Baby Seals
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Sweetest Little Things!
There is one big disadvantage to his beautiful coat: baby seals are hunted especially for it. While adult seals are considered "hunted" too, it is by far the baby seals the hunters are after. Harp Seals are the most sought after, but some other species are vulnerable too. Ribbon Seals were over hunted in the 19th century and are now listed as a "species of concern" , and Hooded Seals, who are often caught as "by catch" (in with gillnets for limpfish for example) are taken as pups or "bluebacks" for their beautiful blue-black fur.
Photo credit: Kids4Seals.org
The Fight to Save Baby Seals
Taking the lives & skins of baby seals who aren't even swimming yet - it is a cowardly hunt. These poor baby seals are not yet even strong enough to drag themselves away. They are often skinned & dragged across the ice while still alive. Sometimes they are clubbed and left to suffer an agonizing death. Still others are shot from the boat, with the intention of killing them with a tool called a hakapik (looks sort of like an axe but with a sharper end), but instead the shot and injured seals slip into the water to die from their wounds more slowly.Most of the baby seal killing occurs in Canada, but other nations allow the practice, including Norway, Russia, and Namibia. The United States and European Union, as well as Mexico, have all banned the seal trade. In an attempt to get Canada to join the fight against killing baby seals, celebrities, chefs, and celebrity chefs have joined together to protest with the "Kind Dining" initiative. The plan is simple: stop buying Canadian Seafood!
Why Do They use Clubs to Kill Baby Seals?
Because it's safe
(for humans anyway)
Because it's easy
(they don't care that it's torture)
Because It preserves
the seal's valuable pelt.
(after all, it's not the meat they want)
I've got an idea:
If killing an animal
with humane methods
is so much trouble for ya,
DON'T DO IT AT ALL!
Baby Seals in the Blogosphere
Photo: "Hunting" Seal Pup, Kangaroo Island
This New Zealand fur seal pup was practicing his fishing techniques on a piece of seaweed, which he scooped out of a tide pool and beat against the rocks.JeremiahBlatz.com
- The Happy Seal Baby and Kids' Boutique Launches Website
- BRADENTON, Fla., May 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Newborn baby clothes, baby shower gifts, flower girl dresses and boys suits are only a few of the items being sold at the newly established online business - The Happy Seal Baby and Kids' Boutique, LLC.
- 'Seal cull will continue' - Esau
- ANIMAL rights activists have vowed to oppose the harvesting of Cape Fur seals to the bitter end. Over the coming months 85 000 Cape Fur seal pups are due to be slaughtered along the Namibian coastline. In the absence of a moratorium the baby seals and ...
- Humane Society International Congratulates Swiss National Council for ...
- "Instead of providing artificial life support to this dying industry, our government should do as Canadians want and stop the senseless slaughter of baby seals for good." "I have personally observed Canada's commercial seal slaughter since 2006, ...
Seal Love
So Innocent and Sweet!
The Bond
Wayne Pacelle
We have learned so much in the past several years about how much in common we have with our fellow inhabitants of this planet. In many ways, animals are becoming more like our brothers and sisters. In some instances, they are our teachers. Yet, still, some people seem to think it is okay to treat animals with cruelty. This book examines this dichotomy and looks for ways to enhance the human-animal bond while decreasing the existence of animal cruelty.
The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
Amazon Price: $11.63 (as of 05/31/2012)
This book is about all animals and our relationships with them. Baby Seals play a prominent role in the process of understanding.
Are these people Human?
Canadian law says you have to keep clubbing the seal in the forehead until you know for sure that it's dead.
I cannot believe clubbing it even once is considered "humane" .... these are helpless babies!
Baby Seals Now
Fast Facts: Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt
from the Humane Society of the United States
97 percent of the seals killed in the past 10 years have been less than three months of age. At the time of slaughter, many had yet to eat their first solid meal or take their first swim, leaving them utterly defenseless against the "hunters".
I could understand if they were starving and needed meat, that they might kill some of the adult seals (in a humane manner of course), but the only reason to kill the babies is for their fur! People are so disgusted with this practice all over the world that even that is not a good economic reason to do this anymore. They seem to be doing it for the sheer brutality of it. I don't get it. Maybe before anyone is allowed to "club" a baby seal, one must be clubbed himself first, just so they know exactly how it feels!
