PETITION TO HAVE ANIMALS RECLASSIFIED AS 'SENTIENT BEINGS'
Inasmuch as animals in South Africa are still legally classified as 'things' - a classification shared by all moveable property such as fruit, furniture and minerals - and inasmuch as this classification is archaic and a blatant travesty of justice, we, the undersigned, call upon the President of South Africa, to immediately set in motion the necessary steps to change the classification of animals from 'things' to 'sentient beings'.
Sentient literally means 'possessing powers of sense or sense perception. Having, or actually experiencing sensation or feeling, as opposed to inanimate or vegetable'.
| NAME | COMMENTS | |
| Keri Thomas | (WSSLatmethomas@hotmail.com) | Animals are incrediable creatures. They bring smiles to our faces when we have tears in our eyes. Dogs in the USA are trained for war, seeing eye dogs that lead the blind, bomb sniffing dogs, guard dogs, some dogs can also sniff out cancers and sicknesses in people. You can train birds to talk, teach cats to use a litter box, have a monkey that acts just like a person using sign language. If you accidentally step on my toe a will scream, if you accidentally step on a dog or a cats toe, they will scream. I will always treat an animal with respect and I will raise my kids the same way. I wish all of the World could just understand how special these living little soles are. - Tuesday August 30, 2005 at 20:54:22 |
| Keri Thomas | (WSSLatmethomas@hotmail.com) | Animals are incrediable creatures. They bring smiles to our faces when we have tears in our eyes. Dogs in the USA are trained for war, seeing eye dogs that lead the blind, bomb sniffing dogs, guard dogs, some dogs can also sniff out cancers and sicknesses in people. You can train birds to talk, teach cats to use a litter box, have a monkey that acts just like a person using sign language. If you accidentally step on my toe a will scream, if you accidentally step on a dog or a cats toe, they will scream. I will always treat an animal with respect and I will raise my kids the same way. I wish all of the World could just understand how special these living little soles are. - Tuesday August 30, 2005 at 20:53:36 |
| Keri Thomas | (WSSLatmethomas@hotmail.com) | Animals are incrediable creatures. They bring smiles to our faces when we have tears in our eyes. Dogs in the USA are trained for war, seeing eye dogs that lead the blind, bomb sniffing dogs, guard dogs, some dogs can also sniff out cancers and sicknesses in people. You can train birds to talk, teach cats to use a litter box, have a monkey that acts just like a person using sign language. If you accidentally step on my toe a will scream, if you accidentally step on a dog or a cats toe, they will scream. I will always treat an animal with respect and I will raise my kids the same way. I wish all of the World could just understand how special these living little soles are. - Tuesday August 30, 2005 at 20:51:16 |
| Keri Thomas | (WSSLatmethomas@hotmail.com) | Animals are incrediable creatures. They bring smiles to our faces when we have tears in our eyes. Dogs in the USA are trained for war, seeing eye dogs that lead the blind, bomb sniffing dogs, guard dogs, some dogs can also sniff out cancers and sicknesses in people. You can train birds to talk, teach cats to use a litter box, have a monkey that acts just like a person using sign language. If you accidentally step on my toe a will scream, if you accidentally step on a dog or a cats toe, they will scream. I will always treat an animal with respect and I will raise my kids the same way. I wish all of the World could just understand how special these living little soles are. - Tuesday August 30, 2005 at 20:51:04 |
| Lisa Schlesinger | (lisaschles@hotmail.com) | How ridiculous that intelligent human beings cannot recognise that animals possess senses of perception and pain. You MUST change the law. Compassion has to start somewhere, and allowing people to disrespect any kind of life is sending out a terrible message that we as human beings will tolerate cruelty at any level. - Tuesday July 12, 2005 at 16:59:05 |
| Lisa Schlesinger | (lisaschles@hotmail.com) | How ridiculous that intelligent human beings cannot recognise that animals possess senses of perception and pain. You MUST change the law. Compassion has to start somewhere, and allowing people to disrespect any kind of life is sending out a terrible message that we as human beings will tolerate cruelty at any level. - Tuesday July 12, 2005 at 16:55:31 |
| Lisa Schlesinger | (lisaschles@hotmail.com) | How ridiculous that intelligent human beings cannot recognise that animals possess senses of perception and pain. You MUST change the law. Compassion has to start somewhere, and allowing people to disrespect any kind of life is sending out a terrible message that we as human beings will tolerate cruelty at any level. - Tuesday July 12, 2005 at 16:55:14 |
| Lisa Schlesinger | (lisaschles@hotmail.com) | How ridiculous that intelligent human beings cannot recognise that animals possess senses of perception and pain. You MUST change the law. Compassion has to start somewhere, and allowing people to disrespect any kind of life is sending out a terrible message that we as human beings will tolerate cruelty at any level. - Tuesday July 12, 2005 at 16:54:36 |
| Philene Blom | (blomp@hydepark.gp.school.za) | Researching Animal Welfare and Animal Rights Abuses and Cruelty not only in SA, but also in the world, has made me realise that many millions of animals live in appalling conditions, and are treated with absolute inhumanity. This is unacceptable, and must be stopped. South Africa can lead the struggle for Animal Rights. But it must begin by being enforced into our Constitution. - Saturday June 25, 2005 at 19:29:47 |
| osas | (osas@mugu.com) | mugummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - Monday May 2, 2005 at 11:58:52 |
| julia lee | (julzj@webmail.co.za) | i think its distgusting what people do to animals... heeeellpppp ttthhheessee aaaaaannnnniiiiimmmmmmaaaaaalllllss!!!!! - Tuesday April 12, 2005 at 15:54:12 |
| julia lee | (julzj@webmail.co.za) | i think its distgusting what people do to animals... heeeellpppp ttthhheessee aaaaaannnnniiiiimmmmmmaaaaaalllllss!!!!! - Tuesday April 12, 2005 at 15:53:38 |
| julia lee | (julzj@webmail.co.za) | i think its distgusting what people do to animals... heeeellpppp ttthhheessee aaaaaannnnniiiiimmmmmmaaaaaalllllss!!!!! - Tuesday April 12, 2005 at 15:53:20 |
| Mari Borain | (mborain@ananzi.co.za) | - Monday April 11, 2005 at 12:33:39 |
| sarah came | (rottencat@hotmail.com) | By the definition given above animals are obviosly sentient beings and denying this is is a blatent lie. Those who exploit and abuse any other living soul will regret it. - Sunday April 10, 2005 at 20:09:24 |
| Sandy Cochran | (sandyc@tbl.co.tz) | I am a South African citizen temporarily resident in Tanzania, where I am currently involved in animal welfare and a review of the Tanzanian Animal Protection Act.Please be so kind as to keep me posted about the progress on this petition as changes to the SA legislation may pave the way to changes in legislation elsewhere in Africa, of the same kind. - Tuesday April 5, 2005 at 18:35:54 |
| Sandy Cochran | (sandyc@tbl.co.tz) | I am a South African citizen temporarily resident in Tanzania, where I am currently involved in animal welfare and a review of the Tanzanian Animal Protection Act.Please be so kind as to keep me posted about the progress on this petition as changes to the SA legislation may pave the way to changes in legislation elsewhere in Africa, of the same kind. - Tuesday April 5, 2005 at 18:35:39 |
| Sandy Cochran | (sandyc@tbl.co.tz) | - Tuesday April 5, 2005 at 18:31:41 |
| Sandy Cochran | (sandyc@tbl.co.tz) | - Tuesday April 5, 2005 at 18:31:17 |
| Sandy Cochran | (sandyc@tbl.co.tz) | - Tuesday April 5, 2005 at 18:31:06 |
| Amanda Moore | (aubreyamanda@yahoo.co.uk) | ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS!!!!!! - Friday April 1, 2005 at 23:13:16 |
| Amanda Moore | (aubreyamanda@yahoo.co.uk) | ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS!!!!!! - Friday April 1, 2005 at 23:12:41 |
| Amanda Moore | (aubreyamanda@yahoo.co.uk) | ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS!!!!!! - Friday April 1, 2005 at 23:12:30 |
| Amanda Moore | (aubreyamanda@yahoo.co.uk) | ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS!!!!!! - Friday April 1, 2005 at 23:11:27 |
| Oliver Schultz | (oschultz@hotmail.com) | I am in total agreement - Wednesday March 2, 2005 at 12:05:03 |
| BEVAN | (US@YAHOO.COM.) | - Tuesday January 4, 2005 at 15:00:13 |
| alvin' kurth | (alvin.kurth@laposte.net) | "the animals belong to the same family that the human ones, they are sensitive beings. All the men have rights whereas animals, which sometimes can more conscious than some be handicapped, do not have any of it. It is time to repair this injustice the interests of the animals and of the men are dependent ". - Wednesday December 29, 2004 at 18:18:13 |
| alvin' kurth | (alvin.kurth@laposte.net) | "the animals belong to the same family that the human ones, they are sensitive beings. All the men have rights whereas animals, which sometimes can more conscious than some be handicapped, do not have any of it. It is time to repair this injustice the interests of the animals and of the men are dependent ". - Wednesday December 29, 2004 at 18:17:56 |
