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The Naturally Vegan retweeted
A helpless little baby on the day she was rescued from traffickers.
You can read her story in this thread, but first I want to say this:
Upwards of 80% of trafficked baby gorillas don’t survive, according to primatologist Lindsay Maess.
The mother and other family members are usually killed to get the baby.
The exotic pet trade is exploding—fueled by social media—and owners of these platforms can effectively censor and suppress posts they don't like—but allow this evil trade to flourish.
What happened to Bili is an eye-opening story of how hard it is to help these babies, even though she is one of the more fortunate few.
(1/2🧵)
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
Britain had about 30 million hedgehogs in the 1950s; we've got under 875,000 today. The population has dropped by about 97%. Shocking.
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
I used to have hedgehogs living in the garden that I would see every night and share photos and videos of regularly: there were at least three different individuals including the named resident female Henrietta.
This was until landlord of the neighbouring property decided to clear their entire garden— all of the trees, all the shrubs, all the bramble, everything was torn up and thrown out.
They also tore down the shared fence between our gardens which had been an old wooden fence covered in ivy, with plenty of gaps for the hedgehogs to pass through. They built a brand new 6ft tall impenetrable fence.
The construction of this fence may seem minor but it means that wildlife like hedgehogs can no longer pass through. The removal of the plants from that garden means that the hedgehogs lost a huge part of their foraging and living area.
I have not seen a single hedgehog in our garden since the neighbour made these changes. I don’t know if it’s because they can’t get in past the new fences, because they were scared away, or possibly because they were killed in the renovations.
I look for Henrietta often and wonder what happened to her. Did she get fenced out of our garden permenantly? Did she get taken away with the branches and leaf litter? Did she get fenced inside the neighbours garden and find herself unable to get back out? I’ll probably never know.
I’ve made some gaps in the new fence now and though I wait for the hedgehogs to return, it has been several months now and I still haven’t seen any.
Hedgehogs are a Red List species in the UK, yet landowners seemingly have no requirement to consider them whatsoever in any renovations they make. I pleaded with the neighbouring landlord (via some very patronising estate agents) to leave some habitat intact. They ignored me.
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
A smile to start your weekend.😍
Hedgehogs have survived, unchanged, for 15 million years.
15 million years!
Just think - our humble little garden visitors once walked with woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers.
They survived so well because they are resourceful, adaptable, courageous and problem-solving.
Just look at how this clever boy solves the problem of the feeder being bricked up.
You wouldn't expect that level of intelligence from a humble little hedgehog, would you?😊
The fact our hedgehogs are on the brink of extinction now, despite surviving persecution, drought, famine, and the ice age, is a serious indicator of how just how profoundly endangered our fragile ecosystem has become.
Please do what you can to help these gentle, clever little animals.
While hedgehogs who are healthy and well nourished will have hibernated now, those who are sickly or underweight are still around, desperately searching for a kind garden that provides.
Please leave out a dish of fresh clean water each evening, by your back and front door. A dish of dry kitten food kept safe inside a feeder would be a life saver.(Please see hedgehogcabin.info/making-a-… for how to make one).
Remember to leave the leaves where they fall, and keep the edges of your garden and at least one corner uncut and undisturbed all winter, to allow natural food to safely live and grow.
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
Researchers went into twenty suburban yards in Maryland, raked half the plots and left the other half alone. The raked plots produced 45% fewer moths and butterflies.
Overall emergence dropped 17%. Beetles fell 24%. Spiders fell by as much as 67%. Moth and butterfly diversity dropped about 40%, and the species that vanished were the ones that overwinter as larvae or inside fallen leaves.
Fireflies, moths, bees, and beetles spend the winter in the leaf layer as eggs, larvae, pupae or adults. Bag it up and you've sent them to the dump, and probably to their deaths.
Shredding isn't the compromise people think it is. The same lab tested mulch-mowing against leaving leaves intact, and mulching cut emerging moths almost in half. A mower turns leaves into mulch and everything inside them into paste.
Rake the leaves off the lawn if you need to, then dump them under the trees and in the beds. That's where they'd have blown anyway.
Paths and edges can stay clean. The middle is where the work happens.
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
🐕 MEET ATLAS—A silly dog—but your typical German Shepherd. Sweet. Smart. Sometimes a little too smart for his own good. Somewhat small for his breed, but a beautiful boy.
