Animal Rights

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I love my dog to death, and nothing will get me more pissed than someone trying to hurt him. I believe my parents are abusing my dog to get me to attack them. They know how protective I am and they keep doing petty things to him to get my reaction. Now they have gone too far and actually drew blood, I don't know what to do since they are using him to get to me.

I have been travelling Europe and have noticed that in many cities (Bled and Vienna in particular) there will be lots of horse carriages taking tourists on rides. In Bled, only one skinny horse was carrying a whole family on in a carriage up a hill. I see these horses at 8am and have seen them at 9pm. Some have foam at the mouth, tongues out. When I walked past the side of the road where they were standing and waiting for tourists some had their eyes shut they were so exhausted. They’re skinny, their hooves aren’t cut, they’re also whipped by their riders and they seem to be treated terribly. It makes me feel sick but I have no idea what to do. A couple of years ago PETA called for it to be banned in Vienna after an 8 year old horse died of a heart attack. They seem so overworked and tired and it is so unethical. What can we do to ban this practice? It’s across so many countries so I don’t know where to start but I feel an urge to do something.

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I haven't watched thieir videos, but they take donations and are from Vietnam, unfortunately it is very common for these channels to be scam channels if in SEA

https://youtube.com/@animalshealthcare221?si=bZNmou7EbcGBxE63

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-kills-diseased-deer-chronic-wasting-disease_n_665a1d58e4b0ca2f37c0519d

There are currently between 5 to 10 million stray dogs living on the streets in Turkey. The government, dog food factory owners, and so-called animal welfare associations make a lot of money from distributing food to these dogs. How do they make this money, you ask? Members of parliament, businessmen, and the like own these dog food factories, and municipalities issue tenders to distribute food to the dogs. In this way, they earn billions of Turkish liras, even dollars, annually. It's a kind of money laundering scheme. In the last 10 years, hundreds of citizens have died from rabies or dog attacks. The government has decided to take action on this issue, but not because citizens are dying. It's because the European Union considers Turkey a high-risk country for rabies, which could deter tourists.However, the critical point is the news reports from European news agencies like Deutsche Welle and BBC. These agencies, from countries where there are no stray dogs or even cats on the streets because they were either euthanized or gathered in the past, advocate against the collection of stray dogs in Turkey. If animals should live on the streets, why don’t these animal-loving Europeans advocate for stray dogs and cats to roam freely in their own countries? I invite you to protest against European countries. Please ensure that cats and dogs can roam freely on the streets of your own country.

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