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Peggy Ann Bliss
gives the 21-gun salute three times this Saturday to fallen heroes .In her
bi-monthly column Best Friends in The San Juan STAR, she
will remember Australian naturalist Steve Irwin, the fallen canine heroes of Sept. 11, 2001, and the many Puerto Rican manatees
that have succumbed to selfish boaters in San Juan Bay and the Condado Lagoon.Read more about it
this Saturday in the Portfolio section.
Goodbye to the Croc
Hunter
By Peggy Ann Bliss
The death of Australian wildlife conservationist
and eccentric daredevil is being mourned by most people today, despite many people’s feelings that this kind of entertainment
has gotten out of hand.
Nevertheless, Steve Irwin was not a bad guy.
In fact, he was one of the good guys. And we need all the good guys were can get.
Steve got a lot of people enthusiastic about
animals and conversation and that can be nothing but good. He will go down in history as a martyr to the cause, and his children
can be proud of him, but it is a shame he had to leave them and us, so soon.
The ebullient environmentalist, one of Australia
's best known exports, was killed when he was lashed in the chest by a stingray's poison barb while filming underwater on
the Great Barrier Reef on Monday.
Born Stephen Robert Irwin in the southern
city of Melbourne in 1962, the future "Crocodile Hunter" was exposed to such creatures from the earliest age by his reptile-enthusiast
plumber father Bob and mother Lyn.
When he was 8 , his family moved to Queensland
to launch a reptile park, where he helped care for and feed the crocs which he soon adopted.He is best known for his documentary
films with titles like Croc Files and Croc Diaries.
Homeless cocker gets "Annie" role
It was the kiss that did it.
A homeless taffy-colored cocker spaniel got tapped for a walk-on role in the upcoming production of Annie
on Broadway, winning over another 10 contestants for the role.
Whiskey, who was surrendered by his owner,
showed no fear of the cameras, chased a cookie thrown for him and, to top it off gave an unexpected kiss to the leading lady,
12-year-old Marissa O'Donnell.
The little girl said Whiskey was her first
choice, because he was calmer than the other dogs.
"Annie," which returns to New York in December
after a 10-year-hiatus, is the story of an orphan girl and her dog Sandy as they look for a family. Sandy is played by Lola,
found at the Connecticut Humane Society. Whiskey has a minor canine role.
"We needed a poised and confident dog and
we found that in Whiskey," said dog trainer Brian Hoffman.
Anne-Marie Karash, director of the New York
Humane Society, said she hoped the role would help Whiskey and his son Cocoa find a new home. Their owners turned them over
to the shelter because they were no longer able to care for them. PAB September 2006
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"Malanga Bar"
coming soon to Ocean Park !
A girl I know lives on the 4th floor of an apartment building, and even though it is a fairly
good neighborhood, she has been having trouble with a Peeping Tom who lives next door.
Every time she goes out on her balcony to catch a bit of sun while wearing her bikini, this Peeping Tom looks
over from his balcony and stares at her.
She has complained to the superintendent
about this Peeping Tom, but he says she must have positive proof before he can do a thing --
She FINALLY got a picture of him while he was staring at her.
A salute to our canine heroes
If this dog looks bedraggled and dirty, it's because he has spent hundreds of hours looking through rubble for bodies
and survivors at Ground Zero during the first few days after the horrendous terrorist acts of Sept. 11, 2001 at the Twin Towers.
Dozens of dogs like this risked their lives to get out hundreds of buried survivors and thousands of remains of the dead.
Pure Bliss salutes them, and all the companion animals who died in the aftermath of the disaster. We also honor animal rescuers
who were able to rescue some of the animals abandoned in apartments without food or water. All are unsung heroes of that fateful
day in our history. PAB Sept. 2006
Experimenters at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and Oregon State University (OSU) are cutting open and
killing gay sheep in order to try to find a "cure" for homosexual tendencies. Please click on the link below to write
to each of these schools and tell them to stop these pointless, cruel, and homophobic experiments. http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/p2gaysheepexperiments?rk=g7NAR311QzrFW
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Una mano para la noble langosta
Al menos una compañía que vende comida
ha decidido tener piedad con las langostas y no cocinarlos vivos. No se ha explicado como lo hacen, pero entendemos que será
con una eutanasia menos cruel que el hervirlo vivo.
