Petition Tag - animal

July 15, 2006

Animal cruelty is one of the most baddest thing that happens in the world.

Read this site below:

www.ddfl.org/kids/rumor/page2.htm

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February 19, 2006

Every 2 minutes a sheep dies in transit. Cattle, too, are transported under horrific conditions. Your support is needed to end this shameful and barbaric practise by Australia!

These animals, raised by Australian farmers, are transported long distances within Australia to holding yards or feedlots. From there, they are taken and loaded onto enormous ships with as many as 60,000 animals on one vessel. The journey from the farm to slaughter can take up to three months.

The live animal export trade is inherently cruel, subjecting the animals involved to exhaustion, hunger, thirst, excessive heat and/or high levels of stress. Tens of thousands of Australian animals die every year on these journeys, while countless more suffer as a result of these conditions.

We are regularly told that live exports are necessary to satisfy traditional religious customs of the Middle East. Yet overseas markets which currently accept livestock from Australia WILL accept chilled meat that has been slaughtered in Australia according to their religious and cultural requirements. Currently there are 123 Halal-certified abattoirs in Australia that could slaughter livestock to meet these requirements.

In addition, while Australian communities in rural and regional areas struggle to recover from what is arguably the worst drought of the past century, the Australian government continues to send jobs overseas. While a lack of work is causing abattoirs throughout Australia to close down
Australian livestock continue to be exported for slaughter abroad. Exported livestock could instead be humanely slaughtered in Australian abattoirs, creating jobs and building stronger, more resilient economies in rural and regional communities and most importantly saving animals from intense suffering.

The live animal export trade must end. We call for the abolition of the live export trade, to be replaced with an expanded, and more humane, chilled meat trade.

OR BETTER STILL - BECOME A VEGETARIAN!

Mr Howard please note in the next Federal election - that Australians will not tolerate a Prime Minister who tolerates live animal export.

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Stop Cruelty to animals. They don't deserve to die.

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Stop discrimination against people and animals... mostly all living creatures. They have a life and feelings also, I'm sure you don't want people doing the same to you; as in: sexuality, opinions, looks, culture, religion, and any other things you would judge people for.

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Mr. Foley went to trial today, he was found guilty on 2 counts of animal cruelty, not 1 but 2!! He got the maximum jail time, 12 months in jail for each count, all but 2 months suspended, $500.00 fine for each count, an order to pay Buffy's vet bill and best of all, prohibited from owning any animals for 3 years and then only under supervision! I am very happy with this outcome. Thank you all so much for signing this, and the animals of Clarence Foley's thank you VERY MUCH!


We are asking the Courts of Patrick Co. to make sure justice is served against Clarence Foley, a man that performed a c-section on a little poodle at his home. The dog had no anesthesia, pain meds or anything. He tied her down to a table, taped her mouth shut and performed a c-section and then sewed her up with needle and thread, she survived as did two of the puppies. He did get the two puppies back as soon as they were weaned. Which I thought was very wrong but I am not law enforcement, unfortunately. Buffy is the poodle's name, she is so sweet and cute. He thinks he will get her back after his trial. She is boarding at a veterinarian clinic at the present time. I hope she goes to Lois, the girl working at the clinic that has been taking care of her for the last couple of months.

This man has been running a "puppy mill" for years and I don't want him to have one single animal for the rest of his life, I want him to go to jail for this heinous crime, and I hope he has to pay a large fine. He thinks he will get out of this. He still has several dogs, I saw them yesterday. I just don't think he deserves the love and companionship that an animal gives. That's why I started this petition, to make sure that this case gets attention and the courts will feel that something has to be done. Thank you all for your help in this cause.

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March 10, 2004

Animals should have equal rights.

If you test on animals, test on yourself instead!

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March 7, 2004

Just below the point where the Andes first begin to rise out of the Amazon Forest, the Urubamba River enters one of the most isolated places on earth.

This still un-exploited and largely un-charted region of Amazonia is partially protected by Manu National Park on its edge; past the far border of the national park and at the center of the forest is the Nahua-Kugapakori Indian Reservation. This land was granted by the Peruvian government to the thousands of indigenous people of that area.

Due to the inaccessability of the region, some of these people are still largely or even totally unaware of the outside world, that they are living on an Indian reservation, or that the country of Peru even exists. Also, due to the inaccessibility, stability, and natural-history of this area, the lower Urubamba river country has been proclaimed by numerous studies as the most biologically diverse on earth -- home to numerous ecosystem levels from lowland to cloud forests, rare black caimans, trees that -- according to legend -- walk on their roots, and the headwaters of the Amazon.

In the words of one study, the lower Urubamba is ¨the last place on earth¨ where anybody should be drilling for fossil fuels. Yet, inexplicably, in this heart of hearts of the Amazon Rainforest, the massive Camisea Gas Mega-Project is about to step in.

