Critters Anonymous Animal Blog First Appeared In 2004 - The Original and Best

We have been using the name 'Critters Anonymous' since 2004. Long before any others who have since adopted the name. We then started doing a show on BlogTalkRadio in 2008, also called Critters Anonymous, which ran for several years until the company changed their format and used shows merely to promote the advertisements of others. Our shows on BlogTalkRadio clocked up over 50,000 listeners (according to internal statistics) and we mentioned a wide variety of themes.

Our first BTR show on Critters Anonymous in 2008 was all about Parslow's Hamster Farm.  Percy W Parslow  bred fancy hamsters of all diferent types from his base at Common Side, Great Bookham Surrey.
My father would buy me hamsters from Parslow's Hamster Farm by mail order and they would be sent as livestock to us by train.  My father would then pick the hamsters up at the local station. Percy Parslow produced many different breeds of hamster as well as having many other  rare strains for sale.
We have also mentioned the plight of many over-looked or badly treated animals, including the controversy over the billion dollar industry of horse racing and the senseless death of Helga the sheep.
We are devoted to the well-being of animals and birds at all times.

Animal Aid's Plea to Leave Animals Out Of Christmas Festivities

Animal Aid have recently made a plea which was published in my local paper (and probably published also in countless other papers in the country), to leave animals out of festive parades, for the sake of their health and well-being.

The article can be read here.

I remember when I was little, a real live donkey was used in our church's nativity play. The donkey became very stubborn and refused to move after going half way up the church aisle.

The nativity play nearly fell in to chaos except that the donkey finally agreed to co-operate!

Having read the letter opposite though, I wonder if the donkey should have been used in the play at all?

Season's Bleatings!

This flyer shows some extremely happy looking sheep - racing.
 It is very pleasant to see these interesting and complex animals being taken seriously, as worthwhile and lively, vivacious creatures in their own important right.
Pan is the most famous God of shepherds and flocks.  He is also the God of wine and merrymaking.
The word 'panic' comes from this god form and rituals associated with Pan can cause this uneasy anxiety feeling...
Dion Fortune's interesting novel 'The Winged Bull' deals with the Pan ritual...

Little Donkey, Little Donkey On The Dusty Road...

I stopped by the library yesterday evening and I found a distressing leaflet, part of which is shown here.  It is a great shame that, in the 21st century, some animals, particularly beasts of burden, are so badly treated in some parts of the world.

Whilst yes, such animals as donkeys are needed by some to earn their family's daily crust,what doesn't seem to be realised is that a fit, healthy and happy donkey would be far more beneficial to their owners than a sick and ailing one.

All life is precious and as such animals should be treated with a lot more respect, regardless of what religion (or not) their owner's follow.

We humans are supposed to have come a long way since the 'War Horse' syndrome of 100 years ago. So why aren't some people reflecting a more positive and caring attitude towards the working donkey?

It beggars belief that world governments even allow creatures to be treated in such a dismal and cruel way.  Poverty is no excuse for abuse of animals such as that being inflicted on the donkey shown in the photos contained within this leaflet.  It is truly sickening.

Critters Anonymous: The Welfare State

A responsibility for life, not just for profit. Critters Anonymous explores some of the prime examples of the misuse of animals, historically and at present. The passages contained within present the material not only in a physical sense as each story dictates but later considers the spiritual sense and the ultimate being that any mentioned animal may become. Their own spirituality can carry a personal message or have its own meaning and so man’s physical dominance is just that, physical.  The mystery and wonder of these creatures, their essence and its embodiment within their souls, continues to thrive in another dimension.

Lolita Salome Rabbit - Goodbye Beautiful Girl

Lolita Salome was purchased from a well known pet store in March 2008.  She was an agouti-brown, partial lop and had a good, even temperament.  Lolita was quite boisterous and loved running about and jumping around.  She appeared in a number of photos as shown here, once thinking she was Lady GaGa, as shown by the huge sunglasses!

Lolita died after a short illness on May 7, 2013 and will be sadly missed by her family.  Lolita received the usual send off and appropriate gifts were purchased for the graveyard Barons and Guardians to assist in her journey to the afterlife.

We played a number of songs, both to celebrate her life and to help her pass on to pastures new. Goodbye beautiful girl, we will always love you and wish you well in your new life in the spirit world.

Saltaire Rabbit Stone

This is a photograph of the Saltaire Rabbit Stone, found near Salt's Mill in Saltaire, Shipley, West Yorkshire in 2011.

Salt's Mill is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was founded by Titus Salt in the 1850s on land once occupied by a corn mill.  Titus Salt built the village of Saltaire for his mill workers and named the streets mainly after his family members.  Titus Salt was once Mayor of Bradford and obtained a baronetcy.  In those days many industrialists received titles - Samuel Cunliffe Lister of nearby Lister's Mill of Manningham, became Lord Masham.

We feel the rabbit stone was quite a rare find.  Rabbits represent the Goddess Eostre, or Ostara, that the Christian Easter was named after.  Eostre is a goddess of spring and fertility.  When Britain converted from Paganism to Christianity, the dates, places and times of Pagan festivals were replaced with Christian celebrations at the same period.  Churches were often built on the site of Pagan altars to encourage people who had gone to these places to worship Pagan gods, to embrace the Christian beliefs instead.

Today with the New Age revival, religions like Druidism are officially recognised legally in their own right.

