#society for the prevention of cruelty to animals

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“Will Bonus Owners For Horses Killed,” Kingston Whig-Standard. November 2, 1932. Page 2. ---- SPCA Find Horses Being Worked Which Are Not in Fit Condition ---- At a meeting of members of' the Kingston Branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held last night In the Chamber of Commerce, Col. D. S. Tamblyn, president of the society, drew the attention of the meeting to the fact that there were at the present time a large number of horses being used for work in Kingston which should not be working because of their condition. He felt that steps should be taken to remedy the situation. 

Col. Tamblyn made ths suggestion that the society purchase these hones and then destroy them. He drew attention to the fact that as many of the owners of than horse wen not in a financial position to buy another bonus that the society might bonus them, as it were, for their horses the society taking the horses over for the purpose of destroying them. The suggestion was accepted by the meeting and a sum of money was voted for this purpose. 

The society's inspector, A. L. Rickaby, presented his report for the month of October and told of dealing with the following cases: Horses, 18; cattle. 10: pigs, l: cats, 14 and dogs, 3; in each case Investigation had been made and the necessary action taken, he stated. 

It was decided to purchase a number of Humane calendars for sale through the SPCA. The draw for the bedspread and doll was mads at last night's meeting and was as follow: Bedspread, donated by Mrs. A. Aldridge, won by Mrs. A. Jones, 111 Raglan Road; doll, donated by Mrs. A. Mackenzie, won by Mrs. Montgomery, 386 Earl Street. 

It was reported at the meeting that the grant of $200 made by the city to the society had been received Then were six new member added to the meeting was well attended

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Mountain Hare from Oldham, Greater Manchester

Photograph: Ben Harrott/RSPCA/PA

Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals: Young Photographer Award Winners

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Princess Grace and Prince Rainier at the Gala du La S.P.A.M (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Monaco) at the Beach Hotel in Monte-Carlo on July 27, 1970. The princess wore an Yves Saint Laurant floral dress and hairdo by Alexandre de Paris.

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Finding Forever Homes: The Heartwarming Stories of Adopted Dogs from the Saskatoon SPCA Shelter

Adopting a dog can be a life-changing experience, not only for the dog but for the adopter as well. Every year, thousands of dogs find themselves in shelters, waiting for someone to come and give them a forever home. The Saskatoon Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is one such organization that works tirelessly to provide a safe haven for these dogs and find them loving…

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Mujer es filmada arrastrando a un perro con su scooter de movilidad en Birmingham

Mujer es filmada arrastrando a un perro con su scooter de movilidad en Birmingham

Las imágenes desgarradoras, que muestran a un perro ser arrastrado por la calle por una mujer que conduce un scooter de movilidad, han provocado indignación en las redes sociales. En el angustioso video se puede ver al pobre perro incapaz de mantenerse en pie mientras es arrastrado por la calle con su correa alrededor del cuello en el área de Erdington en Birmingham. La persona que grabó las…

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What's an anarchist solution to mass shootings? I'm a baby anarchist and gun control is the only issue I'm unsure about.

this is a loaded topic that i will try to answer the best that i can.

addressing mass shootings from an anarchist perspective requires understanding the societal roots of such violence.

things like mass shootings often stem from a blend of white supremacy, patriarchal values, and social alienation, particularly evident in capitalist societies like the united states.

by dismantling oppressive hierarchies like these, we would aim to address the root causes of these violent acts, moving beyond mere symptom treatment like gun control.

central to any anarchist solution is the forming of strong, independent and supportive communities. by advocating for mutual aid and communal support, anarchism aims to reduce social alienation in a way that capitalism cannot. when individuals feel integrated and valued within their communities, the likelihood of them becoming violent decreases.

also, the fact that many mass shooters have histories of domestic violence or animal cruelty, but often lack criminal records, highlights the state's repeated failure in addressing violence. an anarchist approach would lean towards community-based justice and rehabilitation, focusing on preventing violence at its roots.

in educational and other public settings, factors like class discrimination, mental health neglect, and overwhelming stress contribute to mass shootings. anarchist solutions involve creating inclusive and supportive environments that address these issues.

while gun regulation might seem beneficial, gun control alone doesn't tackle the underlying motivations behind such violence. additionally, guns are so deeply embedded in cultures such as the u.s., that any attempts at a formative gun buy-back plan or anything of the ilk would leave weapons in the hands of those least likely to comply. not a great solution.

therefore, the focus should be on building a society where people are less likely to resort to violence, by understanding and alleviating the deeper causes that drive such actions.

that being said, i do not believe whatsoever in weapon fetishization. guns and weapons like them are tools whose use arises out of unfortunate circumstances, and i do not believe we should valorize their use.

