The true story of Hachiko the faithful dog

“In 1924, Hachiko was brought to Tokyo by his owner Hidesaburo Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo.
The bond between Hachiko and Mr. Ueno can only be described as unbreakable…
The two were inseparable and Hachiko even accompanied Mr. Ueno from his walk from home to the Shibuya train station where he would leave for work every single day.
Hachiko would unfailingly return the train station at the end of each day to welcome his master home.
But on May 1925 Professor Ueno suffered a stroke while he was at work and died soon after never to return to the train station…
Hachiko was waiting for his beloved master to return on that day as he always did before.
Soon after Mr. Ueno’s death Hachiko was given away but he would escape every day to return to the train station to wait for his master.
Day after day Hachiko returned to the train station until he eventually stopped leaving…
Some people who had seen Hachiko with his master were so touched by his devotion they started bringing food to nourish him during his wait…
The days turned to weeks… Months… Years…
After 10 years of waiting for his master at the train station Hachiko died with his gaze fixed upon the spot his master disappeared the very last time…
Today a statue stands in the spot where Hachiko waited his entire life for his master’s return… “

 

In April 1934, a bronze statue in his likeness was erected at Shibuya Station, and Hachikō himself was present at its unveiling. The statue was recycled for the war effort during World War II. After the war, Hachikō was not forgotten. In 1948 The Society for Recreating the Hachikō Statue commissioned Takeshi Ando, son of the original artist who had since died, to make a second statue. The new statue, which was erected in August 1948, still stands and is an extremely popular meeting spot. The station entrance near this statue is named “Hachikō-guchi”, meaning “The Hachikō Exit”, and is one of Shibuya Station’s five exits.

A similar statue stands in Hachikō’s hometown, in front of Odate Station. In 2004, a new statue of Hachikō was erected on the original stone pedestal from Shibuya in front of the Akita Dog Museum in Odate.

Pregnant doe wounded from bowhunters found in womens property in Ohio

Kudo, the horse rescuer

Richard ‘Kudo’ Couto has taken it upon himself to rescue horses from illegal slaughter houses in Northwest Miami Dade County known as the C-9 Basin. Kudo and his organization, Animal Recovery Mission (ARM), aggressively pursues and rescues abandoned horses that may end up being butchered alive for their meat, which sells between $7.00 – $40.00 dollars a pound, he claims.

EU pig farm investigation by Compassion in World Farming

Compassion in World Farmings recent investigation into pig farming in six EU Member States suggests that the vast majority of pigs reared in the EU are being farmed illegally. EU legislation requires pigs to be given sufficient straw or similar rooting material so that they can engage in their natural behaviours of investigating and manipulating their environment. However, most EU pigs are reared in fully slatted systems where such provision is almost impossible.

Bored and frustrated in the barren world of the factory farm, pigs sometimes bite each others tails. To prevent this farmers often dock cut off part of the tail. Routine tail-docking is prohibited – farmers must try to prevent tail biting by improving the conditions in which the pigs are kept. Yet despite the ban on routine tail-docking, a report by EFSA shows that over 90% of pigs in the EU are tail-docked.

Take action: www.ciwf.org.uk/pigs_scandal

Nine Months is Nine Too Many: FREE BRINDI NOW!

Horses Need Your Help before 21 January – Ask the MEPs to sign the declaration 54/2009

TAKE ACTION

Please help us to help vulnerable animals. Every action counts:

 

• You can help to end Europe’s single biggest abuse of horses – NOW.

Every year, 100,000 horses are transported across Europe for slaughter. The terrible conditions as they make their long journeys mean that they suffer from disease, dehydration, exhaustion and injury – all for a needless trade. The infrastructure already exists to make slaughter at source and a carcase trade possible.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are elected to represent you in Brussels and can influence the laws governing these journeys – so tell them what you think of this practice. Please write to your MEP asking them to sign Written Declaration 54/2009. If more than half of all MEPs sign this before 21st January 2010, we will be one step closer to ending these brutal and totally unnecessary journeys.

Please write to your MEP asking them to sign Written Declaration 54/2009. If more than half of all MEPs sign this before 21st January 2010, we will be one step closer to ending these brutal and totally unnecessary journeys. These animals can be slaughtered in their country of origin and do not have to be dragged half way across Europe.

If less than 50% of MEPs support the Declaration it will fail, weakening the case for new laws ending the long-distance transportation of horses to slaughter in the European Union. Please use the template letter below to contact your MEP today, and ask your friends in Europe and the UK to do the same. You can find out who your MEPs are by visiting. Find your MEP and check that they have signed Written Declaration 54/2009 here.

Download the template letter here.

(translations available below)

Why not cut and paste the template letter into an email for your MEPs? Or contact them using social networking sites, such as Twitter? A large number of politicians have Twitter accounts, making it much easier to get in contact.

