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Showing posts with label Dogs. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 7, 2026

The Islamization of Europe > Brits to reduce dog population - is it a political stunt? Paris kosher restaurant attacked with acid for 3rd time

 

UK considering ban on 67 dog breeds for ‘animal health’ — oh, and coincidentally, Islam hates dogs

The idea that these breeds must be banned because they are unhealthy is ridiculous on its face. Beagles and dachshunds and Scottish terriers and great danes and so many other breeds that have been known and loved in Britain and the U.S. from time immemorial are suddenly unhealthy and have to be banned? It is much more likely that shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain’s far-left government is once again engaging in Islamopandering on a massive scale.

Islam hates dogs, and Muhammad, according to Islamic tradition, ordered them killed.

“Once Gabriel promised the Prophet (that he would visit him, but Gabriel did not come) and later on he said, ‘We, angels, do not enter a house which contains a picture or a dog.’” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.50

“Abdullah (b. Umar) (Allah be pleased with them) reported: Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) ordered the killing of dogs and we would send (men) in Medina and its corners and we did not spare any dog that we did not kill, so much so that we killed the dog that accompanied the wet she-camel belonging to the people of the desert.” — Sahih Muslim 3811

“Ibn Mughaffal reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) ordered killing of the dogs, and then said: What about them, i. e. about other dogs? and then granted concession (to keep) the dog for hunting and the dog for (the security) of the herd, and said: When the dog licks the utensil, wash it seven times, and rub it with earth the eighth time.” — Sahih Muslim 551

Coco the beagle as a puppy by Slyronit, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0


Revealed: The 67 dog breeds that could be banned in Britain…

is YOUR pooch on the list?

by Sophie Carlin, Daily Mail, March 5, 2026:

Sixty-seven dog breeds could be banned in Britain if new breeding guidelines set by parliament become mandatory, campaigners have warned.

The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for animal welfare has launched a new tool to determine if a dog is healthy.

The cross-party committee has developed a 10-point checklist of extreme physical characteristics which can make for a poorly pooch.

They include mottled colouration, excessive skin folds, bulging outward-turning eyes, drooping eyelids, under or overbite and a muzzle that interrupts breathing.

The assessment – which is currently voluntary but expected to become law within five years – aims to drive out breeds with these sorts of exaggerated attributes.

It comes after studies have shown animals of these varieties can sometimes suffer pain, discomfort and frustration from birth.

But critics have cautioned the new criteria will see some 67 of the most popular types of dog in the UK automatically dubbed unhealthy, according to The Times.

This includes widely adored breeds like dachshunds, shih tzus and Scottish terriers – and even the late Queen’s beloved Welsh corgis….

And once Muslims are in control, all breeds will be eliminated from the UK. 


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Kosher Restaurant in Paris Suffers a Third Acid Attack


Do Jews have a future in France? This is what the Jews of France are discussing, with ever greater anxiety after the wave of antisemitic incidents that have surged since the war in Gaza began. A majority of them — 52% — say they are contemplating leaving France, and making aliyah to Israel.

There are 550,000 Jews in France, more than in any country save Israel and the United States. They are economically secure, with many in the medical and legal professions, in academia, in journalism, and in business. But they do not feel secure. Jewish boys and men no longer wear their kippahs in public, Jewish women don’t wear their necklaces with Star of David pendants. They know how often Jews have been attacked in public for being Jews — attacked not by the traditional antisemites of the right, but by the new carriers of antisemitism, the Muslims of France, who have brought with them in their mental baggage a deep animosity, even a murderous hatred, of Jews.

Jews are well aware of all the Muslim violence visited on Jews. There was the kidnapping, torture, and murder of Ilan Halimi by a Muslim gang, whose members were sure a stiff ransom would be paid because they were convinced that “all Jews are rich.” Halimi was not rich; he made his modest living by working in a cell phone store. There was the beating and defenestration, of 65-year-old Sarah Halimi by a Muslim neighbor, Kobili Traoré. There was the torture, and then setting on fire, of 84-year-old Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, murdered by a Muslim whom she had known, and befriended, since his childhood. There were the four Jewish shoppers at the Hyper Cacher — a kosher supermarket at the Porte de Vincennes — murdered by Muslim Amedy Coulibaly. There were the murders, just outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, of 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, his two small sons Aryeh, aged six, and Gavriel, aged three, and eight-year-old Myriam Monsonego, daughter of the school’s principal, by a Muslim fanatic, Mohammed Merah.