| James Brady | (bradyjm@infoseek.org) | God god god. It seems hardly anyone in this country has a reason to do anything unless their "god" supposedly said it should be so. Think for yourselves, people. Humans are the only animals (YES, WE ARE ANIMALS) capable of generating such abstractions. If animals are 'sentient beings,' then bacteria, as part of the animal kingdom, are 'sentient beings'. Doesn't follow - this petition has no idea where it is going. First, drop the word 'animal,' because that includes everything from bacteria to human beings. Then again, maybe we'll also be classified as sentient one day - as soon as we can show some intelligence... - Saturday December 18, 2004 at 21:32:02 |
| James Brady | (bradyjm@infoseek.org) | God god god. It seems hardly anyone in this country has a reason to do anything unless their "god" supposedly said it should be so. Think for yourselves, people. Humans are the only animals (YES, WE ARE ANIMALS) capable of generating such abstractions. If animals are 'sentient beings,' then bacteria, as part of the animal kingdom, are 'sentient beings'. Doesn't follow - this petition has no idea where it is going. First, drop the word 'animal,' because that includes everything from bacteria to human beings. Then again, maybe we'll also be classified as sentient one day - as soon as we can show some intelligence... - Saturday December 18, 2004 at 21:31:41 |
| James Brady | (bradyjm@infoseek.org) | God god god. It seems hardly anyone in this country has a reason to do anything unless their "god" supposedly said it should be so. Think for yourselves, people. Humans are the only animals (YES, WE ARE ANIMALS) capable of generating such abstractions. If animals are 'sentient beings,' then bacteria, as part of the animal kingdom, are 'sentient beings'. Doesn't follow - this petition has no idea where it is going. First, drop the word 'animal,' because that includes everything from bacteria to human beings. Then again, maybe we'll also be classified as sentient one day - as soon as we can show some intelligence... - Saturday December 18, 2004 at 21:31:25 |
| Cherrie Hardy | (harryjas@tpg.com.au) | How quickly this law would be changed if it directly effected those in Government. How sad it is, that petitions are needed to try and save these beautiful aminls. Shame on the South African Government. - Sunday December 12, 2004 at 07:37:12 |
| Cherrie Hardy | (harryjas@tpg.com.au) | How quickly this law would be changed if it directly effected those in Government. How sad it is, that petitions are needed to try and save these beautiful aminls. Shame on the South African Government. - Sunday December 12, 2004 at 07:37:01 |
| Estie | (ekretsch@supersport.co.za) | How sad to see that 5 years down the line, after this petition started, nothing has been done in parliament to rectify our friends' rights. Please let me know how I can help to let this happen in 2005 and not a day later! I do support this cause with all my heart. Please, we cannot wait any longer. - Sunday December 5, 2004 at 10:49:40 |
| Estie | (ekretsch@supersport.co.za) | How sad to see that 5 years down the line, after this petition started, nothing has been done in parliament to rectify our friends' rights. Please let me know how I can help to let this happen in 2005 and not a day later! I do support this cause with all my heart. Please, we cannot wait any longer. - Sunday December 5, 2004 at 10:49:23 |
| pam | (tratellis@ah.com) | i really support ur movement from my heart - Friday November 19, 2004 at 20:32:02 |
| chantel smit | (jchealth@iafrica.com) | God himself said that we should look after and care for the animals that he put on earth.Since we are supposed to be the most intellagent species, but when I see the creul and dumb things people do than I'm not always sure that we are.Animals are far more loyal than humans thats forsure. - Sunday October 24, 2004 at 19:33:10 |
| chantel smit | (jchealth@iafrica.com) | God himself said that we should look after and care for the animals that he put on earth.Since we are supposed to be the most intellagent species, but when I see the creul and dumb things people do than I'm not always sure that we are.Animals are far more loyal than humans thats forsure. - Sunday October 24, 2004 at 19:31:51 |
| chantel smit | (jchealth@iafrica.com) | God himself said that we should look after and care for the animals that he put on earth.Since we are supposed to be the most intellagent species, but when I see the creul and dumb things people do than I'm not always sure that we are.Animals are far more loyal than humans thats forsure. - Sunday October 24, 2004 at 19:31:30 |
| ibrahim | (email) | - Tuesday September 28, 2004 at 05:42:29 |
| Brian Tristam Williams | (briantw@anaddress.com) | Perhaps one of the first things that need to be changed around here are the semantics. For all the ideology, the implication here seems to be that we are us, and they are them. Remember: Human Beings, Homo sapiens ARE one of the species of animal! We are primates. We are apes. We are mammals. We are ANIMALS. Yes, I am a sentient being. I think. (therefore I am?) - Monday September 27, 2004 at 21:59:34 |
| Dossena | (Cyber827@aol.com) | ANIMALS ARE DUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMB KILLLLLLLLLLLL THEM ALLLLLLLLLLL - Thursday September 23, 2004 at 15:05:52 |
| Dossena | (Cyber827@aol.com) | ANIMALS ARE DUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMB KILLLLLLLLLLLL THEM ALLLLLLLLLLL - Thursday September 23, 2004 at 15:05:42 |
| NWAOMA | (NWAOMA@NWAOMA.COM) | THEY ARE PLEASE KEEPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUGUOO - Wednesday September 8, 2004 at 21:50:00 |
| NWAOMA | (NWAOMA@NWAOMA.COM) | NWAOMA THEY ARE HEREOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE KEEP OOOO - Wednesday September 8, 2004 at 21:29:36 |
| NWAOMA | (NWAOMA@NWAOMA.COM) | NWAOMA THEY ARE HEREOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE KEEP OFFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUGUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NWAOMA - Wednesday September 8, 2004 at 21:29:16 |
| NWAOMA | (NWAOMA@NWAOMA.COM) | NWAOMA THEY ARE HEREOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE KEEP OFFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUGUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NWAOMA - Wednesday September 8, 2004 at 21:29:01 |
| Kirstin Kilian | (kirstinkilian@hotmail.com) | - Tuesday September 7, 2004 at 20:55:15 |
| Kirstin Kilian | (kirstinkilian@hotmail.com) | - Tuesday September 7, 2004 at 20:55:05 |
| Bassam Imam | (PrimatePerson2004@yahoo.ca) | Animals are one of GOD's many beautiful creations! They have the right to be treated with mercy, compassion, and fairness! Furthermore, animals are sentient beings; they are alive and feel physical and mental pain. Animals are not THINGS! - Tuesday August 3, 2004 at 05:46:14 |
| Bassam Imam | (PrimatePerson2004@yahoo.ca) | Animals are one of GOD's many beautiful creations! They have the right to be treated with mercy, compassion, and fairness! Furthermore, animals are sentient beings; they are alive and feel physical and mental pain. Animals are not THINGS! - Tuesday August 3, 2004 at 05:45:35 |
| Rina Owen | (rina.owen@up.ac.za) | I support the petition - Monday July 5, 2004 at 09:16:48 |
| Lori Power | (alivingwell@rogers.com) | Ghandi said: "You can tell the state of a society by the way it treats it's animals..." - Friday June 18, 2004 at 05:57:30 |
| Lori Power | (alivingwell@rogers.com) | Ghandi said: "You can tell the state of a society by the way it treats it's animals..." - Friday June 18, 2004 at 05:57:06 |
| Lori Power | (alivingwell@rogers.com) | Ghandi said: "You can tell the state of a society by the way it treats it's animals..." - Friday June 18, 2004 at 05:56:56 |
| Carmen | (Canh) | If people have rights so do the animals who die for others to be comfortable and for eating!!! Don't hurt innocent animals!!! be a vegetarian!!! - Friday June 11, 2004 at 11:26:53 |
| Ms Julie Magnus | (julie.magnus@juliemagnusracehorsetransport.co.uk) | - Wednesday May 26, 2004 at 11:46:32 |
| William Alves | (blueboy36za@yahoo.co.uk) | Ban the slaughter of innocent animals. Eat vegetables. - Saturday April 3, 2004 at 16:33:16 |
| William Alves | (blueboy36za@yahoo.co.uk) | Ban the slaughter of innocent animals. Eat vegetables. - Saturday April 3, 2004 at 16:32:02 |
| William Alves | (blueboy36za@yahoo.co.uk) | Ban the slaughter of innocent animals. Eat vegetables. - Saturday April 3, 2004 at 16:30:52 |
| William Alves | (blueboy36za@yahoo.co.uk) | Ban the slaughter of innocent animals. Eat vegetables. - Saturday April 3, 2004 at 16:30:41 |
| Lize Muller | (lize@proworx.co.za) | Speak up for those unable to speak for themselves. Animals are better than people. - Thursday February 12, 2004 at 14:10:41 |
| Yvette Dukes | (omni_odc@iafrica.com) | - Sunday January 18, 2004 at 20:49:00 |
| yvette dukes | (omni_odc@iafrica.com) | - Sunday January 18, 2004 at 20:32:37 |
| yvette dukes | (omni_odc@iafrica.com) | - Sunday January 18, 2004 at 20:29:48 |
| yvette dukes | (omni_odc@iafrica.com) | - Sunday January 18, 2004 at 20:27:22 |
