To Kmaherali: Ya Ali Madad.
BIJJU KOI KAAM KAAJ CHEE KE NAI TAMAREE PAASE.
THODAA MAHBAA MAA AAVO.
ALI NI KHAATIR.
pets
Our faith is not only about ALI ALLAH only. There are many other interesting matters to reflect upon in the natural world around us! Sometimes animals can also teach us a few lessons!nuseri wrote:To Kmaherali: Ya Ali Madad.
BIJJU KOI KAAM KAAJ CHEE KE NAI TAMAREE PAASE.
THODAA MAHBAA MAA AAVO.
ALI NI KHAATIR.
Dog reacts to soldier owner coming home for first time in three-and-a-half months
Heartwarming footage of an elderly dog greeting a soldier returning home for the first time in three-and-a-half months. The video, filmed in the US on December 18, shows 13-year-old Buddy the golden retriever reacting in an incredibly excited way when her owner returned home from US army training for a Christmas break. The filmer later wrote online: "I enlisted in the US Army and left for basic combat training in September. "I was blessed with the permission to go home for two weeks for Christmas." "This is where I got to see my dog for the first time in 3.5 months," she continued. "Buddy is a 13-year-old Golden Retriever who has arthritis and is losing her hearing, though despite her elderly age was absolutely thrilled to see me and couldn't even stay on her feet. "I missed her dearly and hope I can see her again soon."
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/dog ... lsignoutmd
Heartwarming footage of an elderly dog greeting a soldier returning home for the first time in three-and-a-half months. The video, filmed in the US on December 18, shows 13-year-old Buddy the golden retriever reacting in an incredibly excited way when her owner returned home from US army training for a Christmas break. The filmer later wrote online: "I enlisted in the US Army and left for basic combat training in September. "I was blessed with the permission to go home for two weeks for Christmas." "This is where I got to see my dog for the first time in 3.5 months," she continued. "Buddy is a 13-year-old Golden Retriever who has arthritis and is losing her hearing, though despite her elderly age was absolutely thrilled to see me and couldn't even stay on her feet. "I missed her dearly and hope I can see her again soon."
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/dog ... lsignoutmd
Dog saves the life of sleeping boy with diabetes
A diabetic alert dog named Jedi may have saved the life of a sleeping seven-year-old boy after the black Labrador alerted its owners that the child’s blood sugar levels dropped to dangerously low levels in the middle of the night.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/cau ... lsignoutmd
A diabetic alert dog named Jedi may have saved the life of a sleeping seven-year-old boy after the black Labrador alerted its owners that the child’s blood sugar levels dropped to dangerously low levels in the middle of the night.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/cau ... lsignoutmd
Is Your Pet Lonely and Bored?
AMERICA is experiencing a population boom — of pets. Driven by rising disposable income and urbanization and by evolving attitudes toward animals, the number of pets has grown more rapidly since the mid-1970s than the human population, to the point where there are now about as many pets as there are people.
We don’t just buy pets as never before, we also treat them differently. More animals are living in our houses and are given over to a life of leisure. Animals are spoken of as family members — and not just dogs and cats, but rabbits, rats, bearded dragons and snakes. We feed them scientifically formulated organic diets and take them to veterinary specialists of all stripes. Veterinarians and psychologists describe these changing practices as evidence of a deepening “human-animal bond.”
Let me confess up front that I have taken an active part in the pet-keeping bonanza. I grew up with a menagerie of pets and, as a mother, was determined to provide my daughter with the same joyful experiences. Indeed, I was so indulgent that by the time my daughter was in elementary school our house was known as “the neighborhood zoo.” Now that she is a teenager, we’ve vastly reduced the census of animals in our home, but we still live with two dogs. I can’t imagine life without them.
Regardless, I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the very notion of “pet.” Scientists studying animal cognition and emotion are continually peeling back the mysteries of animal minds, revealing an incredible and often surprising richness in the thoughts and feelings of other creatures.
For instance, the more I’ve learned about goldfish — they are more intelligent than we think, feel pain and engage in socially complex behaviors — the guiltier I feel that I subjected several of these creatures to a life of endless tedium, swimming circles in a small bowl on my daughter’s dresser.
When I came upon the conclusion by the University of Tennessee ethologist Gordon Burghardt that the best we can do for captive reptiles and other animals is a life of “controlled deprivation,” I wished I had never bought Lizzy, our leopard gecko. I felt a pit in my stomach when I learned that Lizzy’s perpetual clawing at the glass wall of her tank was most likely a manifestation of captivity-induced stress. We had basically been torturing her, and it is perhaps not surprising that she died after only two years, despite our efforts to give proper care.
Like me, well-meaning pet owners may unwittingly cause harm by keeping animals in captive environments that might not meet their behavioral needs, such as a small bowl for a lone goldfish or a 10-gallon glass tank with fake vines for a leopard gecko. I assumed, during the days of my pet-buying frenzy, that pet stores would sell only tanks and cages that provided appropriate housing for the animals they sell. But I was wrong. Some of these “habitats” hardly deserve the name. A current trend in aquariums, for example, is the so-called nano-tank, a fish habitat designed to fit nicely on the corner of a desk (complete with USB plug-in, for your convenience). The tanks are sleek, but woe to the fish expected to live its entire life in six cups of water.
The way the pet industry advertises and sells animals gives the impression that having a pet is easy and fun, and that pets themselves are cheap and disposable toys. You can, for instance, stop at the pet store at the mall and, for $20, buy a brightly painted hermit crab, complete with a cage that would fit on a 5-by-7-inch index card. Yet did you know that the recommended size tank for adequate hermit crab welfare is at least 10 gallons? Or that hermit crabs, despite their name, are actually social creatures that live in large colonies? Or that the hermit crabs sold at the mall have most likely been plucked from their wild home, since they don’t breed well in captivity? That hermit crabs can live 30 years or longer? That they probably feel pain?