On April 22, 2025, Atlas was confined by the City of Bedford, Texas, and ordered killed for something he didn't do.
He was 4 years old.
🐕🦺🐕🐩🦮 Atlas was friends with everything. And he had a lot of friends.
👩 Atlas loved his momma, who has given all she has in her life to prove he's innocent, to fight to bring him home to his human brother and canine brothers.
Atlas has had no meaningful human interaction, unless you count catch poles and iron doors.
He has not been outside. He has not touched grass. He has not been outside his cage.
On June 24, his mom was told he was being moved to the police station, to avoid public scrutiny, as a recent social media post had caused rescues and advocates to call and harass the staff.
A police station....where isolation is certain...and cement floors a reality.
The City has refused to provide his mom, Tammi, any kind of updates on his location, health, well-being, or even a photo to ease her mind.
💔 Not surprisingly, after over 3 months of these conditions at the police station, and over 500 days of confinement, Tammi was told Atlas had suffered a MENTAL BREAK.
The City offered to pay her "a few thousand dollars" to purchase him and give up her owner rights.
She declined.
Yet even in the face of a mental break, the City continued to REFUSE to provide a single record or update documenting his health and well being.
🤯 Even after a decision from the Texas Attorney General said they had to.
It has never been proven in court that Atlas bit anyone.
Atlas is now almost 6 years old.
🔐 AS OF OCTOBER 16, 2026, ATLAS HAS BEEN CONFINED FOR 542 DAYS.
In the State Appeal process, the recent brilliant brief responses her attorney submitted, and public records requests pressures had brought them to the table. The City was ready to negotiate Atlas' release.
The City had even AGREED to the deFURment Program, a detailed, staged rehabilitation approach I had created for Tammi to provide the City and the Court to ensure both public safety concerns and humane treatment were met through (in short):
1) a certified transport service
2) DACVB assessment with recommendations for rehabilitation (after decompression)
3) safe decompression
4) a rehabilitation + training program provided by naming one of the top expert credentialed trainers in Texas, @DoriNaivarWrkdg with WorkDog Rescue + Rehabilitation
5) a second DACVB assessment with recommendations moving forward for Atlas
....but they ADDED conditions...
⁉️ The City demanded I stop the "barrage" of my independent public records requests.
⁉️ The City demanded I also give up my independent pursuit of the records the Attorney General had ordered them to provide to me.
⁉️ The City demanded Tammi waive her right to file a Federal Civil Rights case against them.
⁉️ The City demanded Tammi, nor HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY or any "ADVOCATES" be present for ANY part of the transfer process.
⁉️ The City demanded they not release Atlas until 10 days FOLLOWING a signed agreement, to ensure no one violated their demand that Tammi nor anyone she knew speak ill of Bedford or their associates.
⁉️ They even threatened to withdraw the settlement unless I stopped submitting records requests.
❌ Tammi answered that she would never sign away her right to FREE SPEECH.
💰 If they wanted her to waive her civil rights, she gave them a figure that research had shown her was a reasonable settlement amount for such a precious American citizen right.
❌ They declined Tammi's counter offer.
⚖️ Then they violated the Attorney General's public records order, after which I filed a formal complaint with the OAG.
With negotiations at an end, and Atlas' "mental break" almost a month since they announced it, things became urgent.
📁 Tammi's attorney is now preparing an EMERGENCY MOTION to force the City to allow a veterinarian to examine Atlas in person, report his physical, mental and health condition back to the judge, and then allow Tammi to carry out the plan the City agreed to, and securely transfer Atlas to a safe decompression site and rehab center provided by @DoriNaivarWrkdg at WorkDog.
⏳ Tammi will need to quickly secure the funds needed for costs associated with the veterinarian who examines Atlas, the transportation, secure location, and DACVB fees.
The city already admitted this plan is safe. They chose concealment over a solution. The legal battle is with the judges, but securing his safety and road back to health depends entirely on us.
🐶❤️ If you would like to donate to help Tammi free Atlas, please use the following usernames/links:
➡️ Zelle: [email protected]
➡️ CashApp: cash.app/$saveAtlasnow
➡️ Venmo: @saveAtlasnow
➡️ PayPal: Coming Soon
✅ To ensure transparency and accountability, all donations and expenditures will be reported monthly.
