Apology with a bit of Mistle toe!

Hi all

I'm SOOOOOO SORRY that i haven't posted anything lately, i had to go to hospital for 10 days...it was hell.

But I'm back! However this is my last post for this year...during the Christmas i will be at home with no Internet access...AHHHH....dunno how i am going to survive? Any who first thing on 3 January I'll be back in action...

Lets take the time to look back...from animal testing to campaigns and demonstrations against KFC and boycotting the circus...plus dropping your clothes for a fur free cause and picketing for it to...on the animal activist front we have been busy!

We've sent the message out there and kept it up with persistence...our drive? PASSION...passion for animals, passion for justice, passion to have your say...pure fulfilling passion!

I feel kinda sad that we all wont speak on this blog during the festive season...i constantly have so much to say...

What can we do during the Christmas season to keep our passion alive? Buy your doggie or kitty a Christmas present, maybe a bone or a toy or a new blanket or bed...the fact is that amongst all the Christmas presents being bought and the budgets going a little over than expected. All this madness going on makes you forget the fact that your BFF is not enjoying Christmas with you because they don't feel the Christmas spirit...

THAT IS CRUEL....

It'll take you just a sec so when you are going to whatever store to pick up some doggie and kitty food, maybe even hamsters or birds! Get a small treat...and voila you have a very cool Christmas prezzie for the one you love!

Ah, can you believe the end of the year is right here? Shoo, it's gone so quickly.
Now for you all -





" I wish you a merry Christmas, i wish you a merry  Christmas and a happy new year " :)

Have fun and don't forget to love, love, love this festive season!

Kindness and Hope and a touch of mistle toe.

Mwah

Kelly-Leigh

Demo E-mail

Hi All

I received an e-mail from Sarah telling us a bit more about the circus demo, so i thought I'd put it up so you can have the full spectrum and can make the yay or nay decision on your own...

Here it is -

"On December 7, PETA activists will be hosting a demonstration at a Brian Boswell's Circus show in Johannesburg to protest against the cruelty to animals that is inherent in the circus industry. We want circus attendees to know that these industries force wild animals to perform stressful acts like riding bicycles and jumping through fire; that trainers use whips, muzzles, electric prods and bull hooks; and that many enslaved animals suffer from behavioural stress, physical harm and discomfort. These animals are often not provided with veterinary care, exercise and sufficient space. In their real homes, these animals would be free to walk and run, choose lifetime companions and raise their families.



For this demo, we'll have activists dressed in prison suits to let everyone know that animals in circuses are imprisoned for life, even though they have committed no crime, and that no one who cares about the welfare of animals should support cruel training methods, the use of chains and shackles to confine elephants and the imprisonment of bears, big cats and other animals in putrid railroad cars and barren steel cages! We'll need as many volunteers as possible to attend the demo and dress up in prison costumes, which will be provided. We need your help to make this demo successful! Please contact Sarah at sarahharrison123@gmail.com if you will be able to attend the demo."

Right that's the info, if you have any question e-mail Sarah...her e-mail address is on my circus post ( the one before this one ) .......

Oh and before i forget....has anyone seen the new updated adoption doggies and meow meow's ? Please let me know if you have adopted any of these animals shown because if you have i will give you the right of posting a picture of you and your new adopted family member on my blog so that everyone can see what a heroic person you are, you deserve to shine publicly.

Chat soon :)

Kindness and Hope with a touch of fighting spirit.

Kelly-Leigh

All eyes on me in the centre of the ring - just like a circus...

Well my friend is going to be having a circus demonstration some time soon so i decided to let you know some info about why circuses are considered as the playground of animal cruelty...

Lets start with the basics - Elephants are wonderful elephant and actually are very much like us, plus a lil extra special animal quirks. Every one uses the term "...you have memory like an elephant", why?....well elephant are capable of meeting another elephant and then not seeing them again for years but when they do see them from years back they remember them...amazing right...just like they had seen them yesterday!

They are also very smart and hold a lot of emotions..A LOT....when they are sad they cry and when they are upset they can get very angry...they even are jealous of things and VERY FAMILY ORIENTATED...in fact when they are in a group if one of their baby elephant cry the whole herd goes to help, and if one of them dies they all morn and go and collect branches to cover them...as like a burial, just as we do...

Now picture this - bull hooks ( dunno what they look like? don't stress i will show you a picture) they are tough enough to cause pain for an elephant...it's scary to thing someone can hack at a living being with out feeling shame, it's a really messed up world we live in!