The ethical problems with the various small creatures we stuff into cages and tanks are relatively clear-cut. The more challenging moral questions, in my view, arise in relation to our closest furry friends: dogs and cats. Unlike animals that must spend their entire life in a cage or that must struggle to adapt to a human environment, most cats and dogs have it pretty good. Many have the run of our homes, share in many of the activities of their human families, and may even have opportunities to form social relationships with others of their kind. They have lived in close contact with humans for thousands of years and are well adapted to living as our companions. They can form close bonds with us and, despite species barriers, can communicate their needs and preferences to us, and we to them.
Yet the well-being of our cats and dogs is perhaps more compromised than most of us would like to admit. There are, of course, the obvious systemic problems like cruelty, neglect, abandonment, the millions wasting away in shelters waiting for a “forever home” that will never materialize or whose lives are snuffed out because they don’t or can’t behave the way a “good” pet should. But even the most well-meaning owner doesn’t always provide what an animal needs, and it is likely that our dogs and cats may be suffering in ways we don’t readily see or acknowledge. We can too easily forget that although we have an entire world outside our home, we are everything to our animals.
How many dogs, for instance, are given lots of attention inside a home, but rarely get outside? How many spend their weekdays inside and alone, while their owners are at work, save for the one or two times a dog walker or neighbor drops by for a few minutes to feed them and take them out briefly? Is it going too far to suggest that these dogs are suffering?
In addition to love, a dog or cat owner also has to have time, space, energy, patience, money and a strong sense of commitment to being there for and with their animal. The choice of being a pet owner is rarely thrust upon us unexpectedly. Saying no is often the most responsible option.
If we buy fewer dogs and cats from breeders and pet stores, the pet population boom might gradually taper off, and the numbers of abandoned animals in shelters should start to decline as well.
It may be hard to recognize the harmful aspects of pet keeping when all we hear is how beloved pets are, how happy they are to be in our company, and how beautiful and enduring the human-animal bond is. Advertisements showing golden-haired children frolicking with golden-haired puppies and YouTube videos of cats doing hilarious things make pet keeping look ever so precious.
Yet if we really care about animals, we ought to look beyond the sentimental and carefully scrutinize our practices. Animals are not toys — they are living, breathing, feeling creatures. Perhaps we can try to step into their paws or claws and see what being a pet means from their perspective. We might not always like what we see.
Jessica Pierce, a bioethicist, is the author of “Run, Spot, Run.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opini ... 87722&_r=0
AMERICA is experiencing a population boom — of pets. Driven by rising disposable income and urbanization and by evolving attitudes toward animals, the number of pets has grown more rapidly since the mid-1970s than the human population, to the point where there are now about as many pets as there are people.
We don’t just buy pets as never before, we also treat them differently. More animals are living in our houses and are given over to a life of leisure. Animals are spoken of as family members — and not just dogs and cats, but rabbits, rats, bearded dragons and snakes. We feed them scientifically formulated organic diets and take them to veterinary specialists of all stripes. Veterinarians and psychologists describe these changing practices as evidence of a deepening “human-animal bond.”
Let me confess up front that I have taken an active part in the pet-keeping bonanza. I grew up with a menagerie of pets and, as a mother, was determined to provide my daughter with the same joyful experiences. Indeed, I was so indulgent that by the time my daughter was in elementary school our house was known as “the neighborhood zoo.” Now that she is a teenager, we’ve vastly reduced the census of animals in our home, but we still live with two dogs. I can’t imagine life without them.
Regardless, I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the very notion of “pet.” Scientists studying animal cognition and emotion are continually peeling back the mysteries of animal minds, revealing an incredible and often surprising richness in the thoughts and feelings of other creatures.
For instance, the more I’ve learned about goldfish — they are more intelligent than we think, feel pain and engage in socially complex behaviors — the guiltier I feel that I subjected several of these creatures to a life of endless tedium, swimming circles in a small bowl on my daughter’s dresser.
When I came upon the conclusion by the University of Tennessee ethologist Gordon Burghardt that the best we can do for captive reptiles and other animals is a life of “controlled deprivation,” I wished I had never bought Lizzy, our leopard gecko. I felt a pit in my stomach when I learned that Lizzy’s perpetual clawing at the glass wall of her tank was most likely a manifestation of captivity-induced stress. We had basically been torturing her, and it is perhaps not surprising that she died after only two years, despite our efforts to give proper care.
Like me, well-meaning pet owners may unwittingly cause harm by keeping animals in captive environments that might not meet their behavioral needs, such as a small bowl for a lone goldfish or a 10-gallon glass tank with fake vines for a leopard gecko. I assumed, during the days of my pet-buying frenzy, that pet stores would sell only tanks and cages that provided appropriate housing for the animals they sell. But I was wrong. Some of these “habitats” hardly deserve the name. A current trend in aquariums, for example, is the so-called nano-tank, a fish habitat designed to fit nicely on the corner of a desk (complete with USB plug-in, for your convenience). The tanks are sleek, but woe to the fish expected to live its entire life in six cups of water.
The way the pet industry advertises and sells animals gives the impression that having a pet is easy and fun, and that pets themselves are cheap and disposable toys. You can, for instance, stop at the pet store at the mall and, for $20, buy a brightly painted hermit crab, complete with a cage that would fit on a 5-by-7-inch index card. Yet did you know that the recommended size tank for adequate hermit crab welfare is at least 10 gallons? Or that hermit crabs, despite their name, are actually social creatures that live in large colonies? Or that the hermit crabs sold at the mall have most likely been plucked from their wild home, since they don’t breed well in captivity? That hermit crabs can live 30 years or longer? That they probably feel pain?
