Horses' throats slit at Zim university (td)(td)(td)

Horses' throats slit at Zim university
2012-09-05 22:28

Harare - An independent animal welfare group said on Wednesday it is filing cruelty charges against the veterinary teaching department at Zimbabwe's main university after three emaciated, ailing and distressed horses were killed using an axe and a knife.

The Veterinarians for Animal Welfare organisation said the heavily indebted University of Zimbabwe lacked expertise, equipment and drugs to put down the animals humanely. The horses were taken to a zoo outside Harare last month where their carcasses were fed to lions.

It said a stun gun failed to knock out the horses and they were struck on the head with the blunt edge of a heavy farm axe. They were not dead - their eyelids were still fluttering - when their throats were cut, the group said. Cruelty charges carry the penalty of a fine.

Six horses were first brought to the university facility from a bankrupt farm south of the capital, the veterinarians said in statement. Three were taken away by the national police horseback unit but officers said they could not afford to look after all six.

The three surviving horses are well groomed and cared for and recently were used to give joy rides to children at the mounted police exhibits at the Harare agricultural exposition in the last week of August, the animal rights group said.

The veterinarians group said on Wednesday the three horses at the university suffered because the animal department could not supply enough clean bedding, hay, food and water for the horses. Their hooves were rotting in dirty stables.

"All body bones were prominent," the group said.

It said it offered to "euthanase" the animals but authorities accused its inspectors of interfering at the institution where President Robert Mugabe is chancellor, or the titular head of all academic studies, though he is not in charge of running of the campus of more than 8 000 students.

Staggered

An autopsy of one of the horse's skulls showed the stun gun had been fired nearer the eyes and nose than at the upper brain area where it would have been effective.

The weakened stallion then "staggered several metre's before crashing into the side of a trailer". After five more minutes, he was hit on the head with the back of an axe, the group's animal welfare inspectors reported.

Earlier this year, the state university in Harare, the nation's highest seat of learning, launched an appeal for $10m in donor funds to repair its dilapidated campus infrastructure and restore water and power supplies after years of outages in the troubled economy.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, delivering a guest lecture entitled "African universities as agents for sustainable development" on Wednesday, said the university should not be blamed for its failures because of funding shortages. He said the state should take more steps to bail it out.

"The government can't keep saying it doesn't have money. It means that the system of government is not working well," he told a symposium on the university's intellectual and research achievements.

Mugabe is in a shaky coalition with the former opposition of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai whose party controls the finance ministry and the education budget.

barbarians.

Bastards

Sick people that should be imprisoned:-

NASHVILLE – Inside a West Tennessee barn, the horses are whipped and beaten. Trainers drag them by their heads. Some are kicked. Chemicals are dripped on their ankles which are then bound tightly with plastic wrap.
It involves using chemicals on the horses' ankles as a way to force them, because of pain, to lift their legs higher when they walk. The walk, known as the "Big Lick," is prized in Walking Horse competitions.
PepsiCo quickly moved to withdraw its sponsorship of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration as a result of the video, a spokesman confirmed Thursday. The video first aired Wednesday on ABC News' Nightline. The walking horse show runs this year from Aug. 22 to Sept. 1 in Shelbyville, Tenn.
The celebration's CEO, Doyle Meadows, issued a statement Thursday saying he hopes PepsiCo one day returns as a sponsor. "The celebration has worked extremely hard over recent years to gain the trust of our corporate partners, and we would do nothing to destroy that relationship," Meadows said.
Soring has been illegal under the federal Horse Protection Act since 1970. But Keith Dane, director of equine protection for the Humane Society, said it has "continued unabated for the past 42 years."
The video, shot last year by an undercover humane society investigator, shows trainers at a Collierville, Tenn., farm applying the chemicals to the horses.

These type of people should receive the same treatment, farking brainless cowards.

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sometimes people living in Africa need to be reminded that the rulers families still come from very dark ages enough said

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Animal cruelty is not restricted to Africa Unhappy

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100perc , animal rescue on the channel animal planet have some horrific cases in the US

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Errr.. Yes... Titch... But not at the universities????

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Role of Animal Welfare Groups
It is perhaps in the United States that animal welfare groups are the most prominent and play the largest roles. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is a well-known and extremely active group that campaigns for animal rights in many areas, which includes animal testing as well as the promotion of vegetarianism and anti-fur campaigns. In particular, members of PETA sometimes attempt to obtain 'hidden' videos of abuse within government, private or university laboratories in the hopes of exposing cruelty to animals and making an example of the offending research organisation and scientists. PETA is also known to target researchers by threatening them or actively holding protests in front of their property. Indeed, in some instances their actions have resulted in researchers withdrawing from their research. Although PETA targets animal testing across numerous species, they do tend to focus on the use of non-human primates as well as animals such as rabbits that are used for cosmetics and toxicology testing.

... You snapped down on that bait good and solid..

But to reply to your very valid response... Of course university labs should be carefully monitored... But my point would have been that if the €£^# is clever enough to be doing research in a lab then surely he is clever enough to know how to cull an animal?
So in my 'biased colonial western' opinion I would guess a number of things... Including .. Thicknesses infest universities in Zim, and the savagery that is evident in the Zim ruling culture does not give a toss for animals nor possess any sort of ability to enforce, monitor or institute anything that might prevent this sort of cruelty...

imo Bush was as barbaric as Bob M and the savagery that he ruled by leaves a lot to be desired