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Charlotte Maxwell-Jones from the Kabul Samll Animal Rescue, a shelter and clinic which also collects the abandoned pets left behind by their families fleeing Afghanistan, talks to Dog Desk Radio about how they are dealing with the current tragic situation in Kabul. Please, share their story as they also need to leave the country with their staff and…
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#RescuetheAnimalRescuersPlease, help the #Nowzad staff and the animals! Write to: @BorisJohnson @morton_wendy@JamesCleverly@DominicRaab@ZacGoldsmith@BWallaceMP@tariqahmadbt Time is up! They need out NOW!
Today, the focus of this blog shifts exceptionally to an emergency situation outside of Sweden.@Nowzad and @PenFarthing need help NOW! www.nowzad.com#Nowzad is a frontline animal charity that has worked for years to help the animals in #Afghanistan, while training and educating the local population. They are in grave danger and must be helped to leave ASAP! …
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It is just thrilling to see that our sweet Kelly’s life has been spared. I think about all the others like Kelly, here in Sweden, with no one to fight for them and no brave veterinarian who would put a lot on the line to save them.However, this is an important victory that involves so…
Kelly, the blind kitten, has been targeted in Sweden by the very same authorities that in theory are supposed to protect her: the County Administrative Board, or Länsstyrelsen. Kattjouren are the organisation trying to save Kelly’s life. They managed to contact Länsstyrelsen Kalmar to ask a few questions, and as I was going through the…
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Kelly, the blind kitten, will be killed by Swedish authorities who believe blind cats do not have the right to live. Spread the word: SAVE KELLY! Sweden is like China when it comes to the treatment of animals, whether they are domestic pets, farm animals, or even the wildlife. The only difference could be found…
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Poetry, according to Alexander Pope, has been said to consist of “what oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed” (1711). Thus, poetry seems to lie on a continuum with one end attached to human feelings and emotions, which can only be sensed, not given expression to; for how can we say how much we…
First they murder the dogs, then they cry to the media that they get threatened by emotionally unstable people. Criminals playing the victim card: how many times have we seen this already? Six healthy Labradors were murdered by the University of Gothenburg as part of a lab experiment aimed at developing teeth implants for humans…
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There are several major differences between literary work and commercial translation activity. Time Frame: While commercial work comes with days-away or even hours-away deadlines, book translation can have an open deadline, so that you can take as long as you like, within reason. Obviously, you want to finish your work as soon as possible, and the…
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Literary translation is the translation of creative and dramatic prose and poetry into other languages. If the translation of non-literary works is regarded as a skill, the translation of fiction and poetry is much more of an art. A literary translator needs to have a good insight into the cultural background and development of the source language, as different…