Two rescue horses and some Nguni cattle!

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Animals don't have voices, but thankfully there are those that stand up and care for them.
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Some of us think that only humans can suffer trauma, but animals can do the same when they suffer severe abuses.

Skinny unto death with broken hooves, mouth ulcers, pests crawling all over and open sores can certainly be very painful and traumatic to bear.
That's why I take my hat off for the rescue organizations. All that the poor animals want is love and should they get love, they will cuddle up to one and eat out of your hand. But of course there will always be the abusers, as in human life as well. Papillon partners with the local Rape Crisis Centre and the abuse that the women suffer, mostly from their partners who are supposed to be their friends, is horrific.
But such is life.

Look at this lovely little pony, healthy now with much to eat.
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They were carted in this dual horse box to a flea market where we saw them. The NPO that looks after them, was trying to raise donations so that they can care for the animals.
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And here below is the evidence that animals can also be traumatised.
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Now let me show you some beautiful animals that are properly managed and cared for.
A change of scenery, as we went to a nearby farm.
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We entered a little forest to get closer to the cattle.
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Now how is this below for a properly cared for Nguni cow?
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I also loved the way that the cows welcome their Egret bird tick cleaners.
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The vineyards in the background made for a lovely and special photo here.
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Love is something that we all strive for in this life and it is so sad to see animals and people going without. Easy to dispense but equally easy to withhold. Millions of songs, and poems, were sung and written about the topic of love, but it is becoming scarcer by the day to find.
One only has to look at the news that donkeys are slaughtered alive for their skins, to be sold as profit, to see the way that greed rules in this life. Apparently, the donkey skins are sought after to make handbags and such things. Never mind that it costs the donkey its life, and unimaginable pain and trauma. There is a rule, love all others as you love yourself. But so many avoid this rule, and eventually it makes their lives bitter.
Love can change everything.

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.

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I did not know that they use donkeys for their hides! Is there a reason for this? Accessibility? Cheaper than a cow? That is just horrific, skinning them alive. My brain cannot process that kind of cruelty. :(

It is so good to see animals being rescued like that, what a difference a caring person makes in their life. I am always on the lookout for neglect, another type of abuse that kills, but, many times, not purposely. Sometimes it is though.

Just like with humans, animals respond to love, especially freely given. I think animals have a sixth sense that tells them who is good and who will harm them.

Thank you for the beautiful pictures of the countryside. Such a lovely place.

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Oh yes, we have read some horrible things about the donkey hide trade Lady Denise. Manoy other animals such as the Rhinos are also killed for their horns to be cut off by poachers. A magnificent creature to killed only for its horn that consists of compressed hairs and have no medicinal value whatsoever. Pure cruelty and madness.

I know your heart and at times it is indeed tough. Wherever we sit for coffee in the open and there is a dog about, it will come to me for a smell and a rub !LOLZ

My mom used to say that whenever an animal doesn't like a person, on has to be careful of that person. And a few times I have found it to be true. So yes, animals definitely have that sixth sense.

Only my pleasure to share!

Blessings and thank you for the kind tipu and the vote.
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why skin of donkey is expensive? never heard of it

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They use the skin to make things like bags, sandals and other commodities.

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maybe animals don't have a voice but they have feelings as long as they feel your love for them everything will be alright

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Oh yes, love can fix many things in this world and the animals are showing all of us how to appreciate and give our love.

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I wish we all think the way you do. Animals deserve love too. I am not exempt in my lack of love. Maybe I haven't really connected with what really matters

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You make an animal post and I have almost killed one today: suddenly a squirrel crossed the street from the left. I slammed on the brakes, the van skidded a bit on the wet road, but then luckily I saw the uninjured squirrel jump onto the embankment on the right 😀

People can call for help, but animals can't. They rely on the people who often don't care if they are hungry or unhappy. Fortunately there are such people who help the endangered or just unloved old animals. It is as you say, my friend, love should rule the world, not money or greed.

