Animal abuse and the circus...

This story is about, not to forget, not to relax, and not to let Tyke’s death be in vain.

This story is for all abused elephants in the word, because it’s not just the circus that treads their animals like shit. Many mahouts do to and they should love and cherish their elephants!

So, before you ever visit a circus again and applaud, read this, and know…what it is… you applaud for!!!!!

What should I call it, terrible seems so cliché. Horror doesn’t even cut it. No, what I am about to write is the stuff of nightmares, for circus animals anyway. Today I wanted to start a blog about the Ebola-virus, because it’s a terrible disease and it needs more addressing. However, after seeing yet another article about the abuse of circus animals, 

I changed my mind. I will write my blog about the Ebola-virus, but after I’m finished with this one.

First, let me tell you that I don’t believe that there is a circus in the world that really loves its animals. From what my research told me so far, all circuses are treating their animals poorly. What am I saying; they abuse their animals in the worst kind of way! See the footage for yourself and then you decide how great the circus really is!

Source PETA.  http://www.peta.org/videos/circus-cruelty-carson-barnes/

PETA and others like http://www.elephantvoices.org/  have a lot of (undercover) stories that will give you nightmares, just looking at it. Imagine how those elephants must feel!

This is only one very disturbing and sad example of the circus treads their animals and elephants in particular.

The next time you see, or read about another circus elephant that snaps, loses it, you have to ask yourself, why? 

Elephants are highly social animals, they care for their families deeply. Elephant herds live by hierarchy and they mourn the loss of one of their own, just like we humans do.

Did you know:

That the skin of an elephant is very sensitive?

That you can easily hurt an elephant through their sensitive skin?

That they understand more than we give them credit for?

That elephants cry, like we do? Are scared and having nightmares, like do?

That they miss and mourn for their baby after the calf is taken away from them after his or her birth?

That many times during giving birth, the becoming mother is abused?

That circuses use electroshock's (they stick in the behind of the elephant) to make her submit?

I thought long and hard about, the why! Why do people feel good after beating an elephant bruised and bloody? Why make this huge gently giant that has no rights, to lie down and let herself get beaten over and over? After thinking long and hard, I came to the conclusion that I believe that torturing and abusing these amazing animals make them feel like real men.

One thing, and I know that many of you agree with me that, beating an animal into submission doesn’t make you a real man. It makes you a coward and a monster. Because brave men don’t need to abuse an animal to feel like a man, they are real men.

Being a real man means:

That you help the ones who weaker than you!

That you don’t torture innocent defenseless animals!

That you help the elderly!

I can go on and on, but you know what I mean. I hope and pray that many of you who read this are going to help in protesting against animal abuse in general. That you will sign every petition available against animal-cruelty. That you will spread the word to, as many other people as possible, to take action against animal-cruelty. Call it in when you see someone abuse an animal.

Most important, that you don’t participate in animal abuse. 

That means** stay as far away from the circus as you can** Let people in your neighborhood know how the circus really is treating their animals.

To abuse any animals should be considered a crime against humanity. Unfortunately, animals still don’t count as much as they should be! I find that very odd and I don’t understand why there still are so few laws to protect animals from monsters that call themselves human.

I’m still working on my free-read about elephants; I change the story time and again. I’m not certain how to exactly write it.

Thank you for reading my blog and in helping, giving animals a voice they themselves don’t have!

Is the Ukraine lost?

Ukraine President Porosjenko has decided that the eastern part of the Ukraine will be ruled (for now) by the Russian-separatists. I don’t get it, no I really don’t! I mean first they involve the world in their fight against the separatists. Now that they get help, they do what? The fools surrender part of their country to, IMHO Russian terrorists. The Ukraine fought hard and long to defeat the separatists, but it all went to hell when Putin intervened. First it was Crimea that Putin wanted back. He got what he wanted, now however he wants the rest of the Ukraine. Putin wants the Ukraine, period! We all know, what Putin wants, Putin gets. Putin wants not only the Ukraine, no he wants so much more. I already wrote about this in my previous blog. If Putin gets his hands on Crimea, he will go after the rest of the Ukraine. It will be bit by bit, piece by piece.

