Celebrating a year of Progress

As some of you may already know, I am a huge animal advocate and this year has been better then the last in my fight for animals. Though there is still a very long way to go in my eyes to do all I can to help animals ... the road I'm on will continue. After countless letters to congress and senate and phone calls to try and change things, the donations and spreading the word to friends and family for causes and petitions. I must say it has been a very good year in the progress for animals, which pleases me emensely and warms my heart to know I am not along in this battle and suprisingly I received an email tonight from the founder of the Humane Society that I wanted to share with you all here.

Dear Vanessa,


This year has been the most momentous year for animals
in our organization's 54-year history. And the real hero
in this story is you.

Vanessa,
you made history this year for animals. You gave
animals a voice when you took action online, made a donation,
told your friends and family about our work, or voted. Your
actions and your generosity meant all the difference and for
that I am so thankful.

Here are just a handful of
this year's most extraordinary triumphs:

• Our dedicated team of responders led a series of massive
  puppy mill rescue operations, and we saved thousands of
  breeding dogs and puppies from caged misery and
  neglect.
  
• We uncovered shocking abuse of dairy cows at a
  California slaughter plant, triggering the largest beef
  recall in U.S. history, shutting down the $100-million company
  for good, and forcing the USDA to commit to banning the
  slaughter of "downed" cows.
  
• We rescued animals from natural disasters,
  providing refuge for thousands of pets and farm animals in peril
  from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav.
  
• We launched the most ambitious ballot measure for animals in
  history -- and we won a better life for millions of
  cows, pigs, and chickens. California's Prop 2 will
  usher in a new era not only for animals in California, but
  animals suffering in factory farms across the United States.
  
• We busted dogfighting and ( No Swearing ) rings
  throughout the nation, and we passed a raft of laws at
  the state level and a new federal law to make animal fighting a
  felony everywhere in the country. <~~ This was by far My Longest and Hardest fight for animals and it took over 7 yrs to make this happen and I am so so thankful this law was passed now.. ( I did it all for you Bella.. RIP )
  

Congratulations Nessa! You did a very good job this year. Hopefully next year you will do the same as this year if not even better
The animals are very lucky to have such a strong fighter for there rights

Good stuff

Although, to be honest, I'm not that much of an animal guy

That thing about the dogfights, that's scandalous O_O

Yeah there are so many unknown cruelties happening right under our noses, most people aren't even aware of, u know? I still am a little sad that the fighting for wolves in the greater rockies was not established yet to put them back on the endangered species list yet and are still out for targeted hunting. But every day we are one step closer to saving the lives of these animals and that is pretty much all that matters.. for now.

Wow! Nessa! What an amazing series of achievments!

Animals are very close to my heart and I once spent 7 years as a volunteer with an animal charity.

I will congratulate you, but that's all, because I'm not an animal chick anymore, since, as you already know, the day some PETA freaks aggressed me for some stupid thing, and these freaks dont give a ( No Swearing ) damn ( No Swearing ) that people they flame on the Net might have mental issues (depression, bipolar troubles, etc.) or autism and then, their attacks send the victims closer to psychological distress, phobias (including agoraphobia), and even suicidal thoughts.

I don't post often, because of "that" animal-related topic posted months ago and who made me keep my guard at high level since, and also because ONECRÙNCH scares me (not only because of the "extremely disturbing" topic episode, but also other posts as well). I've not seen a psychologist yet and now, I'm about to ask for a reevaluation of my autistic traits by a psychiatrist, to see if I'm an aspie, after Mom has read some docs about Asperger syndrom.

Thank you Sophie & MissGeek

MissGeek, I understand completely how you feel and why sweety. And I can respect that

I'm sorry OneCrunch effected you in such a way. He is my cousin but means no harm generally speaking hun.

I tend to tread easy with subjects like this on the forum now in respect to how you feel about such things.

By the way, there's a problem with your Flash embed code, my Firefox can't find the appropriate plugin even if it's obviously a Flash and I have already the Flash plugin and the script allowed in my Noscript settings. Do people who use Firefox on Windows have the same problem ?

The only hint I found : Try to remove the space after the URL's end, to see if it works.

I also use Firefox on Windows Miss Geek but it works perfect for me. It's a flash video. I don't know why it would work for you though

Luky wrote:

I also use Firefox on Windows Miss Geek but it works perfect for me. It's a flash video. I don't know why it would work for you though

I asked in order to know if it happens only for me (Ubuntu user) or if Windows users are affected as well.

In this case, I'll ask Jac since I remember she uses Ubuntu on one of her PCs. I don't know if it's still the case.

EDIT : The problem came from the Flashblock extension ! I thought I disabled it since I don't need to unblock Youtube videos...

Congratulate Nessa. Really I'm not animal lover, but it nice from you

Nessa, I'm currently setting up a forum for cat lovers... when it's ready, I'll post the link if you're interested.

Congrats, you little fuzzball savior, you! Using animals is one thing. Getting all sadistic with them is something I don't really get.