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Good afternoon Hannes.

Busy with the doctors the whole morning and didn't have the chance to reply sooner.

Now that's one thing that we hate to see. Roadkill. Thankfully you avoided any harm to the squirrel and I know your heart. Some people here deliberately drive over them, and it just shows you how different we all are 😥

Some very sad cases here and you will not believe what people can do to their animals. Luckily we have law enforcement agencies that send their inspectors around in response to complaints and the perpetrators land up in court facing heavy fines if they are found guilty. The animals are then removed and placed at places that care, such as the lovely two horses in this post.
So glad to support them 😊 !LOLZ

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

never mind, but I hope to hear good news from you soon, my friend 😊

Well, my camera was on the passengers seat before I slammed the brakes. After I stopped and the squirrel was safe, I found it on the floor ... fortunately, it still works fine 😀 !LOLZ
I bet if someone had been behind me he would have rear ended my car, but when I can avoid to kill an innocent life, I will certainly do it.

I don't think that fines will stop such behaviour. They should be locked up just as if they had hurt humans.

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Good afternoon Hannes,

Nothing yet my friend and thank you for the care.

Thank goodness that they make cameras a bit tougher these days, as I have also dropped my camera a few times now. At least you dropped yours for a good cause and that squirrel is happy and alive 😊 !LOLZ
The person behind you would be guilty of not following you at a prescribed distance and he will be in more trouble for rear ending a senior police officer that had to stop for an emergency. Then the investigating officer will find fault with his brakes and the fact that he didn't concentrate on the road.
So the judge will ban him from driving for 6 years, he would have to repair your car and he will get a huge fine. I think that's how it works in the mountain goat's country 🤣🤣🤣

They are desperate people because they have no work, but the state should follow the money and arrest those that pay them.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

sorry for my late reply, but after my nightshift I have been a little bite more tired than usual and so I didn't turn the computer on 😴

I hate waiting as you know and waiting for good news is even worse. I really hope that you will tell me great news soon 🙏

A few months ago, when I was in a little gorge Slovenia, I forgot to hold the camera when I loosened the screw of the camera mounting plate on the tripod. The camera fell on the rocky ground and luckily a rock stopped it before it could fall about 10 meters down into the river. There's a little scratch on the camera body but it still works completely fine and the 100-400mm camera lens is also ok as if nothing happened.
So, my reply is: yes, they make very tough cameras these days 😀 and yes, I would at least have saved a life, even if the camera had been dead 😁 !LOLZ

Here, if you rear end a car it's almost always your fault. So this wouldn't have been a problem.

True, the real criminals are behind those people and they should be locked up forever.

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Good afternoon Hannes,

Not to worry, as I know about your situation with the shifts.

The doctor is now trying to get me into a government hospital in the big city in order for them to do the scan. But I heard some bad news yesterday from a friend who had the scan. Apparently they inject one with a radio active ink and then a machine scans the body to search for red cell blockages and leakages.
The leakages show up in yellow colors on the scan.
He warned me that the ink creates kidney troubles afterwards and that's all that I need now 😮

Ach no, I am not so clumsy, as I treat my camera with great care. I only hook the strap with my foot when I type and the camera falls off the desk onto the soft floor 🤣
You were lucky that the camera didn't fall into the river 10 meters down, as then you would have had a difficult climb down to go and search for it. I can see you in my mind's eye forlornly searching in the cold water for the camera. Lucky also that nothing serious broke on the camera.
Mountain goat luck is what I call it 😜 !LOLZ

The same here, but people like to take chances and it's dangerous on our roads.

Totally agreed with you!

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

thanks, I knew you understand me and my sleepiness 😴

Hm, I think I can't say much more than that I hope you make your decision wisely. Maybe you should do a research for this scan and the radio active ink yourself because what happened to your friend might not happen to you too.

