One voice demands justice!
One Voice leads a nonviolent fight to defend animal rights and respect all life forms. The organization operates independently and is thus free to speak and act freely.
Faced with unbearable cases of cruelty that have occurred throughout France, One Voice demands justice. We are rising up and are going to plead for animal rights in four different courts over three months.
Dogs thrown from windows, drowned, abused
When
we know the link between animal abuse and domestic violence, recent
cases where One Voice has intervened are worrying …
Yes,
we throw out of the window what we do not want, even if it is a dog
and we live on the 4th floor! On August 15, 2016, in Mende (48), a
veterinarian who came to a Border Collie barely 1 year old, the
vertebrae broken by this fall, will now have to be put down and not
without noticing how thin he was. Also, One Voice has taken to court
this owner, who didn’t care about his dog once the window was
closed, for acts of cruelty and serious abuse of his animal.
What
about the end of Câline, a Labrador bitch drowned and then fished
out from a river last summer, in a channel of the Garonne Lafox (47)?
She had been thrown in alive, a block attached to the collar and the
hind legs tied up? In this case, which initially should be classified
without follow-up, it is essential that the owner, found thanks to
the dog’s chip, responds with an unspeakable gesture.
In
the Pas-de-Calais, a new case of abuse in a kennel club that will be
judged. The defendant, president of the club, refused to admit his
guilt of the facts that occurred in April 2016, yet explicit on a
video broadcast on social networks. The teacher is seen assaulting
Lemon, an 8-month-old German Shepherd, during a training exercise in
defence. The dog, having not obeyed an order, is caught by the
collar, it flies high in the air and is slammed heavily on the
ground, like an old bag of flour!
Pigeon shooting
More
complex is the case before a local jurisdiction of Lot-et-Garonne
this mid-February. It follows the decision of the mayor of Villaréal
who had, at the end of January 2016, authorized local hunting
companies to “hunt” pigeons “of cities” in the
territory of his community. The city having given out more than 3,000
cartridges to 80 hunters, some 500 pigeons were slaughtered in 3
hours from the streets of the town.
Such
massive destruction of pigeons, domestic animals returned to the
wild, is not only contrary to the regulations but also totally
ineffective in its methods. By yielding to the pressure of owners and
operators demanding to clarify these populations of birds, which
certainly can eat seedlings and can litter the roofs with their
droppings. This mayor has denied the law, ethics and the lives of
sensitive and defenceless animals who share our environment. A sad
attitude to have adopted for an elected official, whom One Voice
wishes to see sentenced by the judges …