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The antisemitic cabal of Muslims and leftists in France who are hellbent on causing every kind of damage to Jews, by attacking synagogues, Jewish schools, and Jewish-owned businesses, have not overlooked kosher restaurants. For the third time, they have struck the kosher restaurant Kokoriko (the name is the French version of “cock-a-doodle-doo”), spraying acid in the middle of the night over tables and table settings. All of the plates and silverware have now been made irredeemably unfit for human use. In addition to the cost of replacing them, many of the dining tables will have to be replaced because of their acid-scarred appearance. Who knows how long the restaurant will have to remain closed while it is being thoroughly cleaned? And how many of its customers may be uneasy about how thorough such a cleaning can be, and take their custom — reluctantly of course but understandably — elsewhere?

The war against the Jews continues Ã  tous azimuts in France. Spray-painting of antisemitic messages on synagogue walls, vandalism of Jewish schools, Jews attacked on the street “by people of North African background,” group attacks on isolated Hasidic men and boys, the smashing of cars owned by Jews, boycotts of Jewish businesses and — not to be overlooked — attacks on kosher restaurants such as Kokoriko. It was on August 9, 1982 that the first attack on a kosher restaurant in Paris took place. A group of terrorists belonging to Abu Nidal’s Black September threw a grenade into the famous Chez Jo Goldenberg’s, a prominent delicatessen on rue des Rosiers in the Marais district, and then sprayed the dining room with gunfire. The assault resulted in six deaths and 22 injuries, making it one of the deadliest antisemitic attacks in France since World War II. None of the attackers was charged.

Now imagine that you are a visitor to Paris. Would you go to the Kokoriko kosher restaurant once it has been cleaned up, as a sign of solidarity with the Jews of Paris against their tormentors? Or would you hesitate, and in the end decide not to go, given the non-trivial possibility that the restaurant might be attacked again? How much business do you think Kokoriko has lost because of understandable anxiety over that terror attack, never to be regained?

Each antisemitic attack, like that which just took place against Kokoriko, increases the anxiety of French Jews. And more of them now ask themselves, as the Muslim population inexorably rises, what will the country be like for them in five years? In ten? Do the Jews of France have a future in France?

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Saturday, March 22, 2025

Bits and Bites from Around the World > Woman drowns mini-schnauzer in airport bathroom; Bats takeover N.B. high school

 

Florida woman drowned her dog in

Orlando airport bathroom




Florida woman has been accused of drowning her dog in an airport bathroom after she learned she could not take it on a flight with her.

The investigation into the death of the 9-year-old miniature schnauzer started when a janitor found the dog in a garbage bag in a bathroom stall at Orlando International Airport.

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In an arrest affidavit, the Orlando Police Department wrote that 57-year-old Alison Lawrence arrived at the airport on Dec. 16, 2024, with her dog, Tywinn, for a flight to Colombia.

The affidavit claims that Lawrence was denied boarding at her gate due to improper travel paperwork for her pet. Police allege she then took the dog to a nearby bathroom and drowned it in a toilet.

A woman who was working at the time told police she saw a woman, later identified as Lawrence, sitting on the bathroom floor of a stall, cleaning up a large amount of water and dog food.

The employee said she had to tend to an emergency elsewhere, and when she returned, she saw Lawrence exit the stall and leave with a purse and suitcase.

That’s when the employee removed the trash bag from the canister and found the dog, the affidavit says.

The dog’s tags had Lawrence’s name and contact information on it, police said.

According to police, surveillance footage captured Lawrence entering the airport with her dog, and later exiting the bathroom without the dog and then later seen at her gate.

Authorities said the woman had been told she could not bring her dog aboard because she did not have the proper paperwork. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dogs travelling from the U.S. to Colombia must be accompanied by a veterinarian-issued health certificate and a rabies vaccination certificate.

The dog was identified by its implanted microchip and a necropsy determined that Tywinn had been drowned. U.S. Customs and Border Protection also confirmed to detectives that the woman had boarded a flight to Bogota, Colombia, and then flew to Ecuador.

Lawrence was taken into custody Tuesday in Lake County, Fla., and charged with aggravated animal cruelty, a third-degree felony.

She’s since posted a US$5,000 bond, police confirmed.

Animal cruelty charges in Florida can result in up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

— With files from The Associated Press



Bats take over this New Brunswick school.

Some students say they were even chased





Some New Brunswick students have been literally dodging bats — the flying creatures — while their high school deals with an infestation.