MH 17

Downing the civilian airliner flight MH 17 was the biggest mistake the separatists/ Russia made. By acting like the amateurs they are, they killed almost 300 innocent civilians. Of course Putin keeps denying that Russia was involved in downing the aircraft, but the whole wide world knows different.

Sanctions

Through several rounds of sanctions against Russia, because of the role the country plays in the crisis in Ukraine, Russian banks and energy companies barely more access to foreign exchange.

In addition, access is blocked to the European capital market for three Russian energy companies (Rosneft, Gazprom Neft and Transneft). Earlier, the EU made ​​this all possible for a number of Russian banks. Because of this restriction, it is more difficult to borrow money. Moreover, the EU extends sanctions on the oil sector. Thus, the export of certain technologies from the EU to Russia are now restricted. 

A number of companies have asked Moscow for help, including oil giant Rosneft that says that it needs1.5 trillion rubles ($ 30.7 billion).

And get this! 

Russia wants billions of rubles set aside to protect companies against the effects of European and American sanctions against the country. The money will be transferred from the pension pot of the Russian Federation in a special fund should be available next year. Putin empties the pension pot, I mean really? 

Russia got warning after warning about their interference in the war between the Russian separatists and the Ukraine. Putin just doesn’t care. Even now the Russian ruble has hit a new all-time low; he still interferes as in helping the Russian separatists by supplying them with weapons and other weaponry, like tanks and missiles, to shoot airplanes out of the sky. Yes, that’s right, like they did MH 17, a commercial airliner with nearly 300 innocent civilians on board. If that’s not murder, then in don’t know what is! This wasn’t an accident; you don’t shoot an unidentified flying object out of the sky, you just don’t. Well at least people who have a conscience don’t.

Anyway, more sanctions for Russia, and these new sanctions are going to hit Russia in the financial heart and it will heart like a bitch. Still, Putin acts like he  doesn't have a care in the world. These new sanctions will hit Russia hard; also the rest of the world will suffer the consequences. There will be no winner in the conflict between the Ukraine, Russia and the rest of the world! In the end, they all will lose!

It won't happen overnight, but If all goes as plan, the Ukraine will be lost to Russia. It makes me asked myself, which country is next?

The death of baby Max!

There aren’t only animals and people on our beautiful planet, no there are also the monsters. They look human and for the most part behave like a human, but behind the façade lies a great ugliness. 

I couldn't keep my tears from falling, while writing this heartbreaking story of, Max! 

Gary Roberts, an American pilot who works in Chad, as a rescuer, found to his dismay that a group of a hundred elephants were slaughtered ruthless by poachers on the border between Chad and Cameroon. He did everything to save the only survivor, a nine-month old baby elephant that he named Max.

Telephone call!

In March 2013, Gary Roberts received a disturbing call. There were rumors of a massacre of a herd of elephants, and they asked him if he could fly to check out the situation. When Gary flew over the border between Chad and Cameroon with his Cessna, he stomach turned by what he saw.

Hundred skulls!

"It was awful seeing merely remnants and bones." Gary told the BBC about the horrors he encountered last year. Everywhere there were large pools of blood and carcasses scattered over several kilometers. He counted at least a hundred skulls. His stomach turned over. The poachers had almost certainly used machine guns to kill the herd of elephants. Seeing the genocide (because that’s what it was IMHO) he gave all the information to the authorities and flew back home.

Second phone call!

Two days later he was called again they told him that an elephant baby had survived the massacre the horror. The Roberts family had in the past often cared for animals-orphans. So he returned to the area looking for the baby.

Now the heartbreaking starts!

He found the animal of an estimated nine months to a tree tied with a rope. The calf was anxious, angry and grieving over the loss of his family. The animal had been given cow's milk from some villagers. With good intentions, but cow's milk is toxic to elephants. The rope had caused wounds to his neck that started to infect. During his short stay in the village children additionally pelted him with stones.

