Please watch the video, read the websites about this 'sport' and sign the petitions. The written dialog in the video is in Spanish - if you don't read the language it's fine - the visual reality is what is most important.
This is horrible and painful to the bulls - and in the end the bull will always die making the Matador look like a 'hero'. This 'sport' needs too end. Bulls are dying not for food, but for entertainment.
Mendes Calf Ranch is located in Tipton, California, part of Tulare County. The facility raises approximately 12,000 dairy calves at a time, from up to 80 different ranches, for the first several months of their lives.
Calves are confined while their mothers are being milked at different dairy “factory farms.” The babies undergo a quick growth process at Mendes — intended to prepare them for the harsh demands of being milking cows themselves once they leave.
Footage obtained for ALDF by East Bay Animal Advocates shows that calves at the Mendes operation are unable to lie down naturally or turn around without contorting themselves. Crates are often covered in feces, and calves struggle to reach out through breaks in the walls to have any sort of physical contact — a strong natural instinct — with calves next door.
About This Case:
On June 19, 2006, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint in Tulare County Superior Court against Mendes Calf Ranch for isolating and confining newborn calves in crates. This confinement violates state anti-cruelty laws, which require that animals be provided with adequate exercise area.
Please if you can spare anything for these 2 kittens.......... they may loose their eyesight.
A cross post from the Bideawee Site on these sweet babies:
Meet Sweetness and her five delicious little kittens: Flan Flan, Sorbet, Mousse, Pudding, and Tiramisu. Several times a day, Sweetness chirps a hello and her kittens hustle to crowd around her. She then promptly grooms each one of them as they nestle together for a family catnap.
Their names and faces may give you a tooth ache, but their story is, sadly, not nearly as sweet.
Rescued from the city shelter, Sweetness and her kittens faced tough odds of survival there. Although measures are in place to curb potentially fatal diseases, illnesses are common in municipal shelters and even something as relatively harmless and treatable as an upper respiratory infection (URI) can quickly turn deadly when a mother cat becomes infected and cannot nurse her kittens.
Within 48 hours of their arrival at Bideawee, it was clear that Sweetness and her kittens had been incubating a URI and had brought it along with them; they all got very sick, very quickly.
Because many diseases like this cannot be detected upon arrival, Bideawee takes very special care to properly isolate newcomers from the healthy shelter population, ensuring these illnesses do not spread. Taking these precautions is costly, but invaluable when it comes to caring for the cats, dogs, puppies, and kittens in our care.
Sweetness and her kittens' infections had rapidly grown worse and the infection had spread to their eyes. Once ulcers were identified forming on the kittens' corneas, Bideawee medical staff had little choice but to bring the kittens to a specialist to get an expert opinion-something this serious must be treated quickly and properly.
The specialist confirmed that the condition was dire and the kittens would require an intense treatment consisting of several costly medications. The illness and its treatment would also require constant monitoring and continuous administration of the numerous medications.
The treatment of everyone's URI has been right on track so far and Sweetness, Tiramisu, and Flan Flan have each responded very well to the additional recommended eye treatment. Sorbet has some corneal edema and slight asymmetry of the pupils, but we are optimistic that this will clear itself up without too much further treatment.
Mousse and Pudding, however, have not been so lucky. Despite the treatment, which has been so successful with their siblings, these two continue to have eye-related complications, which have in turn compromised their vision.
Without proper treatment and possible surgery, Mousse and Pudding will most likely lose their sight and possibly lose their eyes all together.
In order to keep their eyesight, Mousse and Pudding will need to undergo costly eye surgery in the very near future.
Welcome to my new blog. If you find time please check out the websites I have linked to this blog. I have linked to some of my favorite Websites and Weblogs.
I also urge you to please visit the Free: Click or Play to Donate Sites I have linked. It only takes a few minutes a day to click daily at these sites; in doing so, you will help to donate to eliminate hunger, violence, abuse, destruction and more.
The Free Rice and Free Flour sites are not for clicking once a day but instead you play a fun quiz game to help feed the hungry, there is no limit on how much you can give per day with these two sites. I find them very addicting.
One more play to help is The Experience Project. You can switch to play for cats or dogs. It's another addicting and fun learning game while helping to feed animals. The more you play, the more is donated.
You will also notice two more notable sites in my Free: Click or Play to Donate area For Trees and Race to Share. For Trees is a site that you can leave a message on the Ecotonoha tree; for every 100 messages on the tree a real tree will be planted - note: only one leaf per day.
It's all about helping, and any time that you can help someone, go out and do it because it makes you feel better. It makes you a better person.~Kim Perrot
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