My newest interest is saving shelter dogs and cats. There is a tiny little animal control in Franklin, Ga with the 2 sweetest ladies running it, Kaylene and Angela. It is only an hour from me, and unlike the shelter where I live, Heard Co has to euthanize animals that don't get adopted in a timely manner - namely when they run out of space to house them. And they only have EIGHT dog runs! I have adopted a dog and cat from there and helped with transporting dogs from there to their new homes. I am willing to help people adopt these needy animals. Just contact me! If you live too far to visit them in person, I post bulletin updates with current photos every week. And I go to Heard most Saturdays so if you are interested in a particular dog or cat, I will be glad to walk it and check out his or her temperment for you. Let's save these babies!My lifelong interest is motorcycles. I love Harleys. If it has a Harley Davidson logo on it, it's probably on my carport, in my house or car or purse. I've gone to Daytona for Bike Week almost every year since 1985. My husband has 2 Sportsters and I love to go riding with him.
I'd like to meet:
anyone who believes as I do that all animals, whether human or not, deserve love, respect, and to live a peaceful life.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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~~~~~This is the first rescue/transport/adoption for Bebe and me. Please check it out.
"PLEASE SAVE ME!" I have become involved with shelter rescue since joining myspace. I call this sweet baby the pound puppy poster child. He was at Warner Robins Animal Control in Georgia. Georgia has a high kill rate for unwanted dogs and cats. Knowing that this baby was adopted makes it all worthwhile. Thank you to everyone who saves a life!
Here are some lives that were saved in time to have a Merry Christmas!
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If you can, watch and listen to the people who have to put unwanted dogs and cats to sleep. Please spay or neuter your pets.
Now, here is a beautiful, hopeful video of one dog that was not pts but instead lived to enrich lives as a therapy dog.
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO OF ALL THE WONDERFUL LIFE IN THIS WORLD
"DO ELEPHANTS DREAM?" Maggie the elephant who is getting out of this prison in Alaska and being moved to PAWS in California to live with other elephants in a more natural setting. Beautiful music.
IT'S MY LIFE - horses being themselves, reminds me of my Bo and why I chose him almost 18 years ago
WHALING - why it is unnecessary. Great close ups with Australian whale lovers!
NEVER GIVE UP - awesome video of what we can do when we all stick together - even water buffalo!
Buddhist Prayer Dedicated to Felix who was murdered in the name of science.
Puppy mill dog auction undercover video
Do you eat chicken?
and here's the worst one of all:
Undercover video at a turkey slaughterhouse
WARNING: very graphic and disturbing
PLEASE ALL MY FRIENDS - JOIN THIS GROUP AND SIGNS SOME VERY IMPORTANT PETITIONS
Movies:
Best biker movie ever made: Running Cool. Most heartwarming biker movie: Mask. The movie that was filmed in my hometown: Norma Rae. Funniest, most quotable movie: Sordid Lives.
Television:
I rarely watch tv. I like shows from the past: Columbo, Twilight Zone, Star Trek (the original crew). Used to watch Ally McBeal before it got stupid. Usually watch whatever my daughter is watching on Animal Planet, The Learning Channel, or Discovery Channel.
Books:
Anything by Dean Koontz. My favorites are: Watchers, One Door Away from Heaven, Corner of His Eye, and Life Expectancy. I also like James Patterson and sometimes read murder mysteries or books about women's friendships, aka Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Heroes:
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
**************************************************Henry Beston (1888-1968) "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations."
**************************************************Kim Ogden-Avrutik "Why should we believe that we are spiritual beings, but that animals are not – that we can walk a spiritual path, but they cannot? Many of the great spiritual Masters have seemed to love these beings called animals. Buddha said that ‘when a man has pity on all living creatures, only then is he noble’. Allah talks about bees being spiritual creatures and carrying divine messages to us. Jesus proclaimed ‘Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature’. He didn’t say just your fellow human beings. …. Of course, if we believed that animals were spiritual beings, just as we are, we would have to treat them with dignity. Maybe that’s what some people are afraid of…"
**************************************************Michael Klaper, M.D. "My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings - human and non-human alike - are accepted, practiced, and profited from by most every institution of society - from commerce and science to education and entertainment. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Homo sapiens are either unaware of the cruelty or accept it as unavoidable and even normal."
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****************************************Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) "Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."**************************************************Leo
nardo da Vinci (1452-1519) "I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
**************************************************Theodore H. White (1915-1986) "To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have."**************************************************Jimm
y Stewart (1908-1997) "Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished 'shooting,' my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans."
**************************************************St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) "Not to hurt our humble brethren [the animals] is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it."
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s (?460 BC - ?377 BC)
**************************************************Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground." (reply to friends who chided him for delaying them by stopping to return a fledgling to its nest.)
**************************************************Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man."
**************************************************Margaret Mead (1901-1978) "You don't throw a whole life away just because it's banged up a little. Never doubt that a small group of people can make a difference…indeed it is the only thing that ever has..."**************************************************Hen
ry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) "For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgement Seat and say 'I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog.' And yet we call them 'only brutes'!"
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) "It were much better that a sentient being should never had existed, that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery…I wish no living thing to suffer pain."
**************************************************Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) "You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."
**************************************************Mark Twain (1835–1910) "It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."**************************************************Ch
ief Seattle (1786-1866) "...the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man--all belong to the same family... The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers."
**************************************************Carl Sagan "Humans who enslave, castrate, experiment on and fillet other animals have had an understandable penchant for pretending that animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and animals is essential to bend them to our will, wear them, eat them without any disquieting tings of guilt or regret. It is so unseemly of us who behave so unfeelingly towards other animals to contend that only humans can suffer, Their behavior renders such pretensions specious, they are just to much like us."