Ok so bull hooks aside, what is an average day for an elephant at a circus?

7am - Chained down with a small amount of food to start the day off.
8am - Practicing confusing steps with a continues stabbing of a bull hook to punish you for taking a break.
1pm - Water, maybe a little food if lucky.
2pm - Missing your daughter and family whilst waiting chained down for another show that you wish would
          stop.

2.30pm - A few bull hook stabs to show you who is in control.
3pm - Chained, and very thirsty due to the hold sun..
4pm - Realization that splashing your self with water in a water whole will never happen as long as you live.
5pm - Bull hook stabs and show time.
6pm - Still going...
6.30pm - Chained up, with a few more stabs...You body hurts and you sit and cry because of the pain.
7pm - Show time.
8pm - Still going

9pm - Coldness, darkness, fear, little bit of water and food, pain, loneliness, hopeless, tears.
7am - STARTS AGAIN...

Hey i got an idea lets see what elephants do during 5-6pm oh and 7-8pm....lets use our money to have fun, YAY....wait....isn't my money creating a demand for more circus tricks next year...HELL IT"S TRUE.....and you know what's even more true....next time you go to the circus ask the clowns if you can beat an elephant with a bull hook, after all you are paying for it!

STAY AWAY FROM THE CIRCUS OTHER WISE YOU TOO CAN BE BLAMED FOR THE PAIN!

Contact Sarah at - sarahharrison123@gmail.com
Say NO, make a difference, take away the fear, stop the crying, re-unite a family, save your money for something that doesn't hurt others. Take a stand...join Sarah and her Demo.

Clown are funny but animal cruelty is not.

Make a change :)

Kindness and alot of Hope

Kelly-Leigh

P.S. SCREW THE CIRCUS!

Polly put the kettle on...

Well, well, well...if the world of testing on animals couldn't get any worse...

I just found out that they are testing green tea on rabbits...no that doesn't mean that the rabbits are having a nice cup of tea with Alice from Wonderland, nope, these animals are suffering terribly.

Once brought into the laboratory they are confined in small cages and fed very fatty foods in order to clog up their artery's and make them very ill, then after that process they feed them green tea and see if the green tea lowers their blood cholesterol or even betters their health, after the operations and force feeding most of them die of heart attacks and if they survive they will eventually face death...

If they are still alive and no longer needed, they have their heads chopped of by the savages that call themselves doctors.

GREAT LIFE HUH?

What makes this whole situation even worse is that there are so many people out their with heavy problems of clogged arteries, they could easily be used for these tests but instead they use friendly, smart pets.

IT'S SICK! AND THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR IT!

So what can us as activists do?

Step 1 - Don't buy the tea's that are produced by the companies that test.
              Simple huh :)
Step 2 - Tell everyone you know about this situation and try and explain
              why it is that you are giving those brands up.
Step 3 - Write a letter to someone with authority that can have some power in
              questioning it and maybe even changing it.

You may be one person but one person can make a change! Use me as an example...i write on this blog everyday and everyday the amount of people that go onto my blog increases...it may not do much but at least I'm trying...and that's all you need to do...TRY.

Any Who i need to go off to study a lil...

Keep trying because one day you will prevail. Trust me.

Kindness and Hope
Kelly-Leigh

Sniff...

N.B. ALL PICTURES ARE OF ANIMALS THAT CAN BE ADOPTED.

I'm so frustrated!............today animal adoption really got to me. You know when you can handle all this animal cruelty and then sometimes you just cannot, well today i cannot.

I went through all of the pictures of animals up for adoption, it really upsets me to see full grown beautiful animals sitting and waiting for someone to care for them...and unfortunately i cannot help take them and look after them because i stay in an apartment plus i dunno how i could manage with so many pets. ARG, today is just a sad day....

I post an ad for one lucky animal from each organisation each week, yet i don't hear a single word off any of them being adopted... PLEASE ADOPT THESE CUTIES!!! I'M BEGGING.

But you know the problem is that you adopt one and there are so many more that keep on coming...so many more homeless pets.

Ok shake it off...when i feel helpless, which does happen sometimes with in your activism life you do this.............HOW CAN I BETTER THE SITUATION BETTER?

Lets see -

I can advertise for them.........
I can go and give them company in my free time....
I can donate to their organisations.....
I can foster them......
I can adopt them......
DONT BUY FROM PET STORES!!!!!!!!!!