📩 If you want to send Tammi words of encouragement, feel free to email her at [email protected]
Thank you for helping free Atlas. ⛓️💥🐶❤️
DAY 542.
#FREEATLAS
📆 DAY ONE—4/22/25: THE DAY THEY TOOK HIM—THE STORY OF ATLAS—CHAPTER 4 🐕
My last post ended on December 4, 2024 after the phantom hearing.
Tammi went home to Atlas, and things were normal, for about more than 4 months. After December 4, she didn't hear a word from the court or her 'lawyer', nor did she get any documentation of her case, or signed judgment. She thought it strange, but just wanted to forget about everything that had happened and move on.
🚨 But then April 20 came.
➡️ 4/20/25—It was Easter Sunday, and Tammi was out shopping for dinner. She got home around 4pm and promptly went up to the attic to get easter egg coloring supplies and got started dying eggs. Atlas was asleep on her bed. It was 4:30-5pm.
She went outside to turn on the water for the lawn....and heard a door bang shut. She turned around and saw Atlas on the steps and he started toward the lawn.
Knowing this could not happen, Tammi grabbed her keys and leash and set off after him, before he was even out of the yard. Of course, being pretty predictable, he headed to Jazzy's house. Never losing sight of him, he got to Jazzy's with Tammi right behind him, and Jazzy's mom met them in the driveway. They laughed at lover boy's persistence, and Tammi leashed him, and went home. The entire incident was less than 5 minutes. Atlas never came across a single person on the way to or from Jazzy's house.
➡️ 4/21/25—The next day, someone calls a complaint in they say happened on 4/20 "around 3pm". 🤔
Morales shows up and leaves a ticket on her door for "failure to comply". Tammi was annoyed but was prepared to pay the ticket and fix the springs on the door that had failed to keep the door shut.
➡️ 4/22/25—An army of police surrounded Tammi's house along with Morales and a warrant to take Atlas. They said he had attacked someone else and were going to take him. Tammi, rightfully shocked and angry, said something like "over my dead body"...police body-cam captured the entire scene but has NEVER been viewed by Tammi or her defense after repeated requests. (look up Spoliation)
Note: the warrant came into hand on 4/23 according to Morales, which is incorrect. This is one of many examples of problematic systemic negligence in Bedford's 'documentation' practices.
👮♀️👮♂️🚓👮🚔 Police claimed she expressed suicidal threats 9 times. They called her attorney for some reason, ended up arresting Tammi, and took her to a mental facility. She was stuck there for 2 days while they assessed her. Concluding she possessed mostly a fiery Irish temper, they let her go home, to the tune of $3,440.
💔 When she got home, Atlas was gone.
TAMMI HAS NOT SEEN ATLAS SINCE THAT DAY.
➡️ 4/25/25—The 'victim' identified a dog that did not even look like Atlas, and the photo Morales showed her was never submitted to the court as evidence. The photo the 'victim' submitted also did not match the description of her injury, as first it was a "bite" but then he scratched her "back". The photo, er, um, shows the scratch is much lower than her "back". 🫏
Also, interestingly, this 'victim' ALSO, like the 3rd alleged victim, filed a lawsuit against Tammi using her home owner's insurance, but in order to get the payout, it has to happen on Tammi's property. All records state it did NOT, and have a completely different address than Tammi's home. ⁉️ INSURANCE FRAUD ⁉️
MEANWHILE: Bedford official Andrea Roy sent an email to a citizen stating that Atlas, “the dog in question may have been mistakenly blamed for an incident in which he was not involved.” WHY DIDN'T THIS GET SUBMITTED TO THE COURT?
➡️ 4/28/25—Tammi hired Don Feare again, paid him another $2,500 and he had her file her own motion for appearance of counsel and discovery. The court hearing was set for May 1, 2025. Don Feare told Tammi he could not make that date so told her to ask for more time. What Tammi did not realize when he did this:
😡 THIS DELAY PUTS TAMMI OUTSIDE OF HER 10 DAY COMPLIANCE WINDOW 😲
Keep up, it gets even more wild.
➡️ 5/1/25—The city sends Feare an email and show the discovery items on an inventory sheet confirming that a flash drive containing audio, video, photos, and police logs is ready for pickup.
