Cottage Rescue Animal Matters and Welfare Information

13/08/2023

Strong but dependent. This beautiful wild Sika calf was born in late July and will still be dependent on its mother until late October/ early November. Minister Malcolm Noonan TD is currently considering changing the culling season for female deer in Ireland, to allow culling when this calf is still dependent on its mother, causing the calf to be orphaned or suffer death due to starvation. Make your views known to [email protected] or [email protected]

Photograph thanks to Críostóir Grayson

13/08/2023

🔴Neurological and muscular abnormalities.

🔴Increased heart rate.

🔴Convulsions and seizures.

🔴Vomiting.

🔴Lethargy.

These are the effects of co***ne in dogs. Between 2018-2019, 13 dogs were found with co***ne in their system at Glasgow’s former Shawfield Stadium. The Greyhound Board of Great Britain’s (GBGB) own records show that dogs may also be doped with other performance-enhancing drugs.

📢 Read our blog 'Greyhound racing- why is it cruel?' to find out about all the welfare issues which plague the dog racing industry ➡️🔗 https://www.onekind.org/blog/greyhound-racing-why-is-it-cruel-01-08-23

Greyhounds should not be exploited for entertainment. But we need your help to bring an end to dog racing in Scotland.

📢 Please sign and share the open letter to The Scottish Government today to ➡️
🔗 http://bit.ly/unboundthegreyhound

❗You can add your name from anywhere in the world.❗

League Against Cruel Sports League Against Cruel Sports - Scotland Group Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home Scotland Against Greyhound Exploitation - SAGE Animal Concern Ltd GREY2K USA Hope Rescue

13/08/2023

This month, young foxes around Ireland are suffering horrendous cruelty as cub hunting season starts up again.

In the early hours after dawn, hunters surround earths and flush out the resident foxes. They then release their waiting hounds to attack and kill the cubs. The doomed youngsters will be mauled, bitten and pulled apart.

This merciless brutality is carried out ahead of the upcoming fox hunting season to introduce new hounds to the taste of fox blood. It also serves to disperse foxes – the parents and siblings of targeted cubs are scattered so that their wider distribution will later provide a bigger hunting area.

The hunters refer to their shameful barbarity as ‘Autumn hunting’ but their euphemism does not disguise the fact that it’s one of the Ireland’s nastiest acts of animal cruelty.

To do this to an animal should be illegal but our legislators have so far refused to ban fox hunting. They disgracefully voted to ensure that an exemption for the bloodsport remained in the Animal Health and Welfare Act and they rejected a proposed amendment which sought to make fox hunting an offence. Without the exemption in the Act, foxhunters would be liable to prosecution for animal cruelty.

Cub hunting and fox hunting are totally unacceptable in modern Ireland and must finally be stopped. Please join us in contacting the government and demanding a long overdue ban on these bloodsports.

ACTION ALERT

A RED C opinion poll, commissioned by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports, shows that a 77% majority agree that the government should ban fox hunting. The poll found that just 12 per cent disagree with a ban on fox hunting. Tell politicians to respect the wishes of the majority and ban fox hunting.

Contact the leaders of Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, the Green Party, Sinn Fein and Labour Party to tell them that you want fox hunting and all bloodsports banned.

Micheál Martin
Leader, Fianna Fail
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Phone: +353 (0)1–618 4350 or +353 (0)21-432 0088
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michealmartintd/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/

Leo Varadkar
Leader, Fine Gael
Telephone: +353 (0)1-704 3630 OR +353 (0)1-640 3133
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Tweet to: http://www.twitter.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeoVaradkar

Eamon Ryan
Leader, Green Party
Tel: 01 618 3894
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EamonRyanGP/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EamonRyan

Mary Lou McDonald TD
Leader, Sinn Fein
Tel: (01) 727 7102
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaryLouMcDonald
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MaryLouMcDonaldTD

Ivana Bacik TD
Leader, The Labour Party
Tel: (01) 6183136
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ivanabacik
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bacikivana/

Contact the Agriculture Minister and demand that the exemption for fox hunting is removed from the Animal Health and Welfare Act.