The ethical problems with the various small creatures we stuff into cages and tanks are relatively clear-cut. The more challenging moral questions, in my view, arise in relation to our closest furry friends: dogs and cats. Unlike animals that must spend their entire life in a cage or that must struggle to adapt to a human environment, most cats and dogs have it pretty good. Many have the run of our homes, share in many of the activities of their human families, and may even have opportunities to form social relationships with others of their kind. They have lived in close contact with humans for thousands of years and are well adapted to living as our companions. They can form close bonds with us and, despite species barriers, can communicate their needs and preferences to us, and we to them.
Yet the well-being of our cats and dogs is perhaps more compromised than most of us would like to admit. There are, of course, the obvious systemic problems like cruelty, neglect, abandonment, the millions wasting away in shelters waiting for a “forever home” that will never materialize or whose lives are snuffed out because they don’t or can’t behave the way a “good” pet should. But even the most well-meaning owner doesn’t always provide what an animal needs, and it is likely that our dogs and cats may be suffering in ways we don’t readily see or acknowledge. We can too easily forget that although we have an entire world outside our home, we are everything to our animals.
How many dogs, for instance, are given lots of attention inside a home, but rarely get outside? How many spend their weekdays inside and alone, while their owners are at work, save for the one or two times a dog walker or neighbor drops by for a few minutes to feed them and take them out briefly? Is it going too far to suggest that these dogs are suffering?
In addition to love, a dog or cat owner also has to have time, space, energy, patience, money and a strong sense of commitment to being there for and with their animal. The choice of being a pet owner is rarely thrust upon us unexpectedly. Saying no is often the most responsible option.
If we buy fewer dogs and cats from breeders and pet stores, the pet population boom might gradually taper off, and the numbers of abandoned animals in shelters should start to decline as well.
It may be hard to recognize the harmful aspects of pet keeping when all we hear is how beloved pets are, how happy they are to be in our company, and how beautiful and enduring the human-animal bond is. Advertisements showing golden-haired children frolicking with golden-haired puppies and YouTube videos of cats doing hilarious things make pet keeping look ever so precious.
Yet if we really care about animals, we ought to look beyond the sentimental and carefully scrutinize our practices. Animals are not toys — they are living, breathing, feeling creatures. Perhaps we can try to step into their paws or claws and see what being a pet means from their perspective. We might not always like what we see.
Jessica Pierce, a bioethicist, is the author of “Run, Spot, Run.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opini ... 87722&_r=0
A Humane Revolution
IN 1903, New Yorkers executed an elephant on Coney Island, effectively torturing her to death.
Accounts vary a bit, but it seems Topsy was a circus elephant who had been abused for years and then killed a man who had burned her on the trunk with a cigar. After her owners had no more use for her, Topsy was fed cyanide, electrocuted and then strangled with a winch. The Edison motion picture company made a film of it, “Electrocuting an Elephant.”
So maybe there is an arc of moral progress. After many allegations of mistreatment of animals, Ringling Brothers this month retired its circus elephants, sending them off to a life of leisure in Florida. SeaWorld said this spring that it would stop breeding orcas and would invest millions of dollars in rescuing and rehabilitating marine animals.
Meanwhile, Walmart responded to concerns for animal welfare by saying last month that it would shift toward cage-free eggs, following similar announcements by Costco, Denny’s, Wendy’s, Safeway, Starbucks and McDonald’s in the U.S. and Canada.
This is a humane revolution, and Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, has been at the forefront of it. Alternately bullying companies to do better and cooperating with those that do so, he outlines his approach in an excellent new book, “The Humane Economy.” These corporate changes have vast impact: Walmart or McDonald’s shapes the living conditions of more animals in a day than an animal shelter does in a decade.
There is also a lesson, I think, for many other causes, from the environment to women’s empowerment to global health: The best way for nonprofits to get large-scale results is sometimes to work with corporations to change behavior and supply lines — while whacking them when they resist.
The Environmental Defense Fund and Conservation International do something similar in the environmental space, CARE works with corporations to fight global poverty, and the Human Rights Campaign partners with companies on L.G.B.T. issues.
Critics sometimes see this as moral compromise, negotiating with evil rather than defeating it; I see it as pragmatism. Likewise, Pacelle has been a vegan for 31 years but cooperates with fast-food companies to improve conditions in which animals are raised for meat.
Photo
Human Society President and CEO Wayne Pacelle testifies before the Senate about inspection systems at meat processing plants in 2008.Credit Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
“Animals jammed into cages and crates cannot wait for the world to go vegan,” Pacelle told me. “I’m quite sure they want out of this unyielding life of privation right now, and once that question is settled, then sensible people can debate whether they should be raised for the plate at all.”
At a time when the world is a mess, Pacelle outlines a hopeful vision. The public has always had some impact with charitable donations, and there have always been occasional boycotts, but sometimes its greatest influence comes by leveraging daily consumer purchasing power.
“As the humane economy asserts its own power, its own logic and its essential decency, an older order is passing away,” Pacelle writes in his book. “By every measure, life will be better when human satisfaction and need are no longer built upon the foundation of animal cruelty. Indefensible practices will no longer need defending.”
It’s true that atrocities continue and that the slaughter of animals like elephants persists. There were some 130,000 elephants in Sudan 25 years ago, while now there may be only 5,000 in Sudan and the country that broke off from it, South Sudan, Pacelle writes.
Yet there is a business model for keeping grand animals like elephants alive. One analysis suggests that a dead elephant’s tusks are worth $21,000, while the tourism value of a single living elephant over its lifetime is $1.6 million. Countries follow their enlightened self-interest when they protect elephants, just as McDonald’s pursues its self-interest when it shifts toward cage-free eggs.
It’s also astonishing how sensitive companies are becoming to public opinion about animals. After Cecil the lion was shot dead in Zimbabwe, animal protection groups lobbied airlines to ban the shipment of such trophies. Delta, American, United, Air Canada and other companies promptly obliged.
In the pet store business, two chains — PetSmart and Petco — have prospered without accepting the industry’s norm of selling dogs and cats from puppy mills and other mass breeders. Instead, since the 1990s they have made space available to rescue groups offering animals for adoption. PetSmart and Petco don’t make money off these adoptions, but they win customer loyalty forever, and they have helped transfer 11 million dogs and cats to new homes.