➡️ 5/5/25—Feare picks up the 'evidence' FOUR days after he is notified it is ready. He gives Tammi a CD and claims it "doesn't play" (Texas CCP 39.14).
⚖️ TRIAL BY AMBUSH 👨⚖️
➡️ 5/7/25—The Bedford Municipal Court held a hearing where Tammi was not allowed to speak, and her attorney barely said a word in defense of her. She thought (and her attorney confirmed) that all she was there to defend was that she was out of compliance, and according to section 18-155, if she was found out of compliance, which states she has 10 days to get in compliance, and if she does, the court would return Atlas to her.
👉 REMEMBER FEARE REQUESTED A RESET??
HER OWN ATTORNEY NOT ONLY DID NOT ENSURE SHE HAD THE EVIDENCE TO DEFEND HERSELF...
BUT HIS REQUEST PUSHED HER OUT OF THAT 10 DAY WINDOW SHE HAD TO SHOW SHE WAS IN COMPLIANCE 🤯
...so what do you think happened?
❌ THE JUDGE ORDERED ATLAS KILLED INSTEAD ❌
Basing her decision on:
1) the judgment from 12/4 deeming him a Dangerous Dog
👉 A JUDGMENT THAT DOES NOT EXIST 👈
2) and that Atlas was out of his enclosure without a muzzle and leash
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Bedford has since tried to swap in the November 20th Animal Services paper as the "backup" designation—major foul play.
Under Texas law:
An Animal Control Authority can make an initial administrative determination that a dog is dangerous.
However, an administrative determination is not a court order.
If she went to court in December, that administrative piece was supposed to be formalized into an official, judge-signed civil judgment.
If the judge never signed it, there was no legal order in place forcing the muzzle/leash requirements mentioned in the May 7th judgment.
None of that mattered. Bedford did as they had wanted all along, and ordered her dog to be killed.
🐷 That's not all folks!
(as always, receipts in the comments)
BUCKLE UP, BECAUSE IT GETS WORSE.
Stay tuned for Chapter 5.
💔 TODAY IS DAY 541. 💔
#FREEATLAS
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
SEXTA EXTINCIÓN
Estamos en medio de la Sexta Extinción
#Holoceno #Extinciones
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
First the cows were eating from the trash, then we saw the monkey's, then we saw the wild deers eating from plastic trash in Gujarat, Chennai and Dehradun and now — this wild bear scavenging through garbage in Kanker City, Chattisgarh, India.
We Humans are the cause of misery for the other species, we have destroyed forests and grasslands — their homes forever.
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
Nowhere safe to flee:
A heart-wrenching report says so many proboscis monkeys were burned in the Kalimantan fires because they were caught between the flames and human firefighters—and they fear humans as much as fire.
I'll post the link, but it contains very upsetting images.
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
When I found her like this she could no longer move. She had 1000s of fleas on her and her life was about to end.
Just look at her now. She has everything a dog could ever want! Beautiful little Skye
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
A barrister hired a digger, pulled 200 bags of rubbish out of a dead stream and got the fish, herons and dragonflies back. The Environment Agency @EnvAgency replied with a letter about a missing permit. Maximum punishment 2 years in prison.
That is Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland of @gardencourtlaw and the River Roding Trust @riverroding in East London.
Update for anyone who missed it. On 25 June the agency dropped the prosecution threat and sent a warning letter.
In August a study funded by Thames Water @thameswater and run with @Thames21 found 600 million litres of sewage contaminated water entering the lower Roding every year.
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
France ordered big businesses to cover their parking lots in solar panels, and the businesses are embracing it.
Carrefour is putting solar canopies over 350 of its store lots, 180,000 parking spaces, and using the power to run its supermarkets.
Disneyland Paris started even earlier: its guest lot now has more than 80,000 panels over 11,200 spaces, producing about 17% of the resort's electricity.
France passed the law in 2023 requiring most large outdoor parking lots to put renewable-energy canopies or other qualifying shade over at least half the lot.
Many businesses don't pay a cent upfront.
Carrefour isn't even fronting the construction cost. GreenYellow is financing the entire installation and operating it under a 20-year power agreement. Carrefour uses the electricity and says the project will significantly reduce its energy bills.
