Video: Rescued cow and her newborn calf

Click the link below to read great news of Clover, a pregnant dairy cow who was rescued from slaughter. Clover was taken in at the Sanctuary in December and gave birth to Bramble last Wednesday. Both mother and son are doing well.

Hillside Animal Sanctuary, which has a no breeding policy and rarely has births, is now enjoying its newest arrival - Bramble the calf.

The calf, which is still a little wobbly on his legs, has enchanted staff at the Frettenham-based charity after arriving out of the blue on Wednesday, January 14.

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/video/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=VIDEO&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=video&itemid=NOED17%20Jan%202009%2010%3A21%3A24%3A217

Two donkeys who are permanent residents at Hillside!

Hillside Animal Sanctuary is at Hill Top Farm, Hall Lane,

Frettenham, Norwich NR12 7LT

http://www.hillside.org.uk/

Christmas Trees and Turkeys.

This is the Christmas tree at my friend Ingrid's house, it looks even prettier when it is lit up! I received a Christmas Card from my sponsored turkey Ollie :-)

He's called Ollie after my dear old Chinese Crested boy who passed on several years ago.

Ollie the Turkey is at Hen Heaven where he will spend the rest of his natural life scratching and strutting in the pasture to his hearts content along with lots of other turkeys and chickens.

He is only a young lad, he was rescued with about 60 other turkeys a couple of months ago.

If you can help Linda and her helpers in any way, she would be most grateful as Hen Heaven is run entirely on donations and volunteer work.

There are some great Calendars available for sale now and the website has been updated recently so there is lots more to look at.

Check it out here : http://www.henheaven.org/

International Animal Rights Day

The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights - that animals have a right to life free from deliberately inflicted pain, suffering, exploitation and death - has been signed by large and small organisations representing hundreds of thousands of people in:

the UK, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA.

Check out UNCAGED's website for much more information :

http://www.uncaged.co.uk/iard.htm

Animal advocates up and down the country have joined the campaign; and the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights has also been signed by these British-based celebrities: Joanna Lumley, Hayley Mills, Benjamin Zephaniah, Michael Mansfield QC, Miriam Margoyles, Uri Geller, Carol Royle, Amanda Royle, David Shepherd OBE.

Look out for a candle lit vigil in your area and have a happy, cruelty free Animal Rights day x

Click for Free Food

The Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the U.S. every year. Over 10 million animals are put to death every year in the U.S. alone because they are abandoned and unwanted.
Each click on the purple "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button at The Animal Rescue Site provides food and care for a rescued animal living in a shelter or sanctuary. Funding for food and care is paid by site sponsors and distributed to animals in need at the Fund for Animals' renowned animal sanctuaries (including Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Texas and the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in California), pet shelters supported by the Petfinder Foundation , North Shore Animal League , and other worthy animal care facilities supported by the GreaterGood.org foundation.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to their charitable partners.

Please tell ten friends to tell ten today!

Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/

Vote for Your choice of Poster Now!

Voting for the Design Against Fur 2008 People's Choice Award is now open! Please vote today and tell all your friends, family and colleagues to vote, too. http://infurmation.com/daf/2008/vote.php
There is no need to register. Just click on which poster you think is the best and then click "Vote" at the bottom of the page. Only one vote per person, please.
The designer of the poster that receives the most votes by 12 pm (noon) Eastern Standard Time on November 30th wins $1,000 U.S.

Auction of Prints for Spanish Galgos

The Galgos and Podencos of Spain are sighthounds that are used for hunting.

They get a tough life in Spain and many thousands are rescued every year from horrible lives and many die from posoining or road accidents.

I lived in Spain for 2 years and it was always so sad to see so many dogs running loose and virtually starving to death. One dear girl came to my house in the mountains, she had been hit by a car and was in a terrible state but wouldn't let anyone get near her. She stayed outside around the back of the house where she felt safest and would try to drag herself away if I looked at her. If I turned my head away so that she didnt feel so threatened I could get near enough to put down food and water. She ate well and stayed until she was fit enough to go on her way again but was never trusting enough to allow herself to be touched.

PRO-GALGO's are having an auction of paintings and are hoping to

raise lots of money to help save spanish dogs.

Check out the auction of fantastic hound prints which opened on

saturday 1st Nov and runs for 2 weeks.

The prints were donated by Lisa Ballard and all money raised

will go to help galgos and podencos in Spain.
The auction opened on NOVEMBER 1st and can be found on their forum at

www.galgo-forum.org

There are several different beautiful prints to bid on, the page to find a list of them

and choose which one you would like is :

http://galgogossip.freeforums.org/under-the-hammer-f16.html

Today is World Vegan Day!

Happy Vegan Day!

World Vegan Day is today, the 1st November, and its also the start of World Vegan Month.
There will be lots of things going on in different areas to celebrate.

http://www.worldveganday.org/

Check out this link and find out whats going on in your area.

For some easy to read information of what vegans are etc check out this link:

http://www.veganmonth.com/whyvegan.htmlom/whyvegan.html

Vegans, like vegetarians, do not eat animal or fish flesh. However, vegans also avoid eating products that contain eggs, milk and honey. The vegan diet is 100% plant-based, and very healthy it is, too!

Try this blog, its a good read: http://www.bradleyb.net/vegan/index.htm

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I often hear people say that vegan food is boring, well its not any more! Its amazing and there is so much choice out there. 24 years ago I couldnt buy anything pre packed that was vegan apart from some pretty awful tasting soy milk. Well thats all changed, great vegan food is everywhere and Soya milk? ... well its delicious and there is also rice milk and oat milks available too.