Grey Furry Fence Squirrel

This little squirrel seems so happy running around on the fence.  The squirrel is a cheeky little thing, unafraid of humans (up to a point) and really just going about his own business. He is not exactly Squirrel Nutkin, but he makes a good impression nonetheless!

According To Pete - The Jockey Lost His Seat

Supernatural Horsepower, is a folk song commemorating Synchronised, According To Pete, The Nile, Tears Of A Clown and all the other horses that have died as a result of racing.  As I understand it, racehorses are trained from an early age to run fast.  They are intelligent, sensitive creatures who, not only make money, but also give lots of prestige to their owners, who house them with a trainer.  But what happens when the training goes wrong?

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The Cat with Wings

The cat with wings was found by a housewife in an Oxford garden in 1933. The cat had black and white markings and was found wondering around the lady's garden. Later, the cat got in to her stables. She said (quote), 'I saw it move from the ground to a beam - a considerable distance, which I do not think it could have leaped - using its wings in a manner similar to that of a bird'.

A further quote from a reporter of the time was 'I carefully examined the cat tonight and there is no doubt about the wings. They grow just in front of its hindquarters'. Two officials arrived and took the cat away. The creature was placed on display at Oxford Zoo.

The photo shows the winged cat at Oxford Zoo in 1933. (The internet reference says 1934). There is a discrepancy as to the photo shown as to which winged cat it really is.

My reference book (undisclosed source, but a book published in the 1980s, which I own) says it is the 1933 winged cat, the internet reference says it is a winged cat from the 1899. At any rate winged cats abound apparently! Claws out and lots of cattiness!

The Totem Pole in a Dark Garden

The light catches the shadows. A picture taken in a rainstorm. Light in wet, long grass. Nature and Elementals as one. The secrets of ages whisper on the wind. The small Canadian Totem Pole stands close to the lantern. Ancient Gods still hold court in the grass in the Shipley, Yorkshire, Bohemian Grove night.

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The Church of the Green Ray Bunny

Browsing the internet I came upon this rather spectacular photograph, showing that the Green Ray can be found in many different places. It shows that the great power of the Universe can reach out and give new life and light, in this case, to a forgotten, derelict church, which the photo shows connecting once again, albeit perhaps in a more abstract way, to the great power of the planet Earth.

Rabbits' Rights

Animal Liberation Organisation Exhibition

This is the May 2011 animal rights themed exhibition, held in Shipley Library, Wellcroft, Shipley, West Yorkshire. Included are the Animal Liberation Organisation (ALO) and also RACE (Rallying Against Cruelty to Equines).

Included in the exhibition are of course, photos or pictures of 19th and early 20th century public attraction or circus elephants - Chunee, Jumbo, Topsy and Mary, all of whom met a cruel and undignified end, but who are still remembered to this day and who are featured on our website.

Psychic Cows

The cows can tell if its going to rain, that's when they all lay down. An old wives' tale you say? Well, just watch the weather and strange as it may be, when you see lots of cows laying down in fields it often does rain.

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The Owlet Vampire Joined by Bradford Phantoms in Shipley Haunting

Owlet in Shipley, a town just outside Bradford in West Yorkshire, is one of the most haunted places in the entire area. Not only does Owlet have a vampire, it also has many ghosts, a couple of which are captured here on a photograph taken in September 2010.

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Buddha in the Suburbs

Buddha brings calm and genuine serenity to an Autumn evening. Everything felt calm, peaceful and relaxed. Just as Siddhartha Gautama Sakyamuni - known as 'Buddha' - The Enlightened One, would have wanted it to be.

Lord Ganesha

Lord Ganesha sits in his windowsill shrine amongst his gifts. He has his personal jars of honey, chocolate and sweet things around him as well as a red or orange plant or flowers standing nearby. Lord Ganesha is the remover of obstacles.

A Meat-Free Christmas

I got this cutting from my local paper. To be honest I find it a bit sickening when people mention Christmas turkey and certainly give it a miss. However there is another problem and that is that plants are live too.

Cleve Backster did polygraph tests on plants and found that they responded, even to being shouted at. Also plants apparently faint when they are cut or chopped down so that they do not feel the pain.

Unfortunately virtually everything a human eats, even stuff like sugar, comes from life. Doors are often made from wood, as is furniture, so if you have wood in your house that is from life too.

Just because plants and trees do not react in the same way as livestock it doesn't mean that they do not feel fear or pain. To be totally humane we would have to develop synthetic food and homewares that had nothing to do with either animals,birds, fish OR plants.

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The Golden Dawn and Green Ray Elemental Magick

Famous 19th century Order, The Golden Dawn, had an Inner Order who worked on a paper called 'Scrying in the Spirit Vision'. This taught initiates how to expand their aura to also take in the aura of plants and form a magnetic link with them. Further examples of this were described in another Golden Dawn paper 'The Book of Wylwn'. Another good example of this is Cleve Backster's 'Primary Perception'.

Followers of the Astral Path

Green Ray Critters Anonymous and Cleve Backster's Primary Perception

Animals are often closer to the Green Ray than humans, especially if they live in the Wild Wood governed by the very ancient Celtic horned God, Herne, also known as Cernunnos, who actually dates from the Stone Age and is depicted in cave paintings thousands upon thousands of years old.

Cleve Backster discovered primary perception and proved that plants have feelings and responded to anxiety situations. See Golden Goat Radio for a podcast about Cleve Backster and Primary Perception. For more bizarre animal information see the Critters Anonymous show on Blog Talk Radio and selected shows on Golden Goat Radio.

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