Category: Animals

4th Ring Road posted the picture above taken at the Friday Market. I have no idea why these people aren’t being punished…

K’s Path (Kuwait Society for the Protection of Animals and their Habitat) are holding their 1st ever annual charity golf tournament at the Sahara Kuwait Resort. Even if you don’t play golf it’s not a problem since you could join as a spectator and have lunch on the Sahara’s fabulous veranda overlooking the lush green golf course. It’s really an amazing and beautiful place.

Date: Friday 12th November, 2010
Location: Sahara Kuwait Resort
Tee off: 8:30AM
Lunch: 12PM

If you want to play golf the price is:
Sahara members: KD10 (includes lunch)
Non-members: KD20 (includes lunch)

If you just want to watch, have lunch and enjoy the beautiful landscape the price is KD12

Space is limited and tickets must be purchased ahead of time. You can get tickets from the following locations:

Tuesday 2nd November 4PM to 7PM
Coffee Bean in Fintas (across from fintas towers)

Saturday 6th November 9AM to 1PM
Sahara Kuwait Resort

or contact K’s Path on 67001622 or [email protected]

Here is the flier [Link]

This is Ayeshah Al Humaidhi’s presentation at Pecha Kucha Kuwait night #6. Ayeshah is the person behind Animal Friends and K’s Path the animal rescue and protection organization here in Kuwait. [YouTube]

A sheep, known for its particularly good breeding ability, has sold for a record KD25,000 in Kuwait. The sheep is named Mayzoon and breeders are willing to pay up to KD200 for use of it for just one evening, Kuwaiti daily Al Rai reported on Tuesday.

I am at a loss for words. [Link]

via The Buz Fairy

As I mentioned in my previous post the bear enclosures at the Zoo were the only decent ones. They had 3 enclosures next to each other for 3 different types of bears. I filmed a short video of one of the bears he seemed to be enjoying himself in the water. [YouTube]

After reading an article in Arab Times about the Zoo management accepting criticism I figured with that the Kuwait Zoo had turned a new leaf and has changed for the better. Well I was there today and nothing has changed.

To be fair, the 3 new bear enclosures are a huge improvement over everything else at the zoo. They’ve also fixed the Bony sign by covering up the bottom right part of the B so that it now looks like a P. And that’s it. Thats the only two things that have improved.

The worst part about the whole zoo has to be the security guards. People were feeding the animals, throwing bottles of water at the animals, throwing garbage and jumping over the protective barriers while the security guards did nothing. I went up to one security guard and asked him if it was allowed to feed the animals, he told me no it wasn’t. I then asked him why he was letting people feed the animals or kids throw bottles at the bears. He pretended to be dumb and asked me who was doing that, I just pointed to the crowd standing next to him and told him they all are. He just looked at me confused and wondered off. A few minutes later we were near the monkey cages and I noticed two little kids over the fence feeding the animals with their parents proudly standing and watching. What was even more terrible was the fact there was a security guard sitting on a chair also just watching. I went up to him as well and asked him why he wasn’t doing anything about the kids over the barrier. I asked him what if one of the monkeys bit one of the kids? He just smiled back at me, he didn’t care.

As you can see in the picture above the two kids are over the barrier. In the second picture below you can see the security guard in the chair watching the kids in the background over the barrier.

Everywhere I looked there were people just throwing stuff at the animals and no one was doing anything about it. But the thing is, it’s not their fault. People aren’t expected to know they can’t feed the animals and I only saw one “Don’t feed the animals” sign in the whole zoo. It’s the job of the zoo to educate people, they should put up signs in multiple languages telling people not to feed or throw stuff at the animals and they should be located outside all the cages and enclosures. It’s then the job of the security guards to enforce the rules when they are broken. In both cases the zoo has failed miserably.

Blogger Mathai spotted the below hoarding banner at the new Lulu Hypermarket mall off the 208 in Qurain. It’s still coming soon but since I can’t think of any mall in Kuwait already containing an aquarium, they really don’t have to make it that big for it to be the biggest. [Link]

Last year I posted about a bear that was being sold in Kuwait. After readers started contacting Animal Friends they launched an investigation and with the help of the government helped seize the bear. So where is the bear now and how is he doing? Well it looks like it’s at the Kuwait Zoo and judging by the video above having a great time. I haven’t been to the zoo for ages but the bear enclosure in the video above looks pretty good and large. It looks like I need to pass by the zoo soon and update my pictures. [YouTube]

Thanks sinful eyes

The Kuwait Zoo surprisingly has a twitter account. Not only that but they’re actually pretty active posting photos and videos. You can check out their twitter page [Here]

Not to be confused with The Shark of Kuwait, Sharks of Kuwait is a 22 minute long documentary by AlJazeera English.

Fifty years ago, the Arabian Gulf was full of sharks. Witness joins an expedition to find out how many have survived years of ecological damage.

[YouTube]

When will people understand that cubs are NOT pets. I hope someone from the authorities or K’s Path can do something about this. [Link]

Thanks Phoenix

30 people got hurt. They should just ban bull fighting already. [YouTube]

Some funny and random pictures of people with their pets. I thought the one above was very cool but mostly because of the guy since he reminded me of Will Ferrel. [Link]

Ok so he got the Uruguay vs Germany game wrong but even psychic goats make mistakes (blame it on the humidity). For the final game he’s predicting Spain will win over Netherlands. [YouTube]

I love IVH, they’re the only place I trust with my dog. [YouTube]