messageHey, glad to see this campaign is gaining some members!
Can someone help me understand the campaign action – what are we pledging to do by joining, and how will that help to bring about the campaign’s objective?
Thanks!
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Crystal Gail Krimm replied on Jan 8, 2009I couldn’t watch the video either. I get disturbed enough just thinking about it!! I truly believe there’s a special place in HELL for anyone who could do this kind of thing. How could anyone wear this fur and still sleep at night? These people couldn’t possibly have souls.
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Carol Kyer replied on Jan 9, 2009
I hate China…I’m sorry but that country has no concience or heart. this kind of cruelty is beyond barbaric. I wish those human monsters would get skinned alive! we need to really tell our Government to stop imports all together from China! they are the damnest nation- they are another hitler set against any other life that will make them a buck! I hope they burn in hell with all their bloody money! all they send over here is poison- toys, milk, food, and animal pets fur. I really detest that nation. I couldn’t watch the video either- some how send this to newsnet5.com for the news investigators- America needs to know the truth of cruel China, japan, Korea, Asia!
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Katherine Gardea replied on Jan 10, 2009
I feel exactly how you feel.I refuse to “buy” China!
I think that country should be blown off the map.
Deeper investigation into this fur trade is needed to make more people aware.It should be aired on public broadcast T.V.
There are also a lot of cruel acts being done to dogs and other animals her in the U.S.
Last Year Oprah aired a special on Dog Mills.Lisa Ling did the investigating.It was horrible to watch but very informative.Whenever I hear that anyone is going to buy a puppy or dog I beg them to please adopt and not go to a pet store.If you’ve never heard about what happens at these Puppy Mills,look into it.
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G.Quinn replied on Jan 11, 2009
i couldnt even bring myself to click on the link, the description was sickening enough! i saw that oprah show about the dogs too, was in tears for the whole lot! Adoption is the way to go, i adopted a gsd/collie there just a week ago the poor thing was beaten and abandoned because she was pregnant as the owners were too selfish to get her neurtured! Those rotten b******s better burn in hell, have them skinned and thrown in acid see how they like it!
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Anonymous replied on Jan 27, 2009i am not a vegitaren but i love dogs
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Anonymous replied on Jan 27, 2009
i love meat but i love animals!!
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Laura Massey replied on Feb 2, 2009
I don’t understand how you can say you love animals, but eat them?? Being vegitarien is easy there are so many soy products that taste great. Next time you are shopping for groceries check the frozen food section for Morning Star brands of soy “meat” products; I promise you will be suprise how easy it is to truely prove you love animlas by not eating them. Visit the peta.org web site it also has a vegitarian starter kit you can print off to help you shop.
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Leigh Foster replied on Feb 11, 2009
This is exactly what my world wide show is trying to stop. We are out to end the world of all animal suffering. Please visit my page and join my campaign to end animal suffering all over the world.
Pawz UP,
DJ Ice creater and host of The Pawz Cauze Show.
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Carol Kyer replied on Feb 5, 2010
I too hate China- the way they treat their own people and animals are barbaric to say the least. yet in this country we also have our monsters who are savagely cruel to animals- science research labs, government testing on live animals ( our us military cut off the legs one at a time of live goats for trauma so field doctors can learn how to operate in the field} – on Care2.com is a great way to fight against animal cruelty, joing PCRM, Humane Society, ASPCA & others..and write write /CALL CALL your State Reps, congress rep and your Senator .
On Care2.com we read a story ao Buddy who was stolen and dragged for 3 miles by a man & his sister in Colorado – they left his battered dead body in the sno still choked by the rope that dragged him. the cowards are in court now he is scared to go to prison for fear what animal lovers in prison will get Buddy true justice. I urge everyone here to go to Care2.com join it and sign the petition to get this coward in prison and get justice for Buddy. Write and call your Political Officials and tell them you want tougher laws against animal abuse- send pictures if you can.
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lavonajohns replied on Feb 6, 2010
I have a test tomorrow on frictional force and I was wondering if anyone knows of a video that will help a 14 year old understand frictional force in a better and entertaining way hahah(: so yea, thanks.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Super-White-Teeth-Review&id=3100384
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/advanced-acai-review-does-advanced-acai-really-work-1778693.html
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Bruce Krider replied on Feb 12, 2010
One can always say, “oh but look how badly WE treat animals” — as if that is suppose to excuse skinning animals alive in China. Sure there are lots of things wrong with the ways animals are slaughtered here….. but at least we are not so diabolical as to skin them alive!! We cannot use the excuse that because something else bad is going on, we should divert our attention from this most heinous crime against animals in China. The only way to fight it is to complain to retailers that buy fur products from China. There needs to be a paradigm shift within the population that revolts against this kind of commercialism. Until you change the money flow, you are not going to change behavior. So tell Macy’s and Nordstroms and Talbots and all the rest not to buy fur products from China. Or you will simply never buy from them again. Email to their corporate PR departments and bring as much light as you can to this.