Yep, I was lucky, because there wouldn't have been a way down to the river and the camera would have been gone with all photos I had made that day. I saw it falling but I couldn't move and I have no idea why I didn't hold it while I loosened the screw because I always take care ... well, most times to be honest 😂 !LOLZ

I don't have a camera strap, so that wouldn't be a problem. You're lucky too that the floor below your desk is soft - a thick carpet, I suppose 😀

People here don't keep enough distance too, so such accidents happen quite often too.

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Good afternoon Hannes,

Hahaha, just a bit of a tease.

We are indeed researching the scan, as I am tired of the hold ups my friend. I have to struggle to concentrate, and my memory is now worse than it ever was before.

You really sound just like me here. If that camera was gone you would be heartsore for a few days and then you will get another one and you will treat it like a baby. Until it gets old, then it will be the rough and tumble again. I think that cameras warn us to take care of them, by having near accidents 🤣 !LOLZ

Ha, my floor is hard, as it is a concrete floor covered with thin panels of artificial wooden flooring 😉

Oh yes, I hate it when I see a car in my rear view driving very close to me. Stupid methinks.

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

it's time that the doctors get something done - you're too patient, my friend, but I guess also these things work different in South Africa 😥

Oh yes, while I was walking down to get the camera I already thought of which new camera I would buy ... and where I could take the money from 🤣 !LOLZ
My camera has a few scratches and I think that makes it look even better - they show that the camera is used and not just to show that I have an expensive camera 😉

I have to admit that when someone drives toooo slow In the left lane (fast lane) of the Autobahn I drive quite close to that car too until he realizes how stupid he is 😅

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Good morning Hannes,

Here's the latest news. I will get another iron transfusion in the meantime, as my doctor was told that the nuclear radio scan cannot show up small internal blood leaks.
So now he is booking a pill with a micro camera inside the pill for me to swallow. I think that it sounds like science fiction, but we will see.

Hahaha, your camera just decided to give you a message to take better care of it, or else it will cost you a heap of money. So be grateful and thank it for message. You can even give it a kiss 🤣 !LOLZ
Ah! Scratches and dents on a camera are always heartsore when it happens, but you are right, as it shows that it has really been used. My old SX60 is so banged up that I couldn't even trade it in.
So it is sitting in a place of honor here in my cupboard ❤️

Now I have never done that and I see people even flash their lights behind a slow car. I just wait for a gap to overtake as the drive must have a reason for driving slow in the fast lane. The funny thing here is that everyone heads instantly for the fast lane when they get onto the highway here, so it is easier to drive in the slow lane 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

who is inside the pill operating the camera? 😉 !LOLZ
That really sounds like science fiction but I guess it works and hopefully the camera takes the right video on the right places 🙏

Oh yes, since then I double check if I hold it safely 😂
I don't think I would ever sell my camera but rather keep it until I have the money for a new one, what probably will not happen in the near future, and even then I might still keep it.

The drivers here who drive slow in the fast lane have only one reason: they are stubborn or just not aware that here you have to use the most right lane.
I know such people who don't even look when they enter the Autobahn and immediately change to the fast lane.

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Good afternoon Hannes,

I will ask my doctor, but I am almost sure that it would be one of the hospital janitors that they have shrunk with the hospital's micro shrinking machine 🤣 !LOLZ
They are very advanced here in the medical fields, as since Dr. Barnard did the world's first heart transplant, the scientists have continued with new developments. South Africa was also the first to identify the contents of the Covid 19 germ. I think that I prefer the pill camera instead of that radioactive scan and yes, we pray that it will be the solution 🙏

I am glad that you have taken note of your camera's message my friend 😉
Sell your old camera? Never, as that would erase all of the memories that you have taken with it.
My old camera is in here somewhere.

Yep, they are stubborn and spiteful as they think that they own the road. That heading for the fast line immediately is also a curse here, as a trail of fast cars can sit behind a guy in pram (we call slow cars prams here) who thinks that his car is fast 🤣

Cheers and thanks.

