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Idaho Authorities Say Rising Feed Costs Causing Surge in Neglect Cases
Authorities in northern Idaho who recently found four dead horses and eight others that were malnourished say high feed prices could lead to more such cases.
"We all know that hay and feed prices are skyrocketing and that causes some people to not properly nourish their animals," said Kootenai County sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger. "We need to hear about that."
Animal control officers last week found two dead horses at the former Coeur d'Alene Auction Yards, along with eight malnourished horses and five others that appeared OK. Officers gave the unidentified owner instructions for proper care.
But when authorities returned on Monday they found nothing had changed and seized the horses. Authorities then checked another site that Wolfinger said is owned by the same person and found two more dead horses.
In all, 13 horses were seized, and are being held by Panhandle Equine Rescue. They are being treated by veterinarians, officials said.
Wolfinger said an investigation should be complete next week, at which time the county prosecutor's office will decide whether to file charges.
Christy Hilbert, manager of Rathdrum Country Store, said hay prices have gone from $97 per ton last year to more than $180 a ton this year.
"I think it's a big problem," said Hilbert, who said she had to sell two of her horses so she could feed the other three.
Drought and farmers switching from growing hay to growing corn for ethanol are among the factors that have contributed to rising hay prices.
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Title: Hay Selection Speaker: Matt Shane, Michigan State University Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Time: 7:00 PM EDT My Horse University is excited to present a free live web presentation featuring Matt Shane from Michigan State University. In his presentation, Mr. Shane will discuss hay selection. When it comes to selecting the right hay for your horse, green is good. However, that is not the only selection factor. This presentation will help horse owners learn about the other factors that go into choosing the right hay for their horses. This presentation will also include information on pricing, storage, and hay waste. Presenter Info: Matt Shane is the County Extension Director (CED) for Michigan State University in Lenawee County. He is also the Multi-county Livestock Educator for several Southeast Michigan counties. Shane graduated from Michigan State University in 1994 with a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science and with a Master of Science degree in Animal Science in 1998. As a livestock educator, Shane works primarily with horse, beef and sheep producers. His primary subject areas are hay and pastures, manure management issues, and facilities. Many of the livestock owners in SE Michigan desire a forage management system involving little or no chemical inputs. Shane has worked with many producers to develop sustainable forage management strategies. Computer Requirements: High-speed internet access is required to participate in this event. Register Today: Please register by visiting www.myhorseuniversity.com/webpresentation For more information, please contact My Horse University Client Services at info@myhorseuniversity.com or call 517-353-3123. My Horse University My Horse University is a national online program for horse enthusiasts based at Michigan State University, one of the top U.S. universities in equine science and management in partnership with eXtension’s HorseQuest and Equisearch.com. This program offers equine education courses and resources that you can tailor to achieve your horse-management goals. To learn more, please visit www.myhorseuniversity.comMore Info
In black you can read the word GOOD, in white the word EVIL (inside each black letter is a white letter). It's all very physiological too, because it visualize the concept that good can't exist without evil
(or the absence of good is evil ).
Now, what do you see?
You may not see it at first, but the white spaces read the word optical, the blue landscape reads the word illusion. Look again! Can you see why this painting is called an optical illusion?
What do you see here?
This one is quite tricky!
The word TEACH reflects as LEARN.
Last one.
What do you see?
You probably read the word ME in brown, but.......
when you look through ME
you will see YOU!
Test Your Brain
ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST Count every " F " in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS... (SEE BELOW)
HOW MANY ? WRONG, THERE ARE 6-- no joke. READ IT AGAIN ! Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.
The reasoning behind is further down. The brain cannot process "OF".
Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!
Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius. Three is normal, four is quite rare.
Send this to your friends. It will drive them crazy.! And keep them occupied For several minutes..!
More Brain Stuff . . . From Cambridge University .
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Homo sapiens, a member of the order Primates with highly evolved mental capabilities."
You might think these brain tests are cool and benign. As I was looking for more I found this from Wikipedia. Caution. Do not go to links if you cannot handle reading and seeing what 'human beings' do to other primates.
If you want to read what else we do as the more evolved creature, which is cold blooded calculated torture, read the experiments on Cambridge University Primates. And the varience of the licence does not account that these are violations against living breathing feeling creatures, that laugh and cry like you and I, even if you don't understand what they say and think. And I know there are those of you who think that animal testing gets Human Beings better health and longer lives. For the sacrifice of others do you appreciate or thank them?
Monkeys imported for experimentation in a crate. Credit: BUAV
Humans are recognized as persons and protected in law by the United NationsUniversal Declaration of Human Rights[8] and by all governments, though to varying degrees. Non-human primates are not classified as persons. The status of non-human primates has generated much debate, particularly through the Great Ape Project[9] which argues for the personhood of the non-human members of the family Hominidae. In 1995 Ignaas Spruit, director of Leiden (Netherlands) based Pro-Primates organization, went farther, as he proposed that some rights should be recognized to all non-human primates.[10] In the same way, the American anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton, enlarging the sense of the famous quote by Terence, used to say "Primas sum: primatum nil a me alienum puto", that is to say: “I am a primate; nothing about primates is outside of my bailiwick”[11].