Eso después de la decisión de la
ciudad de Chicago a prohibir el paté de foie gras, o hígado de ganso, por la manera cruel en que se fabrica.
Existe evidencia científica de que
las langostas sienten. Tienen sistema nervioso y sentidos, incluida la visión, el tacto y percepción química. Persiguen las
cosas buenas y evitan las malas. Pueden vivir un siglo, aprenden y recuerdan. Hay incluso evidencias de que juegan.
Esta sensibilidad de las langostas
le ha ganado una consideración moral de tratarlo con respeto.
¿Cuáles son las implicaciones, para
las relaciones de los seres humanos con los animales, del reconocimiento y aceptación de la riqueza de las experiencias sensoriales
de éstos? A veces nos resulta conveniente excluir a los animales de nuestra esfera moral –como hacemos, por ejemplo,
al preparar foie gras o una ensalada de langosta, o como hace la industria cárnica en general. ¿Pero, es esto correcto?
Dado que los animales pueden disfrutar
de la vida, nuestras obligaciones morales hacia ellos son mayores. Tal vez no tengamos la obligación de proporcionarles placer,
pero privarles activamente de la oportunidad de disfrutar de placeres naturales –como hacemos cuando los enjaulamos
o matamos- es otro asunto. Cuando despertamos a los vivos paisajes de la sensibilidad animal, nos damos cuenta de que
los tanques de langostas y el foie gras deben desaparecer.
Cat gets vampire teeth capped
By Valentina Rosebushes Ecstasy
Sebastian thinks he’s cool just because he has two new gold teeth which cost
almost a grand apiece.
Well, I guess that IS pretty impressive, as kitty bling goes. But you should have
seen him before the dental work. Was he ever ugly!!
My huMOM says there are no ugly cats, but this one-year old black Persian’s
teeth stuck out like a bulldog’s and if that’s not ugly, what is? Okay,
I take it back, bulldogs are okay, and black is beautiful.
My gums have been weak since I was a kit, so mum gets them to give me some laughing
gas and cleans them every five years or so, maybe more now that I’m a senior kittizen
So now, although he still looks like a villain, everyone stops to look at Sebastian.
You think I care? I’m a natural beauty with my beautiful blue eyes, white
gloves and star on my forehead. And I even have a Valentine-red rhinestone collar for special occasions.
No wonder Sebastian has those expensive choppers. His owner David Steele is a dentist,
and he did it to protect his weird teeth.
It was Dr. Steele’s third operation
on an animal, one cat and one dog, so Sebastian wasn’t exactly a guinea pig. AUGUST
SEPTEMBER 2006
Man over-reacts to save cat
By Valentina Rosebushes Ecstasy
Hey Jeffrey, thanks for protecting us felines so chivalrously, but you didn’t
have to go that far. Look where it got you.
They tell me Jeffrey Cullen, 58, got so mad at the firemen who refused to rescue
one of my species from a tree in Kingman,
Ariz. that he shot at him.
Old Jeff was charged with four felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon. Not smart.
Jeffrey reported a fire in a tree in his yard, but when the three firemen arrived
all they found was, you guessed it, a pussy cat up where he couldn’t get down. Despite stories of soft hearted firemen,
I guess he didn’t think they’d come just for a cat.
One of the firefighters told ole Jeff to call animal control or wait for the cat
to get hungry and come down.
Unhappy with this ungenerous attitude towards my species, this concerned homeowner
ran in the house and came out with a gun and started shooting. The three firefighters and a 12-year-old boy who came to see
the fire truck ran for their lives. Good thing no one was injured, but Jeff, baby you got arrested. Not cool.
No one said whether after all that shooting the scaredy cat ever came down. AUGUST
2006
Beloved gorilla dies in
S.F. Zoo
Pogo, the gorilla, her beloved baby ape
doll by her side, died at San Francisco Zoo.
At 48, she was one of the world’s
oldest of her species in captivity, and had lived at the zoo since 1961. Visitors loved her and even brought her a television
to pass the time.
The orphaned West Africa
native was found dead Aug. 9 in the heated sleeping quarters she share with four other Western lowland gorillas. Her keeper
Mary Kerr, who worked with her for nearly three decades found her. The 210-pound animal had arthritis, heart disease and lower back disc disease.
