While I was looking through animal news links today I saw a post on the Humane Society site. I kind of wish I had not seen the link. It was one of those stories that you have read about before and wish you could just blank it out of your mind. Problem with reading a very disturbing animal story and blanking it out is that nothing ever gets done if we just brush it under the rug.
S, this is a “warning” about the story you will read at Obscene Torment of Baby Seals. The story is graphic! It goes into detail of how sealers are going out and hunting baby seals around Canada. The writer does a very good job of leading you to picture these people killing the seals and dragging them onto their boats. Some of the baby seals are not killed before they are dragged with a gaff hook. It also tells how some seals are to small to even try and get away so, they just lay there terrified. Others do try to get in the water but don’t know how to swim so they have to get back on the ice and wait to be killed.
Here is a very short video of a baby seal…one just like the sealers are going out to kill.
Who would allow someone to go out and torture an animal that is so harmless. In fact it is defenseless, which makes the “hunters” even bigger *&^@#! Is it even hunting if the animal is so small that it can’t even get away or hide?
Sure the seals fur is beautiful but, who would want to wear it? I am sure there are many other fabrics that you can use to make (whatever) out of!
This year Canada raised the limit of take on these seals so, even more will be killed. Please do NOT by anything made with these animals and let your friends and family know that it is cruel and inhumane to harm these defenseless animals. People need to stand together against the sealers and the government officials who allow this.