apr 17, 2020 | Animal cruelty, animals in captivity, wildlife
The Chinese government is promoting a bear bile derivative as a cure for Covid 19, without any evidence that it would work. As a result there could be an upsurge in the demand for bears for this cruel and inhumane treatment. The US is proposing The Bear Protection...
by Sandra Kyle | Apr 15, 2020 | animals in captivity, Mental illness in animals, ocean, Sentience
TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE DOLPHIN. This is the day we remember these wonderful mammals, and also the particular ways we continue to harm them. Here are a few facts about dolphins: Wild dolphins travel in extended family groupings called pods. A pod of wild...
by Sandra Kyle | Jan 26, 2020 | Animal cruelty, animals in captivity, wildlife
A jackdaw Heli Dungler rescued as a child and kept as a pet is credited with his realisation that wild animals needed to be in their own environment, with their own kind. “She had fallen out of the nest and I took her home and raised her” he said. ”She accompanied me...
