Seeing Eye Dogs Australia (SEDA) have a new litter of new puppies in Melbourne

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Brigitta the cat-on-wheels from Celle, Germany needs her wheelchair to stand after she was shot with an airgun

Picture: Holger Hollemann/Photoshot

Tickling slow loris - the truth behind those ‘cute pet’ videos.

The slow loris is an endangered primate species from South-East Asia. Partly due to videos on You Tube, the slow loris is a very popular pet both in its native countries and internationally. 

Although the videos show a cute, furry animal which seems to enjoy being tickled or playing with an umbrella, the truth is very different. The slow loris trade is not only illegal but also cruel. Teeth are broken off using pliers to prevent the toxic loris bite. Many animals die either during transport or in captivity, while population numbers in the wild are dwindling and the slow loris is on the brink of extinction.

Happy Easter!

Remember to keep all your chocolate treats from your pets to avoid any trips to the vets.

Huskies pant during a training session at Feshiebridge, in Aviemore, Scotland.

Picture: REUTERS/David Moir

Freddy the Boston terrier plays in the snow, Nottingham, UK

Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

(Source: Guardian)

West Highland Terrier by Sam Friedman

brooklynsandyrelief:

“FWD: Please repost :(
We need foster homes for small dogs. We have a neighbor who lives on 38 Gunnison Court, Brooklyn, NY, and has about 15 small dogs. The place was seriously hit by the Hurricane. A friend is fostering 3, another neighbor took 1 that was about to die…they are all wet and…

Dogs of the North

Pond Inlet, Nunavut, Canada

Photo by Adam Coish

ITV2 has a series called Super Tiny Animals, which depicts various small animals as pets every week. This program regularly depicts small wild animals as pets without emphasising its conservation status or the unsuitability of such animals as pets.

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A dog saves her five ten-day-old puppies from a fire in the Chilean city of Temuco. She rescued them one by one from the flames and carried them to a fire engine. According to media reports, one of the puppies, who suffered severe burns, did not survive.Picture: EPA/EL AUSTRAL DE TEMUCO

Rabbit, Oregon

Photograph by Matt Brigham

(via Rabbit Picture — Animal Wallpaper — National Geographic Photo of the Day)

Scientists say they have discovered why dogs love to eat meat and bones.

I haven’t reblogged the original post, as the images are extremely distressing.

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‘Animal crush videos generally feature, but do not limit themselves to, small live animals, such as kittens, puppies, mice and bunnies being slowly tortured in the most horrific ways imaginable. 

They are burned alive, cut with pruning sheers, nailed to the floor, skinned alive, beaten, stabbed and most often, they have their limbs crushed and broken, just to invoke more screams of agony. 
The majority of these videos share a common theme, the animals are incrementally crushed by scantily clad women in high heels. Those who purchase these videos, view them for sexual gratification. Basically speaking, the animal crush interest is an atypical sexual arousal toward the the horrific torture and distress of another life-form. The sick, twisted, prurient animal crush industry has become increasingly popular all over the world. It will continue to escalate the degradation of our society if nothing is done to curtail the sadistic underground industry. ’