Animal testing - Thousands of primates are used every year around the world in scientific experiments because of their psychological and physiological similarity to humans. Chimpanzees, baboons, marmosets, macaques, and green monkeys are most commonly used in these experiments. In the European Union, around 10,000 were used in 2004, with 4,652 experiments conducted on 3,115 non-human primates in the UK alone in 2005.[12] As of 2004, 3,100 non-human primates were living in captivity in the United States, in zoos, circuses, and laboratories, 1,280 of them being used in experiments.[9] European campaign groups such as the BUAV are seeking a ban on all primate use in experiments as part of the European Union's current review of existing law on animal experimentation.
(CBS4)FT. LAUDERDALE Imagine driving down the road and witnessing someone throw tiny, defenseless kittens from the window of a moving car. It’s a horrific thought to most anybody and it happened Monday in Fort Lauderdale.
According to Broward Sheriffs Office, witnesses saw a man throw three kittens about 12 weeks old and an adult female cat from the moving truck on the southbound entrance ramp from Oakland Park Boulevard to I-95 on Monday morning.
The kittens were hit by other cars and killed but the mother cat was saved after being picked up by good Samaritans who called police. The rescued kitten was transported to the Bayview Animal Hospital where it’s being treated. The cat lost all of its claws from trying to grip the asphalt when it was tossed from the moving vehicle.
The witnesses who will take care of the cat once it is released from the vet have named the cat “Freeway.”
Police have issued a “be on the lookout” for a white pickup truck with dark tinted windows and a Florida tag number R78 6IZ.
Puerto Rico pets hurled off bridge - Americas - MSNBC.com SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Animal control workers seized dozens of dogs and cats from housing projects in the town of Barceloneta and hurled them from a bridge to their deaths, authorities and witnesses said Friday. Mayor Sol Luis Fontanez blamed a contractor hired to take the animals to a shelter.
"This is an irresponsible, inhumane and shameful act," he told The Associated Press.
Fontanez said the city hired Animal Control Solution to clear three housing projects of pets after warning residents about a no-pet policy. He said the city paid $60 for every animal recovered and another $100 for each trip to a shelter in the San Juan suburb of Carolina.
Raids were conducted on Monday and Wednesday, and residents told TV reporters they saw the animal control workers inject the animals. When they asked what they were giving them, they said they were told it was a sedative for the drive to the shelter.
"They came as if it were a drug raid," said Alma Febus, an animal welfare activist. "They took away dogs, cats and whatever animal they could find. Some pets were taken away in front of children."
But instead of being taken to a shelter, the pets and strays were thrown 50 feet from a bridge in the neighboring town of Vega Baja, according to Fontanez, witnesses and activists, apparently before dawn Tuesday.
"Many were already dead when they threw them, but others were alive," said Jose Manuel Rivera, who lives next to the bridge. "Some of the animals managed to climb to the highway even though they were all battered, but about 50 animals remained there, dead."
Rivera said he alerted officials, who spread lime over the animals' corpses to control the stench.
Animal Control Solution owner Julio Diaz said he went to the bridge when he heard of the allegations, but remains unconvinced that the dead animals are the same ones his company collected.
"We have never thrown animals off any place. We always take them to our local shelter and euthanize them," he said. "They can't prove that they are the same dogs that we picked up."
Fontanez said he would cancel the city's contract with Animal Control Solution and said city lawyers were considering a lawsuit.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has a rule allowing locally owned and operated housing authorities to set pet rules, but it does not grant authority for a blanket ban or mass confiscation, said Brian Sullivan, an HUD spokesman in Washington.
Asked to comment on the reported pet massacre, Sullivan said: "This sickens me if true."
Animal rights activists have long criticized the treatment of pets in Puerto Rico, where there is no pet registration law and little spaying or neutering. Animal shelters are overwhelmed and must kill many of the dogs they receive, according to Victor Collazo, president of the island's Association of Medical Veterinarians.
One organization recruits volunteers to take dogs home with them on commercial flights, and sends between 1,500 and 2,000 dogs a year from Puerto Rico to American shelters.
At least 175 dogs have been rescued in the last couple of years from Yabucoa Beach, which activists nicknamed "Dead Dog Beach" because of the strays that roam the coast and are sometimes found dead of disease, starvation or gunshots. Similar rescue efforts have been undertaken in the Bahamas and elsewhere in the Caribbean.
Associated Press writer Ben Fox contributed to this story from San Juan.
By OMAR MARRERO, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
Stray dogs the latest souvenir from Puerto Rico Updated: 6:28 p.m. ET Sept 28, 2007 Tourists bring pups back to U.S., but critics worry this overcrowds shelters
YABUCOA, Puerto Rico - Some visitors to Puerto Rico are leaving with an unusual souvenir — one of the thousands of scrappy abandoned dogs that roam the island’s beaches.