| Marlene beck | (marlene.beck@ntlworld.com) | We all live in this world ,we all breathe, we are all equal.Let's start sharing.. - Wednesday June 11, 2003 at 18:31:44 |
| Marlene beck | (marlene.beck@ntlworld.com) | We all live in this world ,we all breathe, we are all equal.Let's start sharing.. - Wednesday June 11, 2003 at 18:31:19 |
| Marlene beck | (marlene.beck@ntlworld.com) | We all live in this world ,we all breathe, we are all equal.Let's start sharing.. - Wednesday June 11, 2003 at 18:30:50 |
| Marlene beck | (marlene.beck@ntlworld.com) | We all live in this world ,we all breathe, we are all equal.Let's start sharing.. - Wednesday June 11, 2003 at 18:30:27 |
| Berna Bicen | (thebutterfly62@hotmail.com) | every living creature are the gifts of MotherEarth. L O V E & R E S P E C T them all! - Monday August 5, 2002 at 10:14:01 |
| Berna Bicen | (thebutterfly62@hotmail.com) | every living creature are the gifts of MotherEarth. L O V E & R E S P E C T them all! - Monday August 5, 2002 at 10:13:42 |
| SARAH HARRISON | (sezh222@yahoo.com) | I COMPLETELY AGREE THAT ANIMALS SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED AS SENTIENT BEINGS!!! PLEASE CONTACT ME IF THERE IS ANY WAY THAT I CAN HELP!!! - Sunday July 7, 2002 at 20:32:39 |
| SARAH HARRISON | (sezh222@yahoo.com) | I COMPLETELY AGREE THAT ANIMALS SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED AS SENTIENT BEINGS!!! PLEASE CONTACT ME IF THERE IS ANY WAY THAT I CAN HELP!!! - Sunday July 7, 2002 at 20:32:06 |
| Ivone de Figueiredo | (idefig@mad.scientist.com) | - Wednesday July 3, 2002 at 09:30:11 |
| Mike Hendricks | (mwhendricks@hotmail.com) | Please recheck your definition of the word sentient. It means to be self-aware. - Thursday June 27, 2002 at 17:59:07 |
| Lindie van der Westhuizen | (lindievdw@hotmail .com) | Animals have blood too. Blood is life. The Greek word for life also means soul. Althoug I'm not too sure about the animal spirit, they have a soul/blood/life. They also proof to experience feelings just as humans like love, affection, depression, happyness ect. Although they not so intelligent as we are, they are sentient beings. God made animals and put man over it to look after it...Genesis. - Thursday July 12, 2001 at 15:57:20 |
| Lindie van der Westhuizen | (lindievdw@hotmail .com) | Animals have blood too. Blood is life. The Greek word for life also means soul. Althoug I'm not too sure about the animal spirit, they have a soul/blood/life. They also proof to experience feelings just as humans like love, affection, depression, happyness ect. Although they not so intelligent as we are, they are sentient beings. God made animals and put man over it to look after it...Genesis. - Thursday July 12, 2001 at 15:56:53 |
| Shirley van Lelyveld | (shirlvet@aol.com) | In this enlightened day and age, how can any "human" not see animals as sentient beings? - Thursday June 7, 2001 at 19:49:11 |
| Shirley van Lelyveld | (shirlvet@aol.com) | As a veterinary surgeon I spend all my time dealing with animals in often trying and unpleasant circumstances, and cannot believe that any intelligent "human" in this so-called enlightened day and age, would not accept animals as sentient beings - Thursday June 7, 2001 at 19:47:05 |
| Clairone Delaney | (mdelaney@qis.net) | From "Animal Rites" --Andrew Linzey, p. 139 Yet the saddest of all, most terrible of all fates surely, is to have lost that sense of the holiness of life altogether, to be so unaware of the true nature of the creatures with which we are dealing that we commit the blasphemy, the sacrilege of bringing thousands of lives to a cruel and terrifying death, or making those lives a living death -- and feel nothing ... It is in the battery shed and the broiler house, not in the wild, that we find the true parallel to Auschwitz. Auschwitz is a purely human invention. -- John Austin Baker I remember reading once that a sense of humor is a sign of intelligence. Who has lived with dogs and not seen their jokes...:) Best regards, Clairone - Monday March 12, 2001 at 23:18:55 |
| Clairone Delaney | (mdelaney@qis.net) | From "Animal Rites" --Andrew Linzey, p. 139 |
| Clairone Delaney | (mdelaney@qis.net) | From "Animal Rites" --Andrew Linzey, p. 139 |
| Brandy Massam | (brandy@icon.co.za) | I feel that it is arrogant of humans to look at aminals a mere things. They have as much right to be here on the earth as we do. - Friday March 2, 2001 at 13:09:54 |
| stephan Vonfelt | (stephan.vonfelt@wanadoo.fr) | Here's my on-line petition for the right to life and welfare of all sentient beings : http://dsbr.free.fr I've obtained as far 1000 signatures from all over the world. Best regards, and good luck, Stephan - Saturday February 24, 2001 at 12:51:59 |
| stephan Vonfelt | (stephan.vonfelt@wanadoo.fr) | Here's my on-line petition for the right to life and welfare of all sentient beings : http://dsbr.free.fr. I've obtained as far 1000 signatures from all over the world. Best regards, and good luck, Stephan - Saturday February 24, 2001 at 12:51:49 |
| stephan Vonfelt | (stephan.vonfelt@wanadoo.fr) | Here's my on-line petition for the right to life and welfare of all sentient beings : http://dsbr.free.fr. I've obtained as far 1000 signatures from all over the world. Best regards, and good luck, Stephan - Saturday February 24, 2001 at 12:51:37 |
| stephan Vonfelt | (stephan.vonfelt@wanadoo.fr) | Here's my on-line petition for the right to life and welfare of all sentient beings : http://dsbr.free.fr. I've obtained as far 1000 signatures from all over the world. Best regards, and good luck, Stephan - Saturday February 24, 2001 at 12:51:25 |
| stephan Vonfelt | (stephan.vonfelt@wanadoo.fr) | Here's my on-line petition for the right to life and welfare of all sentient beings : http://dsbr.free.fr. I've obtained as far 1000 signatures from all over the world. Best regards, and good luck, Stephan - Saturday February 24, 2001 at 12:50:32 |
| kim vink | (tecksa@telkomsa.net) | - Friday February 23, 2001 at 21:10:57 |
| annamarie smeda | (rainpoly&new.co.za) | THIS COUNTRY IS MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE PAST THEN THE PRESENT OR THE FUTURE. AS MR. MANDELA ALWAYS SAID "THE CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE" - WHY THEN DOES MR. MBEKI HAVE SUCH A PROBLEM WITH THE PAST? WHY SHOULD THE CHILDREN OF TODAY SUFFER FOR THE MISTAKES MADE BY THERE FOREFATHERS? AS FOR THE ANIMALS IN THIS COUNTRY, WE HAVE FAR TOO MANY OF THEM LEFT IN LOCATIONS, DUMPED OUT OF CARS ETC. WHY SHOULD THEY SUFFER? THEY CAN'T TELL YOU WHERE IT HURTS..JUST LIKE A BABY WHICH IS ANOTHER SORE SUBJECT... I PERSONALLY FEEL THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD STOP LETTING OTHER PEOPLE DO HIS WORK, AND SEE IF HE HAS ANY EMOTION WHAT SO EVER IN HIS HEART TO HELP THE PEOPLE,CHILDREN AND ANIMALS OF THIS COUNTRY. IF HE IN FACT DOES NOT HAVE ANY GOOD FEELINGS TOWARDS THESE ISSUES, THEN HE SHOULD STEP DOWN FROM HIS HIGH HORSE, AND LET SOMEONE WHO IS CARING AND FAIR TAKE OVER. IMMATERIAL WHETHER THAT PERSON IS WHITE,BLACK,COLOURED,YELLOW OR ANY OTHER CLASSIFICATION.WE WORK IN PAROW INDUSTRIA, AND THE AMOUNT OF ABUSED ANIMALS ARE PHENOMINAL - HORSES AND DONKIES WHO OBVIOUSELY CAN NOT TAKE ANY MORE STEPS ARE BEATEN WITH A WHIP OR WITH A BARE FIST - WE ARE ANIMAL LOVERS, AND THEREFORE PHONE ANIMAL ANTI-CRUELTY WHO ARE NEVER AROUND ON TIME TO SORT OUT THE PROBLEM. INSTEAD OF USING OUR TAX MONEY TO BUY MORE LARNEY CARS FOR THE GOVERMENT OFFICIALS, SPEND SOME MORE ON THE PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS WHO CARE FOR OUR COUNTRY AND ALL IT'S "BEINGS" PEOPLE MIGHT START TAKING MATTERS INTO THERE OWN HANDS, AND THEN WHAT.... - Monday February 19, 2001 at 10:32:00 |
| leon clingman | (leonclingman@yahoo.com) | - Wednesday February 7, 2001 at 11:02:07 |
| leon clingman | (leonclingman@yahoo.com) | - Wednesday February 7, 2001 at 11:01:48 |
| Karin Schonteich | (karin@dbn.lia.net) | - Sunday February 4, 2001 at 16:16:06 |
| Karin Schonteich | (karin@dbn.lia.net) | - Sunday February 4, 2001 at 16:15:42 |
| Karin Schonteich | (karin@dbn.lia.net) | - Sunday February 4, 2001 at 16:15:22 |
| John Pearse | (john_pearse@hotmail.com) | I hope this will be done in the near future. - Wednesday January 31, 2001 at 22:40:47 |
| John Pearse | (john_pearse@hotmail.com) | I totally agree with this statement and hope they may be reclassified - Wednesday January 31, 2001 at 22:39:28 |
| Mario Morales | (sfx_ns@yahoo.com) | - Thursday January 25, 2001 at 03:29:48 |
| Charl Strydom | (charval@icon.co.za) | This is not just about animals, it's about life. Most things are banned - why not fireworks. - Saturday December 30, 2000 at 19:40:06 |
| ken | (kmacleod_za@yahoo.com) | My "Staffie" is a lot more "human" than some of the people i know! - Thursday December 7, 2000 at 15:51:30 |
| ken | (kmacleod_za@yahoo.com) | - Thursday December 7, 2000 at 15:48:49 |
| Carla Schulte | (carlas@ixchange.com) | Monday November 27, 2000 - Monday November 27, 2000 at 18:15:40 |
| Claudia Bicen | (claudia@bicen.co.uk) | it is wonderful to known that so many people so strongly about an issue like i do, but i want to thank my mother because she is the one who has put light on this subject to me and shown me how awful animals are treated. - Sunday November 26, 2000 at 18:13:41 |
