When we are asked about our feelings on animal welfare and cruelty
we rarely consider the rat or mouse.
Yet thousands are used in experiments and hundreds kept as pets.
Did you know that these poor, misunderstood creatures are not even
included in the Animal Welfare Act other than what it allows
for "housing" of such "small animals"?
Beat a rat to death and you'll find most people wouldn't even want
to hear about it. Beat a cat to death and 99% of the responses would
be of disgust and anger.
If we used the same control methods on dogs or cats, as those sold
in supermarkets for rodents, there would be public outcry.
The RSPCA would be provoked to voice it's outrage all over the
media and "animal lovers" would be in tears.
Yet, unfortuneatly, some of these very same self-proffessed animal
lovers are among the first to rush out and by commercial rodenticide
at the very hint of a wild rodent.
Feral cats get shot, quick and painless, or are trapped and
euthanised by a pond veterinarian and people are disgusted by the
waste of life.
Rats and mice endure 3 to 5 days of internal bleeding, and the
slow starvation of their orphan babies and no one could heave a sigh
it often seems.
Inside this club we hope to promote a more humane way of treating
all creatures and especially defend the humble rats and mice of the
world.
founder: Rebekah Blackwolf-Mitchell.