Panic!

The Roberts couple decided then and there to rescue the elephant baby. Even if that meant it had to be shipped in tiny plane. With a truck, the fatherless, the meanwhile baptized Max, was brought to the plane where the Roberts couple was waiting. The baby elephant barely fitted the small Cessna, which can carry up to four people, a risky operation, done by true heroes.

When Max, (160 pounds) would panic, the small plane would become uncontrollable. Yet the weakened animal just scanned off the cockpit playfully with his trunk.

 Exhaustion!

Once home the baby elephant fully collapsed. He was day and night cared for by Gary and Wendy. But despite all their efforts and dedication Max didn’t make it. After ten days Max died.

"The trauma of the massacre was too much for little Max," Roberts said with a deep sigh. Perhaps his death was also caused by cow's milk, the only merciful act he had received of the villagers, during his short life!

Gary Roberts conducted the rescue mission early last year, but the extraordinary images of the flight are only now surfacing. The BBC conducted a conversation with Gary. 

Pistorius, guilty of culpable homicide!

One of my favorite things to write about, yessss, Oscar Pistorius!

Culpable homicide is the South African term for “unintentionally, but illegally killing a person”. Pistorius didn’t have a firearms-license, but even so, he owned a gun!

The reading of the verdict began Thursday. Masipa stated that the prosecutors failed to prove that Pistorius planned on killing his girlfriend after an argument. I have to agree and that one. Because I think he killed in blind rage. Dear Oscar is known for having a bad temper. Anyways, Masipa said that the plaintiffs gave only circumstantial evidence. South African media reported that prosecutors are amazed at the ease with which Masipa rejected the, indictment murder. The prosecution therefore is likely to appeal against the verdict, and I really hope they do!

On Friday the famous, disabled South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, or ‘blade runner’, has been found guilty of culpable homicide. Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa found evidence that the 27-year old Pistorius on February 14^th 2013 (yes people Valentine day of all days) his 29-year old girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp shot and killed!

Oscar Pistorius shot and killed Steenkamp February 14, 2013 by shooting multiple times through a closed door. Although Pistorius did not have the intention to kill Reeva Steenkamp, he acted consciously and much too rushed with excessive force.

The sentence will be determined sometime later. Pistorius faces a long prison sentence, possibly up to 15 years. On Friday Oscar Pistorius was also convicted of a shooting incident in a crowded restaurant. Two other charges related to Pistorius' firearms and ammunition, Masipa considered unproven.

South African media reported that prosecutors are amazed at the ease with which Masipa rejected the, indictment murder. The prosecution therefore is likely to appeal against the verdict, and I really hope they do!

Let’s be honest here, if you feel threatened. If you think you have to shoot, in order to protect yourself, and the people who are in your house at that moment. You locate everyone before you fire multiple times through a closed door. What did dear Oscar do? He grabbed his gun and acted like the lunatic he his.

For the record, don’t point a gun if you don’t intent on shooting someone. Only point a gun if you really have the intension of shooting a person.

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Horror House Sold!

Many people would not want to buy a house where a notorious murder was committed, but the new owner is very delighted with his new home. The South African is the new owner of the house where athlete Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The joy is undoubtedly due to the sharp purchase. The new owner paid about half the market value for the villa in Pretoria.

The buyer tapped home on the head for 4.5 million rand, about 325,000 euros. In 2011 Pistorius tried it sell for almost double.

The 57-year-old consultant had his eye on the house when he saw images of it during the trial “It looked nice ", he said to news agency AFP. Not everyone in his family was thrilled. “My wife had to get used to the idea," he admits. The couple wants to move into the horror house in a few years, if they 57-year-old consultant is retired.

He does not expect to feel the murder house unsafe, on the contrary. The house is located in a highly secure-gated community. Some residents do their doors here not even locked.

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Oscar Pistorius, from a rising star to a killer.

