When the ship is sinking "Man's best friend" is thrown overboard. Animal cruelty reports are rising across the country in times when the 'forever home' is not attainable for all living beings.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-08/animal-welfare-organisations-help-cost-of-living-pressures/102557012
#Pets #PetIndustry #Dogs #Cats #CompanionAnimals #dumping #cruelty #consumerism #ForeverHome

i didn't know that there are so many dedicated pet food banks in the UK - & there's an online map to help locate them.
#companionAnimals #adoptDontShop #food #foodBank #help
https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=4553238&fbclid=IwAR28lRkEVF9XPU1nsCuLRpfy1716uf0kYvzjDnGyRP9-ZbKQI1SJMGbfJ9g

"Want to truly have empathy for animals? Stop owning pets"
by Troy Vettese

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/04/want-to-truly-have-empathy-for-animals-stop-owning-pets

In my defence: Sheba and I are both vegan, she comes from a local government pound, we spend on average three hours every day on walks, and I've worked from home since she came to live with me. I don't consider myself as her owner, rather as her guardian.

Unfortunately, what the author of this article describes is true for far too many companion animals.

#VeganPets #CompanionAnimals #compassion #animals #AnimalSuffering

I was on a tram this morning; another passenger was a blind bloke with a seeing-eye dog. An extraordinarily quiet, placid dog, on whose stretched out paws I nearly stepped. We got off at the same stop, so we had a bit of chat - me remarking on the quietness of the dog, asking how long he'd had him, and how long it took getting used to a new dog. All of which were answered with great friendliness. He pointed out that a dog was much better than a cane because you didn't have to do any thinking - you just let the dog do it!

I don't think I've chatted to a blind person before about their experiences of using a seeing-eye dog, and I thanked him for the learning experience.

A day is wasted if I haven't learned anything. And all before 8.30am!

#blind #dogs #companionanimals #learning #humaninterest #people

This is my Boxer #dog Dougal, chewing so intently on his big slab of moose antler, he hasn't eaten anything else yet and it's after 12 noon. This is a happy day for me, too, because I just got a request to send my #manuscript for "The Nitty Gritty & Other Complications" from a #publisher I had queried. My fingers are crossed for that collection.
#dogs #writing #amwriting #submitting #shortstories #publishing #query #CompanionAnimals #dogsofmastodon

There's this saying that says something about "fighting like cats and dogs". Ha! It hasn't been my experience. #Cats and #dogs can make the best of friends. These are my #CompanionAnimals , a 3/4 Boxer #dog named Dougle and two domestic #cat in grey suits. That orange tube is also a crinkle toy. #catsofmastodon #amwriting #dogsofmastodon #writing @bookstodon

There's this saying that says something about "fighting like cats and dogs". Ha! It hasn't been my experience. #Cats and #dogs can make the best of friends. These are my #CompanionAnimals , a 3/4 Boxer #dog named Dougle and two domestic #cat in grey suits. That orange tube is also a crinkle toy. #catsofmastodon #amwriting #dogsofmastodon #writing @bookstodon

My Boxer mix is a total goofball! He spends about 1/3 of his time on his back, I swear. He's always balancing toys & often trying to play with 2 or 3 at the same time. In this case he has his leg through that yellow ring & he does this several times every day! He truly cracks me up! #dogsofmastodon #dogs #animals #companionanimals #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

My Boxer mix is a total goofball! He spends about 1/3 of his time on his back, I swear. He's always balancing toys & often trying to play with 2 or 3 at the same time. In this case he has his leg through that yellow ring & he does this several times every day! He truly cracks me up! #dogsofmastodon #dogs #animals #companionanimals #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

Cats are lovely but from an #AnimalRights perspective or even a welfare approach, what do you feed them? Genuine question, I'm covering #CompanionAnimals in my #AnimalEthics course next week. Most cat food uses meat from #FactoryFarms, right?

Introducing my #cats !!! The medium haired brown tabby is Athena, and the short haired grey tabby with the partially white face is Perseus (but I usually call him Percy). 😊😺😺 Please share photos of your cats!! And other #companionanimals

I'd best get some hashtags going to try to find the kind of people I want to know here.

Perhaps a warning that some things I'm interested in don't overlap with others for many people.

In no particular order.

#Perthshire
#Charities
#fundraising
#LocalBiz
#SmallBusiness
#FamilyBusiness
#EmployeeOwned
#HumanRights
#Arts
#CrapCars
#WeirdCars
#VanTime
#IndigenousRights
#PTerry
#Dogs
#Pets
#CompanionAnimals
#StopTheCrop
#Kindness
#DogTraining