Category: Animal Welfare
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It Will Be Meowvellous
Bali Sep. 4, 2019 Australian Elizabeth Henzell, from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, is a fixture in Ubud and runs Villa Kitty at Lod Tunduh, although it might be more accurate to say that it runs her, since that’s the way of much charity work in Bali. She would modestly demur, no doubt, at the…
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The Doolally Squad
HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali Sunday, May 20, 2018 IT’S hard to know what to write about the Surabaya bombings. Doubtless there are those who would advise against writing anything about them. But that won’t do. Perhaps we could start by saying that at least…
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Who Let the Dogs Out?
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Jul. 19, 2017 EATING dog is something we would never do. It disgusts us, for all sorts of reasons. We also understand that this is largely a cultural issue. Eating man’s best friend is not generally a practice of people whose conditioning originates from what is now Europe.…
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True Glue
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali Jun. 7, 2017 LONG-TIME Indonesia hand Keith Loveard has a fine column in the July edition of GlobeAsia, the Lippo Group business magazine. He wrote it on Pancasila Day (Jun. 1). It’s titled Pacasila and why it matters. He noted…
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A Dog’s Life
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali May 13, 2017 THERE was a revolting instance of animal cruelty in Denpasar this week, which thanks to quick-thinking and wonderfully caring local people swiftly swamped the social media, where it attracted an immediate chorus of shock and shame. The…
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Hard Times
HECTOR’S DIARY His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare The Cage, Bali, May. 6, 2017 IT’S Sigmund Freud’s birthday today. The thought occurred, just at random, that it would be fun to get his, and Zeno the Stoic’s, views on our own times. Unfortunately these proved to be chiefly unprintable. Their shared view,…
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Seriously, Folks
HECTOR’S DIARY in the Bali Advertiser Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 WE had an interesting chat the other day (no names, no pack-drill) about Bali’s new tourism demographics and their effect on the five-star-plus hotel sector. Basically, it’s not good news. The emphasis on the low-cost domestic and Chinese markets is bringing in lots more people…
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