| franzella | (franzella.b@virgin.net) | I feel that all life is equal in whatever form it takes. Animals feel, think, love, protect and care for each other just like we human beings do. Having recently returned from Tanzania and seeing those magnificent 'wild' animals there, I have no doubts that they are sentient beings. - Saturday November 25, 2000 at 17:50:45 |
| franzella | (franzella.b@virgin.net) | I feel that all life is equal in whatever form it takes. Animals feel, think, love, protect and care for each other just like we human beings do. Having recently returned from Tanzania and seeing those magnificent 'wild' animals there, I have no doubts that they are sentient beings. - Saturday November 25, 2000 at 17:49:34 |
| fran browne | (franzella.b@virgin.net) | I feel that all life is equal in whatever form it takes. Animals feel, think, love, protect and care for each other just like we human beings do. Having recently returned from Tanzania and seeing those magnificent 'wild' animals there, I have no doubts that they are sentient beings. - Saturday November 25, 2000 at 17:48:08 |
| fran browne | (franzella.b@virgin.net) | I feel that all life is equal in whatever form it takes. Animals feel, think, love, protect and care for each other just like we human beings do. Having recently returned from Tanzania and seeing those magnificent 'wild' animals there, I have no doubts that they are sentient beings. - Saturday November 25, 2000 at 17:47:27 |
| Teriq | (teriq@yahoo.com) | I fully support the reclassification in the hope that animal rights be protected and that those found guilty of cruelty to animals be passed much stricter sentences than is currently the case in thise country. - Saturday September 30, 2000 at 16:18:51 |
| Mack P. Bray | (mpbray@rmisp.com) | - Sunday September 17, 2000 at 05:12:53 |
| Tanya Moore | (tanj_m@hotmail.com) | I strongly support this proposal and would like to see it implemented right away. - Monday September 4, 2000 at 07:09:11 |
| Robyn Shorrock | (086rob@atlas.ac.za) | - Wednesday August 30, 2000 at 09:17:06 |
| BJ Marra | (bmarra1@nycap.rr.com) | Someone told me today that animals have no "spirit" no soul - that only humans do and that's the way God meant for it to be. This came from a "born-again" Christian. It made me sad to hear someone - in all sincerity, truly believe that. I simply didn't know how to respond. I just shook my head and walked away - Saturday August 12, 2000 at 00:37:11 |
| BJ Marra | (bmarra1@nycap.rr.com) | Someone told me today that animals have no "spirit" no soul - that only humans do and that's the way God meant for it to be. This came from a "born-again" Christian. It made me sad to hear someone in all sincerity truly believe that. I simply didn't know how to respond. I just shook my head and walked away. Obviously they have never looked into the eyes of an animal. - Thursday August 10, 2000 at 21:48:34 |
| BJ Marra | (bmarra1@nycap.rr.com) | Someone told me today that animals have no "spirit" no soul - that only humans do and that's the way God meant for it to be. This came from a "born-again" Christian. It made me sad to hear someone in all sincerity truly believe that. I simply didn't know how to respond. I just shook my head and walked away. Obviously they have never looked into the eyes of an animal. - Thursday August 10, 2000 at 21:46:40 |
| BJ Marra | (bmarra1@nycap.rr.com) | Someone told me today that animals have no "spirit" no soul - that only humans do and that's the way God meant for it to be. This came from a "born-again" Christian. It made me sad to hear someone in all sincerity truly believe that. I simply didn't know how to respond. I just shook my head and walked away. Obviously they have never looked into the eyes of an animal. - Thursday August 10, 2000 at 21:45:47 |
| Ian Elvar | (Ian@elvar.f9.co.uk) | all very well, but i have a problem with your definition of a sentient being. your definition simply means aware and able to react to stimulation, which can be said of many things. the important part is how they react. what about the capacity for self sacrifice? not many humans posses that to any mentionable level. I agree that animals should not be classed as "things", personally i find it offensive that the human race is conceited enough to call itself sentient. - Friday August 4, 2000 at 14:50:39 |
| Ian Elvar | (Ian@elvar.f9.co.uk) | all very well, but i have a problem with your definition of a sentient being. your definition simply means aware and able to react to stimulation, which can be said of many things. the important part is how they react. what about the capacity for self sacrifice? not many humans posses that to any mentionable level. I agree that animals should not be classed as "things", personally i find it offensive that the human race is conceited enough to call itself sentient. - Friday August 4, 2000 at 14:48:54 |
| Mike Anderson | (mcanders@mweb.co.za) | I agree with the sentiments expressed above. - Wednesday July 19, 2000 at 21:36:52 |
| lynn marini | (dlmarini@webtv.net) | - Thursday June 22, 2000 at 23:06:27 |
| Melissa Ann | (madjtimka@hotmail.com) | I think animal should be treated as humanely as possible. They are not human, but they do have feelings. Please treat them with respect and loving care. - Wednesday June 21, 2000 at 17:56:29 |
| Nigel Perels | (ndperels@email.com) | Animals are, of course, sentient. Alive, and protected (including their habitat) they are also a precious resource (apart from their own intrinsic worth) and SA really needs all the resources it can muster. - Wednesday February 23, 2000 at 15:14:02 |
| dr j pillai & ms m naidoo | (jpillai@icon.co.za) | - Thursday September 2, 1999 at 19:50:09 |
| Judy Licht | (Pupiluvwi@aol.com) | Animals have feelings-they experience pain, hunger, joy, sadness, loss, cold, heat, thirst,etc. Please consider them as Sentient beings-not things. Thank you - Tuesday August 10, 1999 at 22:19:30 |
| Judy Licht | (Pupiluvwi@aol.com) | Animals have feelings-they experience pain, hunger, joy, sadness, loss, cold, heat, thirst,etc. Please consider them as Sentient beings-not things. Thank you - Tuesday August 10, 1999 at 22:18:59 |
| Karin Lewis | (karin-lewis@home.com) | Animals are living, feeling and emotional beings and therefore deserve to be treated as such! - Monday August 9, 1999 at 06:41:10 |
| Suzanne Rogillio | (lailoken@bellsouth.net) | - Monday August 9, 1999 at 02:36:27 |
| Martin Jordaan | (mjordaan@concentric.net) | Animals are a national treasure to be shared and experienced first hand. - Sunday August 8, 1999 at 21:51:50 |
| Bruce W. Krucke | (bkrucke@awod.com) | - Sunday August 8, 1999 at 17:28:33 |
| Jill and Frank Bihm | (fbihm@yahoo.com) | Please recognize animals as sentient beings, they are not things. - Sunday August 8, 1999 at 15:16:29 |
| Debbe Morningstar | (arily@maxinet.com) | - Sunday August 8, 1999 at 12:58:28 |
| Linda Cassels-Hofmann | (CastlesInTheAir@webtv.net) | - Sunday August 8, 1999 at 12:35:15 |
| Samantha Hendricks | (hendrics@bremner.uct.ac.za) | I have never come across any animal that has the potential of being a vegetable. Thank you for making the public aware of this issue. You will be receiving my copy of the petition form soon. - Friday July 23, 1999 at 13:30:30 |
| rochelle | (rochelle@icon.co.za) | I agree, then maybe people getting senteced for atrocities to animals will get properley sentenced!!!! - Thursday July 22, 1999 at 08:13:12 |
| Ms G THOMPSON | (vfx@icon.co.za) | I abhore all forms of abuse to God's beautiful creatures. - Wednesday July 21, 1999 at 15:31:13 |
| Irryly | (hobday@netactive.co.za) | Even without education, a human being can easily work out that animals have feelings and experience sensations. We must take up our responsibilities and correct another wrong! - Monday July 19, 1999 at 09:04:15 |
| Karen Leather | (blondee@satcom.net.au) | - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 23:41:35 |
| Tinus Laubscher | (weltin@wildcoast.com ) | - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 20:35:13 |
| Jade Groen hexi | (jade@spinnerak.co.za) | Mother Earth is a sentient, devine being. She holds all Her creatures in Her energy embrace. We - minerals, plants, insects, animals and people are all sacred, sentient and aware - therefore alive like She is. Untill such time that humanity can not find our humble but equally sacred place in Her embrace, the entire planet will remain at risk of destruction. - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 17:58:51 |
| Pauline Bennett | (bennettl@mweb.co.za) | - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 12:45:39 |
| Claire | (mannygs@yebo.co.za) | - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 11:41:48 |
| Brian | (penti@mweb.co.za) | - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 11:41:29 |
| Patricia | (penti@mweb.co.za) | - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 11:40:51 |
| Monique | (penti@mweb.co.za) | Animals should be cherished. - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 11:40:22 |
| Michelle Pentecost | (penti@mweb.co.za) | Animals are so close, that we cannot regard them as things. - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 11:38:47 |
