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If you feel helpless when it comes to animal rights, perhaps you should consider joining a local animal rights group, or if one doesn’t exist, start your own!

One of my favorite times of the month is I attend the local Animal Liberation meetings. It is a great chance to be around like-minded people and think of ideas to help animals. It is amazing how when we all put our heads together we can get things done. Jobs like making placards are so much more fun when you are in a group. You can also do things just for fun, like hold a vegan pot luck, or BBQ, making it a great chance to socialize.

Not only can you organize leaflet drops, stalls and protests as a group. You can also enjoy the company of other animal activists and feel good knowing you are taking action for something you believe in.

If you live in Australia you can check out Animal Liberation and Animals Australia websites to see whether there is already an animal action group in your local area. If you live elsewhere just Google animal rights organizations in your area and see what comes up. You can also contact organizations like PETA to see whether they can put you in touch with a local group.

If there is no group local to you, then you can start your own.

You may wish to contact a large organization such as PETA, so you can use their pamphlets etc for leafleting and join in their action network. The other option is to start your own general group and not affiliate with just one organization. Some people prefer to start a group specific to one area of animal activism. For example, an anti fur group or an anti-vivisection group. This is good for people who feel strongly about these issues, but not so much others.  Read more...

By observing how each animal lived, found mates, located food and protected itself, Native Americans were in a position to define the animal’s specific strengths and weaknesses. For instance, bears hibernated during the winter, therefore it had been said that they possessed the magic of dreams.

They were also formidable foes, therefore Bear Energy was conjointly concerning physical power and strength.It’s fascinating to notice that completely different cultures (not just Native Americans) came up with similar interpretations for all individual animals.Non secular EnergiesNative Americans furthermore different cultures used Shamans to help them connect with the Earth around them, and with the ability of the animals.

Using dreams and visions, these Shamen would connect with the “manitou” of the animals. The manitou of an animal is its primal religious energy- wolfness, deerness, foxness…etc.It had been believed that every soul had a specific manitou (or several) which they were especially attuned to. These were their personal animal totems.They found their totems through vision quests, although generally the totem made themselves known in different ways. For example, if you were attacked by a wild animal, it had been believed that that individual animal totem had chosen you itself.Physical and Religious QualitiesEvery animal that exists has many qualities, both physical and spiritual. The qualities in your personal Animal Totems are qualities that you may connect with, feel a deep affinity towards, or simply want more of in your life.Here are some temporary descriptions of the qualities of some animals. Browse carefully. One amongst them just would possibly be one among your Animal Totems.Skunk: Self-confidence, shallowness, self-respect, creative energy, taking note of intuition and inner knowingsAlligator: Power to survive, keeper of ancient knowledge, clairvoyanceCat: Magic, mystery, curiosity, independence, healing, unpredictability, inner balance, moving through fearsFrog: Seeing in all directions, physical and emotional cleansing, metamorphosis, inventive powerShark: Peace, solitude, emotional transformation, power of protectionYour Animal Totems instruct and protect you throughout your life’s journey. When you discover an animal that speaks strongly to you, an animal you feel you must draw more deeply into your life, attempt surrounding yourself with pictures of this animal. This will let the animal apprehend it’s welcome in your space.Finding Your Animal TotemsOne way to “meet” one in all your Animal Totems is to try to to a guided visualization (this one is adapted from the book SOULCOLLAGE, by Seena Frost).Produce Sacred House by using music, a candle, incense, or a smudge stick. Sit quietly and terribly slowly scan your body, paying specific attention to each of the seven chakras.  Read more...

ANIMAL LOVE AND CARE IN ISLAM AND OTHER RELIGIONS

         BY                   PROF DR GHULAM MOHYUDDIN WANI

            The love of the animals is not the new slogan of the modern ethics alone .Many years before the first Bishop of Athens has said that truth does not enter the soul which loved not animals. I had heard of some tales of the Muslim lord and nawabs having spent thousands of rupees on the marriage of their pet dogs .

           When they were ridiculed on this spending he has made a legend. He took his son on the top of the place which was few stories above the ground.Closed all the doors and windows and asked him to jump from the top. All thought he is run mad and mocked at him. Then he Put  his dog in the similar situation and called him in distress, the dog jumped breaking his  legs in the endeavour. Thus he answered all question to his spending on his pet.

        Here we do learn that animals are more loyal to man than what he is to them. From times immoral animals have been helping human to perform many tasks.

           Many stories are in the literature when dog has helped him to come out in difficult situation. We do sometimes see that animals have so much affection for the man who once cares for them that they never forget his love and affection .I have never seen or heard of a animal hurting his master but have seen many sons careless and leaving their own parents and other human beings in distress. Goats have been helping the people in deserted conditions .Animal do recognize and recipocorate the love and affection one gives them, they do have revenge qualities too and literature is full of reports while wild beasts have recognized the man who endangered them and killed them before himself being killed.  Read more...

Here’s a transient synopsis at animal communication. Animal communication is one of the most simple forms of communication. It’s about reinforcing the human animal bond, and is a learned ability that makes it possible for a human to understand animals thoughts and feelings in detail. Animal communication is intuitively conversing with animals, mentally sending and receiving thoughts, images, and experiencing physical, emotional, mental, and religious distress. It’s the power to converse with animals through telepathy – an exchange of photographs, thoughts, words, emotions and feelings, and is a very natural way for you to hook up with your animals feelings and understand them in detail. An animal communicator, also called an interspecies communicator or pet psychic, has the ability to telepathically connect to another species to send and receive messages and info.

The most fantastic part of animal communication is that we all hold this ability. Practitioners say animal communication is a talent anybody can learn, while remaining all of the while a talent that not all understand or except. The secret to animal communication is truly quite straightforward and extremely basic. Animal communication is simply intuitive thinking. Although many humans have lost touch with this ability, there are some words in our language that apply to animal communication,eg’intuition’ and’telepathy’, and we are able to use them as a start line by describing what animal communication is and how it works. An animal communicator has deepened these talents so they could be of service to the clients – both animal and human.  Read more...

by PistoCasero

Model organisms have long been a mainstay of basic and applied research in the life sciences. Among model organisms, it is model animals that have had a central place in medical research and in pharmaceutical and biotechnology company research, including drug discovery, preclinical studies, and toxicology. Although pharmaceutical companies have long employed animal models based on such mammalian species as mice and rats, dogs, cats, pigs, and primates, more recently the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry has also adopted several invertebrate and lower vertebrate animal models that have emerged from academic laboratories. These animal models include the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila, and the zebrafish. The adoption of invertebrate and zebrafish animal models by industry has been driven by the advent of genomics, especially the finding that not only genes, but also pathways, tend to be conserved during evolution.

Researchers use animal models in basic research, in developing new therapeutic strategies for treating human diseases, and in drug discovery research (including target identification and validation, drug screening and lead optimization, and toxicity and safety screening), as well as in preclinical studies of drug safety and efficacy. The use of animal models in developing novel therapeutic strategies for human diseases overlaps with basic research that uses animal models to understand physiological and disease pathways. But its aim is to achieve knowledge of pathways and targets in a disease that leads to the development of new paradigms for discovery and development of drugs or other therapeutics. It thus also overlaps with use of animal models in drug discovery. The use of animal models in development of novel therapeutic strategies is the main emphasis of this report.  Read more...