August Demos at Monmore Green Stadium Wolverhampton

Thursday 14 August 6.45pm - 7.45pm
Saturday 23 August 5.45pm - 6.45pm

People flocked to Wildside in Wolverhampton for the annual Greyhound Action barbecue by the canal. Wonderful vegan food was in plentiful supply and people where generous with donations for this excellent cause. It was gloriously sunny and everyone enjoyed looking around the beautiful grounds and meeting new friends. Many people showed an interest in reducing their meat intake and in fact moving to a veggie or vegan diet. Profits raised totalled £257.60, the best year so far!

Word of this has only just started circulating. For those who are interested and can make it, there is a demonstration at the Austrian Consulate in Birmingham protesting the arrest in May of 10 people still in custody who police claim were planning to start a large company style group to protest against animal industries.

Peace For Animals, a group set up by Kerry and John has now launched it's website. In their own words, "Peace for Animals aim to bring peace to places of suffering and conflict through meditation and healing techniques.

We also aim to bring attention to the suffering of innocent lives through education."

The next Dog Racing Demonstration at

Monmore Green this month will be on Saturday 22 March, from 5.45pm until 7pm

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There was a record turn out of people and dogs on Saturday 12 January, kick starting this new campaign year. People came from far and wide, in cars, on foot and by bike and demonstrated their commitment to stop greyhound racing at Monmore Green and indeed everywhere.

Hope is still not lost.

This story is told in the words of the distraught family who had Mylo taken from them.

"Mylo is a black whippet with a white patch on his chest and two white tips on the back toes and a small strip of white just below his bottom lip. He has a distinctive lump at the end of his tail – the end of his tail is not straight.

He was stolen from us on Sun May 22nd 2005

She once lived in a grand apartment with servants and a driver, but her husband, who is a respected vet in Sri Lanka, had a roving eye and abandoned her and their two children for someone else. He gave them no money, and unable to make ends meet, the children were taken to an orphanage. With mounting debts the home was repossessed and the woman was evicted and had some of her possessions thrown over a wall at the back of her former home.

Beyond that wall there is a polluted stream, like a running sewer, and this is where the woman made her new home - a squalid slum surrounded by rancid garbage.

In her time of need her family, her friends and her neighbours had cruelly abandoned her. She had lost everything- her home, her husband, her children and her dignity.

But this tragic 41 year old woman shunned by humanity, has the love and companionship of her animal friends - 40 cats and a loyal dog. They live with her on the bank of the polluted stream and every day the woman dutifully begs for scraps from hotels for her beloved cats.

An update on the cat lady- neighbours have now blocked the area across to where the cat lady lives with tons of rubble. It was the area where we were feeding her cats. They have done this to block her in and to spare them the sight of seeing this desperate lady and her animals. Time is running out for this tragic lady and we have yet to raise enough funds to buy the land and house we saw during our trip

There is currently an appeal for funds for this beautiful lady run by Animal SOS , Registered Charity number: 1119902. Show email address.

EMERGENCY APPEAL FOR THE SRI LANKAN ANIMALS

Your donation will enable us to help the animals of Sri Lanka.

You may wish to choose one of the following payment options.

PAYPAL You can pay direct to the ' Show email address. ' email address.

POST To pay via post, please send your donation to:

Animal SOS Sri Lanka
483, Green Lanes,
London,
N13 4BS
United Kingdom

Please make cheques payable to: Animal SOS Sri Lanka.

Bank Transfer
To pay via bank transfer, here are the details:
Bank -BARCLAYS BANK PLC
Account name- ANIMAL SOS SRI LANKA
Account number- 10823767
SORT CODE 20-52-74

International Transfers: Barclays Bank plc
Loughton & Woodford Ilford Group
Account No. 10823767
IBAN GB78 BARC 2052 7410 8237 67
SWIFTBIC BARCGB22

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