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Good morning Zac,

I wanted to let you know that I have not gone offline again 😉 !LOLZ
I was just too busy and too lazy to go online, to be honest, but I will do it tonight if I don't get home too late, because today's going to be a stressful Monday.

Have a great day my friend ☺️

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Hahaha, thanks for saving me worries Hannes 😜 !LOLZ

Another worry now, as this morning I awoke with excruciating pain in my right hip and my leg. Went to the Chiropractors and they tortured the sore muscle, telling me that it is a pinched nerve in my back.
What a wonderful way to start the day 😊

Hope your day was better than mine 😊

I think that the lazy part was more prominent 😉

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Good evening Zac,

now I'm at home and have turned my computer on for the replies 😀

It was another extremely busy day and there's still so much work left for the next days - this week will go so fast 😅 !LOLZ

I do really hope that the little man in the pill takes the right photos and the doctors see that the solution to cure the bleedings is just an easy task 🙏😊

Oh, I know this kind of pain - I have had a pinched nerve in my back and the pain was from my left shoulder till the fingers. It was like someone sticking a knife in my arm twisting it on the bone 😨 hopefully the chiropractor can help you.

I wrote about my day in the beginning - I didn't have any pain, but the work was painful 😅

Yep, the lazy part is always the winner 😉

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Good evening Hannes,

Lucky you to get so much sleep, as I had only 4 hours of sleep last night.

Time flies my friend when one is kept constantly busy and the van is waiting for your retirement, so stay busy and leave the sleeping to me 🤣 !LOLZ

Well that little man in the pill will not smell too good when he gets home, and I feel sorry for his wife that has to smell him every day 😥

I could scarcely walk yesterday and you are right, as it is like sticking a sharp knife in the bone. So I am tired and let's hope that I can get better sleep tonight 😟

Hahaha, work is certainly painful especially when one starts to think that it will never be completed 😉

Lazy days will soon arrive and you just keep on hanging in there my friend 😊

Cheers and thanks.

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Good evening Zac,

I feel with you, my friend, I almost didn't sleep at all when I had this pain in my neck and arm. I would love to give you some of my sleeping time, believe me 😀

Oh, I didn't think of the smell and that his poor wife smells him every day when he gets home from work 👃 !LOLZ

I hope that the chiropractor could already help you and you're feeling better today 🙏😊

My son's car (the Golf) is broken the clutch doesn't work anymore. Luckily it happened on a parking lot not far from home, so a tow truck towed him home and now we are waiting for our friend to have a look at it. Hopefully it's not too bad.

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Greeted in the previous reply my friend 😉

Sunday night it started with a sore right hip and on Monday morning I couldn't walk without severe pain in my right leg. Went to a Biokinetic center and it was pure torture as they worked on the leg muscles. Sadly they couldn't fix it and so it worsened on Tuesday and Wednesday. A Chemist gave me a Voltaren injection and it helped for 6 hours of the day. Then it was back to the pain again and today I saw a doctor who gave me some new medicines to take tonight. Hopefully it works as my brain is foggy and I shake due to the lack of sleep. I simply cannot concentrate, and my thoughts are all over the place.
I sound like the walking wounded, as first the critical low iron count and now the pinched nerve !LOLZ

The doctor is trying to arrange a way for me to have the camera pill procedure done at a government hospital, but they have long waiting lists and he said that I could wait for months before it's my turn.
The thing is that my eldest sister had a cyst on her ovary and they not only sent her from hospital to hospital, but she was also put on a waiting list. Sadly she died before they could do the operation to remove the cyst last year.

Ach! Maybe the clutch plate is gone and they will have to put a new one in. Not a nice job as the oil has to be drained through the sump and then clutch section of the engine has to be dismantled. I did my own clutch plate replacement on my Ford that I had many years ago. So I hope that it is not the clutch plate.

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Oh, my friend, I'm afraid there's nothing I can say that would be able to make you feel better. The pain is too hard and that's not fair.
Aren't there any exercises you can make like I had to do when my neck hurt?