Born in Cameroon and raised by American missionaries and a nurse after her parents were
killed for meat, she was donated to the zoo in 1961 when she was 3.
Although she had no children, she became
known as a loving auntie to the younger gorillas, several of whom were by her side when she died.
Gorillas can live 35 years or longer in
the wild and longer than 50 years in captivity. Pogo’s remains will be donated to the University of California, Santa
Cruz, for anthropology research. PAB AUG. 11, 2006
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Valentina talks about the Rainbow
Bridge, a heaven where animals go
.When one of us fur, finned or feathered friends
dies, we go to the Rainbow Bridge
to wait for our person.
There we run and play with each other on the
meadows and hills.
We have lots of food, water and sunshine and
we are warm and comfortable.
Some of us left the world old and ill, or
young and maimed, perhaps by a car accident or a fight with an unfamiliar animal or mean person or a terrible illness. But
at the Rainbow Bridge
we are restored to health and vigor as in our best days..
We are content, except for one small thing.
We miss that very special person we left behind.
One day in the midst of chasing a piece of
paper, or a bone, one of us suddenly stops and looks towards the distance. The bright eyes are intent, the eager body quivers.
Suddenly this lucky animal runs from the group, flying over the green grass, as fast as four legs can fly.
One of us has spotted you, and when we two
special friends finally meet, we cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. Our happy kisses, sloppy or raspy,
rain upon your face, your hands caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your best friend,
so long gone from your life, but never absent from your heart.
Then we cross Rainbow Bridge together....
Adapted from Anonymous.
Punish people,
not dogs
By Valentina Rosebushes Ecstasy
A group of human beings in
Chicago wrapped up a conference
Aug. 20.to show the softer side of dogs, and argued that those big bad dogs like pit bulls and Rotweilers aren’t so
bad after all.
It’s the owner’s
fault if one of those guys tears up a little kid, and the law shouldn’t punish the whole breed, many delegates insisted.
The media is unfair, they
say. So punish the bad owners.
The 2006 Canine Legislation
Conference spent the whole time talking about this subject, which they call breed specific legislation.
Ledy VanKavage, senior director
of legal training and legislation for
the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says it’s un-American
to kill dogs just like that. Ledy, a nice lady who was recently in Puerto Rico, says pit
bull-type dogs could be any dog, and that other breeds could be next. Cats, too.
It is true that some breeds
seem to like to kill us cats more, but we have to be smart, and run up a tree or into a little corner. And if their human
raises them to love us, they usually behave.
One guy, Jeff Armstrong,
said his kid was attacked by a Rotweiler, but he now realizes not all Rotweilers are bad.
“It’s like banning red SUVs if a loved one is run over by a red SUV,” he said. Smart
guy, that Armstrong. AUGUST SEPTEMBER 2006
Everything you need to know about rabies
And were afraid to ask
By Peggy Ann Bliss
The Puerto Rico Health Department spent $858,000 last year on painful rabies shots for 607
people who were bitten by an animal who was never identified.
So says Dr. Carlos Carazo, head of the veterinary division of the Health Department , speaking
before the August San Juan Rotary meeting at the Condado Marriott Hotel.
Because rabies is always fatal once the symptoms appear, anyone with a bite from a possibly
rabid animal should get the six-shot series immediately, said Carazo, part of the panel about the island’s stray animal
population. The post-exposure shots cost about $2,000 per case, he said.
He said one in four teaching samples of dogs has tested positive for rabies, which is endemic
to Puerto Rico. The disease, according to Carazo, is caused by the small Indian mongoose,
imported from Jamaica many years ago to
exterminate the rat population. However, the two species never met, because mongooses are diurnal and rats are nocturnal.
Meanwhile, the small reclusive mongoose has enjoyed his new environment and multiplied. However,
they are seldom seen unless they are in a rabid state, when they apparently do not fear humans, he said.
Few cases of rabies in humans have been reported in Puerto Rico,
and the last two cases were both from bites by stray dogs. In both cases, Carazo
said, the Health Department protocol had not been followed, i.e. giving post-exposure shots immediately and isolating the
dog. If a dog who has bitten a person shows any change in behavior in 10 days, he must be sacrificed and his brain analyzed,
said Carazo.
