Oh my gosh!! Read all of this...
Every day, some 800 bears imprisoned in Japanese bear parks beg human visitors for food. They're not being cute. They're fighting for their lives.
Most tourists would be appalled to learn the real cost of their visits. The unnatural circus acts that so delight the punters are no fun for the stars, beaten and tormented into “playing” soccer, riding bicycles or balancing on balls. And when the crowds go home, they’re crammed back into bleak underground concrete pits. Deprived of light, food and space, smaller bears are vulnerable to aggression. Disease and injury are rife.
In situations like these, public pressure makes a huge difference. We’re asking your help to force Japan’s bear parks to close down or transform into forested enclosures to properly meet the needs of the animals.
We’ve already helped to close down one of the worst bear parks in Japan. But many have so far resisted calls for reform or closure. With your support we can continue to lobby the Japanese government, where, alarmingly, there are no laws for the protection of bears and other captive animals.
A wild bear taken by poachers may have less than a 60% chance of surviving the non-medical procedure to create a permanent open wound in his stomach from which bile can be drained, twice every day, by re-inserting a catheter. Bile that’s used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
In the wild, where’s he’s free to roam, this bear might live to 25. Instead, he may have to survive up to 10 years kept in a tiny cage, thrashing against the bars because he’s unable to move around. Under-nourished and over-stressed, he’ll be forced to lie there in pain, in his own filth.
Farming bears for their bile is perfectly legal in China. And very profitable. But totally unnecessary. There are many TCM alternatives that do what bear bile is claimed to. But over production means an estimated 9,000 bears are tortured each day so their bile can also be used in shampoo, wine and even tea.
Most evenings, gun-toting Dog Control Officers stalk Cairo’s crowded streets, randomly targeting stray dogs for death. Problem is, they aren’t always good shots. Many animals, wounded and yelping in pain, are thrown into trucks and left to bleed slowly to death. Others stagger off into the darkness to endure their agonising fate.
Shooting, drowning, hanging and electrocution are just some of the ways countries, particularly those ravaged by war, famine or political upheaval, use to control stray dog populations.
Unfortunately, these barbaric methods are totally ineffective. In Cairo alone, it’s thought that over 90% of the 1.5 million dogs are strays.
With your help, we can fight the slaughter. WSPA is already providing much needed mobile clinics fitted with equipment and medical supplies, so dogs receive proper care in rural communities. We’re also educating governments and owners on practical solutions like sterilisation training and compulsory registration. But as you can imagine, there’s so much more to be done.
By donating $25 a month to the World Society for the Protection of Animals, you can become a member of WSPA Animal Rescue and help stop the anguish of animals like the dogs of Cairo.
Giving each month is important because it takes time, money and persistence to lobby governments to achieve legislation that outlaws the cruelty of animals. It helps build and establish sanctuaries to rehabilitate the animals you help rescue, change attitudes to animal welfare through education of children and communities. What’s more, we need your support to help answer urgent calls for acts of such cruelty around the world.
When I read all of those I literally cried my eyes out. It's so sad how people can do that to innocent animals. It's like, what did they ever do to them?? It's not fair in the slightest. All of those people deserve to spend a lifetime in the shoes of those poor animals and see how they like it. I bet they'd stop the cruelty pretty damn quickly.
From Me.