I wished I would know a way to get you in front of the waiting list, but it would be the same here in Austria.
When I had my neck pain my doctor sent me to the hospital for a magnetic resonance imaging but there I would have had to wait for weeks. So I went to a private clinic where I got an appointment right the next day. The MRI at the hospital would have been free but the private clinic cost some money that I didn't get back from my insurance company. But it wasn't that much money and even if it had been more, painfully waiting for weeks would have hurt me more than making an unexpected expense.

It's the "clutch master cylinder" if that's the right translation of that thing. Our friend has already ordered that part and hopefully next week my son will have his car back because he doesn't like to drive my wife's Beetle 😉 !LOLZ

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I explained my situation now in the previous reply and thank you for the care my friend 🙏
The doctor showed me some exercises that I do now at home and we will see if it will help, after I don't have to take the new pills anymore. The one pill is for 5 days and the other one is for 7 days.

It is the same mess here as by the time that I might get done, it could be in the month of November.
That's why I also go the private route, but it is very expensive.
You know all about the pain of a pinched nerve even though yours was in a different body part. That pain is excruciating and now I have finally found some relief.
2 little pills at night was all that it took to banish the pain.

Ah! I am glad that it is not a worn out clutch plate and the master cylinder is much easier to replace.
So your son will just have to drive around blushing when people look at him in the beetle for another few days 🤣 !LOLZ

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These must be quite strong pills when they last so many days, and I hope the exercises work so you don't need them anymore.

The private route is always expensive and I'm glad that we haven't had to go it very often in the past.

As said in the other reply, he might get his car back tonight and don't need to sit in the Beetle anymore 😀

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No, no, they don't last that long. I have to take one of the pills every day for 5 days and one of the other pills every day for 7 days. The trouble is that I have to drink the pills on top of the other pills every day, so I am a walking chemist.

It is the co-payments of the private route that is way too expensive for us and that's why we are very careful in our dealings with the private sector.

As I said in my previous reply, by now your son is back in his own car 😊

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Oh, now I understand 😀
I know you're taking a lot of pills and hope the mixture of chemicals doesn't make it all worse.

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Cool and yes, the tablets are zombie stuff 😉

Cheers and thanks.

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👉🧟👈 !LOLZ

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It would be a dream to have an animal sanctuary. I wish I could rescue everyone. The scene of the cows with the egrets is extra heartwarming for me.

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I don't understand what happened, as I answered this reply?
In any case be that as it may, I agree with you that it would be great to have an animal sanctuary.
I love to see the partnership between the cattle and the birds and glad that you found it heartwarming.
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It's beautiful to see how the cows are treated there :) You don't have any of those huge commercial places where they can't even turn around?

I'm glad people are there to rescue the horses, can anything be done for the donkeys?

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Thank you and yes, they are well looked after. They also have miles of open space in which to wander around and to feed.

Oh yes, those rescue people are real angels. It is all talk as usual about the donkeys. but we have not seen any action to stop it. Someone might be getting paid backdoor again 😥

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Can't they at least enforce that they put them out of their misery before skinning? There's no benefit to the way they're doing it... Ideally the killing would stop, but at least prevent unnecessary suffering 😢

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Oh yes, some are killed with hammer blows to the head. If you Google "donkey killings in south africa" you will see what I mean.
At first I thought that the skins were used for leather crafts, such as shoes and handbags, but not so, as the skins are used in China for medicinal purposes. Terrible!

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Awful, and not something I want to see :( But I do hope that things get better soon.

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Oh yeah. heartbreaking my friend. We are all hoping for big improvements.

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God bless animal rescuers! If more people would have the soul of animals, this world would be a better place for sure! ❤️

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Totally agreed and the world is a bad place to live my friend.
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There is a rule, love all others as you love yourself.

My work with and study of trauma and the like has shown me that the only reason humans do traumatic things to one another is because they don't love themselves.

When we do know how to be really kind an loving to ourselves we know how to be kind and loving to others, humans and all other creatures.

