Save Our Street Dogs - Mani

A woman, who used to run a shelter with 31 dogs and 62 cats, abandoned her dogs and cats, and ran away without a trace. 

The cats have been relocated. 26 dogs are left, who no one can take in. They were going to be put to sleep. I couldn't let that happen, so SOSD has taken over the shelter, against all common sense.

Because the dogs have all been caged up for years, many of them are not well socialised, even aggressive. Many are known to be heartworm positive and ill. It is going to be SOSD's greatest challenge yet. I have spent many nights wondering how we can pull this off. 

We need all the help we can get - media coverage, funds, volunteers. Any help is appreciated. Please help spread the word Please email sostreetdog@gmail.com if you can help. 


Mani is one of the 26 dogs left behind by the woman who ran away and abandoned her 26 dogs. 

When I visited this morning, she did not look well, and she was sent to the vet immediately. She is fighting for her life now - she just vomitted blood and is not looking well. 

SOSD has formally taken over Mdm Yap shelter officially this morning. Mani is the first of the numerous challenges we must overcome to help the 26 dogs who were left for dead the woman who used to run the shelter ran away , abandoning the dogs who had trusted her. 

The road ahead is going to be even tougher. 

Most of them are not well socialised. Many of them are ill. I have spent many sleepless nights, and lost alot of weight wondering how I can pull this off.

Please help me. Please help SOSD help these dogs. We took over these lives which no one wanted anymore. Because I believe they deserve better than to spend their lives in a cage, used as a tool for a crook to collect money, then abandoned to die when she felt she had collected enough. 

Please pray for Mani. I'm devastated. I should have brought her to the vet sooner. 

We need volunteers. Many of you. 
We need money - Sponsor a kennel will reopen to fund this new shelter. Rnuning cost of 4000 a month. 
We need money to treat the sick dogs there, many who we know are infected with heartworm. 
We need anyone who can help to do minor and major renovation works, for the shelter needs a major makeover. 



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Hey, Baby.

Ah~~ Men. Can't live with them, but the good news is you can live without them. HA! Got ya there.

As a young female that commutes to school on foot and public transportation, I am no stranger to unwanted harassments. The first few times or so, I felt defiled and  stripped of my dignity. I lost count how of many times my ass had been grazed over by a roving hand, boobs 'accidentally' elbowed by lecherous fuckers and the best of all getting my boobs stared at like I'm some kind of object.

Before you tell me this is an overrated and exhausted topic, let me tell YOU that I'll bring it up as many times as I can as long as it happens to me and other women out there.
Just drink that in for a moment, bringing this up every time it happens. I am a statistic, think about it.

But it is even more surprising that some women do not know that certain things shouldn't happen to them, certain behaviour that they should not condone.

Chiefly:

1. Whistling

I have, and probably wouldn't escape escape this no matter how many times I feel like flipping my middle finger and curse these bastards out. Why do they do that? Why do they whistle to beckon us and expect us to respond to that? Are we dogs? I dont think we even beckon a dog that way! So ladies, when someone whistles to beckon you, why the fuck do you turn?  Where is your self respect? Aunty Acid says it all:

Well, that's that. On to point number - 

2. The guy old enough to be your father stares at your bosom(or men of any age) - 

Stare him back. With ice-cold glares that would shrink his balls. Look at him straight in the eye, without blinking. Replace your shyness with white hot fury, make him cringe. Make him know that you will not be afraid to make a scene if he continues. I have done this many times myself and it works. Straighten your back, tighten your jaw and give the the death glare.

3. Flip at him when necessary.

Some men think no means yes.(Whoever came up with that need to be thrown in a pool of starving sharks). At this rate, you can give the misinformed beholder a black eye. Do not be afraid to punch him, slap him, scratch him, bite him, kick him and anything at all to defend yourself. In an article called Through the Eyes of a Rapist , Orey have written that "8)  If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn't worth it because it will be time-consuming and, also, increases their likelihood of being caught". See, asshole men want an easy victim. Don't be that victim. In fact, I think more women should start punching them jackasses even at the slightest form of sexual harassment so it can be spread  to other men that we ladies ain't even gonna put up with that kind of shit. 

4. They should make it legal for women to carry weapon.

Think about it, hiding a pocket gun, knife, taser, pepper spray in between your bra, things or even the waist area is useful. When a man attacks a woman, the fact that he violates every aspect of basic principles of human decency warrants him an injury that he deserves. Like seriously, who does he think he is, touching a woman simply because he a thing for her? I think if a man touches a woman inappropriately, he deserves a broken limb. And yes, these weapons will result in casualties, and lets hope the casualty is the perpetrator. Men with sick mentality like that don't deserve to live. Let's just obliterate society trash once and for all. The world is overpopulated anyway, we could use some assholes dying. 

On the other hand, if the women misuses the purpose of the weapon(s), just revoke her rights to own the weapon and do what's necessary by law. Fair, isn't it?

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Cruelty

Links to the main issue in this blog: Dol Guldur, Mount Doom, Mirkwood, Mordor, Helms Deep, Minas Tirith
*These are simply links to websites that highlights the deaths of animal actors in the production of The Hobbit.

That's right, you heard me. Approximately 27 animal actors(horses, ponies, goats and some chickens) have died due to gross negligence of the caretakers of the set. Or rather, the key members of the set having turned a blind eye of the unsafe conditions of the farm where the animal actors were kept.