Hundreds of abandoned canines are being scooped up and flown to the U.S.: some by tourists unexpectedly touched by their plight, others as part of an expensive organized rescue effort.
But critics say the canine airlift does little to reduce the problem of stray dogs in Puerto Rico and ends up fueling overcrowding at the U.S. shelters, where many of the dogs inevitably end up.
At least 175 dogs have been rescued in the last couple of years from Yabucoa Beach, which activists nicknamed “Dead Dog Beach” because of the strays that roam the coast and are sometimes found dead of disease, starvation or gunshots. Similar rescue efforts have been undertaken in the Bahamas and elsewhere in the Caribbean.
The Save A Sato Foundation — “sato” is Puerto Rican for mutt — recruits volunteers to bring dogs back on commercial flights and sends between 1,500 and 2,000 dogs a year from Puerto Rico to American shelters, where they are often quickly adopted.
Not a solution Other dogs return unexpectedly with American tourists, who often call the Humane Society International seeking advice on how to bring back dogs they find in the Caribbean.
Christina Aquilino, 39, of Mendon, Mass., has flown to Puerto Rico twice to bring back abandoned dogs on her own initiative after she adopted a Puerto Rican Jack Russell-terrier mix named Odie in her hometown.
She has spent more than $800 on airline tickets, staying less than 24 hours on the island each time. The dogs often ride in crates in the cargo hold, but Aquilino brought two tiny Chihuahua look-alikes back home with her in the cabin.
“It’s money well-spent,” she said. “To see these dogs board the planes ... it brings tears to my eyes.”
But the Humane Society discourages such measures and instead wants Puerto Rico and other parts of the Caribbean to develop their own animal welfare programs, said Kelly O’Meara, its director of international programs.
Herminio Rodriguez / AP
Abandoned dogs are seen in "Dead Dog Beach," an area that has become a dumping ground for unwanted pets in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico.
“We don’t see importing animals into the U.S. as a solution,” she said. “We have our share of homeless animals already.”
However, some shelter managers in the U.S. say some people specifically ask for “satos” from Puerto Rico or “potcakes” from the Bahamas, named after the discarded “cake” that a peas-and-rice dish leaves at the bottom of a pot.
“Potcakes seem to be pretty athletic,” said Bridget Barry, a veterinarian at a shelter in Ithaca, N.Y. “I guess you have to be tough to survive on the streets.”
Little help At Yabucoa Beach, scores of dogs roam an abandoned marina, surviving on garbage scraps and drinking from salty puddles but attracting little public sympathy or attention from Puerto Rico’s government.
There’s no pet registration law in Puerto Rico and little spaying or neutering, so animal shelters are overwhelmed and must kill many of the dogs they receive, said Victor Collazo, president of the island’s Association of Medical Veterinarians.
Florida-based Manos por Patas — Hands for Paws — recruits veterinarians to help control strays in Puerto Rico by spaying and neutering, while also seeking volunteers to fly them to the U.S.
The group has helped rescue about 175 dogs in recent years from Yabucoa Beach, said Ginny Cornett, a biologist from Florida who visits Puerto Rico a couple times a year. But most strays are too sick or aggressive to travel, so they are spayed or neutered and released back into the wild.
Dog-lovers have to do something, Cornett said.
“After you see it,” she said, “you can’t walk away.”
Herminio Rodriguez / AP ~ Daniella Wooddell, of the Florida-based nonprofit organization Manos por Patas or Hands for Paws, feeds an abandoned dog at "Dead Dog Beach," an area that has become a dumping ground for unwanted pets in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of abandoned canines are being scooped up from Puerto Rico and other islands by visiting volunteers and flown to U.S. shelters, where some of the castoffs are prized as exotic pets.
My mission in life is to help others be it Animal, Human, or Mother Earth. I do tend to become zealous, and neglect taking care of myself to help others. I recently realized if I don’t I will be replaced in two seconds or they will learn again to do for themselves. Don’t forget to be good to yourselves! Don't let Stress kill you! Find time to do what you love and enjoy!
Trying to find balance. Effort for a healthy mind, body, spirit, and home. My spirituality is important to me every day.
I enjoy books, movies, music, being a computerholic. I am learning to be a geek but I really am a better surfer.
Found the joy of my life again, after being rescued from the Door we all await, called Death. I was thinking for almost a year that I was only here for being in the service of others. Now I am happy again for me. 2007
May those who love us Love us And those who don't love us May God turn their hearts And if he can't turn their hearts May he turn their ankles So we will know them by their limping! May you live as long as you want And never want as long as you live May the best day of your past Be the worst day of your future
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(CBS4) FT. LAUDERDALE Imagine driving down the road and witnessing someone throw tiny, defenseless kittens from the window of a moving car. It’s a horrific thought to most anybody and it happened Monday in Fort Lauderdale.
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