In 2001, an independent veterinary panel studied the commercial seal hunt. They concluded that the seal hunt results in considerable and unacceptable suffering. They noted that in 42 percent of the seals examined there was not enough evidence of cranial injury to even guarantee unconsciousness at the time of skinning.
This is what we've thought all along. It's such a joke to say this is humane. Somebody please take the blinders off the government and people who support treating other creatures in this horrific manner!
Download the rest of "Fast Facts" humanesociety.org
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- Tell Canada To #StopKillingSeals: Canada: #StopKillingBabySeals/ EU: Ban #Fur & Boycott Canadian Seafood http://t.co/Cix7K9YP PLS SIGN & RT
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- Jeero doing volunteer work to save the baby seals. http://t.co/noKRcpYO
Baby Seal Updates
- Will Russia's Ban on Harp Seal Skins End Canada's Annual Mass Clubbings? : TreeHugger
- Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the Russian Federation have banned the trade of harp seal skins, eliminating a major market for seals killed in Canada.
"The time has come to acknowledge that the world does not want, nor need, cruel seal products."
.......Sheryl Fink: International Fund for Animal Welfare
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What do you think about the way they kill baby Seals?
Should they even be allowed to kill them at all?
Weigh in here!
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Tipi
Jan 3, 2012 @ 2:52 pm | delete
- Baby Seals are the cutest creatures. No, I don't think they should be killed the baby seals.
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KM9999999
Oct 27, 2011 @ 9:04 pm | delete
- Baby seals are just the cutest things ever.
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Heather426
Oct 27, 2011 @ 8:53 pm | delete
- I don't wear fur so I won't contribute to the killing of any animals for fur. In Asia, they kill cats and dogs for fur( Pretty sure you already knew that) so no thanks! Cloth coats work just fine!I knew this page would make me sad. I so hate the hunters of the baby seals.
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KarenKay Oct 27, 2011 @ 9:04 pm | delete
- Thanks Heather... it really is a tough topic. So easy to turn a blind eye... just for the sheer brutality of it. Thanks for viewing anyway. You are a courageous person!
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More Ways to Help
And further resources
- Harp Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Harp Seal Information
- Click to Defend Baby Seals
- Your free click generates donations from our sponsors. You may click once a day, every day. 100% of the donations raised go directly to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Your clicks make it possible for IFAW seal hunt observers to continue documenting the cruelty of the hunt, and to
- Seal Hunt : The Humane Society of the United States
- Each year, hundreds of thousands of seals are clubbed and shot to death in Canada for their fur. This annual commercial seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world. Join our ProtectSeals campaign in ending this cruel and needless killing for good.
- Kids 4 Seals
- Find out about us and the seals, too! Check out the
baby seal pictures!
How can you help the seals . Get your school involved! The school
and projects pages are full of ideas! - Why do they club seals? - Slate Magazine
- Animal welfare activists clashed with seal-pup hunters in Canada this week, just a few days into the annual sealing season. A commercial vessel rammed an inflatable boat filled with protesters over the weekend, and hunters threw seal guts. Animal rights groups oppose the clubbing and shooting of you
- Seal hunting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Seal Hunting
- Baby Seal Slaughter in Canada - The Pet Wiki
- On Hay Island, Nova Scotia, February 22, 2011, the Canadian baby seal hunt began. The baby seal hunt is one of the most horrible and inhumane acts perpetrated by man.
- CNN.Com - The Fight to Stop Seal Slaughter
- Issues w/ Jane Velez-Mitchell
- Hooded Seal
- Seal Conservation Society - Pinnipeds and Seal conservation, research, information and rehabilitation.
- Harp Seals, Pagophilus groenlandicus at MarineBio.org
- Harp Seals, Pagophilus groenlandicus, Mammalia, Carnivora, Phocidae, Description and Fascinating Facts, World Range and Habitat, Feeding Behavior, Life History, Ecology, Reproduction, Conservation Status/Additional Comments, References, and Further Research.
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