Kategorie: Animals

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The nine-to-five grind can seem like an eternity sometimes, especially when the guy in the next cubicle bathes in cologne and cranks up talk radio all day. But imagine how much worse it would be if you had to spend that workweek trapped in a tree.

That’s what happened to Wendy, a stray cat in North Carolina. Maybe she was being chased by a dog—or perhaps an evil pirate or a crocodile. Whoever or whatever it was, it must have been very scary, because she scampered 60 feet up a tree to get away from it and she wasn’t about to risk running into it again.

One day went by, then two … then three … then four, and she still refused to come down.

A neighbor who had noticed Wendy’s predicament was becoming increasingly worried. How long could she survive up there without food or water? What if she lost her balance and fell? In desperation, the person called PETA’s emergency pager (we’re on call 24 hours a day) to ask for help.

We immediately set about arranging for a tree climber to retrieve Wendy. Everything went well—at first. But just as the climber was inching closer to her precarious perch, the cat panicked and the unthinkable happened. As her rescuers watched in disbelief, she leaped into a second tree!

Perhaps Wendy, like her Peter Pan namesake, truly could fly—at least temporarily—because she stuck the leafy landing! Undaunted, the tree-climber got to work scaling her second perch. This time, he was able to collar our little fly girl and bring her safely back down. After PETA staffers gave her a thorough examination, they were amazed to discover that aside from being malnourished and dehydrated, she was otherwise unharmed.

Other cats who roam outdoors aren’t so lucky. PETA routinely receives reports of “outside cats” who have been horrifically injured or even killed after being hit by cars, attacked by loose dogs, shot or poisoned by cruel people, and more.

Cats are safest and happiest living indoors. Just ask Wendy—in her new home with a loving family, she keeps herself busy chasing catnip mice, sunbathing on windowsills, and wrestling with her feline brother, Sherman, a fellow PETA rescue. The only trees that Wendy climbs nowadays are cat trees.

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Please see the following statement from PETA President Ingrid Newkirk regarding Gov. Kevin Stitt’s latest stunt—a smelly, dead-animal barbecue near PETA’s pro-vegan billboard:

PETA is sending the governor a back brace, since he must be in agony from all the bowing and scraping he has to do to keep his meat-industry backers happy. His constituents who end up in critical care with cancer, heart disease, strokes, and other conditions associated with meat consumption deserve everyone’s sympathy.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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From mushroom leather in the clothing industry and organs-on-a-chip in medical science to classroom dissection using SynFrog software and “horse breeding” using non-fungible tokens, animal use is rapidly being replaced with technology and innovation.

If you can use your talents to save animals from exploitation, you could score a Future Without Speciesism Award.

PETA is awarding prizes of $1,000 to $10,000 to current university students who come up with a game-changing idea and a specific action plan to help animals. This award does not convey ownership rights to PETA or prevent you from patenting your invention.

Applicants are asked to identify an area in which animals are still exploited and to create a patentable, original idea or prototype that will allow for their replacement.

Inventions should be marketable as a viable alternative to the methods that you seek to replace. Students can work in teams or as individuals. Prize amounts will be determined by PETA and are based on the workability, practicality, and promise of the suggested alternative.

PETA will screen applicants’ ideas or inventions for viability, originality, and applicability. Submissions will be continually screened and awards distributed as winners are identified. By submitting this form, you agree to the following terms:

• Proposed inventions must not use anything made from animals or animal-derived materials.
• You represent that your form responses are accurate and contain no misrepresentations, and you agree that the proposed invention or idea is your own original idea and work product that has not been made available to the public in any manner and has not yet been patented.
• The idea, proposed invention, reduced-to-practice idea, or working model must be the work of an undergraduate or graduate student or team of undergraduate or graduate students, either as a class project or as an independent project, and capable of being reproduced.
• Your submission must include substantiation that the invention works (or will work) for its intended purpose.
• Multiple undergraduate or graduate students may apply with a single project, but only one award will be disbursed.
• Receipt of the award is contingent upon your execution of an award acceptance agreement.

No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. Open to anyone 18 years or older.

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PETA has uncovered that Steve Martin’s Working Wildlife—the outfit that displayed a Kodiak bear named Tag at two of John Cox’s news conferences—has ties to some of the most infamous (and in one case jailed) animal dealers in the wildlife exploitation business:

• Martin acquired Tag from Robert Sawmiller, a bear breeder who has been in so much trouble with the U.S. Department of Agriculture—including for failing to treat bears’ wounds and locking the animals in metal barrels, leaving them in “a state of unrelieved suffering”—that the agency suspended his license and confiscated seven bears and a cougar in February.
• Martin has also traded animals like commodities with Tiger King players: He acquired a lion from “Doc” Antle—who was indicted for alleged cruelty to animals and felony wildlife trafficking—and dumped chimpanzees, bears, and a lion at the roadside zoo operated by “Joe Exotic.”

Below, please find a statement from PETA Foundation Associate Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement Debbie Metzler:

Steve Martin trades animals like baseball cards with the worst offenders, from a bear breeder who’s in so much hot water that he’s practically a teabag to the Tiger King felon Joseph Maldonado-Passage. PETA says that Tag the bear is being used in a publicity stunt and needs to be moved to an accredited sanctuary where he could live as a bear should instead of being treated like a prop.

Note: PETA supports animal rights, opposes all forms of animal exploitation, and informs the public about those issues. The group does not directly or indirectly participate or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office or any political party.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—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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