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Pet obesity is no laughing matter.
We should view obesity in pets as an act of causing unnecessary suffering in the same way as starving an animal. It is a sad reflection of our attitude to animals that we are happy to upload videos concerning pet obesity onto social media sites like YouTube which ridicule fat animals that are struggling to…
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Toto the baby gorilla, international wildlife law and me
The smuggling of apes and other endangered wildlife has happened for decades and authorities can never seem to control the illicit trade despite international laws. Recently there was publicity in the media about the smuggling of baby chimpanzees and it took me back forty years to my days at Heathrow Airport where I was confronted…