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The need to inspect and licence small animal charities.
Alarmingly and amazingly, anyone, regardless of experience or ability, can set up an animal rescue enterprise in the UK. Over the last couple of decades there has been a proliferation of smaller charities and private organisations operating rescue re-homing centres and sanctuaries all working to their own agendas, often founded by well-meaning people, disappointed by…
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Remembering Tyke the circus elephant.
Post updated 28 March 2023 On the 20th August 1994 an elephant named Tyke was about to enter the arena at the Circus International in Honolulu, Hawaii when she turned on her groom, a young lad named Dallas Beckwith, and trampled him to death. This was not the first time she had tried to get…