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"His Highness, the Duke of Grimalkin." From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1889.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

CONSERVATIVE, OR BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society. To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind. ... The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat. The bourgeoisie naturally conceives the world in which it is supreme to be the best; and bourgeois Socialism develops this comfortable conception into various more or less complete systems. In requiring the proletariat to carry out such a system, and thereby to march straightway into the social New Jerusalem, it but requires in reality, that the proletariat should remain within the bounds of existing society, but should cast away all its hateful ideas concerning the bourgeoisie. A second and more practical, but less systematic, form of this Socialism sought to depreciate every revolutionary movement in the eyes of the working class, by showing that no mere political reform, but only a change in the material conditions of existence, in economic relations, could be of any advantage to them. By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government. Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech. Free trade: for the benefit of the working class. Protective duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison Reform: for the benefit of the working class. This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois Socialism. It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois—for the benefit of the working class.

-The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederich Engels

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King Charles' first official portrait since his coronation has been vandalised by an animal rights group. June 11 2024

Le portrait officiel de Charles III dégradé par des militants animalistes Réalisé le mois dernier par l’artiste britannique Jonathan Yeo, ce portrait se trouve dans une galerie à Londres.

Ce 11 juin 2024 à l’instar de militants écologiques qui ciblent des œuvres d’art, le portrait officiel du roi Charles III a été vandalisé par des militants animalistes d’Animal Rising qui ont mené cette action, pour protester contre la Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). Cette organisation soutenue par le monarque britannique lutte pour le bien-être animal mais est accusée par Animal Rising de cruauté. Deux militants, filmés par leur organisation, ont donc fait irruption dans la galerie Philip Mould à Londres, où le portrait, dévoilé le mois dernier, est exposé pour le moment. Et ils ont collé la tête du personnage Wallace, de la série animée Wallace et Gromit, sur celle du roi, avec un message dans une bulle de bande dessinée : « Pas de fromage Gromit (son chien). Regarde tous ces traitements cruels qui ont lieu dans les fermes de la RSPCA ! » (« No cheese, Gromit. Look at all this cruelty on RSPCA farms ! »)

Portrait du roi Charles III

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“Mare Is Maimed By Vicious Dogs,” Kingston Whig-Standard. November 2, 1932. page 9. --- Five Police Dogs With Mongrel Blood Revert to Wolf Ancestry --- (Special to The Whig-Standard) MONTREAL — Sentence of death was carried put on five dogs which bed the appearance of police dogs who had reverted to wolf ancestry and had maimed a a horse that was grazing near Cote St. Michael. The dogs had hunted in a pack apparently. They caught the mare belonging to Mrs. Mary Skoletni, 7171 Hugo Street, Cote St. Michael, and cut the animal's throat to ribbons with their fangs. 

After the mare had fallen they chewed a huge piece from her thigh but she was still alive when a laborer coming to fetch her found her surrounded by the cogs. He ran away, fearing that the pack might go after him, too. 

J. R. Innes, executive of the S. P. C. A., which investigated the affair, told of having ordered the killing of the mare after he had seen her because there was no chance of the animal's recovering. 

He also told of the execution of the five dogs.

"We found them,” he said, "chained In the yard of Mrs. Marchetiere, 3271 Tenth Street, Cote St. Michael. They were huge dogs and the Marchetiere house was small and poor. I do not believe that they could have been fed properly." 

Mr. Innes pointed out that it was unfair to say that the hunting pack consisted entirely of police dogs. 

'Anyone seeing them would of course say they were,” he said. "But actually they had mongrel blood in them and were very much inbred too — quite a different animal from the genuine police dog." 

Mrs. Skoletni says that the dogs killed and ate one of her goats last year. She is engaged In fanning acres of land and is very much worried because she had only on horse left and cannot do her fall mowing.

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River Crossing from Lymington, Hampshire

Photograph: Max Pletzer/RSPCA/PA

Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals: Young Photographer Award Winners

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1960.

They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.

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The Communist Manifesto - Part 17

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2. Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism

A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.

To this section belong economists, philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers of every imaginable kind. This form of socialism has, moreover, been worked out into complete systems.

We may cite Proudhon’s Philosophie de la Misère as an example of this form.