| Rita Brock | (rijo@icon.co.za) | We never own an animal, we have the priviledge to share this world with them and with this priviledge we need to take responsibility to look after them .We invade their spaces and take away their habitats and in lots of cases their lifes. Surely it is time to give something back? It is driving me mad that we who care about our planet have no voice in this "democracy". I am dreading the approaching MIllenium with its CELEBRATIONS - which undoubtedly will include fireworks and crackers...... What can we do???????? - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 09:41:58 |
| mandy | (jab@meb.co.za) | You have my support 1000%. Please create more awareness of these petitions in the media - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 09:37:43 |
| mandy | (jab@meb.co.za) | You have my support 1000%. Please create more awareness of these petitions in the media - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 09:37:42 |
| mandy | (jab@meb.co.za) | You have my support 1000%. Please create more awareness of these petitions in the media - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 09:37:19 |
| Louw | (Askari@yebo.co.za) | - Sunday July 18, 1999 at 08:08:09 |
| Valerie Clint | (kelborn@hotmail.com) | We made of the same thing, and all had life breathed into us - Saturday July 17, 1999 at 20:54:04 |
| jo higgs | (hggjoa003@mail.uct.ac.za) | Fish have feelings too damnit! - Saturday July 17, 1999 at 19:39:06 |
| Titania van Schalkwyk | (tvs@uskonet.com) | - Saturday July 17, 1999 at 17:01:41 |
| Francoise van Es | (francoise.vanes@dns.co.za) | - Friday July 16, 1999 at 14:30:18 |
| Freda | (parksas@Intekom.co.za) | Of course animals have feelings! - Friday July 16, 1999 at 13:35:11 |
| Clive Dorer | (clive@ndizani.co.za) | That really sucks! OBJECTS? What are we then Higher Grade Objects? Class II Objects? Object++ ? - Friday July 16, 1999 at 13:11:02 |
| Uta Higgs | (uta@ndizani.co.za) | It is a unacceptable that the constitution does not include rights for animals, most of whom have nicer personalities than most people do. - Friday July 16, 1999 at 13:09:18 |
| Elaine Bornman | (elaineb@absa.co.za@internet) | - Friday July 16, 1999 at 11:24:45 |
| Pieter Vosloo | (lauren@absol.co.za) | - Thursday July 15, 1999 at 12:36:53 |
| Raxa Kansara | (kansar2R@wcc.govt.nz) | This would be a great move for South Africa, following the collapse of apartheid. To give recognize the rights of other living creatures. - Thursday July 15, 1999 at 11:50:24 |
| Raxa Kansara | (kansar2R@wcc.g) | - Thursday July 15, 1999 at 11:47:58 |
| Jodi Fyfe | (jfyfe@medicine.uct.ac.za) | - Wednesday July 14, 1999 at 09:04:58 |
| Monika Roediger | (tanikar@iafrica.com) | People who do not want to accept the fact that animals do have feelings choose to believe so as it is convenient to them in order to abuse and exploit the animals. - Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 22:01:14 |
| Marlei Martins | (marlei@houtbay.com) | We do not accept that a difference in species alone (any more than a difference in race) can justify wanton exploitation or oppression in the name of science or sport, or for food, commercial profit or other human gain. We declare our belief that all sentient creatures have rights of life, liberty and the quest for happiness. - The Rights of Animals - Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 16:37:29 |
| Belinda Sage | (belindasage@hotmail.com) | I Support this petition. Animals breathe the same air that Humans breathe, feel the same rain and sun on their skin . They love, and care for their young, they know pain, hunger and suffering. How can you classify an Animal as a "Thing" when they are so similar to us? Perhaps Humans should be re-classified.... instead? - Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 15:57:52 |
| wayne | (waynef@accord.co.za) | - Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 14:28:00 |
| Tasmin Coleman | (TasminC@bigfoot.com) | - Tuesday July 13, 1999 at 11:29:58 |
| Louie Human | (louieh@ihd.com) | - Monday July 12, 1999 at 23:15:43 |
| Louie Human | (louieh@ihd.com) | - Monday July 12, 1999 at 23:14:32 |
| Dee Byrne-Daly | (byrnedalyd@ACMB.co.za) | This petition has my full support. It is a disgrace that the constitution does not include rights for animals. - Monday July 12, 1999 at 13:11:11 |
| Alice Notten | (notten@nbict.nbi.ac.za) | There is no question that animals are sentient beings. Please classify them as such. - Monday July 12, 1999 at 11:06:12 |
| Pia Malcolm | (pia@elexir.co.za) | I am praying that the human race will eventually stop destroying our natural and amaizing garden of eden. Of course animals can think. - Monday July 12, 1999 at 08:41:47 |
| Pia Malcolm | (pia@elexir.co.za) | I am praying that the human race will eventually stop destroying our natural and amaizing garden of eden. Of course animals can think. - Monday July 12, 1999 at 08:41:21 |
| Barbara Lockley | (blockley@iafrica.com) | Animals are sentient beings. Anyone who has ever looked into the eyes of an animal or felt the love of a pet cannot believe otherwise. - Sunday July 11, 1999 at 22:53:19 |
| Allie Kramarz | (allie@icon.co.za) | Human beings seem to have far less compassion than animals. Lets remove some of them from the 'sentient beings' list! How can we possibly call ourselves 'civilised' if we still think animals don't have senses or feelings. - Sunday July 11, 1999 at 16:04:47 |
| Gavin Massam | (chandler@icon.co.za) | - Sunday July 11, 1999 at 10:26:49 |
| Johann Nel | (susann@iafrica.com) | Change our outdated and shamefull legislation on animals, so that we can call ourselves civilsed - at the moment we are not. Our treatment of animals is barbaric. - Sunday July 11, 1999 at 10:11:43 |
| Susan Nel | (susann@iafrica.com) | We have no reason to be proud of our constitution if we don't respect and treat animals as beings who can feel sensations and experience emotions. Please change our outdated legislation. Our treatment of animals make me ashamed to be a south african. - Sunday July 11, 1999 at 10:09:02 |
| Lee Kinnaird | (kinnaird@mweb.co.za) | - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 19:24:22 |
| Angela Weber | (angela-w@internet-zahav.net.il) | Treat the animals with respect and compassion. This is what they deserve - maybe, just maybe, if everyone just tried a little bit harder to treat them like feeling, living creatures, the world would begin to be a better place.... - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 18:43:31 |
| Roberta Bach | (bach99@internet-zahav.net.il) | I could not agree more with the above mentioned statement. Animals, indeed, feel pain, fear, sadness, actually emotions of most kinds, like humans. I would like very much to see them be treated as such, but in a country like South Africa, with the government that we have..... this would probably only be wishful thinking.... - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 18:38:40 |
| Judy Stander | (judy@absol.co.za) | - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 17:13:49 |
| Jean Taylor | (lauren@absol.co.za) | - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 17:12:37 |
| Tarryn O'Donnell | (odonnell@jhb.lia.net) | - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 17:12:14 |
| Janine O'Donnell | (odonnell@jhb.lia.net) | - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 17:11:41 |
| Mac Anamourlis | (mac@absol.co.za) | - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 17:11:00 |
| Lauren Taylor | (lauren@absol.co.za) | - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 17:10:41 |
| Chantal Louw | (chanecho@hotmail.com) | Perhaps it is time to stop thinking that animals are our heritage like land and to start thinking perhaps the land is a shared heritage for all - Saturday July 10, 1999 at 10:35:43 |
| Esmari Joubert | (esmarij@hotmail.com) | If they want to stick with the wording "things" then they should add half the human race's names to that classification! - Friday July 9, 1999 at 16:50:18 |
| louise kleingeld | (valentin@gem.co.za) | some people has not yet learned that we have no better friends than our animals - Friday July 9, 1999 at 16:16:42 |
| Sean Park-Ross | (seanpr@iafrica.com) | There will be a time when abuse to animals will be viewed in the same light as abuse to humans now. - Friday July 9, 1999 at 16:07:11 |
| alec | (alec@mccrindle.com) | there was a time when people thought that abolishing slavery was a bad idea, and there will be a time when animals will be treated with the dignity that should be afforded to them (even if they are going to be eaten). keep it up. - Friday July 9, 1999 at 15:36:25 |
| Sandra da Silva | (Sandrad@mail.nbl.co.za) | Criminals are afforded "human rights" when they act sub human, but animals are classified as "things" Come on Mr. President, How long will it take for South Africa to get with the rest of the world? Re classify them NOW!!! - Friday July 9, 1999 at 14:59:26 |
| Vivienne Mawby | (vivienne.mawby@liblink.co.za) | - Friday July 9, 1999 at 14:15:27 |
| Craig Shackleton | (craig@masifundeafrika.co.za) | - Friday July 9, 1999 at 13:13:51 |
| Estelle Oelofsen | (oelofsee@mj.org.za) | Anybody who at any stage of their lives, had a pet, would be able to confirm that any animal can develop a "personality". If that wasn't the case, you would not have been able to train any animal. - Friday July 9, 1999 at 12:39:49 |