Charlie McConalogue
Minister for Agriculture
Tel: 01 618 3199 or 01 607 2000
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CharlieMcConalogue
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/

Contact all your local TDs and urge them to push for a ban on foxhunting and all bloodsports. Visit the Oireachtas website for names of TDs and their email addresses http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=33&disp=mem

Keep hunters off your land

If you are a landowner, make your land off-limits to hunters. Find out more about how to do this on our Farmers/Landowners Page – http://www.banbloodsports.com/farmers.htm

Sign and share our “Ban Blood Sports in Ireland” petition
https://www.change.org/petitions/ban-blood-sports-in-ireland

Witness the cruelty of foxhunting at
http://www.banbloodsports.com/videos.htm
https://youtu.be/cbLKs9pgQno

Please support our campaign with a donation
https://www.paypal.me/banbloodsports

22/05/2023

18/05/2023

Communion season is upon us, and once again, the GRI is attempting to lure in the next generation of gamblers.

This communion season, choose compassion. Don’t spend the day at the Dog Track.

There’s nothing family friendly about Greyhound Racing.

18/05/2023

One of many corvids in our care at the moment.

The coloured rings are temporary whilst in our care so we can keep track of their progress and where they came from. They are removed in release. Rooks are members of the bird family Corvidae, which includes over 120 species of birds such as crows, ravens, magpies, and jays.
They are highly social birds that typically live in large communal nests known as rookeries, while corvids are known for their intelligence and problem-solving abilities, often exhibiting complex social behavior. They are found in most areas.
Unfortunately some people consider them pests, due to their scavenging and nest-building habits.
However, they play important ecological roles as seed dispersers, insect predators, and cleaners of carrion.

They are such magnificent creatures.

18/05/2023

Dungarvan Animal Matters and Welfare Information
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Breeders, specifically ‘show breeders’ have ruined this magnificent breed. The dogs can barely walk straight.
This ‘standard’ has been set by the kennel clubs around the world. They are, deliberately, breeding deformed dogs and people are dumb enough to buy into this.
As for the comments from the show judge in the video - they simply beggar belief. He is an utter disgrace.
We are seeing similar coming from industrial scale breeders here too.
The Gsd is not supposed to be ‘down’ at the back. Being presented for show purposes is a ‘stance’ they are supposed to be placed in, and not a normal position as in almost walking on their knees!
The dog showing world has much to answer to, but particularly for what it’s done to the beautiful German Shepherd Dog.

18/05/2023

A scene of horror in County Meath where five heavily pregnant deer were mercilessly gunned down in a field.

Fully formed live fawn foetuses – believed to be days from birth - were then brutally ripped from the bodies of the dead hinds and their throats were cut. Their bodies were discarded like garbage in the field.

The obscene barbarity took place on 3rd April 2023 under a licence shamefully granted by the National Parks & Wildlife Service under Section 42 of the Wildlife Act.

The horror for wildlife is playing out all over the country, with a huge number of Section 42 licences being granted by the NPWS who report to Heritage Ministers Malcolm Noonan (Green Party) and Darragh O'Brien (Fianna Fail).

Section 42 licences facilitate the killing of protected wild animals and birds “causing serious damage to food (including human food products and animal feeds), livestock, poultry or agricultural crops (including vegetables or fruit) either on pasture or on cultivated land, pen-reared wild birds on any land, other fauna, flora, a woodland or a forest plantation, or a fishery, buildings and other structures and their contents, or aquaculture installations”.

A message posted on the website of the National Parks and Wildlife Service this month reveals the high number of licences being processed for the blasting to death of protected wildlife - “Due to the volume of applications currently being processed, please allow up to 3 weeks from the date you send in your application for a licence to issue.”

ACTION ALERT

Join us in urging Ministers Malcolm Noonan and Darragh O'Brien to investigate this brutality, take action against those responsible and stop issuing licences for the killing of protected wildlife.

Minister Darragh O’Brien (Fianna Fail, Dublin Fingal)
Tel: (01) 618 3802 OR (086) 251 9893
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DarraghOBrienTD
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DarraghOBrienTD

Malcolm Noonan TD (Green Party, Carlow Kilkenny)
Minister of State for Heritage
Tel: (01) 618 3148 OR (01) 618 3156
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/votemalcolmnoonan1/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/noonan_malcolm