Athlete Oscar Pistorius, who has been convicted of the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, became an athlete star in the summer of 2011. Almost two years later, his star fell quickly when he shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. “A mistake”, he says of the shooting. He shot through a closed door where he “said” he suspected a burglar. The judge considered murder unproven but found Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide.

In the summer of 2011, Pistorius wrote sports history when he, the first disabled athlete, competed with the 'normal' athletes at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea. A year later the fame of the South African with two artificial legs made ​​of carbon reached a highlight. 'Blade Runner' was a participant in the Olympic Games in London. Shortly afterwards, he was the main attraction at the Paralympic Games, where he won his sixth gold medal in the 400 meters. Yes, the man was good at what he did. Too bad dear Oscar was a bit of a lunatic.

In February 2013, the sports hero became ‘the killer’ because he had shot and killed his girlfriend. The now 27-year-old Pistorius does not deny that he shot Steenkamp. He said that he shot in panic because he thought there was a burglar in his house. In the courtroom, he was often completely off the map. This summer Pistorius sold his house due to financial problems; the house in which Steenkamp was killed. Pistorius had to sell the house in order to pay for his defense.

Pistorius hit by a congenital defect as 11 months old baby lost his lower legs. Even before the shooting accident that took place 2013, he had a history of violence and aggressive behavior. In September 2009 he was arrested for assault. In the same year he was hospitalized by a boating accident. Pistorius was on the Vaal River and in his reckless behavior he rammed a pier. Pistorius had, according to an ex-girlfriend always a gun, even though he didn’t had a license for it.

I guess we all know about the shooting incident in the restaurant back in March 2014? People with a behavior like this are unstable and can become a danger to themselves, and to others. Didn’t they know how unstable dear Oscar was, or did they and just ignored it?

No matter how you look at it, an innocent woman got shot and killed. She will never see the sun rising, never have a family of her own. Never will her family see her beautiful smile ever again. Why? Because Oscar Pistorius thought he could solve everything with a gun in his hand.

Hunting Animals :(

I was shocked by an article I read this week in the newspaper. First of all let me tell you that I’m dead set against shooting animals. There always is a solution were you don’t need to put an animal down. What I really hate, are the people who shoot animals just shits and giggles. It’s cruel and IMHO only cowards can pull that off.

Now, I know that History Channel and NGC airing lots of programs in which show animal abuse and even animal killing. I don’t watch the shows, but sometime when I’m not fast enough I see previews and that alone is the stuff of nightmares. How anyone can abuse or kill an innocent animal and sleep at night? Well that’s beyond me!

However I was amazed that a Dutch channel is airing a program that shows elephants getting killed by hunters, just for shits and giggles. We started a campaign to prevent the show from airing, but until now, to no avail. Monsters like that make me sick.

And what is it that everyone was to abuse or kill elephants. These magnificent gentle giants should be able to live their life in peace. The same goes for the tigers and lions and all the other innocent animals who never did anything wrong. It should be prohibited to hunt animals, period!

I feel bad when I have to discipline my little doggie. And be discipline I mean that I speak to him in a firm tone. Luckily for me, I don’t need to discipline him often, he behaves very well. Hell I have rabbits in the garden; they live in rabbit-holes under the porch. Next year we want to renew the porch that means that the rabbits have to go. So I have months to figure out how to renew the porch without burying the rabbits alive. I have to figure out how I can be sure that the rabbit-holes are really, totally and completely empty, no rabbits left! It’s so cute to see them play in garden early mornings and early evenings. Sometimes the rabbits play during the day, but only if Max is in da house LOL. He loves hunting the little rabbits, and he’s fast.