| Steve Lawnick | (slawnick@hotmail.com) | All one has to do is observe the social interactions between elephants; it's quite clear they are sentient beings, with family values that we would do well to emulate. It's time to stop thinking of animals as a commodity, and start working to ensure their survival. - Friday July 9, 1999 at 12:19:01 |
| Esmé Meyer | (esmemeyer@icon.co.za) | I spend hours each day to rescue small animals; each has more character than most so-called human beings I know of!!!! - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 17:03:37 |
| claudia dickson | (claudiaa.traveland@galileosa.co.za) | of course animals have feeling and senses. There are too many people that undestimate them. - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 16:25:37 |
| Susann Britss | (britss@ndot.pwv.gov.za) | - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 16:00:30 |
| Ian Howarth | (ianh@samech.co.za) | I cant beleive that animals are not already classified as sentient beings - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 13:00:31 |
| bridget nienhuis | (bridget@imaginet.co.za) | - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 12:04:16 |
| Bridget Nienhuis | (bridget@imaginet.co.za) | - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 12:03:33 |
| Bridget Nienhuis | (bridget@imaginet.co.za) | Please stop this cruelty to these precious creatures! - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 12:02:55 |
| Frank | (Harlequin@ananzi.co.za) | Look into an animals eye and tell me it has no soul. - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 09:15:15 |
| Margo Steyn | (margoS@discoveryhealth.co.za) | God made all, not as things but as beings with feelings! - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 08:45:11 |
| Gavin Fleming | (gfleming@csir.co.za) | I totally agree with the above statement. I think it is the absolute minimum change required. In addition I believe we should follow the New Zealand initiative and classify primates and especially the great apes with humans in terms of giving them human rights. - Thursday July 8, 1999 at 08:05:28 |
| jason iversen | (jason@refinery.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 17:07:25 |
| Frans Greybe | (fhg@icon.co.za) | It should be without saying. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 17:03:35 |
| Gary Griffiths | (garyg@tmlmag.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 16:03:51 |
| Michelle Fouche | (michellef@aviation.denel.co.za) | We need to stand together, just because animals cannot talk, they still breathe, see, feel the things we feel. They also have rights. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 15:54:11 |
| Jeff van Zyl | (jeffv@kfm.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 14:33:13 |
| Jeff van Zyl | (jeffv@kfm.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:57:47 |
| Jeff van Zyl | (jeffv@kfm.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:57:46 |
| Sheldon Rene | (saint_sheldon@yahoo.com) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:35:11 |
| Serene Dhunpath | (serene_carmen@yahoo.com) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:34:34 |
| Credwyn Maino | (pasq@mweb.co.za) | Help the animals to help themselves, please change the law to include their rights too. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:29:19 |
| Kevin Fischer | (kevin@geodass.co.za) | I find it unacceptable that animals are not classified as beings in our constitution. This must be changed immediately otherwise we will be know as a nation without humanity. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:26:05 |
| Pasquale Maino | (pasq@mweb.co.za) | Please change the law to include the rights of animals, their voices need to be heard too... - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:21:02 |
| Margherita Fischer | (pasq@mweb.co.za) | I have been following the baby tuli elephant story since it began last year, and I find it to be such a tragedy that those baby elephants have had to undergo such inhumane treatment just because our legal system does not give animals any rights whatsoever. That whole tragedy could have been avoided had their been an amendment in our consitution stating that animals are sentient beings and therefore have rights too. The people of South Africa and its government would have then sent out a clear message to the rest of the world that we are a nation who cares about the rights of all beings, be they human or animal. It would have shown the world that we are responsible and that our legal system does not protect the abuser! But such is not the case and now our nation must hang its head in shame, our government must know intervene and do what is only considered the right thing to do for those baby elephants otherwise our country will be known as the country that accepts and doesent condone animal cruelty, Remeber a country is not only judged by its humanterian laws for its people but also for the other inhabitants, the animals. Only when animals in this country have some sort of rights, then can the legal system work for the animal welfare organisations and not for the abuser or abusers! - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:11:25 |
| Gavin Kirkbride | (debbie@match.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:06:29 |
| Debbie Kirkbride | (debbie@match.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 13:04:49 |
| Michelle Meier | (jsssa@mweb.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:45:59 |
| Henry Amsinck | (jsssa@mweb.co.za) | It's about time that somebody does something for the animals! - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:39:07 |
| Henry Amsinck | (jsssa@mweb.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:38:12 |
| Clare Kidger | (cmoon@mweb.co.za) | I was unaware that animals were classified in this way and I fully support your quest to reclassify them. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:35:55 |
| Deidre van den Bogaerde | (dvdbogae@csir.co.za) | Having lived with my 2 faithful Labradors for 5 years, I fully support the reclassification of animals as sentient beings . - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:12:01 |
| Deidre van den Bogaerde | (dvdbogae@csir.co.za) | Having lived with my 2 faithful Labradors for 5 years, I fully support the reclassification of animals as sentient beings beings. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 12:11:07 |
| Org Engelbrecht | (org.engelbrecht@ast.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:48:10 |
| Kym Clayton | (kclayton@g5.co.za) | I agree fully with your petition. Keep up the good work. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:44:23 |
| Benjy Mudie | (benjym@netactive.co.za) | I sincerely believe that all animals should be reclassified as sentient beings and as such should be accorded the same rights and privileges. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:43:46 |
| David Rosenthal | (dr@intekom.co.za) | Not only are animals sentient, they also have rights. I urge our president to take action to correct this injustice as soon as possible. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:25:56 |
| Neill de Bruyn | (de_bruyn_neill@hotmail.com) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:24:16 |
| Juanita Vos | (jvos@cashbank.co.za) | STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP PICK ON SOMEONE THAT CAN FIGHT BACK. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:22:29 |
| Sue Hirsch | (shirsch@cashbank.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:19:51 |
| Angela McLeod | (angelam@cashbank.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:18:06 |
| faeez morris | (faeezm@cashbank.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:16:35 |
| Euodia de Bruyn | (euodia@cashbank.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 10:07:02 |
| Wendy Sandstrom | (wendy@nail.co.za) | Animals also have feelings and emotions, they are innocent victims who cannot stand up to the vicious abuse by man on their own. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:58:38 |
| Wendy Sandstrom | (wendy@nail.co.za) | I totally agree with this statement, animals have emotions and feelings too, man has exploited them, they are innocent and cannot stand up for themselves against man. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:48:56 |
| Dave Neill | (dave.neill@acenet.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:47:08 |
| Terri Campbell | (terri@acsembrace.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:33:56 |
| Johan Badenhorst | (jb46@pixie.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:24:47 |
| mohammed ismail | (ismailm@apsap.co.za) | complete support - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:23:40 |
| Sandra Walker | (sandraw@africon.co.za) | I agree with your above statement and hope it will be accepted by the President. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 09:10:17 |
| Craig Ferguson | (craig.ferguson@za.eds.com) | Please let this happen as soon as possible - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:54:42 |
| Antoinette Bailie | (abailie@zanet.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:34:30 |
