Vietnam cat superstitions
If a culture has superstitions, they are bound to include the domestic cat. The domestic cat attracts superstition and has done so for many centuries. It is no different in Vietnam. But also, in...
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The mysterious Mary Dandruff aka Mary Healthy and Mary Yummy Cooking
I have been trying to make some sense of the mysterious ‘Mary Dandruff’. Clearly a made-up name and one which is associated with sticking objects onto cats which look like engorged (with blood) ticks....
Cat or dog? A ‘dat’ or ‘cog’.
This is a Vietnamese Hmong dog, a breed that first belonged to the Hmong tribe, an ethnic group living primarily in China and south-east Asia. The 13-second clip comes from the Twitter page of...
Anonymous pretty woman eats extremely crunchy and delicious, grilled domestic cat and more
She deliberately does several things to make her videos interesting or shocking depending upon your point of view. She juxtaposes her prettiness, her glossy red lips and delicate hands with the gruesome, dark, grilled...
How to stop the cat meat trade in Vietnam
The Vietnamese cat meat trade is horrible by any standards. Three million cats, many of them domestic cats (stolen pets), are killed in various inhumane ways before being skinned, disembowelled and eaten because some...
Another gruesome report about Vietnam’s cat meat trade
NEWS AND VIEWS – OPINION – PLEASE LET ME HEAR YOURS TOO: Four Paws, an animal welfare organisation has investigated the cat meat trade in Vietnam. The Independent newspaper reported it. I don’t know...
Dogs and Cats Are Friends, Not Food
The words in the title are those of a campaign organised and managed by youngsters in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, whose objectives are to change the awareness of Vietnamese people to the fact...
WARNING: Three girls crush kitten to death with their bare feet
It is almost impossible to report on this because of its callous, mindless cruelty against an innocent animal. A colleague pointed it out to me. The report is sketchy. The pictures are horrifying and...
Vietnamese toddler drinks liquid of dead black cats to protect from coronavirus
In human behaviour reminiscent of medieval times, in Vietnam black cats are being killed and rendered down into a black paste or liquid which you can see in the photograph. They’re doing this as...
Picture of Vietnamese tiger poacher standing over dead tiger is disgusting
This picture is shocking quite frankly. It was found on a confiscated mobile phone from a suspected tiger poacher. As you can see the man is standing over a dead tiger. He appears to...
Picture of cats in mesh bags ready to be drowned?
This is horror and I am sorry, really sorry for presenting this gut wrenching photograph but I feel compelled to. The story needs to be told again and again if necessary. This picture struck...
Three Tons of Cats and Dogs Culled
This is a short note to remind us how bad the human can become in its relations with domestic cats and dogs. This is a complete abdication of responsibility towards domestic cats and dogs....
European Union failing to support developing countries to stop wildlife trafficking
It is shocking to be told that thousands of products made from tigers, elephants, rhinos and other endangered species are being traded in Britain and throughout the European Union. Â The reason is poor and...
Photo of a monstrously vile, odious, repulsive, disgusting, distasteful dog meat trader
This is the sort of person who commits shocking acts of cruelty to companion animals in order to make money. I won’t show the other photos because they are too upsetting. This is Vietnam....
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