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So right as we were taught the same thing about trauma. The perpetrators understand love for the self to mean a selfish desire to rule and to destroy all of those that threaten their rule. Such in the case of a "loving" husband killing his wife in front of their little children to show them his rule. Not thinking what those little ones have to go through.

Too few of those that understand love around these days my friend. Sadly too few!

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May we role model what loving behaviour truly looks like to all who are willing to learn, my friend.

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Oh yes, and the willing to learn part is the most important. Compassion and patience work for us, but it is very slow going. Nevertheless, we will not give up.

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🙏 !LUV !ALIVE

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Thank you kindly 😊

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It is terrible the cruelty of some humans. They are not worthy to be on this planet. It is heartbreaking to see abuse to defenceless animals or people.

You mentioned the skinning of donkeys alive. This is like years ago when the buffalo were hunted and skinned alive so the hunters could save a bullet. Unimaginable pain for the animals.

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People are people Lady Jo, some are good and others are bad. Just the way of life and it will always be like this. One cannot make excuses for the bad ones, but one also does not have to endure them.
So yes, it is heartbreaking to see the works of their minds.

And today very few buffaloes are left. It will be the same with the donkeys if these acts of destruction and pain is not stopped in its tracks.

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Cruelty to animals is rampant in this country, judge people of a nation by the way they treat nature.

Snare aware is a group going through all green spaces to clear snares which not only hurt small buck, dogs, cats or anything entering.

Lovely photography of all the animals you were able to see.

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You know it Lady Joan and we see it so often in the news here. Some people are never what they seem as even one of the high ups were arrested for the mistreatment of animals on her farm.

Snares are a real curse and on the farm we often destroyed them. Good that there is a group around that clears them, as the snares can cause a terrible and painful death, or injuries to animals.

Thank you and I am glad that you enjoyed the photos.

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Killing fields let loose once again, we have someone going around after midnight hurting feral cats, recently warned to keep dogs indoors or close, as they are being stolen again.

Clearing snares is ongoing, we not getting into areas we used to a couple of years ago, forever removing snares in bush or fishing line on beach walks, people?

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So sad isn't it? Demented people out there and one has to keep an eye on everything!

Eradicating the life in nature is and will always be ongoing. A few years ago I had to free a Blacksmith Plover's legs that was entangled in fishing line.

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Tiring to say the least with worse to come, not sure where/when this will end.

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And then I have a big struggle to get the scan on top of all this.

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Wicked that animals can be so badly treated. What really gets to me is how people are capable of making a business out of animals, and when the two legged decides that the four legged, feathered or fur creature is no longer of value to humans, they can be abandoned so cruelly. Our neighbours rescued a magnificent race horse. Only six. We met her a couple months after they'd been working with her (and feeding her!) and she was still skinny and skittish. But what a beauty. Makes me so mad that anyone would make their fortune off her but not care for her all her life

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I can see that tis also touches your heart and most people that I know are also terribly upset about it. Our pangolins are disappearing and not only to talk about the rhinos, but the elephants are also in trouble.
Closer to home, pets are being trained to enter into dog fights and they are using puppies for the dogs to kill during the training.
A sad story about the race horse my friend and it is really maddening to see what people are doing to innocent animals.
Most of it is for money of course.

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Money. So selfish

What you may not know is I lived in a game reserve. My first husband was a trails officer. I know better than most what happens out there and that few defend these magnificent animals. One of our friends was suspended and spent 18 months in court - nearly losing - because he was doing his job protecting rhino! And then there's the dog fighting in those rural areas..........

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Yep, greed is a great evil!

So strange, my wife's sister and her first husband were also wildlife officers and they worked with turtles in the Seychelles islands. You definitely know more than others about the bush wars and the heroes that are trying to protect the animals.
Glad that your friend won his case. Yes, in the rural areas and also in the townships. Small skinny guys that are trying to prove their manhood with big aggressive dogs.

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