More than two dozen of the winged animals have been found inside Tobique Valley High School’s walls in Plaster Rock, N.B.

Grade 7 student Teagan O’Neil-Gamblin said he first spotted a bat last Friday, after a classmate came running into the classroom to escape.

“I went to the bathroom right when she came in, and I saw (the bat) in the corner of the hallway, and it was like upside down, sleeping-looking almost,” he said.

His mother, Crystal O’Neil, said another parent reached out to her and reported that her child was “chased down the hallway on Friday.”

“As a result, these sonar machines were turned on Friday and it kind of woke the bats out of hibernation,” said O’Neil.

“And it made them a little bit crazy. And then the building’s closed all weekend.”

By Monday, word was spreading about the bats.

“We went to first period and an announcement came that we needed to shut our doors because bats are roaming around.,” O’Neil-Gamblin said.

“We had to shut our doors throughout the whole entire day.”

He said at that point, staff told students 10 bats had been found.

By Tuesday, nerves were on end.

“Tuesday I was really hoping there was no school, but then there was school,” he said  “A teacher came here and told us that the issue was gone. And if we have any questions to ask, then sort of talk about it in the hallways and stuff.”

His mother said students were told to stay inside classrooms on Thursday again, however, after yet another student was chased by a bat.

“I’m grateful that nobody’s been bit. But I think it’s only going to be a matter of time before somebody is going to be bit,” she said.

“Bats are known for many, many diseases. And it’s just not something I want my children to be touching or involved in in any way.”

She’s also concerned about air quality. Parents have heard there is guano, or bat feces, in the school’s attic.

“The ventilation is a huge, huge concern that most parents have,” she said.

“They’re concerned with these bats being awake — if they do have for diseases, if rabies is a problem, they’re concerned that children will be bit.”

In an emailed statement, Anglophone School District West confirmed about 28 bats have been removed.

“Many were found in areas away from the school population. We have engaged with third party companies to inspect and assess for the presence of guano and to provide abatement solutions to prevent future issues,” wrote spokesperson Paul MacIntosh.

MacIntosh also said the attic space has no impact on the school’s ventilation.

Meanwhile, the New Brunswick Teachers’ Federation told Global News it will “remain vigilant in monitoring the school district’s response” and said it is the employer’s “obligation” to protect the health and safety of all.

O’Neil said she and other parents are advocating for the school to be shut down and the problem properly dealt with.

She has two children who attend the school and don’t want to miss classes because the workload in high school is so demanding, but she’s worried about their concentration levels and health.

“Nobody is learning any math or English in the building when all this is going on, so it’s best to just shut it down, clean it up, and then everybody’s minds will be at ease and they can concentrate better in the building,” she said.



Saturday, January 18, 2025

Bits and Bites from Around the World > Culling street dogs in Morocco, by the millions; Pygmy Owl survives hit by car in central B.C.

 

Three MILLION dogs to be killed in Morocco ahead of the FIFA World Cup in a‘brutal clean-up of the streets'

by Taryn Pedlar, Daily Mail, January 14, 2025:

A top conservationist has condemned Morocco and urged FIFA to take action over the slaughter of three million street dogs ahead of the 2030 World Cup.

Campaigners claim that the animals could be killed in a brutal ‘clean-up’ operation to make cities more presentable to visiting football fans.

Reports suggest thousands of stray dogs have already been massacred in venues across the North African nation, with fears the killings are escalating.

Jane Goodall, a prominent animal rights campaigner, has now written to the international football association demanding immediate action, accusing the organisation of turning a blind eye to what she calls ‘a horrific act of barbarity’.

In the letter addressed to FIFA’s Secretary General Mattias Grafström, Goodall said she was left appalled to see that Moroccan authorities were engaging in the large-scale killings – an initiative which allegedly stopped in August 2024.

‘I am equally appalled to learn from the IAWPC – International Animal Coalition that you have been presented with detailed dossiers documenting these horrific acts, most of which are conducted in the most brutal and cruel fashion imaginable, and yet appear to have ignored them,’ she continued.

The animal rights activist then questioned how football fans around the world would react if they knew of the brutality the helpless animals were facing in the run up to the games….


 


'Tiny but tough,' Pygmy Owl survives

being hit by car in Cariboo


A Northern Pygmy Owl survived being hit by a car thanks to a local birder


A Northern Pygmy Owl proved its toughness earlier this month after getting hit by a car on Highway 97 in early January.