ARG....is that it? Can anyone think of something else that i can do?

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Right i feel like a few pick me ups, lets have a look at some jokes -

What's the best way to keep milk fresh?
Leave it in the cow.

What do you call a vegetarian who goes back to eating meat?
Someone who lost their veg-inity!


Meat-eater: Did you hear about the new study saying vegans are more likely to go blind? I guess it's because you don't get the proper nutrition.
Vegan: Nah, it's just from reading all of those tiny ingredients lists.

I'm not vegetarian because I love animals, I'm vegetarian because I don't like vegetables.


What did one vegetarian spy say to the other vegetarian spy?
We have to stop meating like this.

Isn't it weird that we drink milk, stuff designed to nourish baby cows? How did that happen? Did some cattleman once say, "Oh, man, I can't wait till them calves are done so I can get me a hit of that stuff."
Two chums were talking at a ballgame and one offered to buy the other a hot dog.
"No thanks," came the answer. "I'm a vegetarian. I mean, I'll eat a little white meat, but..."
"Oh, I understand. Hey, I'm no cannibal. I mean, I'll eat a few white people, but..."

A vegetarian, a meat-eater, and a cannibal walk into a bar, the veg' orders a salad, the other orders a burger, than the bartender asks the cannibal "anything for you?", so he replies, "no thanks, I'll wait till they're done."

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Keep smiling and trying!

Kindness and Hope
Kelly-Leigh

PERSISTANCE

Happy Meat Free Monday folks :)
I hope you are all getting out your veggies and Fry's nuggets out for dinner tonight...

So i went to the Fur Free S.A Demo at Hyde Park this Saturday...it was a great success and not only were people painted in red with fur and that people were in cages - but fliers were handed out by Jeremy Mansfield, YAY celeb power for a good cause!

It was fun but very hot, thank goodness for Kate and her well prepared batch of sun block, phew! I also got time to hang out with Lucy Elizabeth ( Sarah's dog) she's soooo soft!

Plus i saw Chantelle all painted in red, they all looked good.

So that's the catch up there...

On another note, i hope you are all still staying away from products that are tested on animals, it's a life choice that is on going and a reminder is always a help, so stay clear of all the yucky tested on animal goods, say NO to ANIMAL TESTING.

Now from the weird side...has anybody realized how many clothing brands use animals as their names? Why are people drawn to buying things that are named after animals yet feel no shame in abusing them? Weird right...so lets have a look at the names -

PEPPA PIG -

AMERICAN PIG -

OWL VS PIG -

MONOKU RO BOO -

THE SKINNY COW -

PURPLE COW -

FUNKY FISH -

HELLO KITTY -

My theory is because it's cute...yet no one wants to rub a real pigs tummy! So since animals are cool to most kids and people don't mind buying things from a company that is named after an animal my question is -

WHERE DID THE CRUELTY IDEA START?

Does anyone know? Because Matthew says that in order to solve a problem you have to find the problem, not find a solution....now we as animal activists know so many ways on how to tell, express and show people about the problems out there and we are even powerful enough to create associations and protests...but yet we are just SLOWLY getting there....how do we get faster?

Animal activism started before we even knew it - biblical storys tell you to respect all of god's creatures and within the Greek mythology there are god's who are very strict on not harming animals, plus in 1824 the first form of real action taken from an animal rights group started. We all know that the caring exists and it has been there for a very very long time but the question is when did the cruelty start?

Who said that harming animals is ok? Using them for entertainment, testing on them, hell the list could go on forever....but who said this was ok? Who was the sole person to start it?

When we find the linear effect - here's a small note.

WE WILL STAND OUR GROUND, WE WONT EVER GIVE UP, SO INSTEAD OF MAKING YOUR LIFE DIFFICULT, GIVE UP NOW CAUSE WE CAN GO ON FOREVER, THIS IS OUR PASSION AND PASSION CANNOT BE SUBSIDED, IT CAN ONLY GROW AND AT THIS POINT AND WITH THIS MUCH STRUGGLE BELIEVE ME I HAVE SEEN THE FACES THAT HAVE 'PERSIST' WRITTEN ON THEM...WE ARE GROWING IN NUMBERS EVERYDAY AND SOON WHEN THE WORLD AGREES WITH US, YOU WILL BE DEMOLISHED...YOUR WORK WILL HAVE TO COME TO A FULL FAST STOP AND WHEN IT DOES YOU WILL BE PUNISHED AND WHEN WE SEE YOUR FACES YOU WILL HAVE 'DEFEATED' WRITTEN ON THEM. BE WARNED - WE'RE COMING!