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Carol Kyer replied on Feb 13, 2010
people need to remind those they vote for that we will not stand for this treatment against animals until they hear us and we mean what we say our elected officials will sit idly by and do nothing. Shout raise your voice & concern and tell your Senator your Prez your congress-person yell it if ya have to.
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allinejore replied on Feb 13, 2010
Im a math moron people – but its bothering me – lol in the movie the kid picks door # 1 for the car. The teacher opens door # 3 and there is no car. He then asks do you want to change your pick to door #2 instead and the kid says yes because mathamatically I have a .66% shot of getting the car if I switch to door # 2 since you already opened door # 3
WHY is it not still 50/50 when your down to 2 I dont understand someone please explain!
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/clean-whites-review-free-trial-now-1844124.html
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Lauren Dill replied on Nov 4, 2010
I am so sick of seeing defenseless animals abused and killed by people. What makes you think that you have the power to take away another living creature’s life? It’s disgusting. Do you think that just because they can’t talk back and tell you how much it hurts them that these animals can’t feel pain? I would like to put my plastic injection molding skills to good use and show you what real pain is!
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Jen Renders replied on Nov 24, 2010
I can’t believe that people could treat animals so inhumanely. I think that even though we all think we’ve become more civilized, as a society we’ve really slipped in the treatment of our fellow man and creatures. walkfit
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Bruce Krider replied on Nov 26, 2010
Help you understand? Well, behavior has its roots in culture. Asia has no history of kindness and consideration to animals. They purely think animals are chattel, or things to use or do with as they wish without remorse or a second thought. They don’t think about fear, pain or the “feelings” of sentient creatures. In that respect, they are truly heartless.
All Asia is pretty bad. Vietnam is among the most out there in terms of their famous dog restaurants. Korea is right up there. And China is bad not only in eating dogs and cats but their fur trade is the worlds largest.
One old estimate was that they slaughter 12 million dogs a year in their dog processing farms. I personally think that is a fraction of the real number.And when asked whether their fur is dog fur, they lie. They boldly put some other cryptic name on it. Those that carry on these disgusting “businesses” operate in a world of deception, corruption and greed.
If you want to have an impact on this, follow the money trail. So to answer to “help me understand”, its also based on money and a willingness on the part of many who are not reluctant to beat animals to a pulp for a few cents.
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james lee replied on Dec 13, 2010
We have to stop this cruelty to the dogs. I cannot understand how anybody can abuse a dog. They are so innocent and loving. whistleblower policies and procedures
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Bruce Krider replied on Dec 22, 2010
Sad Tale of a Puppy in Wenzhou, China
One day in April of 2004, a friend of mine, Yu Shuru, a physician and I were walking down a major shopping street in Wenzhou where she lived. At one point, we noticed a little commotion ahead. This 20 year old man was selling a puppy. He was holding it. Not affectionately, just holding it for everyone to see.
Then, all of a sudden, the vendor just threw the pup into the midst of a busy walkway. Startled pedestrians of all ages were nearly falling trying not to step on this tiny puppy. The puppy, startled, could not have been away from its mother for the first time since birth for more than an hour and was now trying to figure out what to do in this new, overwhelming and bewildering situation which it had never seen. First going this way, then that way, trying to avoid the shoppers as much as they were trying to avoid harming it. Our guess was that the puppy was about a month old.
I said to Shuru, “I’m going to buy the puppy.” I was leaving Wenzhou in a day and did not know what I was going to do with a puppy but I did not like the way this was going. I just felt a really concerned for the puppy. I thought the first thing which needed to be done is to eliminate an impending disaster.
Shuru said, “Are you sure?’ I said, “Sure”. She asked how much the puppy was. The vendor said, “300 RMB”, about $36 for the puppy.
She turned to me and said, ”No, Bruce, its too much, He wants 300 RMB.” I said, “I don’t care”. I had a U.S. Twenty Dollar bill, a few hundred dollar bills and a 100 RMB bill. So I gave him the Twenty, equal to about 164 RMB and he released the puppy and we went on our way.
