Kategorie: Animals

A Compassionate Business Award is on its way from PETA to locally based Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., for warning the public about the dangers of leaving animals and children in parked cars. Walgreens’ sign appears on electric vehicle stations at its 450 locations nationwide—and across the pond, its U.K.-based pharmacy chain, Boots, is displaying the signs at 32 stores and the same message on its “Health & Beauty” website. The warnings follow discussions with PETA.

“Even ‘quick errands’ can end in tragedy, since temperatures inside parked cars can soar to triple digits within minutes,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “By answering PETA’s call for warning signs, Walgreens Boots Alliance is helping to prevent animals and children from enduring terrible heatstroke deaths.”

This year, the heat-related deaths of 48 companion animals have already made the news—and countless more have suffered and died out of the public eye. Anyone who sees an animal or a child in a parked vehicle should take immediate action: Write down the color, make, model, and license plate number, and rush to have nearby stores page the owner of the car—and if the owner can’t be found, call the local humane authorities or the police. If they’re unresponsive, do whatever it takes to save the individual’s life. PETA offers an emergency window-breaking hammer for intervening in life-or-death situations.

Walgreens Boots Alliance joins a long list of companies—including Walmart, CVS, and Albertsons, which owns Safeway—that have warned customers about hot cars this year. It will receive a framed certificate and a box of delicious dog-shaped vegan chocolates from PETA in thanks.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Corpus Christi, Texas — Because a tropical storm warning is in effect in Brownsville and Corpus Christi, remember to never to leave dogs tethered or penned outside and always to take animal companions with you if you have to evacuate your home.

Believe it or not, every time there’s a natural disaster, many dogs and other companion animals are left outside to fend for themselves and even left behind when humans evacuate. Dogs kept tethered will swim to exhaustion and drown—and there are tethered dogs everywhere. PETA’s Animal Rescue Team has witnessed firsthand the trauma that animals endure when left behind to face floodwaters and flying debris. During previous storms, we have found dogs dead. We have also found them up to their necks in water, unable to sit or lie down, and in almost-submerged crates inside houses and seen animals who have been flung around by high winds. And of course, animals are petrified in these kinds of weather conditions.

PETA has released a natural disaster–preparedness PSA featuring Dean Winters. For more information, please visit PETA.org.

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The sight and sounds of Kiska the orca as she appears to bash her head repeatedly against a tank at Marineland will haunt you, as will the rest of her heartbreaking story. On Wednesday, video footage taken on September 4 was posted to Twitter showing Kiska the orca appearing to slam her head and body she’s kept isolated in at the Canadian tourist trap.

If this isn't the most clear, blatant example of what years and years of lonliness and marine park captivity can do to an orca, I don't know what is. #Kiska needs help. Marineland Canada have been nothing but enablers of her torment for over 40 years. #FreeKiska pic.twitter.com/Lp359ftWan

— Brittney Hernandez (@OrcaOceanB1983) September 8, 2021

Additional heartbreaking footage posted in July shows Kiska “floating listlessly at the surface of her concrete pool.” Across Twitter alone, the two videos combined have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

Decades ago, as a baby, Kiska was abducted from her ocean home—torn away from her family. In 2011, her tankmate, Ikaika, was shipped back to the U.S.—to SeaWorld San Diego—leaving Kiska alone and isolated. Years prior to Ikaika’s transfer, all five of Kiska’s Marineland-born calves died—all of them before they were even 7 years old. (In nature, orcas have an average life expectancy of 30 to 50 years—their estimated maximum lifespan is 60 years for males and 80 for females.) Had she been left in peace in nature, Kiska would likely be enjoying ocean life alongside her pod—but for the past 10 years, she has been forced to spend her days isolated in a barren enclosure, swimming alone in endless circles or floating spiritlessly inside her cramped tank.

This is Kiska. She spends her days bored and alone as the only orca at Marineland Canada. All five of her calves died before they were seven years old.

Learn more about the other 55 orcas suffering in captivity in @CaptPaulWatson's new book #Orcapedia. https://t.co/HF6iMoZM29 pic.twitter.com/1tJ3cJY31O

— PETA (@peta) October 5, 2020

In May, Marineland took baby steps toward progress when it transferred five of the approximately 50 beluga whales imprisoned at its severely crowded park to an Association of Zoos & Aquariums–accredited facility in Connecticut. In doing so, Marineland proved that it can do a good thing—but we want it to do a great thing: release Kiska and the other animals still imprisoned at its park and send them to seaside sanctuaries. Please join PETA in speaking out—sign our petition to let Marineland know that you have no love for a tourist trap that continues to confine and exploit any animals:

Sign Our Petition: ‘I Have No Love for Marineland’

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PETA is presenting University of New Mexico (UNM) emeritus professor of psychology Dr. John Gluck with its Trailblazer Award to honor his ethical journey from animal experimenter to animal rights champion and for everything he has done to inform scientists and others about issues with imprisoning and harming animals in laboratories.

Gluck began his career in a primate laboratory and was indoctrinated into a culture that imprisons and tortures monkeys.

“I remember many times seeing these monkeys in the experimental apparatus and looking so helpless and confused and frightened. It got me thinking … who are these beings?” Gluck explains in a video for PETA. “There came a time when I couldn’t chase the questions away anymore.”

Gluck’s misgivings about the use of animals in experiments and the deep connections that he developed with the monkeys in his laboratory led him to pursue a bioethics fellowship at Georgetown University. After years of working within UNM to encourage his colleagues to examine their use of animals, he began working alongside PETA and others to end experiments on primates by using his deep understanding of their behavior and needs. He participated in the #IStoppedYouCanToo campaign, which pushes experimenters to question the status quo that keeps hundreds of thousands of animals imprisoned in laboratories, subjected to pointless and cruel procedures, and he authored the book Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals, a poignant account of his ethical journey.

“It’s never too late to help animals, and Dr. Gluck’s compassion and courageous advocacy speak to that,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “PETA honors this pioneer for recognizing every animal as an individual, not a test tube.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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A 1-year-old died recently after being left in a hot car in Harris County, and this week’s high temperatures will put dogs at high risk of enduring heat prostration and death, so PETA is issuing an urgent warning to anyone with a dog. Please be sure to do the following:

• Touch the pavement before walks to ensure that it won’t burn dogs’ foot pads.
• Be alert to a long, curled-up tongue and heavy panting, as dogs cannot sweat as humans can and heat builds up inside their bodies.
• Walk only in the shade or on earth or grass, and never leave animals outdoors in extreme heat or inside vehicles.

This summer, PETA fieldworkers discovered the body of a dog who had died after being left chained up in the hot sun, and similar reports nationwide are starting to roll in. Recently, a law-enforcement officer mistakenly left his patrol car with a dog inside it, and the K-9 succumbed to heat prostration and died. This year, 42 dogs have reportedly died from heat-related causes. (The actual figure is likely far higher, as most heat-related companion animal deaths go unreported.)

Anyone who leaves animals outside to suffer in severe weather may be prosecuted for cruelty.

 

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