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Just to bring to attention once again WSPA’s Animals Matter To Me campaign whereby they are asking for signatures to petition for International protection for animals. The full story can be seen by clicking on the above link.
Many animals are suffering all over the world at the hands of humans, for farming, for medicine, for many different reasons.

WSPA are attempting to attract as many signatures as they can, so they can approach governments and make change. Can you help?

Singer Pink and PETA have spoken out about mutilation and unethical treatment of Sheep in Australia. PETA’s campaign Save the Sheep.com details the suffering of Sheep for the farming of wool, and how the Sheep are mutilated by having chunks of skin and flesh ripped away from their bodies and are given no pain relief. PETA have posted a video detailing the practice.

Sheep that do not provide enough wool are transported in horrific conditions and are then slaughtered inhumanely in open air markets.

The campaign is asking consumers to check labels on items of clothing before buying. They urge people who see clothes made from wool either in Australia or containing the Merino wool label to not buy these products.

Many of you will surely know Rick Stein’s dog - Chalky, the lovable Jack Russel who followed his master around everywhere he went, on boats and barges, seaside fishing trips and continental markets, the two were inseparable.

Sadly Chalky passed away on the 13th January 2007 at the age of 17. So loved was he that Tory MP Andrew Pelling has called for a motion to reflect on the “heartache and distress” felt by those at losing a pet, and how they come to be a member of the family like any other member.

Chalky was named after their son had an imaginary white dog with a patch on his head, his owner described him as “an exceptionally good natured dog”, a dog loved by everyone. He was also described by a fisherman local to Rick Stein’s home town as “More famous than Rickey Steinâ€?.

See also: Rick Stein & Chalky

Some may have noticed that the lost cats section went a bit mental this weekend. Apologies if you were trying to access the lost cats section of the site, but whilst we were attempting to transfer the new design onto this section and experienced a few problems.

Hours and lots of hard work later, it is back up and running under the new design, phew! As the site was down, we have been unable to make any updates to this section this weekend, but will aim to get up to speed over the next few days.

Next on the agenda, all those remaining brown pages to be transferred to the new design… eek!

Well the new year is here (Happy New Year!) and so is the new site, well the start of it anyway. Over the next few days the old (slightly brown (yuck!)) site will be gone for good - yahoo!. During this time, especially within the blog, some links will lead you to incomplete and messy pages, so sorry about this, will have it sorted soon. Promise!

The new site will be much more user friendly, much more interesting (we hope) and much more prettier - hooray!

Please bear with us during this time and we aim to have some interesting new content for you in the next few days. If we are unable to find you any interesting content in this time, we will post some pointless and un-interesting content instead. Toodles :)

This video is fantastic. A young boy falls into the gorilla enclosure at a zoo, knocking him unconscious. A large male gorilla goes over to the boy, and protectively watches over him and strokes him, protecting him from the other gorillas.

Gorillas have to be one of my all time favourite animals. They are so intelligent and have so much appeal, such a shame humans have forced them to the brink of extinction. Any Gorilla fans should check out the Going Ape series which is on Animal Planet at the moment, I think it’s Mondays or Tuesdays around 10pm.

Also, check out ITV: Extinct. A campaign attempting to save certain species from extinction, some dangerously close :(.