I was shocked when I first read the news from TheStar newspaper about Plight of the Swamp Dogs. Pulau Ketam residents had trapped some 400 dogs and transported them to Pulau Tengah to ease the stray dog population on their island. FYI, the island which these dogs have been transported to have no food and water and left to fend for themselves.

It has been reported that some of the dogs had died of starvation, and those that are alive ate the carcasses. Holy dogs! Can you imagine that?! Dogs usually dun eat their own kind, they may might and kill each other, but not eat them. I guess it’s the natural instinct of a nature to react that way to be alive.

It is an extremely sad case that some human have not thought of the consequences of doing so. It’s also been reported that they dun meant to be cruel to them. But wait a second, doesn’t anyone think/rate/check if Pulau Ketam is a suitable place for a life being to stay? Or was it a selfish act just wanting to clear those dogs from the place they lived and not cared what would happen next? Tell me about it.

In my opinion, this is not exactly a good idea to transport the dogs to an island with no food and water?! If they had temporary transport to an island nearby with food and water, it’s not exactly a good idea too. Why? Because those dogs are not neuterred nor spayed and can reproduce fast. Let’s do some calculation.

Let’s say the island lives 400 dogs, which is 200 bitches and 200 dogs and each female dogs produces 5 pups in average. A female dogs may be on heat twice a year.

( 200 bitches * 2 times a year * 5 pups ) + 200 bitches + 200 dogs
= 2000 + 200 + 200
= 2400 bitches and pups all together

 

Okay..my example here is not exactly accurate but it’s just to give you a rough idea on the amount of dogs living on the island after a year. So, how about let’s say 5 years later? It will be a few more times than the amount we have above because a female puppy starts to be on heat when they are about 6 months old(some may be earlier) and they could be pregnant from then. So, what we need to do is actually neuter/spay, yes, I repeat, n e u t e r / s p a y them and not DUMP them to HELL and just leave it.

Right now, thanks to volunteers and Furry Friend Farms for helping to save these powerless dogs. Check out the Pulau Ketam Rescue Mission or you may click here to follow the updates of it or check how you can help them out too.

If you’re clicking on the update links above, Check out SAD EYES posted on Monday, 18/05/09. It’s really sad to know that. He/She is still traumatised by the unfortunate tragedy which took place.

This is Grace. She’s swimming outta Hell Island towards the volunteers.

See what happened to her wound.
Warning : Please do not watch if you have a weak heart. I feel like wanna puke when I watch that.

Does these dogs really derserve a bad life like this? What have they done wrong to get such treatment(abondoned)? Tell me.

*NOTE : Perhaps you could do the least by helping to spread the news or the poster above on your blogs too?

My furkid couldn’t join me coz she has a growth on her lips area and the event on that day will screen through your furkid before they could enter. If they find that your furkid is unhealthy, then the furkid will not be allowed to go in.

Let’s not talk bout that event first, coz I have something which catches your attention more. The main focus for me was a room with a projector, projecting a movie called EARTHLING.

Earthlings is a 2003 multi-award winning documentary written, produced and directed by Shaun Monson and co-produced by Persia White. The film was narrated by Hollywood actor and animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix. Earthlings also features an original score by musician and activist Moby.

Introduction

Part 1 – Pet

Part 2 – Food

Part 3 – Clothing

Part 4 – Entertainment

Part 5 – Science

Conclusion

Have you even thought of dogs are used for beer testing? Did you know that there’s an elephant which used for circus have ran out of the circus tent and have injured some people. But, why did the elephant acted this way? And what’s the ending of the elephant? Find out in this movie. U’ll be shocked!

I think the worse part is the Clothing and Experimentation section. I didn’t watch that part, my boyfriend advised me to leave the room coz he knows that I couldn’t accept that fact, it’s just too cruel. He told me how they took off a fox’s skin off it’s body, skinning it alive. The cruel part experimentation section is using the monkeys to test the helmet. They make the monkey wear the helmet and hit towards the wall to see how much can the helmet take the impact. Imagine u’re the monkey…

If some people argue that in earlier times of human kind, we hunt animals for food with spears, isn’t that almost the same? YES, PERHAPS, MAYBE. But think again, were human that demanding that time? Were human have such high expectations to have leather shoes and bags? Were our population that big?