I believe that mistreatment of animals, particularly in agriculture, remains a moral blind spot for us humans, yet it’s heartening to see the consumer-driven revolution that is underway.
“Just about every enterprise built on harming animals today is ripe for disruption,” Pacelle writes. In a world of grim tidings, that’s a welcome reminder that there is progress as well. We’ve gone in a bit more than a century from making a movie about torturing an elephant to sending circus elephants off to a Florida retirement home. But, boy, there’s so much more work to do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/opini ... 87722&_r=0
IN 1903, New Yorkers executed an elephant on Coney Island, effectively torturing her to death.
Accounts vary a bit, but it seems Topsy was a circus elephant who had been abused for years and then killed a man who had burned her on the trunk with a cigar. After her owners had no more use for her, Topsy was fed cyanide, electrocuted and then strangled with a winch. The Edison motion picture company made a film of it, “Electrocuting an Elephant.”
So maybe there is an arc of moral progress. After many allegations of mistreatment of animals, Ringling Brothers this month retired its circus elephants, sending them off to a life of leisure in Florida. SeaWorld said this spring that it would stop breeding orcas and would invest millions of dollars in rescuing and rehabilitating marine animals.
Meanwhile, Walmart responded to concerns for animal welfare by saying last month that it would shift toward cage-free eggs, following similar announcements by Costco, Denny’s, Wendy’s, Safeway, Starbucks and McDonald’s in the U.S. and Canada.
This is a humane revolution, and Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, has been at the forefront of it. Alternately bullying companies to do better and cooperating with those that do so, he outlines his approach in an excellent new book, “The Humane Economy.” These corporate changes have vast impact: Walmart or McDonald’s shapes the living conditions of more animals in a day than an animal shelter does in a decade.
There is also a lesson, I think, for many other causes, from the environment to women’s empowerment to global health: The best way for nonprofits to get large-scale results is sometimes to work with corporations to change behavior and supply lines — while whacking them when they resist.
The Environmental Defense Fund and Conservation International do something similar in the environmental space, CARE works with corporations to fight global poverty, and the Human Rights Campaign partners with companies on L.G.B.T. issues.
Critics sometimes see this as moral compromise, negotiating with evil rather than defeating it; I see it as pragmatism. Likewise, Pacelle has been a vegan for 31 years but cooperates with fast-food companies to improve conditions in which animals are raised for meat.
Photo
Human Society President and CEO Wayne Pacelle testifies before the Senate about inspection systems at meat processing plants in 2008.Credit Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
“Animals jammed into cages and crates cannot wait for the world to go vegan,” Pacelle told me. “I’m quite sure they want out of this unyielding life of privation right now, and once that question is settled, then sensible people can debate whether they should be raised for the plate at all.”
At a time when the world is a mess, Pacelle outlines a hopeful vision. The public has always had some impact with charitable donations, and there have always been occasional boycotts, but sometimes its greatest influence comes by leveraging daily consumer purchasing power.
“As the humane economy asserts its own power, its own logic and its essential decency, an older order is passing away,” Pacelle writes in his book. “By every measure, life will be better when human satisfaction and need are no longer built upon the foundation of animal cruelty. Indefensible practices will no longer need defending.”
It’s true that atrocities continue and that the slaughter of animals like elephants persists. There were some 130,000 elephants in Sudan 25 years ago, while now there may be only 5,000 in Sudan and the country that broke off from it, South Sudan, Pacelle writes.
Yet there is a business model for keeping grand animals like elephants alive. One analysis suggests that a dead elephant’s tusks are worth $21,000, while the tourism value of a single living elephant over its lifetime is $1.6 million. Countries follow their enlightened self-interest when they protect elephants, just as McDonald’s pursues its self-interest when it shifts toward cage-free eggs.
It’s also astonishing how sensitive companies are becoming to public opinion about animals. After Cecil the lion was shot dead in Zimbabwe, animal protection groups lobbied airlines to ban the shipment of such trophies. Delta, American, United, Air Canada and other companies promptly obliged.
In the pet store business, two chains — PetSmart and Petco — have prospered without accepting the industry’s norm of selling dogs and cats from puppy mills and other mass breeders. Instead, since the 1990s they have made space available to rescue groups offering animals for adoption. PetSmart and Petco don’t make money off these adoptions, but they win customer loyalty forever, and they have helped transfer 11 million dogs and cats to new homes.
I believe that mistreatment of animals, particularly in agriculture, remains a moral blind spot for us humans, yet it’s heartening to see the consumer-driven revolution that is underway.
“Just about every enterprise built on harming animals today is ripe for disruption,” Pacelle writes. In a world of grim tidings, that’s a welcome reminder that there is progress as well. We’ve gone in a bit more than a century from making a movie about torturing an elephant to sending circus elephants off to a Florida retirement home. But, boy, there’s so much more work to do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/opini ... 87722&_r=0
Heartbreaking picture of dog who won't leave master's coffin after Italy earthquake
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/hea ... li=AAggNb9
It is a sight reminiscent of the legend of Greyfriars Bobby .
Thirty-four caskets lie side by side in a gym in Ascoli Piceno, a grim snapshot of Wednesday's earthquake that rocked central Italy and left at least 281 people dead and thousands more homeless .
Families grieve beside their departed loved ones, saying their final farewells before they are buried on Saturday. Beside one, a small blond cocker spaniel sits, devoted to the end, unable to leave his master even in death.
Little is known of the victim, except that he came from Accumoli, one of the communities that bore the brunt of the devastating quake. The quake was so strong that the town sank by 20 cm, according to Italy's geological institute.
The funeral in the gym is to be celebrated by Bishop Giovanni D'Ercole for the victims of nearby Arquata del Tronto. To date 49 of the dead have come from the tiny town and its nearby hamlet Pescara del Tronto.