Tests proved that one dog had contracted the disease from a mongoose, confirming the mongoose-dog/cat-human
cycle. Rats and rabbits can not infect humans with rabies.
“However, because we cannot be sure when a child is bitten by a small animal if it was
a rat or a mongoose, we have to give them the shots” he said.
No longer given in the stomach, but in the arm, the anti-rabies shots are nevertheless unpleasant. Because it is dangerous to give a live rabies vaccine, which could kill the person,
five dead vaccines are given according to a strict protocol followed by a gamma globulin shot to boost the immune system.
Puerto Rico law requires that any health professional
who treats an animal bite must report it to the Health Department within 24 hours.
Rabies has been much in the news lately, once with the bats in a Girl Scout camp, in which
hundreds of little girls were possibly exposed to the disease, and again in Yunnan province in China, where 500,000 dogs,
pets and strays, were slaughtered when officials discovered three cases of human rabies.
In China,
only 3 percent of the dogs are vaccinated against rabies. In Puerto Rico, the percentage
is much higher, but it is still not required that dogs and cats get the shot.
“It should be mandatory to protect humans,” said Carazo.
Delta has taken flight
to cat heaven
By Valentina Rosebushes Ecstasy
Delta was a little kitty
with sad green eyes who lived only an hour with her beautiful name.
When airlines workers called
Wanda Velez on Aug. 1 about a suffering little cat near one of the pickup curbs at the airport, she rushed out to pick her
up. Thinking of names as she drove, she came up with Delta, a more appropriate name than the actual curb where she was found.
“I
petted her, perhaps for the first time in her life, while I drove her to the vet’s in Vistamar, Carolina,” Wanda told What’s New, Valentina.
“It was a terrible decision to put her to sleep, but it was better than leaving her in a corner somewhere thirsty and
dying. “
The
4-month old tiger striped cat had an abcess throughout her chest, an infection over half her body, oozing wounds in her neck
and lower back, and a smell of decay. She could not be saved, but Dr. Vázquez and his assistant Denisse treated Delta with
dignity and caring in her last moments in this harsh world. May she rest in peace, and thank you, Wanda, for caring about
another member of my species who got a raw deal in her short life. VRE AUGUST 2006
Save the animals in the Middle East.
Lebanon’s dogs and cats
moved to safehouse
Volunteers moved more than 100 howling canine refugees from a shelter
In Beirut’s southern suburb of Monteverde to an abandoned
pig farm east of the capital. Many pets were left to fend for themselves by foreign and Lebanese owners fleeing the Israeli
bombardment and are still wandering the streets.
The U.S. Embassy and others told evacuees that pets would not be allowed on the ships
and helicopters carrying them to safety, so many animals were left to take the airstrikes against Hezbollah strongholds in
the south.
Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals --
established two years ago as Lebanon's
first animal welfare and rescue organization organized the vacation and has appealed for donations.
In Israel, volunteers from the rescue organization Ahava took in about 200 dogs and
cats abandoned by owners fleeing their homes in the north to escape Hezbollah rocket attacks.
Thousands of dogs and cats roam the streets
without anyone to care for them, a spokeswoman said.
At the start of the hostilities July 12,
BETA had 113 dogs and about 100 cats at the shelter near a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut,
where they became traumatized by the shelling, and developed diarrhea.
Workers converted two rooms on the pig farm
into clinics and the group plans to build play areas for the dogs.
The cats have been moved to a safer Beirut neighborhood.
BETA refers callers with pet issues to commercial
kennels because its shelter is now overcrowded, but activists say many people are just leaving their dogs in the street.
One commercial kennel owner who charges $100
a month arranged with owners who refused to leave Lebanon
without placing their pets, even meeting them at the fleeing ships.
One U.N. worker asked BETA to rescue her
cat Raja, whom she had locked in her home. Although many drivers refused to go because the road was being bombed by Israel, the cat was saved and is happy in his temporary
quarters.
The Israeli group said they offered to help
BETA, by meeting boats in international waters to collect their pets, but members refused to speak to them.
BETA denies that Ahava has contacted them,
although they did receive a sympathy e-mail from a former member of the group now living in the U.S.