The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles and dangers necessarily resulting therefrom. They desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements. They wish for a bourgeoisie without a proletariat. The bourgeoisie naturally conceives the world in which it is supreme to be the best; and bourgeois Socialism develops this comfortable conception into various more or less complete systems. In requiring the proletariat to carry out such a system, and thereby to march straightway into the social New Jerusalem, it but requires in reality, that the proletariat should remain within the bounds of existing society, but should cast away all its hateful ideas concerning the bourgeoisie.

A second, and more practical, but less systematic, form of this Socialism sought to depreciate every revolutionary movement in the eyes of the working class by showing that no mere political reform, but only a change in the material conditions of existence, in economical relations, could be of any advantage to them. By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be affected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government.

Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.

Free trade: for the benefit of the working class. Protective duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison Reform: for the benefit of the working class. This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois socialism.

It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois – for the benefit of the working class.

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A Rescue Within a Rescue: The Story of a Dog's Second Chance

In the heart of winter, a shivering and scared dog was found abandoned in the Avalon Dog Park. The dog was a rescue, previously adopted from a shelter with the promise of a forever home, but now left to fend for herself in the cold. But just when all hope seemed lost, a dog lover named Sarah came to her rescue. Sarah, a seasoned dog owner, had always had a soft spot for rescue dogs, and she…

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Hey, uhm, about that „horse riding is harmful – but they need exercise!“ thread: what is never talked about in these discussions (this is my impression) is how priviliged it is that we can even abstain from using horses for transportation and farming.

And while our lifes have become much more comfortable since machines have replaced horses in these fields, I would argue that this shift has been very bad for nature as a whole. Even if someone does not believe in climate change, they could still see how it was bad that we built (and are building) asphalt streets and railroad tracks through wildlife habitats. And big machinery driving over soil compresses the earth unnecessarily, which makes it more difficult for plants to regrow. This would not be a problem if we still used horses.

I’m also wondering what people who are against horse owning would say to people who live in circumstances where they are still dependent on their animals. People who maybe live somewhere were the infrastructure needed in order to be able to use fossil fueled vehicles is not yet present. Or people who are just poor. Should they also stop riding and driving horses?

All of that being said, let’s imagine the consequences of gradually stopping all horse ownership. All horses currently living with humans as pets will stay with their owners and be cared for until they die, procreation will be prevented. (The alternative would of course be to release them into the wild, but deciding on WHERE to do so is very difficult and let’s just not do that in this scenario, as to not disturb already established ecosystems). Horse breeds which have been living with humans for the past thousands of years will go extinct. All the knowledge about how to feed horses, about horse behaviour and how to interact with them and about how to safely train them to be driven and ridden in a sustainable way will only exist in books within a hundred years. We are talking about skills that, at the end of the day, are more efficiently learned if there are teachers whom actually are practicing the craft. Humanity as a whole lives a bit more removed from nature – although, that is just how I see it.

I hope it’s okay for me to unload my thoughts on this onto you – I’m too shy to write under the post directly, but I really want to get this out of my head.

I live in germany by the way and I own a little pony mare. I don’t actually know her breed, it must have not been documented when she was born. She probably is a german riding pony with a healthy dose of arabian blood in her. I’ve riden and worked with horses for 14 years now and owned my mare for 5. I bought her when she was 11 years old and noone had really cared for her for two years. She spend that time on a pasture with other horses and was slightly malnourished and apathetic then. These days her fur is sparkling and her muscles have developed nicely and she expresses more happiness overall.

Hey, I don't know about the original poster as I don't follow them, but @acti-veg actually addresses your first point quite frequently. There are many people who cannot afford to not eat meat, abstain from medications that have been tested on animals, use horses for farming or transportation, etc. But the definition of veganism is, "a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.” If a person cannot avoid some form of animal exploitation because of their health or inability to make an alternative living, this does not preclude them from being a vegan as long as they do their best to limit their reliance on animals in other areas.

I agree that industrialization has led to many advancements in society at the detriment of nature and biodiversity. But I would also point out that if people switched back to horses today, at our current population, that would also not be sustainable. There is not enough land to keep them properly without adding more to deforestation, and plowing with horses is less precise and worse for the soil than some up and coming alternatives, like laser weeding and using robotic seed planting, which can eliminate the need to plowing entirely.

You are right that if people stopped breeding horses many breeds would go extinct and knowledge in how to care for them would be lost. This is a downside that has to be balanced against the upsides, like no more halter horse monstrosities, no more horses being dumped & shipped to slaughter, and the potential for farmland to be re-wilded which would increase biodiversity.

It's totally ok to share your thoughts here, and your pony sounds super cute!