Matteo Renzi, the prime minister, has declared a state of emergency and authorised 50 million euros (£43 million) for immediate quake relief.
The Italian government also declared Saturday a day of national mourning and scheduled a state funeral to be attended by President Sergio Mattarella.
While the name of the dog is not known, the picture was a striking reminder of the bonds between man's best friend and their owners - a connection epitomised by the story of the Victorian dog that held a 14-year vigil at the grave of his master in Edinburgh.
The tale of Greyfriars Bobby tells of a small Skye terrier who could not bear to leave his master's body and remained by his grave in Edinburgh from 1858 to 1872. His master was said to be John Gray, a local policeman.
Earlier this week, a dog trapped in rubble left by the quake pulled out alive.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/hea ... li=AAggNb9
It is a sight reminiscent of the legend of Greyfriars Bobby .
Thirty-four caskets lie side by side in a gym in Ascoli Piceno, a grim snapshot of Wednesday's earthquake that rocked central Italy and left at least 281 people dead and thousands more homeless .
Families grieve beside their departed loved ones, saying their final farewells before they are buried on Saturday. Beside one, a small blond cocker spaniel sits, devoted to the end, unable to leave his master even in death.
Little is known of the victim, except that he came from Accumoli, one of the communities that bore the brunt of the devastating quake. The quake was so strong that the town sank by 20 cm, according to Italy's geological institute.
The funeral in the gym is to be celebrated by Bishop Giovanni D'Ercole for the victims of nearby Arquata del Tronto. To date 49 of the dead have come from the tiny town and its nearby hamlet Pescara del Tronto.
Matteo Renzi, the prime minister, has declared a state of emergency and authorised 50 million euros (£43 million) for immediate quake relief.
The Italian government also declared Saturday a day of national mourning and scheduled a state funeral to be attended by President Sergio Mattarella.
While the name of the dog is not known, the picture was a striking reminder of the bonds between man's best friend and their owners - a connection epitomised by the story of the Victorian dog that held a 14-year vigil at the grave of his master in Edinburgh.
The tale of Greyfriars Bobby tells of a small Skye terrier who could not bear to leave his master's body and remained by his grave in Edinburgh from 1858 to 1872. His master was said to be John Gray, a local policeman.
Earlier this week, a dog trapped in rubble left by the quake pulled out alive.
Ya Ali Madad,nuseri wrote:To Kmaherali:Ya Ali Madad.
With your heated debate with baby naag in other topics.I assume you slected this topic to send a polite message to the living creature to where it's belong and where it's post should land henceforth in future
I post for the only purpose of sharing knowledge and for no other motive, regardless of the nature of the discussions.
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nuseri wrote:To Kmaherali:Ya Ali Madad.
With your heated debate with baby naag in other topics.I assume you slected this topic to send a polite message to the living creature to where it's belong and where it's post should land henceforth in future
A ma'rifati tonto sees pets in his dreams. A shari'ati will get huurs, where as 7th levelers will get few donuts and a cup of coffee in paradise.
Baba, shri'at is not ONLY about namaz, roza, or hujj, but it is a way of life including ethical values. If you believe in ethical values as prescribed by Imam means you are a SHARI'ATI.
Second Thoughts of an Animal Researcher
Albuquerque, N.M. — Five years ago, the National Institutes of Health all but ended biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees, concluding that, as the closest human relative, they deserved “special consideration and respect.”
But chimpanzees were far from the only nonhuman primates used in research then, or now. About 70,000 other primates are still living their lives as research subjects in labs across the United States.
On Wednesday, the N.I.H. will hold a workshop on “continued responsible research” with these animals. This sounds like a positive development. But as someone who spent decades working almost daily with macaque monkeys in primate research laboratories, I know firsthand that “responsible” research is not enough. What we really need to examine is the very moral ground of animal research itself.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opini ... &te=1&_r=0
Albuquerque, N.M. — Five years ago, the National Institutes of Health all but ended biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees, concluding that, as the closest human relative, they deserved “special consideration and respect.”
But chimpanzees were far from the only nonhuman primates used in research then, or now. About 70,000 other primates are still living their lives as research subjects in labs across the United States.
On Wednesday, the N.I.H. will hold a workshop on “continued responsible research” with these animals. This sounds like a positive development. But as someone who spent decades working almost daily with macaque monkeys in primate research laboratories, I know firsthand that “responsible” research is not enough. What we really need to examine is the very moral ground of animal research itself.
More....
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opini ... &te=1&_r=0
Some reactions of readers of the above article.
Is Animal Research Ever Ethical?
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When faced with actions that don’t reflect our ethics, we have two choices: We can change our behavior to align with our beliefs, or we can change our beliefs to align with our behavior. Our perception of animals as tools, property or food is precisely what enables us to rationalize our use of them for research, consumption, labor and entertainment.
We can change our minds, and we can change our behavior. By granting animals moral consideration, we will find that we are better aligned with our own morals.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/opini ... dline&te=1
Is Animal Research Ever Ethical?
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When faced with actions that don’t reflect our ethics, we have two choices: We can change our behavior to align with our beliefs, or we can change our beliefs to align with our behavior. Our perception of animals as tools, property or food is precisely what enables us to rationalize our use of them for research, consumption, labor and entertainment.
We can change our minds, and we can change our behavior. By granting animals moral consideration, we will find that we are better aligned with our own morals.
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Meet the pet cat with the magic touch who can 'heal' broken hearts and stress
A hands-on therapist who says she can spiritually heal people and pets claims her cat has the magic touch too.
Samantha Milns, 45, treats stressed clients and sick animals with reiki – where “healing energy” is passed on through touch.
But she says she gets amazing results when her rescue cat Tom places his paws on people.
Explaining how she discovered his “powerful” skill, she said: “A friend of mine had a relationship break-up and came to me when feeling low.