This project´s major corporate beneficiaries are White House connected Hunt Oil and Cheney subsidiary Halliburton Co.; both of these companies have terrifying, blundering environmental track records.

Their plan is to build platforms, roads and two pipelines from a huge concession in the middle of the forest and through the rugged Vilcabamba mountains, parts of which may have been untouched by human feet until explorers arrived in the 1960´s. 75 percent of Camisea platforms will likely be built in the Nahua-Kugapakori Reserve; this will not only disrupt the centuries-old ways of life of three or more nomadic tribes -- it also has historically meant, and is currently meaning, death for these people.

Though environmental impact reports have not been satisfactorily completed, construction in the lower Urubamba area is already well underway, with little or no supervision. Massive erosion is ensuing.

Environmental disruption has caused fish and wildlife to die off or disappear. This is not only a ripple of biological and ecological tragedy, it means isolated societies inside and outside of the reservation are now facing, possibly for the first time, that pre-imminent feature of our society - preventable chronic malnutrition.

At the same time, Camisea operatives are, for reasons of project productivity, actively and forcibly contacting uncontacted and voluntarily isolated tribes, in violation of the United Nations ILO Convention 169. This is ostensibly to sidestep the skirmishes which usually ensue in projects such as their´s, but the local peoples vulnerability is being actively -- and probably purposefully -- ignored.

However I, and we the undersigned, refuse to ignore the plight of these people and their land.

We are,

1) bearing in mind both the global and continent-wide environmental impact of pipe-line rupture, erosion, cultural degredation, and road building in the Urubamba.

2) bearing in mind that the Nahua tribe, first contacted in the 1980's during gas exploration in the region, lost nearly fifty-percent of its members to influenza and whooping cough epidemics in the few years following, and that now, as contact once again escalates in the latest stage of the project, stable, isolated or recently contacted tribes are once again being moved in upon by imported gastro-intestinal and respiratory diseases -- to which these Amazonian Indians still have no resistence.

We refuse to allow this project to continue -- it is not to late to stop it if we don´t give up!

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January 2004

We, the citizens of the United States, call on the elected House of Representatives to put forth a bill protecting the rights of dog and cat owners in cases of veterinary malpractice.

As the law stands right now, pet owners can only recover the fair market value of their dog or cat if that dog is maimed or killed due to the negligence of a veterinarian. This completely and utterly ignores the bonds which can be formed between human and animal.

To illustrate, take our case of Riff vs. Welleby Veterinary Medical Center - http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1058416390720 - where the Riff's are suing Dr. John Willie for the suffering and death of their 8 year old dog Lucky.

The attorney's representing he defendants have argued for 2 years that no matter how gross the negligence of the defendants was, the Riff's are only entitled to the $300 it cost to buy Lucky when he was only 8 weeks old.

Animal crulty laws are recognized in every state of the union, but sadly, this recognition has not moved into the civil area of the law. Its time that it should.

Present a bill that recognizes the bonds that can be shared between pet owner and animal and recognize that the destruction of that bond either through intentional or negligent action by both layperson or veterinarian, entitles that owner to the right of emotional damages not to exceed $100,000.

Please take the example of the Colorado bill below:

Companion Animal Bill

Statute Details
Printible Version
Citation: CO 03-1260 (2003)

Citation: House Bill Number 03-1260

Summary:
Permits an owner of an injured companion dog or cat under certain circumstances to recover damages for loss of companionship. Imposes an informed consent requirement on a veterinarian before he or she performs a service involving a substantial risk to a companion dog or cat. Exempts a veterinarian under certain circumstances from local and regional companion dog and cat inoculation requirements.

Statute in Full:
Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment.

Capital letters indicate new material to be added to existing statute.

Dashes through the words indicate deletions from existing statute.

First Regular Session
Sixty-fourth General Assembly
STATE OF COLORADO
INTRODUCED
LLS NO. 03-0611.01 Stephen Miller HOUSE BILL 03-1260

House Committees Senate Committees
Business Affairs & Labor
A BILL FOR AN ACT

CONCERNING CERTAIN DOMESTICATED ANIMALS IN THE ORDER CARNIVORA THAT ARE USED FOR PURPOSES OF COMPANIONSHIP, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, IMPOSING CIVIL LIABILITY FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY AND NEGLIGENT ANIMAL HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES AFFECTING COMPANION DOGS AND CATS, AND ESTABLISHING SPECIFIC STANDARDS OF VETERINARY PRACTICE INVOLVING INOCULATIONS FOR COMPANION DOGS AND CATS.

Bill Summary
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted.)

HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
Cloer, and Hefley

SENATE SPONSORSHIP
Chlouber, and Andrews

Permits an owner of an injured companion dog or cat under certain circumstances to recover damages for loss of companionship. Imposes an informed consent requirement on a veterinarian before he or she performs a service involving a substantial risk to a companion dog or cat.

Exempts a veterinarian under certain circumstances from local and regional companion dog and cat inoculation requirements.

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