| Janine | (vanoudts@iafrica.com) | APPALLED!!!!!!!!!!! Can't believe in this day and age such cruelty to animals. - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:33:31 |
| Chantelle | (vanoudts@iafrica.com) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:32:04 |
| Clifford van Lelyveld | (tursiops73@ananzi.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:21:47 |
| Fasiega Isaacs | (fasiega@kfm.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:15:07 |
| katrina brady | (kbrady@clear.net.nz) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:11:57 |
| Bevan | (broberts@yebo.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 08:10:25 |
| Tony Lockyer | (lockyer@mweb.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 07:50:36 |
| Fatima Vahed | (fatz@kfm.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 07:42:30 |
| Marlene Russell, BSc. (Hon.) | (beluga@intekom.co.za) | - Wednesday July 7, 1999 at 01:43:12 |
| Jessica Black | (d3walkyrie@hotmail.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:38:17 |
| Elise Durand | (perspective3d@geocities.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:34:52 |
| Renate Erdmann | (hme@mweb.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:28:56 |
| Christa Menne | (hme@mweb.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:28:31 |
| Uwe Menne | (hme@mweb.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:28:04 |
| George De Freitas | (hme@mweb.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:27:32 |
| Monika Holtzhausen | (hme@mweb.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:27:02 |
| Selina De Freitas | (hme@mweb.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 22:26:26 |
| Diane Smart | (dismart@netactive.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 21:01:54 |
| Liezel Mortimer | (mortimer@mweb.co.za) | We need to be a 1st world country not from the dark ages!!! - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 20:54:20 |
| Dido Blagden | (dido@iafrica.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 19:34:11 |
| Debra Buys | (dbuys@intekom.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 18:47:01 |
| Jim Davis | (jdavis@imaginet.co.za) | Only barbarians could see animals as not having the ability to experience sensation or feeling. - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 18:34:27 |
| Lauren Netto | (lanetto@hotmail.com) | The level of a nation's moral development can be judged by the way it treats it's animals - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 18:31:37 |
| Phillip Squires | (phillips@traincon.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 18:04:12 |
| Joel Fazzi | (jfazzi@netzero.net) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 18:04:10 |
| tracey winterton | (traceyw@traincon.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 18:01:44 |
| maureen zorich | (maureenz@datatec.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:54:01 |
| Linda Grimmett | (lindag@sdd.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:53:12 |
| Jenny Stephens | (antrak@hyperia.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:52:51 |
| Thelma Stephens | (tracye@traincon.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:52:29 |
| Frank Stephens | (tracye@traincon.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:52:11 |
| Corne | (durban@primeoutdoor.co.za) | Animals are more human than humans themselves. - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:50:35 |
| ODEL NAIDOO | (ONAIDOO@TRAINCON.CO.ZA) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:48:47 |
| BRAD STEPHENS | (ANTRAK@HYPERIA.COM) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:48:27 |
| MARK ERASMUS | (MARKE@UUNET.CO.ZA) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:48:06 |
| TRACY ERASMUS | (tracye@traincon.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:47:40 |
| Vanessa Liberatore | (vliberatore@hotmail.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:44:05 |
| Lee Ann Mounter | (leec@edgecomp.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 17:24:01 |
| Sarah Donald | (sarah.donald@esa.ericsson.se) | I give my full support to the changing of this barbaric law. - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 16:25:09 |
| HT | (paturn@hotmail.com) | You have my support on this - maybe you should reclassify the people that oppose this as "animals" - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 16:24:34 |
| Yolande Hay-Buchanan | (yolande@global.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 16:19:27 |
| Janet Francis | (janetfrancis50@hotmail.com) | Please, please, get this classification changed, it shouldn't even be a issue. - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 15:40:31 |
| J Le Roux | (jlr@paradigm-sa.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 15:26:28 |
| srusso | (srusso@omam.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 14:17:34 |
| Dawn Coetzer | (axefactr@global.co.za) | Animals definitely have feelings! - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 14:16:09 |
| Tracy Theron | (tracyt@sdd.com) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 13:42:15 |
| Davina Gottschalk | (davina@touchvision.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 13:22:36 |
| Heidi Hill | (heidi@aurica.co.za) | - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 13:06:37 |
| Michelle Cerusini | (michelle.cerusini@ast.co.za) | Animals are an integral part of our society and are not things. They certainly possess more sense than we humans do! - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 12:29:55 |
| Henriette Erasmus | (henriettee@debis.co.za) | Animals deserve to have rights too - Tuesday July 6, 1999 at 11:14:08 |
| Shannon Davis | (davis@qdata.co.za) | - Monday July 5, 1999 at 17:28:31 |
| Ilze van Wyk | (loopi@pixie.co.za) | This should have been done a loooong time ago. Much harsher sentences must also be passed on people found guilty of animal abuse. - Monday July 5, 1999 at 15:15:55 |
| Karen Oberholster | (oberhols@mweb.co.za) | If someone has something to do with an animal he/he should understand what they are about. If they don't do their homework and abide by the rules they should not be allowed near one - such as a child abuser!! Especially the intelligent sentient ones such as Elephants, whales and dolphins and many more too nuerous to mention! - Monday July 5, 1999 at 15:14:47 |
| Sonja Blignaut | (sonjab@sdd.com) | - Monday July 5, 1999 at 14:48:30 |
| natasha pinto | (tasha@oim.co.za) | The animals are part of africa. If we do not protect them there is no hope for our "great" nation. - Monday July 5, 1999 at 14:26:59 |
| Karen Sampson | (karens@cna.co.za) | - Monday July 5, 1999 at 13:19:54 |
| Heike Menne | (hme@mweb.co.za) | We call ourselves civilised. Is it civilised to treat a breathing animal as a thing? We need a serious reality check! - Monday July 5, 1999 at 12:09:08 |
| Frank Burgmeier | (fburgme1@twcny.rr.com) | Something like this is what creates great presidents,worthy of being the president of such a wonderful country. - Monday July 5, 1999 at 07:30:29 |
| Tedi Burgmeier | (tburgme1@twcny.rr.com) | This is long over Due. Animals must have our respect! - Monday July 5, 1999 at 07:27:06 |
| Johanna Rykheer | (rykheer@iafrica.com) | I heartily support this petition. - Thursday July 1, 1999 at 23:03:08 |
| Joanne Hill | (kevin@durban-za.freeserve.co.ujk) | I think this is a must! - Thursday July 1, 1999 at 21:40:47 |
| Susan Spahn | (susanspahn@home.com) | Such a new and humane law woulk definitely have a positive influence on any future travel to your country - Sunday June 20, 1999 at 19:21:24 |
| Patricia Ware | (pware@spiritone.com) | I am heartily in favor of this petition and grateful to our friends who have organized this. - Thursday June 17, 1999 at 20:20:26 |
| Massimo Tommei | (redeem@global.co.za) | - Tuesday June 15, 1999 at 10:06:19 |
| Lorenzo Tommei | (redeem@global.co.za) | - Tuesday June 15, 1999 at 10:06:09 |
| Giuliano Tommei | (redeem@global.co.za) | - Tuesday June 15, 1999 at 10:05:52 |
| Mariano Tommei | (redeem@global.co.za) | - Tuesday June 15, 1999 at 10:05:39 |
| Gianna Tommei | (redeem@global.co.za) | - Tuesday June 15, 1999 at 10:05:22 |
| Martin Potgieter | (mp@icon.co.za) | - Monday June 14, 1999 at 20:10:41 |
| Raychelle Kroma | (Brniiiiiis@AOL.com) | I am constantly astounded by the way people treat animals. Everyone should remember that we are animals ourselves. Just because they cannot talk in our language we think they do not feel and do not understand. Just by watching a baby animal ripped away from its mother, you know they have feelings. Therefore, they should not be treated as a "thing", but a living breathing, emotional creature. - Monday June 14, 1999 at 19:25:46 |
| Rebecca Morris | (horizonc@shore.net) | - Monday June 14, 1999 at 01:30:41 |
| Marty Ross | (Gillie40@aol.com) | Please pass laws giving your animals the rights they survive with humankind. - Sunday June 13, 1999 at 22:17:28 |
| LINDA JESS | (LINDA_1927@hotmail.com) | It is time to step out of the dark ages...quit pretending we are God, and have a right to ruin the earth, and rule the animals...arrogance and ignorance a truly human trait..sometimes I'm ashamed to be human. - Sunday June 13, 1999 at 05:19:57 |
