Archive for the ‘donkey welfare’ Category

Ass You Like It – Brits Help Delhi Donkeys - 10th March, 2010
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Holly Williams, Sky correspondent
Two British pensioners have devoted their lives to rescuing the “slumdog donkeys” of Delhi and even have an ambulance for the animals.

In India’s capital, poverty is a trap that ensnares hundreds of thousands of people.
Many of them live in illegally-built shanty towns where raw sewage flows in the street. Malnourishment and disease [...]


Horrifying cruelty still found in Spain - 26th February, 2010
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Written by Louise Clarke   

Thursday, 25 February 2010

Why is nobody ever punished?

These 2 miniature ponies were found forced into a tiny pen
TWO WEEKS ago, RTN reported on the terrible conditions that seven horses were enduring in a shack made up of bits of wood and corrugated iron; with only a two foot gap in the wood [...]


Burro deaths causing concern in USA - 17th February, 2010
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Posted: 02/14/2010 09:11:01 AM PST
Stacia Glenn, Staff Writer

  

RECHE CANYON – Burros are beloved in Reche Canyon, near San Bernadino, USA,  but residents worry about how frequently they are maimed or killed by cars speeding on the windy two-lane road that connects Colton and Moreno Valley.Half a century ago, a rancher freed a few burros into the [...]


Donkey has lots of human friends in Kansas - 3rd February, 2010
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Donkey has lots of human friends, but he needs treatment from vet
By DONALD BRADLEY

 A car door slams, and Ebenezer begins shambling toward the sound.
His hooves hurt so he moves slowly along the pasture path. He’s also about 30 years old, and that’s getting up there for a donkey.
Snow is starting to blow, but that car [...]