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Sheep Suffer Right Through the Year
Animals  (tags: australia, cruelty, sheep, shorn, cold weather, freezing, animal welfare )

Simone
- 1065 days ago - all-creatures.org
THE Geelong region has just shivered through a week of icy weather with Aireys Inlet recording its coldest first 10 days of May on record. Sheep are now shorn in autumn for greater profits, argues a reader. Snow has fallen on the Grampians range
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rene davis (74)
Monday May 16, 2011, 7:03 pm
sad
 

Simone D. (1481)
Tuesday May 17, 2011, 9:03 am
It is Rene! I have myself, has several, I will call them discussions with farmers about why the hell do they shear the sheep in the cold weather ! It makes my blood boil actually, My girls, two pet sheep keep their wool through the winter, and I shear them when the weather heats up, Simple really.
 

Cindy C. (125)
Tuesday May 17, 2011, 2:33 pm
AWW THE POOR LITTLE THINGS AND I AM SO SO SORRY AWWW
 
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