**************************************************Charles Darwin (1809-1882) "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties ... The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes a well-developed condition, in the lower animals."
**************************************************Plutarch (46-120?) "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
**************************************************Axel Munthe (1857-1949) “The wild cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.â€
**************************************************Lloyd Biggle, Jr. "Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest..."*************************************************
*Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) "If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food..."
**************************************************George Graham Vest "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true,to the last beat of his heart.You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
**************************************************Charles R. Magel "Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are like us.' Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: 'Because the animals are not like us.' Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction."
**************************************************Father Humphrey Primatt "Pain is pain, whether it is inflicted on man or on beast; and the creature that suffers it, whether man or beast, being sensible of the misery of it whilst it lasts, suffers Evil...We may pretend to what religion we please, but cruelty is atheism. We may boast of Christianity; but cruelty is infidelity. We may trust our orthodoxy; but cruelty is the worst of heresies.â€
**************************************************Ron Lee "We have been at war with the other creatures of this earth ever since the first human hunter set forth with spear into the primeval forest. Human imperialism has everywhere enslaved, oppressed, murdered, and mutilated the animal peoples. All around us lie the slave camps we have built for our fellow creatures, factory farms and vivisection laboratories, Dachaus and Buchenwalds for the conquered species. We slaughter animals for our food, force them to perform silly tricks for our delectation, gun them down and stick hooks in them in the name of sport. We have torn up the wild places where once they made their homes. Speciesism is more deeply entrenched within us even than sexism, and that is deep enough."
**************************************************Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) "It may one day come to be recognized that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes..."
**************************************************John Woolman (1720-1772) "Where the love of God is verily perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward all creatures made subject to us will be experienced, and a care felt in us that we do not lessen that sweetness of life in the animal creation which the great Creator intends for them."
***************************************************Judy Carman "I am thinking of the many who are still holding their sense of mercy in check for fear of social disapproval. I kept mine in check for too long. And each time I let it out, I felt the pressure to conform – true enough. What helped me? It was seeing others speak out, be ridiculed, and have the courage and inner certainty to speak out again and again. If we can be desensitized to animals’ pain, then we can also desensitize ourselves to being ridiculed and pressured."
**************************************************Dr. Louis J. Camuti (1894-1981) "Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves."
**************************************************Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890) "Now what is it moves our very heart and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they have done us no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which make their sufferings so especially touching… there is something so very dreadful, so satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us and who cannot defend themselves; who are utterly in our power."**************************************************Fra
nz Kafka (1883-1924) "Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more."**************************************************Mila
n Kundera "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
**************************************************Rev Dr Andrew Linzey "Since an animal's natural life is a gift from God, it follows that God's right is violated when the natural life of his creatures is perverted. Those who, in contrast, opt for the welfarist approach to intensive farming are inevitably involved in speculating how far such and such may or may not suffer in what are plainly unnatural conditions. But unless animals are judged to have some right to their natural life, from what standpoint can we judge abnormalities, mutilations or adjustments? Confining a de-beaked hen in a battery cage is more than a moral crime; it is a living sign of our failure to recognize the blessing of God in creation."
**************************************************John Ruskin (1819-1900) "Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use."
**************************************************E. D. Buckner MD, AM, PhD (1843-1907) "It is a deplorable fact that many Christians are so accustomed to a certain creed and dogma of their own that they will adhere to it even at the sacrifice of the great moral laws of love and mercy. Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species."
**************************************************Pythagoras
(circa 582-507BC) "For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
**************************************************Romain Rolland (1866-1944) "Thousands of animals are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race."
**************************************************George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "The arguments used to justify vivisection are those which could be used to justify any atrocity."
**************************************************Henry J. Bigelow, M.D.(1818-1890) "There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of Science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion."
**************************************************Rev Geoffrey Mather "I write in sorrow [on vivisection]: as far as I can tell, no voice has been heard from the Church about this evil. The matter is forgotten for another year. It should not be. It is one of the most appalling blots on our plentifully blotted civilisation."**********************************************
****Mary T. Hoffman "In my opinion, most research utilizing animals is merely subsidized sadism masquerading as ‘science’."
**************************************************S. D. Newton "I have personally known and dearly loved many of the creatures science calls Rattus rattus a.k.a. Black Rat, Ship Rat, Tree Rat, Roof Rat, etc. That the world so persecutes these clean, charming, intelligent beings is just more evidence of the fallen state of Man.
Compassion for our fellow creatures is foundational to the ethical treatment of our own species. It’s a bit paradoxical, but the proof is in how badly we treat fellow humans when our consciences have been dulled by disregard for other creatures."
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Harry Lillie "That night in my sleeping bag on the floor of the cabin, I dreamed a big beaver was climbing gently on to my jacket pillow. It woke me and I felt something moving at my hair, then retreating to the floor. In the beam of my torch, there was a little White Footed mouse; and in her mouth a great faggot of what looked suspiciously like my hair. She scampered off to where an old broken piece of armchair lay in a corner. I waited in the dark and she was back almost at once and up at my head, her tiny pink hands and teeth cutting the required lengths for that nest. I went to sleep again thinking it was so nice to know that man, the only true pest in Nature, was at last of some use to at least one little person in that vast wilderness."
**************************************************Issac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) "People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. I will continue to be a vegetarian even if the whole world started to eat meat. This is my protest against the conduct of the world."
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Anyone and everyone who is fighting for animal rights and protection.
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