Most supermarkets sell vegan food now and often have designated areas for dairy free products, but its easier than that to shop vegan. If you contact your favourite supermarket and ask them to send you a list of all their products that they sell that are suitable for vegans you'll be amazed at the choice.

I wrote to The Co-Operative Society and got a 12 A4 pages back!

Even Costa Coffee in Newmarket does an amazing Soya Latte!

If you ask a restaurant to veganise a meal for you, many are happy to oblige.

Have a great day, enjoy all of November and why not try at least one day of Vegan living!

I love Pigs!

These two girls are pot bellied pigs whose owner became too ill to cope with them.

They are big girls! There were a lot of people who couldnt resist buying a pot bellied piglet as a pet, but as you can see they grow and grow and really are not suitable for a suburban household. So many hundreds of these lovely pigs ended up in rescues around the country.

These are living happily with some other friends at West Runton.

And below are some rather glamorous pigs who were having a great time snuffling about in the field.

This is the duck pond!

www.hillside.org

More Hillside Pics.

These Turkeys are in fabulous condition with lovely sleek feathers, rescued from a farm and now able to live out their natural lives in safety and comfort!

www.hillside.org.uk

A great day out!

Yesterday we went to Hillside Animal Sanctuary at West Runton on the Norfolk coast.

I love it there, not only are there some lovely animals to look at and stroke but there's a great animal friendly cafe too!

Check out their website here and you can see all the great work that they do.

These boy calves were going to be destroyed but were rescued just in time and will spend the rest of their natural lives at the sanctuary.
http://www.hillside.org.uk/

Thought for the day.

If 20 million people will die as a result of malnutrition this year why is 57% of Europe's grain fed to cattle?

Primates at risk

for more pictures look here:

http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/pics.html

Primates Factory Farmed in Vietnam and Shipped to UK Laboratories.

A recent BUAV investigation at a Vietnamese primate farm found monkeys, who were destined for Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire, kept in appalling conditions.

Not only that, but evidence was uncovered that suggests monkeys are being taken from the wild to replenish breeding stock and may even be sent straight to laboratories, passed off as ‘captive bred’

Read more here:

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/experiments/ALL/1330/

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For more information about Huntingdon Life Sciences

go to : http://www.shac.net/

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The truth is out there........

Endangered Species - Sharks

http://www.sharkalliance.org/petition08/
The UK is one of five EU member states to allow fishermen to remove shark fins at sea under an exception to the EU finning ban.
At least 30 species of sharks can be found in British waters, over half these species are threatened with extinction.
An EU Shark Plan is in its final stages; your support is key to protecting sharks in Europe and beyond.
You can make a difference ! Ask your fisheries and / or environment minister to promote and implement a strong EU Plan of Action for shark conservation by signing the petition.

Not just for Christmas.. Turkeys at Hen Heaven.

Sixty more mouths to feed!

http://www.henheaven.org/

Hen Heaven has just received 60 baby turkeys who won't be dinner on Christmas Day.

Linda Turvey who runs Hen Heaven will be offering people the chance to

sponsor and name a baby turkey.

Contact Linda on 07754 550193 if you are interested in naming

and sponsoring a turkey for Christmas either for yourself or as a gift.

Alternatively you can view the website at

http://www.henheaven.org/

but as the turkeys have just arrived they

are not on the website yet.

Linda provides a secure home for up to 1000 ex-battery chickens on a pretty pasture in the aptly named town of Henfield, West Sussex. England.

Hen Heaven is funded by producing 'happy eggs' and supplying them to local restaurants and shops.

It is a non-profit making organisation. All money is used for the upkeep of the hens.

Cameron and Palin

"Animal cruelty... is not a harmless venting of emotion in a healthy individual; this is a warning sign..." It should be looked at as exactly that. Its a clear indicator of psychological issues that can and often DO lead to more violent human crimes." FBI REPORT

CAMERON/PALIN THE NIGHTMARE TICKET

TORY LEADER DAVID CAMERON SUPPORTS :

FOX HUNTING
HARE COURSING
CHASING DOWN AND KILLING DEER AND STAGS WITH PACKS OF DOGS .

IF HE TAKES POWER HE WILL RE-LEGALISE ALL THESE BARBARIC SO CALLED SPORTS
CAMERON WILL ALSO GO AHEAD WITH THE SLAUGHTER OF BRITAIN'S BADGERS.

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GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE

FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPPORTS:

ALL SLAUGHTER OF WILDLIFE FOR SO CALLED SPORT.
CHASING DOWN WOLVES TO EXHAUSTION BEFORE GUNNING

THEM DOWN FROM AIRCRAFT
REMOVING ENDANGERED SPECIES FROM THEIR PROTECTED STATUS.

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Just as we thought things were getting better......

Save the Monkeys of Nepal

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0uGqiJnbe30

Dr. Christian Barnard

Dr. Christian Barnard, the famous heart surgeon wrote this:

"I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures" . ~Christian Barnard, surgeon

The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection has strongly condemned the increased number of animals used in experiments in the UK. Figures released today reveal that more than 3.1 million animals were used in tests in 2007, an increase of six per cent on the previous year. The number of actual experiments also increased by six per cent, to 3.2 million.

3.2 million!!!!!!!!! The figures are outrageous..... read the full story here : http://www.buav.org/e_animal_testing_increase.php

I hope the time will come when NO animals are ever used for research and experimentation.