This is crazy!
Even if you are not an animal lover surely you have studied biology even as a young child!
Crazy lot… and to think these folk rule our lives… 
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The title of this thread is so misleading, what the Tories did was vote against a 2017 amendment to the EU withdrawal bill relating to existing EU laws on animal welfare. They (the government) have in fact drafted a new bill (currently under discussion) which aims to specifically recognise animal sentience and increase the punishment for those convicted of animal cruelty.
It’s Barbara’s Thread…
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Young children studying Biology…who knew😉
I deliberately avoided saying that in case I got told off!
Well you are getting told off!
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That’s not fair, Stella mentioned your name not me!! Hate my life.
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Do something about it!
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I like the title of the thread so post this here.
I was touched by this 3 year old lioness’s reaction to her new surroundings, having lived in a 3x4m concrete enclosure in a private home in Ukraine, presumably for most of her life.
She was traumatised by nearby bombing and is still suffering from shell-shock, which is part of why she is shaky on her legs. She was rescued from Ukraine and taken to the Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent, UK.
Don’t know about the private owner or why a captive lion kept at home in a small cage was necessary, but clearly was not an animal lover IMO. More like wealth and the need to show how macho they are, oligarchical, but I’m speculating.
Her reaction shows how sentient she is, clearly. Why it took so long for animals to be recognized as sentient beings baffles me. This is an animal that has suffered physical, emotional and psychological pain.
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Lack of muscle for the shakiness, it will get better with time now. The last owner is not an animal lover as you wrote. She/He should be locked up in the same condition for the same length of time & see how they adapt to life & walk after.
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some years ago, when Spring had just sprung… after a particularly bitter few weeks
OH and I were strolling past a farm building and, as luck would have it, the farmer was just letting the cows out of their winter quarters… and these Mums led their young calves out into the fresh air and open fields which would be their summer home.
the absolute joy of these young calves, who were suddenly in bright sunshine … was a joy to behold…
How I wished I’d got my camera as one after another… a calf flung back its head and kicked up its heels with delight… so very supple… the heels almost touching the back of the head… just for that split moment of exertion…
If I hadn’t witnessed it, I’d not have thought it possible… but I did and it was 
marvellous
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