The incident occurred around Jan. 8 near the turnoff to Canim Hendrix Road while local wildlife photographer Murray Zelt was out photographing the diminutive predator. Zelt said he saw the accident happen in real-time and was horrified. Springing into action Zelt dashed onto the highway to retrieve what he thought was the owl's corpse only to be surprised when it started showing signs of life. 

"I ran out and picked it up with my bare hands and took it back to my car. I was literally in tears, I love watching these beautiful creatures," Zelt said. "I was kind of praying, basically, don't let it die but its little feet and talons were still quivering so I knew there was still a pulse and a chance." 

Zelt has been photographing wildlife for several years now since his forced retirement after the Chasm Sawmill closed down in 2019. He said he has always enjoyed being out in nature to camp and fish, so taking photos of wildlife and his adventures was a natural fit. 

One of his favourite subjects to take pictures of includes the 17 different species of owls that make B.C. their home. This winter he said he has been seeing a lot more owls than usual and noticed a Northern Pygmy Owl hunting near Highway 97 on Jan. 7. After photographing it he decided to return the next day to get some more photos. 

"This year has been an incredible year for the owls for whatever reason, because of the mild winter," Zelt remarked. "It's pretty neat to see them 'cause they're not that common, normally." 

When he returned Zelt said it was late in the afternoon and he watched the owl hop from power line to power line peering down into the ditches. Zelt remarked the Northern Pygmy Owl was hunting for voles, one of its primary food sources. Suddenly Zelt said he saw it dart down into the snow and then after a few seconds come up with a vole in its talons. 

"It burst out of the snow and this vole was as big as the owl, almost the exact same size, it was incredible. Instead of flying back up onto the powerline or a nearby branch of a tree or shrub it darted across the highway around shoulder height," Zelt said. "I could see it unfold right in front of my eyes as this car, going about 90 clicks, nails it dead on the and owl bounced on the road. I literally yelled 'oh no!"

Another vehicle passed over the top of the owl before Zelt was able to retrieve it from the road. At first, Zelt thought the owl's claws twitching were its death spasms but after getting into his car, intending to take it home for a burial, he noticed the owl trying to stand up, much to his shock. 

Worried the owl would start trying to fly in his car, Zelt grabbed a cloth grocery bag and picked the owl up to put it inside. When he grabbed it he said it sunk his talons into his finger, another encouraging sign.

"It didn't feel good, let me tell you. There were three of them all embedding into my finger so I had to pry them one at a time with my other hand. Didn't draw blood but I thought 'gee, it's got some life, it's got some strength'."

After driving to his home in Lac La Hache, Zelt put the owl in a shoe box and called up the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (OWL). A few years ago Zelt said he took care of a Great Horned Owl who had also been hit by his nephew, so he has contacts with OWL. They told him to keep the owl for observation overnight and if it was able to fly in his home with no discernable injuries he should be alright to release it back into the wild. 

"He said you would be surprised by how tough these little guys are. Sometimes they can really take a licking and keep on ticking," Zelt remarked. "That evening I went to check on it and it was looking, turning its head around and seemed very alert. I'm thinking this is a miracle and when I went to close the box it flew right over the top of my shoulder and landed on top of my tennis racket." 

Zelt said he nicknamed the owl TBT after that, short for Tiny But Tough, and made plans to release it the next day. Calling up a wildlife photographer friend from Canim Lake, named Mernie Senchuk, to help in the release the two headed out to the general area where he found the owl, though they made sure to stay well away from the highway. 

"I opened the box and pulled it out and it literally sat on my hand for about five seconds. It was almost like a thank you or farewell and then it just flew off really strong and far off into the bushes," Zelt remarked. "We were unbelievably impressed it was back where it belonged. It really seems like a miracle, I have no idea how it survived that impact. It was a beautiful ending, for sure." 

Over the last few days since releasing TBT, Zelt said he's seen a Northern Pygmy Owl near the same area and he believes it is now back to its usual "risky business." While he's happy with the outcome, Zelt said this story illustrates the importance of keeping an eye out for owls around dawn and dusk near roads. Senchuk herself told him driving back from the release she had to slam on the brakes when another pygmy owl flew out in front of her. 

"(People) should be aware when they're driving near dawn and dusk there are a lot of owls this year. Quite a few people I connect with on social media or birding sites are all saying the same thing. I think it's the low snow load we have combined with the low weather. They truly are everywhere this year and we need to be a little extra cautious and give them their space."