Comments on: Animal welfare, human rights

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:43:39 +0000

I would like to ask about Thomasina Sanctuary. There are so many sick cats – what’s being done to help them out? It’s a very well know fact that at Thomasina there are lots of sick cats and kittens. What’s Animal Welfare doing about this place? I hope they will take action soon before more cats die. Thomasina Sanctuary needs a good clean up – the cats are suffering and Animal Welfare must do something about this. It’s obvious that whoever is managing there is not managing well and this has not started now; this has been going on for years, but in Malta some people think that they can get away with anything.

By: Nicola, UK

Nicola, UK — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:12:11 +0000

How very sad to hear of the loss of life of all three creatures concerned. It seems a shame that earlier preventive intervention
could not have been initiated by the relevant authorities in response to the initial incident. I wonder why? I feel so sorry for the people who had to carry out this task, as they must have felt and still be feeling awful if their understanding was that this was their only option to deal humanely with the situation.

Congratulations to the author of this article who I think has strong advocacy skills and I feel they could achieve much through their writing to affect changes in consciousness.

By: Bill Hopkinso

Bill Hopkinso — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:11:02 +0000

To drag Malta into the 21st century regarding animal welfare, perhaps watching “Animal Planet” and particularly “Animal Cops Houston etc” should be obligatory viewing for those entrusted with caring for our animal friends.

By: NGT

NGT — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:35:02 +0000

The flip-flop guff has since been removed.

By: NGT

NGT — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:00:57 +0000

Not related but you’d love this – remember the man ‘wearing a slipper’ in The Times? Well, we’ve moved on a bit since then…

Saturday, 12th September 2009 – 13:47CET

Teenager missing

Graziella Pulis, 15, has been reported missing, the police said.

She has shoulder-length hair, brown eyes and was last seen wearing black trousers, a pink top and a flip flop.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:26:34 +0000

It’s a pity that the ‘common birdbrain’ isn’t an endangered species.

By: Herbs

Herbs — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:17:26 +0000

Today the EU has decided to ban spring hunting. Hallelujah! Finally birds will be protected and no one will be able to kill them.

On another note – hopefully, very soon, we will get the right, as European citizens, to have an abortion. I fully agree with the EU’s policies that human life is worth much less that a bird’s one.

Actually it is more relaxing to have an abortion than to hunt bird’s anyway. Hunting birds is laborious. You have to carry a gun around and do everything yourself. Whereas in abortion you actually employ someone to do it for you and you just sit there smoking a ciggy and enjoying the Saturday afternoon premier league match on SKY.

Can’t wait.

[Daphne – Heavy irony, eh? Women don’t watch premier league matches, on Sky on any other station. Or maybe I should have said that men don’t have abortions.]

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:29:44 +0000

In reply to Joseph Cauchi. Why North Africa has been brought into this beats me. Besides, they would be disgusted with our curious western habit of keeping dogs as domestic pets and more often than not for no other reason but because they are "cute" or because their only two children are now in their early 20s and are going to "settle down" with their second mummy not too far away.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:33:00 +0000

Methinks Joey must have gone to McDonalds to try their new wrap….

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:22:17 +0000

In reply to Joseph Cauchi. Thanks Daphne. Possibly I should have been more specific in order to satisfy the geography majors among your followers.