“I treated her but we both very much felt there was something that didn’t come out. There was a lot of pent-up emotion she wasn’t ready to release.
“Afterwards, Tom jumped up on her lap and put his chest on her chest.
“Immediately she burst into tears and that’s when I realised he could give healing. It was like he’d released the emotion. It was so powerful, like their energy connected. Straight away, my friend felt calm and relaxed.”
Samantha trained in the ancient Japanese art of reiki 11 years ago and then studied animal healing in order to use her spiritual skills on pets.
She now asks clients if they would like 11-year-old Tom to be present.
She said: “Sometimes he will sit at their feet if it’s more of a relaxation treatment but if the person is suffering with stress or is restless, he will be unsettled too. It is fascinating to see.”
When treating animals, she moves her hands around the body, starting at the neck and then moving down to paws or hooves.
She treats five animals each week, usually dogs, cats and horses. She also pet-sits for app Pawshake.
Samantha, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, said: “I work with animals post-surgery to help the healing process but I have found injuries through my treatments too.
“I treated a horse with very disjointed movement and found it had a tendon problem. And I diagnosed a heart murmur in a dog that was confirmed by the vet.
“I also see pets who are coming to the end of their lives. Giving reiki is a comfort to them.”
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/offbeat/m ... ailsignout
A hands-on therapist who says she can spiritually heal people and pets claims her cat has the magic touch too.
Samantha Milns, 45, treats stressed clients and sick animals with reiki – where “healing energy” is passed on through touch.
But she says she gets amazing results when her rescue cat Tom places his paws on people.
Explaining how she discovered his “powerful” skill, she said: “A friend of mine had a relationship break-up and came to me when feeling low.
“I treated her but we both very much felt there was something that didn’t come out. There was a lot of pent-up emotion she wasn’t ready to release.
“Afterwards, Tom jumped up on her lap and put his chest on her chest.
“Immediately she burst into tears and that’s when I realised he could give healing. It was like he’d released the emotion. It was so powerful, like their energy connected. Straight away, my friend felt calm and relaxed.”
Samantha trained in the ancient Japanese art of reiki 11 years ago and then studied animal healing in order to use her spiritual skills on pets.
She now asks clients if they would like 11-year-old Tom to be present.
She said: “Sometimes he will sit at their feet if it’s more of a relaxation treatment but if the person is suffering with stress or is restless, he will be unsettled too. It is fascinating to see.”
When treating animals, she moves her hands around the body, starting at the neck and then moving down to paws or hooves.
She treats five animals each week, usually dogs, cats and horses. She also pet-sits for app Pawshake.
Samantha, from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, said: “I work with animals post-surgery to help the healing process but I have found injuries through my treatments too.
“I treated a horse with very disjointed movement and found it had a tendon problem. And I diagnosed a heart murmur in a dog that was confirmed by the vet.
“I also see pets who are coming to the end of their lives. Giving reiki is a comfort to them.”
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/offbeat/m ... ailsignout
50 Incredible Animal Facts You'll Want to Share
Arm yourself with trivia from the animal kingdom.
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Arm yourself with trivia from the animal kingdom.
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http://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/smar ... ut#image=1
Great Dane Enjoys Massage From Cat
Bella the Great Dane loves to be pampered, so when Jack the Cat started giving her a little feline shiatsu, she was more than happy to oblige! Credit: YouTube/Max and Katie the Great Danes via Storyful
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Bella the Great Dane loves to be pampered, so when Jack the Cat started giving her a little feline shiatsu, she was more than happy to oblige! Credit: YouTube/Max and Katie the Great Danes via Storyful
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The debate surrounding religious rules for slaughtering animals
A new law in Belgium shows why disputes over faith-based slaughter touch a sensitive nerve
THERE are some religious-freedom arguments where even the time-honoured principle of “live and let live” fails to provide democracies with any easy answers. One such dispute concerns animal slaughter. It is an issue which can create unlikely coalitions, uniting Muslims and Jews (who share certain beliefs about how animals should be killed for meat) against an odd combination of animal-lovers, secularists and the nationalist right.
Belgium, a country which has more than its share of inter-faith and inter-communal tensions, is the latest place where slaughter methods have come under scrutiny. The legislature in Belgium’s French-speaking south has just voted to ban the killing of animals without stunning (ie, anaesthetising) them first. According to classic Muslim or Jewish teaching, animals should be killed by a single cut to the throat, administered while the beast is in a healthy state. Representatives of Belgium’s 40,000 Jews and 600,000 or more Muslims said the vote sent an extremely negative signal to religious minorities.
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A new law in Belgium shows why disputes over faith-based slaughter touch a sensitive nerve
THERE are some religious-freedom arguments where even the time-honoured principle of “live and let live” fails to provide democracies with any easy answers. One such dispute concerns animal slaughter. It is an issue which can create unlikely coalitions, uniting Muslims and Jews (who share certain beliefs about how animals should be killed for meat) against an odd combination of animal-lovers, secularists and the nationalist right.
Belgium, a country which has more than its share of inter-faith and inter-communal tensions, is the latest place where slaughter methods have come under scrutiny. The legislature in Belgium’s French-speaking south has just voted to ban the killing of animals without stunning (ie, anaesthetising) them first. According to classic Muslim or Jewish teaching, animals should be killed by a single cut to the throat, administered while the beast is in a healthy state. Representatives of Belgium’s 40,000 Jews and 600,000 or more Muslims said the vote sent an extremely negative signal to religious minorities.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/ ... lydispatch
Lab Chimps Are Moving to Sanctuaries — Slowly
Medical experimentation on chimpanzees has ended, but
moving all of them into retirement will be a difficult task.
By JAMES GORMANNOV. 7, 2017
Excerpt:
‘Special Consideration’
It probably will stay that way in the long run: The era of biomedical research on chimpanzees in the United States is effectively over. Given the nearly 100-year history of experimenting on chimps, the changes seemed to come fairly quickly once they began.
