Life-Savior ‘Faith’ Faces Death

Our human values place life above most, if not all, things. Saving somebody’s life is the greatest act of humanity one can imagine. But in Ontario, Canada, one heroic canine figure is being put to death after she saved the life of a woman. Yes, you read it right—a dog is going to be killed despite that she saved a lady from dying and that thankful lady is more than ready to take her in. Yet the Ontario’s law, blind to all reason and compassion, wants the dog dead.

KJ Mullins shared the story of Faith, a 10-month-old Pit Bull mixed-breed puppy, who came to rescue a 30-year-old lady Kalena Mallon after she passed out on roadside near her home in Brantford due to sudden attack of stroke. Lying in deadly danger of being crushed by any of the cars rushing along the road, the unconscious Mallon was ignored by strangers who saw her lying there. Then came this homeless puppy to stand by Mallon, protecting her from the danger of being hit to death while the cars rushed by, honking. This situation created a commotion and drew the attention of Mallon’ husband to come out and take his wife inside to revive her. While Mallon’s husband, who named the savior dog “Faith”, recalls the incident, he says that Faith must have come from heaven to save his wife.

But then came the Ontario authorities when Mallon’s husband called the local SPCA and they told the family that being the breed she was, Faith wasn’t allowed to live in Ontario. Not only that, but she would be put to death if somebody outside Ontario didn’t adopt her soon. They took Faith away, not allowing the family to keep their benefactor. Now this innocent life-savior is waiting in Brantford’s SPCA for someone to save her from death at the hands of the race whose member she saved by endangering her own life.

Faith has 7 days to find a savior. She is a hero, an angel, and yet the barbarian laws of the ‘developed’ Canada, which invites scores of immigrants from around the world each year, will seize her life because they think there isn’t enough space on this planet for her to stand on. But will Faith’s death not be the murder of our faith in humanity? Will we ever be able to claim that we were kind to those who saved our families? Hardly imaginable! So let’s save Faith and prove ourselves more than mere beasts in a technological world.

Please write to the Mayor of Brantford (Email: cfriel@brantford.ca) and Brantford’s SPCA (Email: manager@brantcountyspca.com) to spare the life of the savior who maybe saving more lives like Kalena Mallon in future. Also write to any/all media channels or sources that you can. Tell them that we still have to have Faith.

Remember, God made the world in 7 days. We humans, created in the image of God, can save a benefactor’s life in 7 days too. Let’s begin.

Thank you all!

Get Baby Paloh Free from Chains

The day that the first human born with a fully exploitative gene in his constitution breathed on this planet must have been a dark phase in the history of life on this planet. And worse would have been the day when humans learnt the use of making chains. Not only will he use this instrument of torture on his own kind but terrorize innocent animals and enslave them. And if that wasn’t enough, take a good look at this innocent baby elephant, named Paloh, who has been chained torturously at the Johor Zoo in Malaysia.

As this post on Free Malaysia Today describes, Paloh feet has been chained so tightly that she can’t sit or lie down for rest, forced to stand in place. When the need to shift position presses too hard on the baby animal, it helplessly tries to make two-footed hops sidewise. Investigators consider Paloh’s torture at the zoo as one of the worst cases of cruelty to animals ever witnessed in the country. It’s the little-seen end of sadism, the sickness that eats away all that crosses its dark path. Paloh’s angst is a reminder that a country like Malaysia, rich in nature’s gift of life, still has to go a long way before making a claim to civilization.

Animal lovers, supporters, and activists are sharing the link to Paloh’s heart-rending story on Facebook and blogs. Change.org has already created a petition page to ask Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to order the concerned management for freeing Paloh. The right course of action of course would be to punish the person(s) responsible for this act of cruelty and make sure nothing of the sort happens in future.

Please take a moment to sign the petition page here in order to free the helpless baby elephant from chains.

With Asbestos from Canada

The business and industrial sector of developing countries eternally suffer from the hunger for growing – in assets and profit-making trade. Very often, the price is paid by its working class, usually with their health, and even with life. An example is the trade of asbestos-containing products exported by developed countries to its less developed client countries where few care about and/or resourceful enough to prevent the damage done to life, mainly by the carcinogenic effect of asbestos. Isn’t it the responsibility of the developed nations to take preventive measures in such cases?

Certainly we have a case here for nations like Canada which export asbestos-containing products to developing countries. Recently, there has been increasing concern over Canada’s asbestos industry and trade of the same with developing nations like India. Care2, in this context, has created a petition page to ask the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to make it Canada’s trade policy telling the truth about the health hazards of asbestos to the countries engaging in trade of asbestos-containing products with Canada.

Please sign the petition to save people from asbestos related deaths sold in the form of commercial products.

Save Sharks, not Soup!

In her breathtaking western novel The Last Cowgirl, Jana Richman showed us through the eyes of a child that a cow is so very different from its pieces sold by a butcher. And that holds true for all living, breathing animals, including sharks that are being recklessly exterminated by some human cultures simply because their followers have a taste for shark-fin soup. Beside others, Singapore is a major trader of shark fins for which millions of sharks are killed brutally each year, their bodies dumped back in the sea after their fins are cut off. What can be more brutal? Yes, relishing the soup that comes from shedding blood.

No wonder then that 180 species of sharks are threatened for existence this year. Sadly, the lay person has no authority to stop this brutality. But they do have the voice, and using it is the moral obligation as a life form that has a right to exist on planet earth. Caring people are raising their voice to ask the Singaporean government to limit or ban shark fin trade in their country. Please take a moment to save sharks from killing by visiting the petition page at Care2 and signing it. Let life prevail against a cup of soup!