If your MEPs have signed the Written Declaration, do you know anyone in Europe that could write their MEPs? Or can you write to other MEPs using the translated letters?

http://www.worldhorsewelfare.org/you-help/take-action

Ukraine corrupt municipality bosses kill stray animals for EURO 2012 in Lugansk

Corrupt council bosses in Lugansk are using the forthcoming Euro 2012 championships to kill stray animals. Here is how it works:

Lugansk has an airport where football fans from Europe will arrive. The fans will then be transported by bus to Donetsk stadium where the matches will be played.

Corrupt municipality bosses use this event and the expected high number of visitors to suggest that all stray animals must be killed for safety purposes and this will also enhance the image of the city it will be nice and clean and safe.

But to do this they need an allocation of money from the city. The corrupt officials then state a hugely inflated figure of strays and say they need 100h ( approx 10 euros) to kill each dog. Of course they say that this will be done humanely.

Then having received all the money from the city budget, they get together unemployed workers and send them out to kill strays by poison maybe the cost is a few Euro cents per dog (after all how much does it cost to get some cheap poison and dig a hole to bury the animals when the hole is full they just dig another one).

For every dog they kill they say they have killed ten or twenty or more. For every 100,000 euro of budget, it is estimated that perhaps 1000 euros are spent and that leaves 90,000 Euros which is stolen and shared amongst the officials.

This kind of scam is operated in many regions of Ukraine with KYIV CITY MUNICIPALITY being the most corrupt. This has gone on for years and IS A BIG MONEY MAKER FOR MUNICIPALITY OFFICIALS. The corruption is AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.

Naturewatch urges all football fans and all teams in Europe to write to UEFA urging that it takes action to stop this barbaric, unnecessary and cruel at Lugansk municipality.

Body Count – ANIMALS KILLED ANNUALLY By Sportsman/Hunters

Santas Visit pigs in factory farms

Automatic Translation

Santa Claus visited Austrian factory farming!

“Christmas for everyone!” The thought two welfare advocates, who – dressed up as Father Christmases climbing – into a pig to give the animals living there a little variety. The gifts, straw and apples, were adopted by the pigs bouncy and grateful!

Photos on www.vgt.at

And that is the true Christmas story:
It so happened on a cold December night. Two Christmases were on their way from the far north to the brave children who had completed their shopping lists placed on the windowsills. By loud shrieks became aware of the Santas looked through the window and saw a large hall frightening: instead spacious and comfortable living quarters, as usual for the Christmas reindeer, they saw bleak rooms, crammed with poor pigs. Although they have very much to do decided at Christmas Santas, soon to come back and bring the pig children gifts.

And so they packed tags to a bag full of straw and a bag full of apples and climbed into the pig facility. She cautiously opened the door to the animals too much to frighten. Excited, they were received by the pigs, which they reviewed anticipation.
The two Santa Clauses were visibly moved by the reaction of the pigs. After initial skepticism, our pink friends used their fine and delicate nose, to explore the completely unknown material, which they had never seen before, too. Since there was sniffing it dug and chewed. They must be modest, the pigs, because they do not get a lot of straw, not enough to be able to lie comfortably – but still! Alternative to other food for monotony also brought the delicious juicy apples. They were eagerly devoured by the connoisseurs! It was wonderful to watch these kind of animals, thought up the Santa Clauses. But the time had come to collect more shopping lists of window sills, including those of children of farmers. “Oh, the farmers would understand that, that they do nothing good pigs, when they piled it so completely without the ability to behave in a species-appropriate,” said Santa Claus to the other. That gave them an idea: “We’ll give the peasant children with books and films that will tell them what an intelligent and interesting animals are pigs!” The dazzle them! “

And so, it wants the story, the visiting Santas are many many stables, and give hope for many animals. But the farmers will be rewarded with knowledge and wisdom to be locked up at the end of an animal has more – and people and animals live in respect and regard for one another in peace with each other. As Christmas, and on all other days!

Background Information:
Pigs are highly intelligent mammals. They are the people in many ways similar and closely related.
But instead entgegenzubringen respect and respect for our fellow creatures, are held prisoner in Austria, 3.5 million pigs in disgraceful conditions. On a concrete floor, they must stand and lie, with no soft bedding. Exposed to the psychological stress, lack of or inadequate employment material. This leads to aggression within the groups, which often lead to injuries. Instead of countering the causes, the animals are adapted to the system: teeth and tails are pinched off due to injury has just been cut.
Every year in Austria alone, 5 million pigs slaughtered and eaten. Even at Christmas, the feast of contemplation and peace …

The film about the visit of two Christmases in a pigsty was the VGT – The Association Against Animal Factories sent – anonymously, with the request for disclosure. Which we have agreed because it is a peaceful and very beautiful symbolic action. We wish also to farmers whose animals have been visited, a beautiful and peaceful Christmas!

Elephants: They Don’t Want To Be In Show Business