CDZ Koala Diplomacy

[Luddly Neddite]

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Koala diplomacy breaks ice melts hearts at G-20

I'd rather see wild animals in the wild but this is pretty adorable.

 

[gipper]

Too bad the cute little koala's didn't shit on him.

Now that would be most appropriate.

 

[Camp]

Did they give Putin a pair of Koala's as a gift after they scolded, mocked and disrespected him just before they sent him home early?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

 

[ChrisL]

The koalas are adorable! Can't say the same for the men holding them though!

 

[waltky]

Aww, poor koala bear...

Dead koala found with ears cut off in Australia
Sat, Nov 11, 2017 - A koala has been found dead in Australia with both its ears cut off, the latest in a spate of animal mutilations that police yesterday called “troublesome and disgusting.”

An emergency services worker stumbled across the grisly find on a road at Warrnambool, about 225km from Melbourne in Victoria state, on Monday. It is not clear if the animal was dead or alive when its ears were removed. “Police members are investigating what can only be described as a very troublesome and disgusting incident involving the mutilation of a koala,” Warrnambool Sergeant Pat Day said. “We certainly want to get to the bottom of it. There is no reason for anybody to treat an animal in this way, whether it be alive or dead,” he said.

A koala named Oxley Kaylee, who lost an eye and had her left hind leg amputated after being hit by a car, recuperates at the Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie​

Victoria Police said in a statement the incident followed a series of kangaroo and wallaby mutilations in the area. No further details were given.

In June, a kangaroo was found shot dead, dressed in leopard-print and tied to a chair holding a bottle of alcohol, also in Victoria state.

Dead koala found with ears cut off in Australia - Taipei Times

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Video shows Florida farm workers regularly beat, stabbed cows
Nov. 10, 2017 -- A Florida dairy farm is under criminal investigation after the release of an undercover video showing employees beating cows, police said Thursday.

The video, released by the Animal Recovery Mission, showed workers at the Larson Dairy Farm in Okeechobee, Fla., beating dairy cows with steel rods and kicking and stabbing them. The farm is a major supplier to Publix, one of the largest grocery store chains in the nation. "Larson Dairy cows are milked, tormented and beaten three times a day, 305 days a year for life," a narrator says in the video. The video also shows calves confined in small cages and lying in their own feces, as well as a pile of dead calves stacked against a wall. "Newborn calves suffer alone and confined in inadequate shelter," the narrator says. "Many calves quickly succumb to the life at the Larson Dairy Farm."

Okeechobee County Sheriff Noel Stephen said he assigned an investigator to the case and expects charges to be filed. Noel also said he personally knows and defends the owners of the Larson Dairy Farm. "I stand before you to say that these gentlemen would not condone this activity and had they known about it, they would have fired them on the spot," Noel said, according to WPBF-TV.

Farm owner Jacob Larson said one of the employees shown in the video has been fired. "The unusual use of force is simply unacceptable on our dairy or on any other farm," he said, according to the Sun-Sentinel ARM lead investigator Richard Cuoto said it's unlikely the company didn't know about the abuse. The video was taken by an undercover employee who said the use of abusive tactics on cows was the norm. "Many of the cows that were brought to that milking station and put in line to have milkers put onto those udders were controlled violently," Cuoto said, according to CBS12 News.

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