Have a wonderful evening and remember - Needles hurt them too, so say no to animal testing!

Kindness and Hope
Kelly-Leigh

Sarah with Lucy Elizabeth, Me, Matthew

Anti-fur and a touch of smiles

Howdy folks

So can you believe it another weekend just about to happen...YAY.

Now you know i don't really like to tell you about some negative things just before the weekend so lets keep it a lil positive....

Firstly hopefully I'll be seeing a lot of you at the Fur Free protest tomorrow, remember -

11-1pm
Hyde Park
Wear black or your Fur Free T-shirt.

Got it? Get it? Good.

Now to the exciting... I found these cute lil jokes so i thought i might share...

Horse And Chicken


A horse and a chicken are playing in a meadow. The horse falls into a mud hole and is sinking. He calls to the chicken to go and get the farmer to help pull him out to safety. The chicken runs to the farm but the farmer can't be found. So he drives the farmer's Mercedes back to the mud hole and ties some rope around the bumper. He then throws the other end of the rope to his friend, the horse, and drives the car forward saving him from sinking! A few days later, the chicken and horse were playing in the meadow again and the chicken fell into the mud hole. The chicken yelled to the horse to go and get some help from the farmer. The horse said, "I think I can stand over the hole!" So he stretched over the width of the hole and said, "Grab for my 'thingy' and pull yourself up." And the chicken did and pulled himself to safety.

The moral of the story:
If you are hung like a horse, you don't need a Mercedes to pick up chicks.

Rudolph's Medical Bill


Santa Claus brings poor Rudolph to the vet. He says to the vet, "Doctor, please do something for my Rudolph. His nose won't light up." The vet walks out of the room and returns with a pet carrier. He places the pet carrier next to the reindeer, opens it and out steps a cat. The cat walks around the reindeer and sniffs it. The cat then walks back into the carrier. The animal doctor takes it out of the room and returns. He hands Santa Claus the bill. Santa gasps, "$350 dollars! You didn't do anything for my Rudolph and you're charging me $350 dollars?" The vet shrugged and replied, "That's the usual charge. $50 dollars for the office visit and $300 dollars for the CAT SCAN."

Three Dogs...and a Collie


The Taco Bell Chihuahua, a Doberman and a Bull dog are in a doggie bar having a drink when a very nice looking female Collie comes up to them and says, "Whoever can say 'liver' and 'cheese' in a sentence can be my top dog." So the Doberman says, "I love liver and cheese." The Collie says, "Sorry, that's not good enough." The Bull dog says, "I'll have some liver and cheese, please." She says, "Sorry, that's not creative enough." Finally the Chihuahua says, "Liver alone......cheese mine."

Talented Dog


A local business was looking for office help. They put a sign in the window, stating the following: "HELP WANTED. Must be able to type, must be good with a computer and must be bilingual. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer."

A short time afterwards, a dog trotted up to the window, saw the sign and went inside. He looked at the receptionist and wagged his tail, then walked over to the sign, looked at it and whined.

Getting the idea, the receptionist got the office manager. The office manager looked at the dog and was surprised, to say the least. However, the dog looked determined, so he lead him into the office. Inside, the dog jumped up on the chair and stared at the manager.

The manager said "I can't hire you. The sign says you have to be able to type." The dog jumped down, went to the typewriter and proceeded to type out a perfect letter. He took out the page and trotted over to the manager and gave it to him, then jumped back on the chair.

The manager was stunned, but then told the dog "the sign says you have to be good with a computer." The dog jumped down again and went to the computer. The dog proceeded to enter and execute a perfect program, that worked flawlessly the first time.

By this time the manager was totally dumb-founded! He looked at the dog and said "I realize that you are a very intelligent dog and have some interesting abilities. However, I *still* can't give you the job."

The dog jumped down and went to a copy of the sign and put his paw on the sentences that told about being an Equal Opportunity Employer. The manager said "yes, but the sign *also* says that you have to be bilingual."

The dog looked at the manager calmly and said, "Meow!"

Keep smiling and ill see you all at Hyde Park tomorrow!

         Kindness and Hope
         Kelly-Leigh