I handed the puppy to Shuru and said to the puppy, “Here Pup, go to your Mommy.” I asked her if she could find a home for the puppy. She said, “yes”.
I thought, “Great, a good outcome to an otherwise potentially bad ending.” As we were walking away, I watched the vendor go back to the side of the street and produce another puppy from a burlap sack and thought, “Oh Jesus, he’s got the whole litter in the there.” The realization and the futility of it that this one little puppy was but only one of many such puppies.
We took the puppy back to the hotel lobby and Shuru went out to get some milk because we had no idea when the puppy might have had her last milk.
We then went up to my hotel room to feed the puppy. I got one of the tea cups from the hotel room and Shuru squirted a little milk into a tea cup. (If you look very closely to the right, the puppy is watching the milk being squeezed into the cup and is licking her lips.) We had adopted a little female puppy.
The puppy seemed to accept that new affection with little difficulty. We were getting REAL attached to this little one.
THE NEXT DAY. Shuru had taken our puppy to her father’s factory where there was another 2-month old puppy they were taking care of. I thought, this was great, instant puppy friends. Not only that but there was a nice outdoor area where the dogs could play and be comfortable.
I did not hear from Shuru for another day. The following day however, I got a e-mail from Shuru. She said, “Our daughter” did not eat at all yesterday and she looks very sick.
“What now?” I thought. We had been too lucky. Something was not right but what could it be? Was the milk bad? Did the other puppy get too rough with her?
Shuru took the puppy to the veterinarian office across from her apartment. He told her that the pup was very ill and may not make it but it would certainly have to stay hospitalized. If she made it the next 24-48 hours she would probably be OK. Otherwise, it did not look good.
That night I said a little prayer for a little dog. “God you can move mountains, so could you just help out this one little puppy?” I felt like there was a reason that we found that street vendor.
I had to go to Zhuhai the next day and did not have internet access so I did not communicate with Shuru. I could have called her on my mobile phone but I figured I would just wait until later when I got to Haiko when I would be able to get online. Maybe I was afraid of what I might hear.
I was in my hotel room the next day in Haiko when I got an SMS text message on my phone about 12 noon. It read, “I’m sorry, Bruce. She’s dying. I am with her now.”
I immediately called Shuru on her mobile phone. Shuru quickly answered. The background noise was clearly that of a vet office (barking dogs). I said, “Shuru, its Bruce, are you sure?” She said, “Yes”.
I said “Is she suffering?” She said, “Yes she is. She is breathing hard and with a lot of difficulty.” With a kind of hollow feeling and a heavy heart, I had the thought that there is only one other thing possible we can do to help this little creature at this point. I said “Can we at least give her a shot and make sure she doesn’t suffer much more?”
Shuru said, “Yes.” I said, “OK, then, let’s do it.”
She said, “Alright, I will. Sorry, Bruce.”
I said, “Shuru, I just appreciate you being there. Otherwise she would be dying by herself in a garbage pile somewhere. At least she can feel you petting her head and feel not quite so alone.” Shuru told me that there was another puppy from the same litter in the vet’s office going through the same thing. Whatever happened was happening to all those puppies. We were both crushed.
The next day in Haiko about 8 pm, Shuru and I met online on MSN Messenger and chatted about the previous week. She told me something very interesting and sad. Her veterinarian said that 75% of the puppies sold by street vendors will die in this same way. What happens is that these vendors dye the new puppies different colors in an attempt to make them more cute or sellable.
Unfortunately, the dye they use kills the puppies in a few days. It is so toxic that the puppies’ young systems cannot handle the toxicity. We imagine that their livers which try to cleanse the blood become overwhelmed and fail. Then the other systems shut down and the pups die a miserable death going into respiratory distress and then, ultimately, cardiac failure unless the end is hastened by medical compassion. We believe the puppies are taken from their mothers too early to survive the separation and are essentially killed by this act.
What can be done? Modern societies have modern laws which not only provide animal welfare practices but also which generate a great deal of money in the form of fees from licensing and registration fees, and sales taxes and penalty fines for those who do not comply with the law. The result of enacting animal welfare regulations would not only bring China into common practice with western countries but would result in significant income to local government.
Since this story occurred, I have offered a set of recommendations to Guangzhou Province officials regarding their animal treatment and regulations since recent events there suggests the need for change as much or more than other provinces. Did they listen? Who knows.
Bruce Krider
San Marcos, CA
bgkrider@gmail.com
