Ann Smith
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"He's never seen himself in the mirror, so I tell him how handsome he is at least 20 times a day." He IS handsome too, don't you think?
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@WeAreNotFood Thank you so much for helping these sweet animals
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The Chinese rescue station Qiuqiu Manor, Nanjing, Jiangsu, rescued cats on December 2 2023. Here's the follow-up of the rescue:
"After the cat is rescued, it is not as simple as spreading out some food and water. They need a relatively closed space to relieve their emotions,
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It’s nearly 4 am and I just got home from the emergency animal hospital, but my baby girl wasn’t able to come home with me.
My sweet Boo passed away just after 1:30 am of congestive heart failure, and I am shattered. She was seemingly fine just three days ago and now, now she’s gone. Words cannot express how much I love and will miss her and how heartbroken I am over losing my sweet baby girl. 💔💔💔
Boo Bailey
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Little baby Fabio crossed the rainbow bridge this morning. We still cannot believe that this sweet, loving, vivacious baby is not with us any more. This is a whole new level of heartbreak. 💔
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Great tips in case you have little visitors in need of a drink when it’s freezing x
Hedgehog Cabin@HedgehogCabin
Many of you will have found the hedgehog's water frozen this morning. It's so important that they have access to ice free water - dehydration is just as dangerous in the winter months as it is in the summer months. If you haven't got a water heater (Google 'poultry water heater') these tips will help you keep the water ice-free:
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@HedgehogCabin Get them to a rescue because at this time of year they don’t stand a chance
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The phone is still ringing all day long.
Folk reporting hedgehogs seen out in the day.
Most casualties are just babies.
And every single one is suffering from sickness caused from starvation.
The callers are shocked.
They think hedgehogs love slugs, which are plentiful.
They don't.
Slugs carry deadly lungworm.
Hedgehogs eat beetles and caterpillars.
There are none about now so healthy full grown hedgehogs hibernate.
Those not able to reach that happy state will struggle on, desperately searching for something to eat, and eventually die of starvation or parasite invasion if they are not lucky enough to find a kind garden that provides food.
A dish of dry kitten biscuits will make the difference between life and death.
Please be that difference.
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@RobertoCardel18 Manila Zoo must never be allowed to have an Elephant exhibit again, shameful treatment of a beautiful animal 😡
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• @emmaveganforanimals So sorry Mali 😓
Mali the elephant was gifted to Manila Zoo when she was 3 years old. She was kept completely alone in a small concrete enclosure. Many pleas were made for her release to no avail. She earnt the reputation as the world’s saddest elephant.
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My beautiful boy, my little man, Domino has passed away and crossed the rainbow bridge. 🌈 I am absolutely heartbroken. He was 13.💔💔😭
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"Guilin Xiangshan Vegetable Market still sells #catmeat. It’s time for Wang Songyun, director of the Guilin Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, to go home and sell sweet potatoes!"/喜欢狐狸的程序员
At 9 am on November 30, 2023, a large number of live cats're found in Ximen
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Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia China, recently.
The words selling #dogmeat are posted on the glass of this couple's shop.
The dog doesn't naturally want to go inside because "All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death" Buddha
#torturetrade #wearenotfood
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The Princess of Wales attending the Cenotaph for the National Service of Remembrance over the last 9 years 🖤
#RemembranceDay2023
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I’m sorry to inform you all, but sadly teddy died on Monday at 9:05pm thank you for all the love you gave to teddy on his last few weeks ❤️🐾🐶
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@HedgehogCabin Thank you and her Rescuer for fighting for her. I hope she survives this awful ordeal 🙏🏻
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This poor sad, depressed girl is Elodie.
She's been so badly treated; used and exploited, by the very place her finder thought she could trust - a large wildlife rescue.
Originally taken to the rescue because the finder heard her coughing, the rescue commented how well she looked, how lovely her skin was. Then said she'd have to stay with them for 6 weeks.
That was 7th August.
And that was, unknown to the finder, the first big red flag. Even the longest treatment (lungworm) is completed in just 3 weeks.
Six weeks later the finder called, wanting to take Elodie home. She was told that Elodie had just given birth, and that she would have to stay another 6 weeks, in order to wean them.
That was the second big red flag, and one that made the finder grow suspicious.
Elodie had just given birth. Gestation is 5 weeks. Yet she'd been in care at the rescue for 6 weeks. By law, as they are a solitary animal, they must be housed alone in a rescue.
Becoming increasingly worried, and unable to wait the full 6 weeks, her finder called 5 weeks later, asking when she could collect Elodie and her babies.
She was told the babies had been rehomed, and that they couldn't come home with her as "it's not good to have too many hedgehogs in one place". Despite this one place being their home, the place where their mother lives and has immunity to the pathogens there, and where they would be cared and provided for daily.
The finder was extremely upset, but powerless to do anything, except ask that Elodie be returned to her. The rescue said she could have Elodie back, but warned her that she still had a cough and wasn't well.
The finder then contacted me.
I rang the rescue and was told lie after lie. They tried saying Elodie had a cough because she had 'scarred lungs' from lungworm infection.
This is utter nonsense.
Hedgehogs don't get scarred lungs (It's a human condition of the elderly, caused by Pulmonary Fibrosis - a lung disease where tissues tear and then thicken over the years). I have heard this made-up excuse many times from bad rescues who have not treated the hedgehog with the correct drugs, and don't know how to effect a cure for the simplest chest complaints, and have no medical knowledge (so assume no one else does).
I said the finder had asked me for a second opinion and I would be admitting Elodie and examining her.
The rescue refused to transfer her care to me. They said they would only release her to her finder.
So the following day, as arranged, the finder's brother drove the 45mins to the rescue to pick up Elodie.
The rescue suddenly changed their mind.
They turned him away, saying they'd just discovered Elodie had lungworm and were going to treat her, and she would need to stay another 7 to 10 days.
This poor, poor girl, this gentle helpless little animal had now been held captive, unwell, in terrible cramped conditions, untreated, for 10 weeks.
When your life expectancy is 3 years, 10 weeks is an eternity.
And she had been forced to give birth then had her babies taken from her.
(There are people who will pay to have a hedgehog in their garden. They don't want to do the work of putting out food and attracting one naturally, just want one as a finishing ornament. I get requests like this every single week of the year. I'm offered a 'substantial donation' for a baby hedgehog.)
Yesterday, poor sweet Elodie was finally released and was brought straight here.
The rescue refused to give any details of the drugs she's been given, so I can't give any for at least 2 weeks, for fear of overdosing her.
She's the sweetest girl, but is lifeless. Flat, depressed, not even curling up when lifted. Her skin is a mess of ringworm.
But she is safe now. And she has a huge pen and will be rehabilitated and returned home when well.
At one o'clock this morning she was still traumatised from her ordeal and hadn't left her bed. I gently took her out and showed her the food and water.
And I will be speaking to the rescue's manager and trustees. And if they don't agree to change their ways and convince me this won't happen again, I will be releasing their name to their benefactors and the charity commission.
For now, welcome to your new home, Elodie.❤️
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Tomorrow I cross rainbow bridge. I have a mass on my spleen and I’m not moving or eating. My pretend pawparents will see me off with my mom. Hug your fur children
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@PaulRBelgium I am so very sorry for this devastating news Paul. Please take time to look after yourself and ensure to get some rest whilst you continue to reach your goal. Thinking of you xx
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