The government estimates it could add up to 11 gigawatts of solar. In full sun, that's about as much as 10 nuclear reactors.
The US has somewhere between 700 million and 2 billion parking spaces. Most of them are bare asphalt baking in the sun.
Why aren't we doing more of this?
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
Animals self-medicating w/plants, soils, or insects is a well-documented behavior known as zoopharmacognosy. Animals use natural substances preventatively, to cure active infections, or to treat specific physical ailments across a wide range of species incl. insects. Examples:
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
Elephants use medicinal plants to treat themselves: bbc.com/news/articles/cv1j4y…
Original research paper: nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
Fascinating new study:
African elephants have more diverse and complex medicinal repertoires than previously recognized.
Observed behavior includes mothers feeding calves with prepared medicinal plants.
All the more reason to urgently preserve the biodiversity of their habitat.
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The Naturally Vegan retweeted
And each #fish is a #SentientBeing!
They caught so much fish they don’t know where to start loading the boats with their murder victims 😱
It is a fish massacre 👺
#Fishing =
#Murder #Ecocide => #MassExtinction
#StopFishing
#LiveVegan when nature thrives we thrive ✌️
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
Very happy to see my next book The Magic of Butterflies and Moths is already online with details and endorsements! Check it out and preorder here: johnhuntpublishing.com/moon-… #butterflies #moths #NewBook
ALT The Magic of Butterflies and Moths by Steve Andrews. #butterflies #moths #books #MoonBooks #SteveAndrews #magic
The Naturally Vegan retweeted
I am undone.
Just look at this little kid.
Owen hasn't moved, has had nothing to eat or drink, for 8 days.
And then this happened last night.
He licked his lips, took a few tremulous steps, then ate, oh-so-slowly, for 19 minutes.🥹
What a little warrior.
(In case you're wondering - his spines are all sticking up from where I have administered a twice daily bolus of fluids, to keep him alive, and he's in such a poor state that his skin has lost all elasticity.
But as he gradually absorbs nourishment again his skin will recover and his spines will lay flat again).
Owen's history: teapawt.net/HedgehogCabin/status/2…
And: teapawt.net/HedgehogCabin/status/2…
Poor darling Owen is still critical, still not eating, and only still alive because of the fluids and drugs I'm injecting him with twice a day.
He's using every ounce of energy to keep living, and can't afford to spend any on digesting food.
He has more internal parasites than I've seen in a live hedgehog for many years.
Aside from a huge burden of deadly lungworm, putting him in acute respiratory distress, and a massive gutful of roundworm, leaching any nutrients left in his frail little body, Owen is full of lethal fluke.
Below are three microscopic images I took from a sample of the tiniest blob of poo Owen produced.
These are three adult fluke.
It's very rare to see one.
But that tiny blob contained three.
I shudder to think how many more are inside his body.
Inside each fluke's body you can see the eggs it is producing.
Fluke are hermaphrodites, so produce self-fertilised eggs.
The golden coloured ones are ready to hatch.
Just one is enough to tip the balance and kill Owen.
Adult flukes live in the digestive tract, liver and bile ducts.
They have strong suckers and physically bite into the delicate mucosal lining to feed on tissue and blood.
They literally eat the living liver.
This causes sharp, agonising pain.
Even without consuming enough liver tissue to cause organ failure on its own, in a wild animal whose body is already being starved by roundworms and suffocated by lungworms, that added physical stress can easily trigger a fatal heart attack or total immune collapse.
Owen's life is on a knife edge.
Only time will tell.
I am so touched by all the loving well-wishes this dear little boy has received. If only he knew how many people are rooting for him.🥹
Please do remember to wash your outside dishes and baths well, at least once a week, preferably daily.
It's likely Owen got fluke from contaminated water.
ALT Owen, a patient in treatment at Hedgehog Cabin, the multi award winning hedgehog hospital.
ALT An adult fluke, seen in a sample from Owen, a patient in treatment at Hedgehog Cabin, the multi award winning hedgehog hospital.
ALT A second adult fluke, seen in a sample from Owen, a patient in treatment at Hedgehog Cabin, the multi award winning hedgehog hospital.
ALT A third adult fluke, seen in a sample from Owen, a patient in treatment at Hedgehog Cabin, the multi award winning hedgehog hospital.