I was appalled to find this news because as I watched the LOTR trilogy as a child and was hooked and loved the beauty of Tolkien's Middle Earth. Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of The Hobbit was something like revisiting a childhood memory. The movie overall was stupendous and wonderfully paced but the behind-the-scenes events disappoints me greatly.
This was a time where animal were primary mode of transportation and of course, naturally such a movie with lots of animals involved could have taken extra measure to ensure the animals are at their best and well provided.
Nope, it would appear the animals were treated very poorly and this issue is brazenly being denied by Peter Jackson himself, who admitted that these were 'preventable deaths'.

It makes me wonder, how many animals deaths were there in the making of the LOTR trilogies 10 years ago?
It sad that I was all over for the next installment Desolation of Smaug but this shit just ruined me. I am positive that when I do sit in the cinema at December 2013, I am gonna think "How many critters died in the making of this motherfucker?".

Mr. Jackson, I cannot convey how disappointed I am to know of this. Some of the animals that died were prolly someone's pet, think about it.

Nostalgia: Lord of The Rings

After watching The Hobbit and surfing through many LOTR-related blogs, I was suddenly reminded of the DVD’s I bought when the first two LOTR movies came out. 

I was 11 years old when Fellowship of the Ring came out and I bought the special edition DVD myself.

Just want to share this:

As you can see on the left, it has a map of the LOTR universe on the DVD’s inner casing and an accompaniment booklet briefly describing the scenes and characters in the movies and stuff.

The smaller square box is the The Two Towers DVD, bought a year later after the second movie came out. Inside it is a leaflet explaining LOTR kingdoms like the Rohan, Dwarves, Elves, Easterlings, Uruk-Hai’s, Orcs, Ringwraiths etc.

Plus TWO unredeemed free Starbucks coffee vouchers!!! [They are folded so you only see one). OMG I checked the expiration date and it became invalid on Dec 2003! Almost 9 years ago!!

It pleases me greatly to know that a small bit of my childhood was preserved beautifully.

You may wonder what happened to the 3rd movie - Return of the King DVD. Well, I suppose it was simply lost. No matter, =) I will just buy another one.

I just wanted to share this bit of my childhood with you. I am 22 years old and I have been wonderstruck by these incredible movies since I was 11 years old. 

Watching The Hobbit again made me want to revisit all the previous 3 movies.

Plus, my sister bought the books so I guess it time I read them!

Animal Abuse: My Piece in The Kuala Lumpur Post

You can find the link here.

Here are some excerpt for you as a headstart -

"I am also extremely angered and disappointed by the municipal councils way of curbing strays. I have heard enough horror stories(and witness some myself) about dog catchers practically murdering strays in the most inhumane way possible. Pets are not left either, recent dog catching spree by the Vet-Fine company had pet owners aghast and horrified at how these Vet-Fine goons had the temerity to enter people’s premises, kidnap their pets and kill them mercilessly. We have video proof of this in Youtube. How long will it be until YOUR pet is drowned headfirst in a ditch, be dragged on a rope till it dies or be beaten on a club to death? – we have a video proof of a boy recalling witnessing this heinous act"

~*~

"Trapping an animal by the neck, breaking it, torturing it until it dies doesn’t make you a hero, nor are you doing it well. Those dog catchers hired by the municipal, how are they sleeping at night with the memory of the dogs shrieking and yelping, begging for mercy and their life? Have they no conscience at all?"

So please read it and comment, also please share so it get's it's long overdue attention.

Fruits Basket: A Social Psychology Analyses

If you analysed each and every character in Fruits Basket carefully, they're all analogies of one social problem, mental illness and prevalent adolescent dilemmas.

Tohru Honda is representative of a pupil ostracized for coming from a hard family condition. A poor orphan in a sea of ignorant peers trying to survive each day's loneliness. A representative of children who come from 'troubled' homes.

Sohma Kyo - another ostracized pupil whose sole fault is being born a cursed zodiac. He can be an analogy for children being born with some form of developmental disability aka Special Needs Child analogy.

Sohma Yuki - a possible analogy for autism spectrum. He appears to not make friends easily.

Sohma Ayame - this is definitely histrionic and narcissism.

Shigure Sohma - Hyperactivity. Really, the man is like a bouncing ball that never settles.

Sohma Momiji - child abandonment/neglect. Both his parents practically dumped him when the mother suffered nervous breakdown after giving birth to Momiji.

Akito Sohma - severe depression, bordering on schizophrenia.

Sohma Hatori - he is representative of all human beings who carried a emotional baggage one way or another. We are all shrouded by mistakes we will regret for a lifetime, or a secret so terrible you'd take it to the grave and also social withdrawal caused by traumatic events. Hatori never actually speaks unless spoken to.

Rescue Gone Awry

Last night I spotted an old dog in my apartment compound. It was late at night so I thought I'd go look for him tomorrow. One look, and you'll know he is an abandoned pet, he still had a collar on his neck and VERY FRIENDLY with hoomins.

This afternoon, I went out to look for him after throwing my garbage. I looked everywhere and when I was about to head home to call it a day, like magic he popped up in front of me.
OH MY GOD I have never felt so relieved. Then I remembered, even with my phone with me I did not had Malaysian Dogs Deserve Better's number and dashed up too look for the number and when I got it I came back down, the dog was lost.

I tried searching everywhere and all of a sudden a stray attacked me and although not bitten, thankfully, I was left with this:

I am still bummed over these wounds and the fact that I had broken my glasses in the process. I feel like almost giving up on looking for the dog. But my heart wouldn't rest, I feel like I had to do something. So I emailed details to MDDB and now I can only hope for the best.