Sometimes, we blamed and we killed the animals which have attacked humankind. But, have you thought that we are expanding fast into their forest and land of their territory which they called home and built with our buildings, sky scrappers. Their land are getting smaller, the food is getting less, and we’re slowly pushing them towards extinction.

I would strongly recommend you to watch this, I’ve only included certain parts of the movies taken from youtube. It touches lotsa points and how we human treated them for our needs. I felt disgusted by our human ways of getting our needs. If you need to kill it, kill it fast, instead of killing it slowly and torturing it.

I WAS proud that I’ve been born in such a “strategic” geographical location which is Malaysia, with no winter coldness, super hot sun, storm, tornado, volcano, and extreme weathers to fear about. BUT, I’m deeply ASHAMED with such cruel act in Malaysia.

These are a few inhumane acts of SOME people in Malaysia which you MUST know of happened not too long ago too.


- Owner distraught over cruel killing of 13 dogs , NST, 1 July 2006
- Selayang dog-catching competition scrapped, thestar.com.my, Saturday September 15, 2007

I was and STILL very outraged by such brainless act of humans. Any healthy human being or at least a 5 years old kid will know that suct brutality. I strongly condemn such heinous act. how many times does such cruelty happen till the government totally put a stop to it. Or at least train their personnel to put themselves at other’s shoe. Or maybe these people need to attend more training such as role-play. Perhaps they should beat themself or their beloved children then squeeze through the narrow railings of the gate, see would they feel about it.

There is no justification of such inhumane act. Besides, this dog wears a collar chain. It might wander out and doesn’t know how to get home. So, perhaps the role-play i mention above should change, these personnel should look at their beloved being beated up, and force through the narrow railings of gate, then they will know that such act is wrong. If such act to human is wrong, why dun they think that such act to animal is wrong too? Is it because we human think we are better than them so we can act such way?

I really think that they should be fired and punished for such act, and never ever work with any jobs with any possibility to deal with animals again. Who knows what will they do next. There should be a lesson for them and others to learn.

I also suggest that perhaps schools can start implmenting animal friendly activity or program as an extra-curricular to bring awareness, and teach school children what’s love and care for animals. Many parents have given the wrong impression to their child that animals are dirty, dogs will bite them and so on. Parents play a big-role on upbringing their child. If the child have the correct impression, they too will not act so violently and when they grow up, they’ll teach their children the same and goes on to next generation.

Remember this before your next action. What comes around goes around.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mohandas Gandhi

My favourite channel is always 553 and 556 on ASTRO. If you have ASTRO, you’ll know what channel is that. For thsoe who doesn’t, 553 is National Geographic and 556 is Animal Planet. These are my all time favourite channel where I can watch whole day long.

Friday night, I was at home and watching Animal Planet, and I stumble across the movie called ‘ Moon Bears : Journey to Freedom ‘ . So, before we began, if I say the word ‘BEAR’, what came across your mind first?

Winnie the Pooh / Pooh Bear ?

Teddy Bear ?

Bear fishing?

Okay, let me be more precise of the word now, I say ‘MOON BEAR’ , what do you think of now? Bear on moon?

This is Moon Bear. They are actually Asiatic Black Bear, however they are also known as Moon Bear due to the golden crescent across their chests. This is one of the Moon Bear named Jasper as he is today.

Okay, back to reality check. The above picture look so cutesy isn’t it? and looks like he have been enjoying his life. You wouldn’t know what they have been through before.

Moon Bear Jasper when he was rescued.

Imagine this, let’s say you’re 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide, but u’re crushed in a 6.5 feet tall and 3.5 feet wide wired cages for about 2 decades. What do you feel? Imagine with this situation and you’re often starved. Imagine there’s a metal catheter being inserted to your body without sterialization and any pain killers given. Are these bearable? These are the conditioned for most of the farm bears.

