Russians shell and shoot up Ukraine animal shelters

Animal shelter Ukraine

NEWS AND COMMENT: Putin is rapidly catching up with Hitler as the world’s worst mass murderer. The destruction and devastation in Ukraine is nothing short of horrendous and is being conducted callously and mercilessly at the behest of one madman: Putin. He’s got nukes and that scares the sh*t out of the West. The …

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Heroic effort to evacuate lions and tigers from Ukraine to Poland during Putin’s invasion

Lion and tiger cubs - part of the group of zoo animals evacuated from sanctuary near Kyiv to Poland

NEWS AND COMMENT: The Save Wild sanctuary east of Kyiv decided to evacuate after Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine nine days ago. They decided to take six lions, four tigers, two caracals and an African wild dog to the border with Poland. It turned out to be a heroic and traumatic journey both for the …

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Picture which juxtaposes the vulnerable innocence of a white domestic cat and the brutal war machine

The vulnerability of domestic cat innocence among the human brutes of war

I believe that these are the good guys: Ukrainian troops defending their country from the maniacal behaviour of Putin who fails to understand what ‘winning’ the war he created in Ukraine means. At this stage in the conflict winning for Putin means raising Ukraine to the ground and killing thousands of Ukrainians indiscriminately. He’ll …

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Russia: a nation of cat lovers and they don’t know what Putin is doing in Ukraine

Cat rescuer Russia

It is timely to remind ourselves that Russia is a nation of cat lovers. They have their own purebred cats e.g. Russian Blue, and a good cat fancy. They’ve got some amazing cat breeders although I don’t approve of cat breeding! Russia has a higher percentage of households owning at least one cat than …

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EU’s bureaucratic pet transportation rules causing cats and dogs to be abandoned at border by Ukrainian refugees?

Moroccan medical student in Ukraine flees with his two cats without a carrier

NEWS AND COMMENT: Mercifully, it appears that the EU countries bordering the Ukraine have loosened their pet transportation/immigration requirements to prevent the abandonment of cats and dogs and other animals at the border. But the information is not entirely clear while the new arrangements are put in place. As up to 400,000 refugees are …

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Picture: elderly woman, Lidiia lives with her cat, Matilda, near the fighting in Eastern Ukraine

Lidiia and her cat Matilda live near the fighting in Eastern Ukraine

This tweet is sad, isn’t it? An elderly woman who needs some peace and security in her life as does her cat and the bloody Russians want to gobble up her country. Well, it’s not the Russians generally, they don’t want the war. It’s the evil tactical genius/madman, Putin, who demands it. He thinks …

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Picture of a British soldier playing with a kitten in the snow, December 17, 1917

Soldier interacts with kitten in snow 1917

This is a photograph from World War I, the Great War. It was taken by John Warwick Brooke (Lieutenant). It is a black-and-white colourised photograph. It was colourised by Colourising History (aka /u/DBColour). Below it is the original black and white photo. It shows a British soldier perhaps of the Army Service Corps ‘shaking …

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