Category: Thoughts

This is a very good article about animal hoarding: http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/too-many-pets-too-little-care-look-animal-hoarding?pageID=1 Here are some excerpts. The classification of a hoarder The definition of animal hoarding may surprise you. That’s because the crux of what classifies a person as a hoarder isn’t a particular number of animals—it’s whether or not those animals are provided with sufficient care, says educator…

The report: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/06/world/one-million-species-threatened-extinction-humans-scn-intl/index.html Another report: https://www.thedodo.com/in-the-wild/report-one-million-species-are-threatened-with-extinction?uxtm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1YfTQsTL8q3xvNBlVUJly-cDRShCr4vXDaUQ-8z2LWCj7HFQHwlToTGYw A glimmer of hope: It is NOT too late to save them. There is actually SO much we can do. Some are simple things too. Eat less meat. Adopt a plant-based diet. Humans are over-populating the earth and thereby destroying the earth. If you must, have only 2 children. If not,…

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqp9BZ29Jnk&feature=youtu.be Sadhguru: “Who the hell are you to think that an ant is a lowly creature and you are some super human being?” “If all the humans died, the world will flourish!” “The idea that this cosmos is human-centric is a stupid idea.” (my favourite quote in the entire video…indeed, STUPID it is!!)

I get really bewildered when humans do horrendous acts and some humans say of the perpetrator that “S/He is not human, s/he is an animal!!”. No, No, No, that is NOT true. That’s an insult to animals. Animals don’t do horrendous acts to anyone. At most, they only kill for food because they are carnivorous.…

The sad news: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3007965/decomposing-bodies-dogs-and-cats-found-new-territories In our experience, we have encountered a few cases of hoarding before. The animals were in dire straits and yet the caregiver/hoarder still thought that he/she was giving them the best and that no other person can do better than he/she. Hoarding is a mental disease and the animals are the victims.…

Occasionally, through our chats with applicants, we find out that some of them are actually not financially “disadvantaged”. When we first started, we wanted to ensure that only those who are financially disadvantaged are given the aid, so we asked for the profession of each applicant. Of course this turned out to be quite useless…

Ideally, we wish the local councils would not catch street animals. Ideally, we wish the majority of humans would accept the presence of street animals in our environment. There are animal organisations (like ours) and there are caregivers who would gladly do their very best to get these animals neutered and returned to their colonies.…

We would like to distinguish the difference between what we promote, ie. CNRM and what is sometimes done by certain rescuers, ie. TNR. CNRM stands for C=Care, N=Neuter, R = Return-to-Colony and M=Manage. In CNRM, we cannot over-emphasise how important the C = CARE component is. Caring begins right from the start in catching the…

As we always ask about animals: Why love one and eat the other? The video: https://www.facebook.com/nasdaily/videos/525304967879828/

I would like to share a very simple message here, which I learnt from one of our applicants this evening. He is not highly schooled, but he rescues and rehomes cats. He was very sad this evening, because one of his newly rescued kittens just passed away. He had been nursing this kitten when the…

I was reading something someone wrote about Trump recently. This author says, for every hate tweet that he sends out, let’s turn it into a force for good. Imagine if, for every Trump tweet, millions of people around the world gave a few pennies each. When he calls women ‘dogs’, we’d fund the fight for…

These are found from some of his many books: “People in Japan and the Faeroe Islands kill dolphins and pilot whales by running steel rods into their spinal columns while they squeal in pain and terror and thrash in agony. (In Japan, it’s illegal to kill cows and pigs as painfully and inhumanely as they…

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KNvcKkuJaU&feature=youtu.be  

Do you like to make New Year’s resolutions?  Or, is every day as equally good and important to you? Whichever your stand is, please allow me to share these affirmations, written by a person whom I have the utmost respect for, Bhante Y. Wimala. He has charity projects in various parts of the world and…

Koo shared this: https://ideapod.com/22-brutal-truths-existence-no-one-wants-admit-will-make-better-person/ It’s just too good not to be shared, so for posterity purposes (some links are no longer there after a few years), I’m going to copy out some of them and number them according to the article, but please click on the link to read the whole article. Some of them may…