Max once caught a rabbit, I was screaming at him to let go of the rabbit, and guess what, he actually did. I have to say that Max isn’t used to me, yelling at him, he was so shocked that I was yelling at him that he dropped the rabbit and just stared at me LOL

I love animals, all animals; I can’t even kill a spider even though they scare the hell out of me! When there’s a huge spider, I let my hubby catch him and he brings the spider outside, were it belongs. The world is full of monsters that abuse, torture and kill innocent animals. It warms my heart when I see how many people are helping animals in need, love and respect their pets and all other animals. People, who sign petitions to speak up for animals that need it badly, think of animal testing. People, who work in animals-shelters, I worked in an animal shelter for many years, and it was rewarding.

Small announcement!

Today I will start on writing my first free read.  It will be Tyke’s story. So, now I have to do is some serious research so the story will be part fiction and also based on facts. Seeing the footage of tyke being shot made me skip lunch. This is something i feel i just have to do! It will be a free-read, so i won't gain anything from it!

Tyke, never forgotten! Why I hate the circus!

After a crazy busy time I finally have the time to concentrate on writing stories. As of today I will blog on a regular basis again. I have so much to share; there is so much in my head that needs to get out LOL.

TYKE

Today I’ll share a very sad story with all who read my blog! I share this with you, because I think the world should know what Tyke went through and why she did what she did! When an animals as big as Tyke screams for mercy and even goes down to avoid being hit, then we humans have to ask ourselves what in the hell is wrong and why do we let this happen?

You can help in a very simple way:

1. Don’t ever go to a circus if they have wild animals like tigers and elephants, because they are forced to perform.

2. sign as much petitions as you possibly can (see PETA)

Tyke (1974 – 1994) was an African elephant who couldn’t take her abuse any longer. After a life of only knowing abuse she went on a rampage to escape her torturers, her abusers. She killed her trainer in the attempt to escape. It showed after his autopsy that Tyke’s trainer, a scumbag named Allen Campbell had alcohol and cocaine in his system at the time of his death. Imagine, Tyke, left in the hands of a monster like that, also he already had a bad reputation of abusing animals.

Alcohol and drugs make these monsters even more aggressive than they already are. Did anyone talk about that? About a monster that took abuse to a whole new level and in the process drove this sweet, gentle giant, insane! No when an animal (mostly elephants) are going on a rampage it’s always like- OMG the animal has gone crazy – the animal is dangerous and so on. NO it’s not the animal that’s dangerous; it’s the monster that abuses the animal in ways most of you don’t even want to think of, because it’s just too horrible.

It took a long time and 86 bullets to finally kill Tyke, and for what? Yes, that’s right, because she had enough of the abuse, had enough of the times that she screamed for mercy, had enough of the times that she was so scared that she even went down in hopes the beatings would stop.

People, this is why I am dead set against the circus. Wild animals don’t voluntarily do tricks.  Wild animals only perform under the most horrific circumstances. Wild animals only perform when they are beaten into submission. Most animal trainers are a frustrated bunch, and they take it out on innocent animals that can’t fight back. Yes, it’s an act of cowardice and only monsters are capable of doing so!

An animal can only take so much before it goes insane, either from fear or because some monster simply drove her insane. Why? You ask? Well because they can. Mostly they simply are cowards, who are scared of real men. So they take it out on an innocent animal!

Stories, like this make me sick, they make my stomach turn and not in a good way!

http://www.peta2.com/blog/honolulu-circus-elephant/#ixzz3CieJRMJU

Look at this footage, yes all the way, to the end. In the end you see Tyke dying and her eyes tell you that she doesn’t understand why people hate her so much that they drove her to insanity by abusing her every single day!

So please, please stay away from any circus that has wild animals perform, because only severe abuse can make them perform. They really don’t perform voluntarily, they really don’t!

There isn’t one single circus that treats their animal’s right. How do I know this? The answer is very simple. Animals don’t belong in a circus doing handstands just for our entertainment. Animals belong in the wild were they can be themselves. Where there is no abuse from monsters like Allen Campbell.

If you push me, I’ll push back, if an animal pushes back, it gets killed! The next time you see or read about an animal that goes rampant, think of Tyke, and know why shit like this happens. It’s not the animals that are monsters; it’s us humans that are the monsters!