People from all over the world have offered
to take the animals, but so long as Lebanon remains under Israel siege, the dogs remain on the pig farm and the cats
in the other suburban shelter. The embassies say they are only interested in people. PAB
JULY-AUGUST 2006
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Group aids displaced
pets at war front
An organization with branches in the states and Israel is working to save animals at the warfront.
And while their interest is for Israeli animals, they acknowledged the need for donations is greater in
Lebanon.
The Veterinary Services affiliated with “Concern for Helping Animals in Israel” organized a hotline for pet owners, who are flooding the switchboard
with calls.
Volunteers only have 10 bags of food left, which they are distributing on the street. Hakol Chai, CHAI’s
sister charity in Israel, is sending a truckload of food north, plus plastic containers for water for cats.
Several cows and calves were killed by bombs falling on a kibbutz, where the stress is causing cows to
produce less milk, and the shells of chicken eggs fall apart when touched, farmers report.
Three dogs tied up inside an evacuated house in Kiryat Shmona were killed by a bomb.
Many animals, including endangered eagles, are threatened by fire on the northern coast.
Only a few dogs have been reported injured, including a German Shepherd in Carmiel, and a puppy in critical
condition in Tiberias. One small dog was killed in Sfat.
Although Pure Bliss recommends saving some of your donations for Lebanon,
donations for animals in Israel can be sent to CHAI, POB 3341, Alexandria, VA 22302,
USA. Hakol Chai, POB 51858, Tel Aviv, Israel 67214. www.chai-online.org
Emergency in California with dead livestock
The record heat in California has killed
thousands of cows and other farm animals, leaving their owners with piles of carcasses and creating a backup at factories
that turn dead animals into pet food.
Several counties have declared a state of emergency to allow dead livestock to be dumped in landfills,
which is usually outlawed because of health risks.
The problem is caused by sweltering temperatures, but also by the growth of the state’s $5 billion
dairy industry and a drop in the number of plants to properly dispose of animals. PAB AUGUST 2006
Caroline Kennedy fights for Alaska
wolves
The following is a letter from Caroline Kennedy to update me on one of
my concerns the gunning down of wolves from planes in Alaska I signed a petition
to get the government to stop this brutal practice.
Dear
Peggy,
Here’s
that update you asked for on our work to end aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska.
Two
weeks ago, I traveled to Alaska to strategize with our partners
about our campaign to end aerial gunning, a scientifically unsound practice.
The
trip was encouraging. Our partners on the ground are securing the final signatures needed to put aerial gunning on the ballot
again. Alaskans have twice rejected this brutal practice in the voting booth. Our experts are exploring new ways to strengthen
and clarify the Federal Airborne Hunting Act and preparing a new legal challenge to stop the state’s aerial gunning
programs.
With your e-mail to President
Bush urging him to enforce the Federal Airborne Hunting Act and end aerial gunning in Alaska, you and 50,000 others have become
a big part of our strategy. Since May, more than 300 wildlife supporters have contributed over $13,700 to support the campaign.
That’s
the good news.
The
bad news is Alaska is finalizing regulations to make permanent
changes and expansions of the aerial gunning programs. Aerial gunners have killed more than 550 wolves over the past three
winters We’ve launched a new campaign to collect at least 100,000 signatures urging the Bush Administration to enforce
federal law and stop the shooting of wolves from the air.
If
you would like to know more about the Campaign to Save America’s
wolves, please visit our website.
Thanks
for all your work to protect wolves and imperiled wildlife in Alaska
and beyond.
Sincerely,
Caroline Kennedy
Senior Director of Field Conservation Programs
Defenders of Wildlife
Assiduous "Pure Bliss" visitor Richard Vlasek picked up Runner
from the "mean streets" of San Juan and took him to Cat Heaven. Says Richard, "You gotta love the guy."
Exotic species threaten nature’s balance
With all the tension in the world about foreign nationals taking
over local jobs and resources, it shouldn’t surprise us that the animals are having troubles of their own in Puerto Rico as in the rest
of the world.
. Lately, it seems that foreign birds and animals are turning up
where they have never have been seen before and want to stay.
The problem is that they take over the food supply, threaten humans
and destroy the native flora and fauna. Then comes the dilemma, whether, to preserve and protect these interlopers, or run
them out of town.
