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Tuesday 26 March 2024
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Coati Rescue and the Exotic Animals Trade
The following from an exotic rescue is indicative of a problem we face today with kitchen-sink exotic animal breeders. Back up to the late 1990s the EAR had worked with others to stop illegal exotic animal selling and crackdown on the dubious elements.
At some point legislation was scrapped and we see what we have today; porcupine, capybara, raccoons and many more species being bred and sold and all via "secure mobile phone apps" -anything to hide? Raccoons and capybara have been in the wild in the UK for at least a century so they are nothing new but the species being bred, sold with little or no checks and certainly no follow up "how are you getting along with it?" calls. It's money in hand and then run.
Above a coati (c)2024 respective copyright ownerWildside Exotic Rescue is a private sanctuary for wild captive animals traded and kept as pets, that rescues and rehabilitates those in need and inspires humans to end the wild pet trade. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555018177054
WildSide is home to 189 animals from Meerkat to Mountain Lion."This Coati was living his life out in a parrot cage on the floor in a lounge. He had a red clothed harness on which the owner said he had arrived in and they had never removed it. The only thing in this cage was a water bottle. He had been trapped in this cage for 15 months.
"On getting him home I transferred him to an inspection crate where I could examine his body. Bad sores were visible at the edges of the harness. Straight to vets where he was sedated so we could do a full unimpeded examination and safely remove the harness. The harness had caused serious rubbing wounds and then as the animal had grown the harness had grown into the wound. The pain must have been unbearable. Recovery was slow but on pain relief and without the rubbing the Coati rapidly perked up. He is now living out his life with two other Coatis and the three males are active, high energy and love eggs.
"The owner was not intentionally cruel, just like many we take animals off, did not understand or see what they were doing. Some even tell us that they love and will miss their animal, an animal that has and is suffering. People acquire wild animals often with false reassurances from breeders at how simple it will be, do no homework or preparation and the animal suffers.
"So I think the systems have to change to make it hard for people to own a wild animal as no legislation or license in the world will offer these animals true protection once inside a home or garden."
Monday 11 March 2024
So Why Is There No Interest?
There seems to be this odd belief that "You've written books you must be rich!" Those people have obviously never worked in publishing or been an author. The senior editors and the publishers are the ones making the money in the big companies. If you are an independent publisher like Black Tower Books... no one gets rich. The whole reason I got into self publishing was because mainstream publishers were not interested in books that did not follow the accepted norm which is that every single government is covering something up and you need to put that into your books even if untrue. The ones after money tend to follow that advice. I could not in all conscience tell a pack of lies just to make money and three previous books were "loved" by commissioning editors but all came back with the same thing "Controversy is needed. Government cover-ups!" I responded that there were none and was told "make it up!" But if I made that up and anyone with a brain looked into it then everything I had written would be seen as potentially false. The editors dropped the books!
The Red Paper 2022 Volume II: Wild Cats, Feral and New Native Species
In 1896 Scottish naturalists and zoologists declared that the true Scottish wild cat had become extinct by the 1860s. What we see today is nothing more than a wild tabby cat. In this work the true history and destruction of wild cats from England, Wales (where hybrids clung on into the 1940s) and Scotland is explored and after decades of research the true look of the wild cat is revealed. The "English Tiger" and "Highland Tiger" truly lived up to that name.
Dogma is finally thrown out.The Red Paper 2022 Volume I: Foxes, Jackals, Wolves, Coyotes and Wild Dogs of the United Kingdom and Ireland
When the Doggerland bridge flooded the British Isles became separated from
Continental Europe and its wildlife developed uniquely. The British Isles, for the purpose of this work includes Ireland, and isolated the wolves on both became what would be island species not affected by the usual island dwarfism. These wolves, after millennia. Became “unwanted” and forests and woodland was burnt down or cut down for the specific purpose of lupicide; the killing of every and any wolf –and there was a bounty for “a job well done”.The Current Threat To UK Fauna And The Introduction Of New Fauna Species -a look inside
In the United Kingdom new species of fauna have been introduced since Roman times and the number of species released or escaping into the countryside since 1900 has steadily increased. New species are filling in niches left by species extirpated by humans and these new species have, after 40+ years of observation created no problems.
Despite this the official policy of the UK Government and the Department for Environment Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is to class such species "invasive" and trap and kill them as the opportunity arises.Did The Lynx Survive Until The 18th Century In The UK?
For many the lynx (Lynx lynx) died out during the last ice age in Britain. However, the historical evidence shows that it continued until hunted to extinction during the Medieval period.
Over recent years many have claimed that the lynx in fact survived up to the 18th century -some state it survived later than that.
In this publication naturalist Terry Hooper-Scharf assesses the evidence and points to reports and other factors not widely known to draw a definitive conclusion on the subject
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Just in case no one reading this knows what a capybara is here is a brief Wikipedia summary: "The capybara or greater capybara ( H...
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I am now sorting through the 12 inches/ 30 cms thick stack of index cards pertaining to the Exotic Animals Register (EAR) and came across a...