As many as 9000 bears in China alone are kept in the tiny wired cages to prevent their movement to ‘milked’ for their bile. The catheter were inserted into the gall bladder abd they will be m’milked’ for their bile. Half the amount of bears are said to die during the insertion of the catheter. Those that survive suffer from tumours, infections from open wounds, abscesses and hernias. The bile taken from the gall bladders of the living bears is used in Chinese traditional medicine for the treatment of ailments including stomach and digestive disorders and kidney problems.

Many farmers claim that a new catheter-free, free-drip method of bile extraction involving the creation of a permanent hole in the abdomen is painless for the bears and that the industry, therefore, is now “humane”. The latest batch of tormented, disfigured bears provides further proof that the trade is as brutal as ever.

It is said that 80% of the saved Moon Bears are disabled. While watching this movie, it is really heart wrenching, my nose felt sour , but I just couldn’t cry out. I could imagine these pain are so unbarable. If we need something from them, how could we treat them in such inhumane way? The technology are so good these days and many types of medicine have been invented to cure sickness without using the bear bile. There are many researches been done and about 45 or 54 types of other items could replace the bile such as Jasmine plant. So, why do we still need bear bile?

The helper in Animal Asia said that although the saved bears have gone through this, they are such a forgiving animal. If we human were to be treated this way and were freed 1 days, I guess we’ll be taking revenge to get the person suffers the same for life.

These saved bears could not be released back to the wild due to that they have been very dependant on human and they can’t survive by themself in the wild.

Please, help spread this to your friends to bring the awareness to them. Let’s unite with one voice and stop the suffering of these Moon Bears. Also, please to help to sign the petition. These are the least that we could do. Let’s pray and hope that all of them were to be rescued and have a good health.

China Bear Rescue

These are some videos which I found from youtube if you still could not imagine how these moon bears are being treated in bear farming.
*WARNING : If you have a weak heart, please do not view these videos.

Thanks to Animal Asia and volunteers/helpers which helps save this moon bears from “hell”.

Many animals/pets are being euthanized every year. You just can’t imagine the huge amount of it. You could say it’s cruel, but sometimes, there are nothing much you could do but forced to put them to sleep as the adoption rate is too low and the amount of animals being abondened or strays are just too high. Some even have sickness and the fees is just unbearable as not many people could afford it.

I have known a lady whom I shall say is quite rich, she told me that she adopted the dog which wasn’t that healthy. Tt has some skin problem and the medical fees for it is considerred quite high though. She knew that not many people will take the chances so she decided to adopt it. That’s really so kind and considerate of her. She have actually adopted 2-3 dogs and foster some of it as well.

So, I’d really hoped that people will be kind hearted like her. If it wasn’t her to adopt the dog, it might have been put to sleep cause not many shelters could afford that.

Below is the video which I would like to share. The first video song is by Avril Lavign – i’m with you. As stated in Youtube, Avril Lavigne granted permission to use her song “I’m with you” to convey this important message for animals. The organization is called “New Leash On Life”. This video actually conveys the message quite well to the public. So, have a look at it.

Another of the video which I’d like to share with you guys.

What the H***!!! I know… You just can’t not to say that upon seeing pictures like this. Horses are suppose be a strong, tough , muscular animal, but what do we see here? It is really heart wrenched seeing images like this.

These horse are Melinsung ranch located 20 mins South of Kota Kinabalu… As reported from SPCA website, tourist are suppose to sign up for some activities(what??!!!does the owner still wants the horses t ork at such condition?!!!!!), instead what they found have left them sickened. In the report of 17th January, 2008, the owner is trying to sell of the meat. OMG, how the H*** could a person do that to such an innocent animal.

I’m sure that the horses are used for gaining some income such as horse riding activities and so on, is this what this horses should get in return? Even if the cost of buying and breeding them have not been coverred or even if it’s coverred, there’s no way a man should treat their pets/animals like this. This is just way too much!

I am glad that the tourist had actually reported his cause if they don’t, there might not be any action taken at all. The authorities might have not realize this. I only know about this when I visited the SPCA website. If you would like to take action or voice up, you could write to the authorities as stated in he SPCA websites.

I really couldn’t imagine what would the tourist think of Malaysia when they see such thing happens, I believe these images will stay in their memory as long as they live, the stories will spread as long as a man can talk or type nowadays.