Puerto Rico has recently become aware of the problem with the reptiles --crocodiles,
iguanas and caimans -- once sold as cute little pets to unsuspecting people who didn’t realize they would outgrow the
bathtub.
The green iguanas and the rhesus monkeys are perhaps the two most
controversial species in Puerto Rico today, because of their
damage to agriculture, but there are other fish and birds which have also put native species in danger. The Department of Natural and Environmental Resources has
encouraged people to shoot the pesky iguanas, something animal
protectors are protesting.But, say others, Puerto Ricans must keep the natural island in the pristine state it was in during the time of the
Taínos.José Chabert, of the Department of Natural Resources says the demand for exotic
pets in Puerto Rico seems insatiable.
Only drugs and the arms trade account for more money changing hands
on the Puerto Rico black market, he said.
Although there are no figures, this illegal trafficking feeds off
the enormous number of people who will pay any price for a pet tiger or a piranha.
The sale of iguanas has been permitted for the last 30 years, but
since 2004, it has been illegal to bring them into the island. Pet shops go on selling them and the DNER turns a blind eye
because
Officials at Luis
Muñoz Marín International
Airport have begun working on plans to keep them from sunning on the
runways, where they say they could cause serious accidents. As it is, they have caused delays, and fuel waste as pilots circle
to miss them. One of the first instances of non-native species was the mongoose, which was brought to Puerto
Rico to control rats. A native of India,
it now wanders out of control in the rain forest, spreading
disease and destroying native wildlife Their differing sleeping habits put the
kibosh on the mongooses eating the rats, so both populations just continued out of control. The rhesus and patas monkeys in the southwest that carry
disease and wreak havoc on agriculture and are from Asia. They were brought to the island
for scientific studies but escaped.The caimans, from South America, were let go by owners who got tired of them after
they became fashionable in the
1960s. Exotic parrots have caused major damage to native flora, competing with the Puerto Rican parrot for food and habitat.
The native parrot, one of the 10 most endangered avian species in the world, lives in the wild in El Yunque. The DNER also hopes to re-introduce the Puerto Rican iguana,
which no longer exists here and is now found only in the Virgin Islands. The Commonwealth and federal governments have mapped out
a plan to eradicate the monkeys but its implementation depends on the Legislature approving $3 million in
funding.The island character of Puerto Rico keeps the unique species isolated. Over several
millennia they have adapted to the environment with no natural predators. The iguana is considered one of the worst threats
because of the harm it does to the local eco-system. The monkeys and the iguanas are also blamed for eating the eggs of several locally
endangered birds, including the mariquita, which is threatened with extinction.
Si un perro vecino te tiene
sin sueño toda la noche, porque sabes que no tiene agua o comida, o si lo ves en un techo cercano sin protección del sol,
hay algo que usted puede hacer. Lee la Ley 67 en estas páginas y hacer llegar esta carta a la persona, o por correo, o en
persona. Si no puede envolverse usted, pida ayuda y consejo. A lo mejor el dueño del animal no se da cuenta de la gravedad
de sus acciones y un poco de orientación le hará cambiar su manera de pensar y de actuar. PAB 2006
Atención Residente
Hemos recibido aviso de que en su vecindad existe un posible caso de maltrato contra uno perro amarrado sin protección
de las inclemencias del tiempo. De ser esto así, deseamos llamarle la atención al residente o residentes para que tomen las
medidas necesarias para remediar las situaciones dentro de los próximos siete (7) días.
Cualquier persona que no pueda o no desee mantener a un animal en condiciones humanitarias y tratarlos de forma bondadosa
y civilizada, le recomendamos que lo entregue a otra persona, a nosotros, o al refugio de animales más cercano.
Para el conocimiento de todos los vecinos, existe la Ley 67 (Ley para la Protección de Animales) de mayo del 1973,
enmendada (Ley 439), la cuál tipifica como delito grave de cuarto grado el matar un animal o la intención de causarle un grave
daño corporal a uno. De ser convicto puede ser condenado a una pena de cárcel por un período no menor de seis meses ni mayor
de 4 años. El abandono de animales también es una violación a esta ley.