In 2011, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, declared that the N.I.H. would fund no new biomedical research using chimps, which he described as “our closest relatives in the animal kingdom” deserving of “special consideration and respect.”
His comments were both stunning and obvious. Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, and others already had shown the world the richness of chimp intelligence and social life; molecular biology had revealed that humans and chimps share 98 percent of their DNA. But the biomedical scientific establishment has long emphasized the importance of animal research.
Dr. Collins’s decision reflected widespread ethical concerns among scientists about the treatment of such social, intelligent animals. But on a practical level, the care of chimps is costly, and they aren’t always a good model in which to study human diseases. They’re also a magnet for public concern.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/scie ... &te=1&_r=0
Medical experimentation on chimpanzees has ended, but
moving all of them into retirement will be a difficult task.
By JAMES GORMANNOV. 7, 2017
Excerpt:
‘Special Consideration’
It probably will stay that way in the long run: The era of biomedical research on chimpanzees in the United States is effectively over. Given the nearly 100-year history of experimenting on chimps, the changes seemed to come fairly quickly once they began.
In 2011, the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, declared that the N.I.H. would fund no new biomedical research using chimps, which he described as “our closest relatives in the animal kingdom” deserving of “special consideration and respect.”
His comments were both stunning and obvious. Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist, and others already had shown the world the richness of chimp intelligence and social life; molecular biology had revealed that humans and chimps share 98 percent of their DNA. But the biomedical scientific establishment has long emphasized the importance of animal research.
Dr. Collins’s decision reflected widespread ethical concerns among scientists about the treatment of such social, intelligent animals. But on a practical level, the care of chimps is costly, and they aren’t always a good model in which to study human diseases. They’re also a magnet for public concern.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/scie ... &te=1&_r=0
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shivaathervedi
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It is. There are reference to pets and the status of their soul and evolutions in our Doctrine and this subject does fit else we would have moved the subject to other thread such as current issue. For example on Su kriya, the mistreatment of pet is considered a sin, a clear doctrinal matter.shivaathervedi wrote:Is pets issue an Ismaili doctrinal issue?
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shivaathervedi
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Miss treatment of pets is an ethical issue and not doctrinal issue as you mentioned sau kriya.Admin wrote:It is. There are reference to pets and the status of their soul and evolutions in our Doctrine and this subject does fit else we would have moved the subject to other thread such as current issue. For example on Su kriya, the mistreatment of pet is considered a sin, a clear doctrinal matter.shivaathervedi wrote:Is pets issue an Ismaili doctrinal issue?
Evolution of souls is upward can be angels or some other form and should not be in pets form. If you are thinking of reincarnation it is a different story.
Dog reunites with owner after nearly three years apart
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Police dog performs push-ups with fellow officers
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Watch as K9 Nitro, Officer Cowan and Officer Hancock get warmed up and ready to apprehend the bad guys! Credit to 'Gulf Shores Police Department'.
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Watch as K9 Nitro, Officer Cowan and Officer Hancock get warmed up and ready to apprehend the bad guys! Credit to 'Gulf Shores Police Department'.
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shivaathervedi
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Why Majnu kissed dog of Laila?
May be he saw image of Laila in dogie.
May be he wanted to be friendly with dogie to approach Laila.
May be dogie could have helped him to sneak in guarded house of Laila.
May be dogie could have delivered his love letter to Laila.
Was Laila so beautiful? She was blackie, in Arabic Laila means dark or night.
Why Majnu had crush on Laila?
May be he could not find any one.
Was Laila millionaire? May be Majnu knew it.
Majnu is from word Junun used as pagal, diwana, chariya.
When Majnu was kissing dogie, passers by taunted him. He said:
MERI AA(N)KHU SE LAILA KO DEKHO
PHIR JO CHAAHEY MUJHEY KAHNA
When Majnu was disappointed, he approached Shiva for advice in his dream.
Shiva explained him;
TUM JO PUKARTEY HO LAILA LAILA RASTEY MEI(N)
PER TERI LAILA TOU BASI HAI TEREY MUNN MEI(N)
IBADAT KA SOUDA ANDHEREY ANDHEREY
AUR NOOR KA PANA SAWEREY SAWEREY
May be he saw image of Laila in dogie.
May be he wanted to be friendly with dogie to approach Laila.
May be dogie could have helped him to sneak in guarded house of Laila.
May be dogie could have delivered his love letter to Laila.
Was Laila so beautiful? She was blackie, in Arabic Laila means dark or night.
Why Majnu had crush on Laila?
May be he could not find any one.
Was Laila millionaire? May be Majnu knew it.
Majnu is from word Junun used as pagal, diwana, chariya.
When Majnu was kissing dogie, passers by taunted him. He said:
MERI AA(N)KHU SE LAILA KO DEKHO
PHIR JO CHAAHEY MUJHEY KAHNA
When Majnu was disappointed, he approached Shiva for advice in his dream.
Shiva explained him;
TUM JO PUKARTEY HO LAILA LAILA RASTEY MEI(N)
PER TERI LAILA TOU BASI HAI TEREY MUNN MEI(N)
IBADAT KA SOUDA ANDHEREY ANDHEREY
AUR NOOR KA PANA SAWEREY SAWEREY
Astonishing moment stray dog saves woman from mugger on street
This is the amazing moment a stray dog saved a women from a mugger who tried to snatch her handbag as she walked down the street.
The astonishing CCTV footage has been shared thousands of times online after it was posted on Facebook earlier this week.
It shows a thug in a bright yellow jacket approach a women from behind, before attempting to grab her bag.
The man wrestles the innocent woman to the ground as he tries to make off with her belongings.
However the dog, who is keeping a watchful eye nearby, quickly intervenes.
The four-legged friend rushes towards the man, leaping up at him before chasing him down the street as he races off empty handed.
