Category Archives: Animal Rights and Welfare

The Hunters

My thoughts on hunters? Big guns Big mouths Small personality No empathy Thinks the world is theirs. Hates animals. If male, usually hates women. Tough people with big guns. They are everywhere. You’ll usually see them in their 4WDs throwing cans of VB out of their car windows. You’ll see them on the wetlands telling…

The Abattoir

 My new series, “The Abattoir”. A work in progress which will portray animals in their final hours and minutes before they are slaughtered. Animals are herded off transport trucks by dogs and aggressive, loud men. Terrified, they run into the pens where they await their deaths.  They are killed for human consumption, animal by-products and…

Anthropomorphism

I get accused of anthropomorphism all the time. I get told that I put human attributes on animal’s feeling and emotions. Strangely enough, the people who accuse me of this, never spend any time with animals or they profit from the farming of animals. I have spent enough time with animals of many species to know…

No Walks Today

Take a walk around a suburb and you will hear dogs barking. These are the bored, left at home alone in backyard dogs who are going out of their mind with boredom and confinement. Dogs are pack animals, whose need to walk, smell and be part of a pack is integral to their happiness and…