Nuestro interés primordial es corregir la situación ilegal lo antes posible. De no hacerlo la organizacion Amigos
De Los Animales, Inc puede recurrir directamente a la Policía de Puerto Rico para investigar y tomar las medidas necesarias
para remover perros, gatos o cualquier animal abusado y tomar acción legal. Para información adicional favor de comunicarse
con Amigos De Los Animales al 787-313-5653/787-810-2590/787-209-2682
Defensora de Animales de Cayey
Nilda cuida mas de 80 animales rescatados en Cayey, donde la visitó Erika
Fontaine de ConeXión al Rescate. Erika llevó este perrito a desparasitar y curarle la sarna. A través de
un llamado por El Puerto Rico Animal Rights Forum Erika consiguió docenas de bolsas de comida para llevar a los perros
y gatos de Nilda. Si quieres colaborar con Erika a ayudar a estos y otros animales, la puedes llamar a
787-661-2229.
Cortesia de Conexion al
rescate.
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From darkness to light in the fur industry
We bet Beyoncé won’t go out on another blind date with fans, after the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals
blindsided her in the name of a humane cause. Just when fashion icon Ralph Lauren has taken the side of the angels by coming
out against all fur, and entirely eliminating it from his designs, the erstwhile Destiny’s Child -- or problem child -- has fallen into a trap of her own.
This young superstar took some very inhumane advice from her mother Tina, who designed her fashion line with fur. But
when the singer unwittingly invited some PETA “fans” to dinner, her appetite was no doubt ruined. The video they
showed her of Pamela Anderson’s exposé of the fur industry—complete with graphic footage of animals who are trapped,
drowned, and electrocuted for their pelts – was enough to ruin anyone’s evening.
Why, one asks, would Beyoncé, set herself up so, whisking PETA activists to dinner at New York City’s trendy Nobu 57 in a limousine? The singing star thought she was entertaining fans
who had placed the winning bid on a recent eBay auction to have dinner with her. The winning “fans” were members
of PETA,. After they had placed their orders, the guests pelted Beyoncé with details and questions of how chinchillas are
electrocuted for their fur and how other animals are gassed, strangled, beaten or skinned alive to be made into coats.
They tried to convince her that, beyond tacky, fur is cruel.
After receiving letters from several fans upset by Beyoncé’s use of fur in her fashions, PETA had tried to reach the singer through mail, videos, protests, even a full-page letter to her in Billboard magazine. Beyoncé has kept mum about her next
step, but we hope her dinner gave her a bit of indigestion.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, Ralph Lauren, long a fashion leader is now a compassion leader, after pledging
not to use fur in any of his apparel or home collections.
The Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation had been mulling eliminating fur from its lines for ethical reasons. However, after
several meetings with PETA in which they showed them grisly undercover video footage of fur farms in China,
where more than half the fur garments sold in the United States
are made, they waited no longer. In China,
cats like me and other little animals with soft fur like me are confined to tiny wire cages in all weather.. The videos show
how my brothers and sisters are treated before they are skinned; workers bludgeon
them with metal rods and slam them against the ground, breaking their bones but not always killing them. Many of my fur buddies are literally skinned alive. They look awful without their own fur coats. Eeeeek,
Ouch!!! It must be the worst kind of death.
After seeing my friends sacrifice their lives just for a collar for his clients, he decided the time was right. They will pull
out all ads, and fulfill the orders they have by Christmas. The company will even donate 1,200 new fur-trimmed coats to charities
in developing nations. At least my friends will keep some poor person warm.
Ralph Lauren’s compassionate, progressive decision sends a powerful message to the clothing industry that torturing
and killing cats like me, rabbits, raccoons, foxes, and other animals for fashion won’t be tolerated, and I give a purr
of approval to PETA for its hard and ethical work in both cases. Perhaps Beyoncé will have a change of heart when she sees
this action. We wrote to Lauren, thanking him
and we got a letter back. It’s just a form letter, but it was fun to have Customer Support Rep. Jessica thank me for
my support of Ralph Lauren. You, too, can find out more at www.polo.com or http://investor.polo.com/or by calling 1-888-475-7674“This Gives Us Paws” is a new column
dedicated to important issues that affect the animal world. The opinions are
strictly those of Pure Bliss. June-July 2006
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