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/as ... ailsignout
This is the amazing moment a stray dog saved a women from a mugger who tried to snatch her handbag as she walked down the street.
The astonishing CCTV footage has been shared thousands of times online after it was posted on Facebook earlier this week.
It shows a thug in a bright yellow jacket approach a women from behind, before attempting to grab her bag.
The man wrestles the innocent woman to the ground as he tries to make off with her belongings.
However the dog, who is keeping a watchful eye nearby, quickly intervenes.
The four-legged friend rushes towards the man, leaping up at him before chasing him down the street as he races off empty handed.
VIDEO
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/as ... ailsignout
Adorable dog tries to teach baby to crawl
This adorable jack russel terrier is trying to help his best friend, an 11-month-old baby, learn to crawl! He drags himself across the living room to show the baby what to do.
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This adorable jack russel terrier is trying to help his best friend, an 11-month-old baby, learn to crawl! He drags himself across the living room to show the baby what to do.
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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/viral/a ... ailsignout
Japan pampers its pets like nowhere else
But not all its animals are cosseted
Excerpt:
Masahiro Yamada, a sociologist, puts the popularity of pets down to changes in the Japanese family. People have fewer relatives or don’t get the affection they crave from them. “People have a need,” he says. Some dead doggies are even given a place in the butsudan, the Buddhist shrine that families keep at home to pay respects to deceased relatives.
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https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/11/ ... a/163253/n
But not all its animals are cosseted
Excerpt:
Masahiro Yamada, a sociologist, puts the popularity of pets down to changes in the Japanese family. People have fewer relatives or don’t get the affection they crave from them. “People have a need,” he says. Some dead doggies are even given a place in the butsudan, the Buddhist shrine that families keep at home to pay respects to deceased relatives.
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https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/11/ ... a/163253/n
Dogs Can Detect Malaria. How Useful Is That?
Canine can sniff out the socks worn by children carrying the mosquito-borne parasites, a study finds.
Dogs have such exquisitely sensitive noses that they can detect bombs, drugs, citrus and other contraband in luggage or pockets.
Is it possible that they can sniff out even malaria? And when might that be useful?
A small pilot study has shown that dogs can accurately identify socks worn overnight by children infected with malaria parasites — even when the children had cases so mild that they were not feverish.
The study, a collaboration between British and Gambian scientists and the British charity Medical Detection Dogs, was released last week at the annual convention of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
In itself, such canine prowess is not surprising. Since 2004, dogs have shown that they can detect bladder cancer in urine samples, lung cancer in breath samples and ovarian cancer in blood samples.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/heal ... 3053091106
Canine can sniff out the socks worn by children carrying the mosquito-borne parasites, a study finds.
Dogs have such exquisitely sensitive noses that they can detect bombs, drugs, citrus and other contraband in luggage or pockets.
Is it possible that they can sniff out even malaria? And when might that be useful?
A small pilot study has shown that dogs can accurately identify socks worn overnight by children infected with malaria parasites — even when the children had cases so mild that they were not feverish.
The study, a collaboration between British and Gambian scientists and the British charity Medical Detection Dogs, was released last week at the annual convention of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
In itself, such canine prowess is not surprising. Since 2004, dogs have shown that they can detect bladder cancer in urine samples, lung cancer in breath samples and ovarian cancer in blood samples.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/heal ... 3053091106
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shivatrivedi
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kmaherali wrote:Dogs Can Detect Malaria. How Useful Is That?
Canine can sniff out the socks worn by children carrying the mosquito-borne parasites, a study finds.
Dogs have such exquisitely sensitive noses that they can detect bombs, drugs, citrus and other contraband in luggage or pockets.
Since 2004, dogs have shown that they can detect bladder cancer in urine samples, lung cancer in breath samples and ovarian cancer in blood samples.
More....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/heal ... 3053091106
Are these dogs qualified doctors having medical degrees? Why not hospitals hire such dogs and save thousands of dollars of medical bills spend on tests. No need of X rays, costly MRI and radio active tests. Let these dogs to detect bladder and ovaries cancers by sniffing. In hundreds of cases dogs failed to detect the drugs and bombs. May be all dogs are not equal. Many human beings have also qualified noses to detect drugs, charas, opium, morphine, bombs by sniffing.
Experiments on medical sciences kept changing. Once Aspirin was not good for heart, then after a decade it proved to be good for heart sky rocketing prices. Same example with vitamin E and fish oils. Mostly experiments are done on mice. Is a mouse substitute of a man!!
How Much Owning a Dog Actually Costs
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swamidada_1
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In Canada and USA, I have seen dogs and bitches live better life in comparison to poor children of 3rd world countries. May be some one say," Oh, in previous life dogs may have done some good deeds that's why they got promotion and have better life in current cycle".
According to one report, monthly expenditure of a dog cost around $200- 300. Apart from purchasing cost, there are following other charges. Regular veterinary office visits+ emergency hospital cost, wellness exam charges. Food expenses. I have seen owners of pets purchasing ice cream, slim jims (chicken or beef sticks) and other goodies. These pets live in better conditions with a/c and heating. They move in cars and SUV's. Some times sitting in laps of beautiful women. What a good life. But what about poor children of 3rd world countries. AY BHAGWAN TUJHEY DHU(N)DU KAHAA(N).
KIYA YEH KHULA TAZAAD NAHI HAI !!
According to one report, monthly expenditure of a dog cost around $200- 300. Apart from purchasing cost, there are following other charges. Regular veterinary office visits+ emergency hospital cost, wellness exam charges. Food expenses. I have seen owners of pets purchasing ice cream, slim jims (chicken or beef sticks) and other goodies. These pets live in better conditions with a/c and heating. They move in cars and SUV's. Some times sitting in laps of beautiful women. What a good life. But what about poor children of 3rd world countries. AY BHAGWAN TUJHEY DHU(N)DU KAHAA(N).
KIYA YEH KHULA TAZAAD NAHI HAI !!