Tag: dogs

Rescued Lab Beagles step out of their cages for the first time

Forty beagles that were being used for lab testing in Spain found out what grass and outdoors were like for the first time.

All the male beagles, which are between 4 and 7 years old, have lived in cages their entire lives, according to Gary Smith of the Beagle Freedom Project.

The Beagle Freedom Project has a longer version:

Beagles are often used in lab testing of products, including cosmetics, because of their ‘docile and trusting’ personalities.

Mr Smith added: ‘Beagles are incredibly sweet, docile, companion animals.
‘The downfall is, the same reason the beagle is a perfect companion animal, is the same reason they’re used for testing.’

For more information on the rescue operations or adopting one of the beagles, go to ARME’s website.

Stay with your dogs as they die

You know those anonymous post cards that i forget the details about but people would send in saying random things they learned about life or personal secrets or world truths or whatever? read this one and feel your soul collapse into itself like a black hole of Sadz:

Extra crusher (for me): the pup behind the card-in-the-card looks a lot like my yellow lab, Buddy, who died a few days after Christmas in 09, so I was still at my parents house when he went and it just so happened that it was right before my dad left for work so the 3 of us were all around him, giving him a comforting pet as he sailed off into the blackness.

The thought of an animal, whose world is so limited as to not know much OF a world beyond its owner, being without that owner as it possibly panics or feels abandoned as its life fades away = heartbreaking šŸ™

UPDATE: visual reference/remembranceĀ of Buddy:


River Puppy killer

Recently a video of a teenager chucking a bucket load of newborn puppies one by one into what was later identified as the Vrbas River appeared on the internet. It’s disturbing and really puts the lameness of the outrage over that lady in England who put a cat in a trash bin several weeks ago (as the UK Sun summarizes: bank worker Mary Bale caused worldwide outrage when she was caught on CCTV dumping a cat in a wheelie bin). Watch if you dare….

The river is in Bosnia and apparently the Bosian police are now investigating this incident and have identified the girl but the suspect is apparently NOT named Katja Puschnik as was previously posted online. She’s a minor so her info hasn’t been publicly released.

The girl’s parents were ordered to attend a police station near their hometown in Bogojno. From the Sun:

“Her parents will be responsible, and then her school, and then the entire society. The girl’s education was not a good one.”

Meanwhile, a German girl who was wrongly suspected of being behind the sick stunt has received death threats despite being cleared by police.

The 19-year-old – identified only as Claudia P, for her own safety – was named on a Facebook group as the girl in the film.

Her phone number and address were published on the page.

German police spokesman Peter Reichl said: “She received several hundred calls and even death threats.

“But she is not the girl shown in the clip.”