| Shirli Hill | (twinz@iafrica.com) | Mr. Mbeki - Changes in this country should be for our animals as well. Our animals are special and we can be an example for other countries as we were with the New South Africa. - Sunday June 13, 1999 at 00:00:27 |
| matthews banda | (matewu@yahoo.com) | I know that animals are God's creatures and as such, deserve to be treated humanely. Ofcourse animals can feel and sense; evolutionists think that we're all the same (we meaning animals and human beings). The only people who mistreat animals or classify them as things are those who are threatened by the animals or are insecure about themselves. Thank you. - Saturday June 12, 1999 at 17:42:54 |
| Chifundo Don Banda | (Chifundo_banda@yahoo.com) | I agree with the above statement - Saturday June 12, 1999 at 16:03:20 |
| Lora Polgar | (polgar_l@popmail.firn.edu) | You can't classify an animal like a plant. They do have senses, brains, and are living creatures with brains containing sensory stimuli. - Saturday June 12, 1999 at 02:24:10 |
| Ton Lagraauw | (tohela@hotmail.com) | ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS THE GOVERNMENT MUST RESPECTS THIS TOO. Ton from the netherlands - Friday June 11, 1999 at 20:20:12 |
| A Hills | (hillsa@4ways.co.za) | Animals definitely have feelings. They need someone to speak on their behalf - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:56:03 |
| aNNE dAVIES | (daviesa@4ways.co.za) | please heed petition - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:54:35 |
| aNNE dAVIES | (daviesa@4ways.co.za) | please heed petition - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:54:29 |
| MANDY BURSTEIN | (BURSTEIN@IAFRICA.COM) | PLEASE READ PETITION - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:50:41 |
| shani | (welthagens@4ways.co.za) | The way you treat other living things will be the way you treat your fellow human beings. You won't be cruel to your own children, so why be crual to animals. God created us all, and only Him have the right to hurt living things. Cruel people can be cruel if they try their experiments on themselves. NO CRUELTY!!!!!!!!!! - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:49:45 |
| Zita Heuser | (zitah@global.co.za) | Criminals are treated better in SA than our pets ! - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:45:40 |
| Elsa Heuser | (heusere@4ways.co.za) | Pets make better friends than humans - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:44:23 |
| nathan | (groenewaldn@4ways.co.za) | please treat animals the way you would like to be treated.they are the silent victims. - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:41:57 |
| C. Mackenzie | (cazzie@hotmail.com) | Please take heed of this petition - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:38:27 |
| Nusia Dyk | (dykn@4ways.co.za) | How we treat animals indicates how we will treat humans. Please, Mr Mandela help pass humane legislation - Friday June 11, 1999 at 12:36:25 |
| dick stevens | (dicks@atns.co.za) | may you achieve what you have set out to do - Friday June 11, 1999 at 09:13:57 |
| Sherri Collier | (glasstp@cysource.com) | Mr. President, please, help us with your support of this petition, Thank you , Sherri Collier - Friday June 11, 1999 at 07:28:49 |
| Marie Collier | (glasstp@cysource.com) | my Heart is in this Petition,Please, Please pass this petition, this world is a far better place because of our two little girls,( doggies ) I would be lost with out them, They show more love, affection,devotion,compassion,and companionship than a lot of people I know, YOU HAVE OUR SUPPORT - Friday June 11, 1999 at 07:16:36 |
| Judith Osman | (ossman@mindspring.com) | It is a pity that anyone feels this issue is debatable. They are sentient. - Friday June 11, 1999 at 07:01:06 |
| H C Smit | (mckean@iafrica.com) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 21:07:42 |
| E. Gerber | (mckean@iafrica.com) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 21:06:13 |
| Cheryl Kadis | (ckadis@best.com) | I whole heartedly support this petition. - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 18:43:22 |
| Jill and Frank Bihm | (fbihm@yahoo.com) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 17:18:19 |
| Michele Pickover | (michelep@library.wits.ac.za) | Speciesism is akin to racism. Let's work for animal liberation and human liberation and justice for all. - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 16:48:13 |
| Mark Bookatz | (mark.bookatz@icon.co.za) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 16:16:07 |
| Darian Latto | (dlatto@epresence.com) | I strongly support this petition! - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 15:52:29 |
| Lesley Bester | (ledil@global.co.za) | Animals were created having a soul, feelings and certainly express as strong a love and commitment as humans do and should be treated as such. This campaign should be given more pertinent publicity - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 14:48:14 |
| Brenda Hartgill | (ledil@global.co.za) | Animals have souls as do humans and therefore should be regarded the same. They are extremely intelligent as well. - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 14:44:31 |
| Lorna Capell | (lcapell@execulink.com) | Not only are animals sentient, they are far better than some humans in sensing it! - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 14:17:45 |
| GLENDA CARTER | (KUDUZ-KID@WEBTV.NET) | Animals are living, breathing and experience pain. They are not THINGS! - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 13:58:15 |
| Susan Buchanan | (suzelb@hotmail.com) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 13:19:03 |
| Dolores Moore | (dollmoore@aol.com) | Animals have feelings and perception. Please change the classification to Sentient beings. - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 13:06:46 |
| Marie Gafney | (elsa48@yahoo.com) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 12:19:29 |
| Richard Bailey | (g_white1997@hotmail.com) | To believe that an animal is not sentient is to proove that oneself is not sentient. Look, listen, learn - as they do to survive each and every day! South Africa has shown excellent steps in the past, particularly with White Shark and marine conservation - lets see this carried forward - a path which I for one will applaud. - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 10:58:09 |
| Rita | (jonesr@tsb.co.za) | Look around, animals are more sentient than a LOT of so-called humans! - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 10:17:26 |
| Jenny Couper | (jennycouper@lineone.net) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 08:28:17 |
| shelley | (slmadd@yahoo.com) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 07:45:34 |
| Linda Cassels-Hofmann | (CastlesInTheAir@webtv.net) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 06:55:52 |
| Karin Lewis | (kclewis@ivillage.com) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 06:52:29 |
| David Latto | (davlatto@home.com) | I support this petition whole-heartedly. - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 06:32:58 |
| Barbara Latto | (barlatto@home.com) | I STRONGLY SUPPORT THIS PETITION, AS DOES MY ENTIRE FAMILY! - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 06:32:06 |
| Marilyn Mullins | (rivercity@deepwell.com) | - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 06:29:24 |
| Corinne | (acgiffin@earthlink.net) | please Mr President give the animals their rights!!!! - Thursday June 10, 1999 at 03:38:36 |
| Robert Anderson | (robert@dexterous.co.za) | - Tuesday June 8, 1999 at 17:16:19 |
| Buddy Chau | (Dawsonfan9@aol.com) | I think it is stupid to classified animals as things. like human beings,animals have feelings. They feel sad when they are seperated from their love ones. Please stop this pratice. - Monday June 7, 1999 at 21:15:32 |
| Ingrid | (gags@global.co.za) | Animals deserve respect - they do have souls - Monday June 7, 1999 at 19:45:28 |
| Ashley Chaplin | (ashleychaplin@hotmail.com) | Does it matter whether animals have souls or not. Does it matter whether we eat them or not. Does it matter whether they are inferior or not. Does it matter whether they are intellegent or not. Animals are of creation and are the beauty of our earth. They have the capacity to feel and to love - surely we can give that same beauty, love and respect back to them. Are our lives that shallow and empty that we have to strike back at something more defenceless than ourselves ? Is cruelty to animals any less repulsive than rape, murder and child abuse - it's in the same category ! - Monday June 7, 1999 at 19:18:16 |
| Jennifer Walker | (jenniferw@icon.co.za) | Animals have souls and wisdom. Perhap humans should take some tips. Please create more media hype - Monday June 7, 1999 at 15:02:32 |
| Kathy Harris | (kathyh@syspro.co.za) | - Monday June 7, 1999 at 13:26:18 |
| Leigh Darroll | (mdv@pixie.co.za) | - Monday June 7, 1999 at 11:19:11 |
| Rika van der Merwe | (rika.brm@niit.co.za) | - Monday June 7, 1999 at 09:52:57 |
| Linda Farrell | (lfarrell@snlsa.co.za) | - Monday June 7, 1999 at 09:36:20 |
| Jean Young | (jean@tims.co.za) | See Ecclesiastes 3:21 (the Bible). Suggests that animals have souls, so we have a responsibility to them, and could come under judgment if we don't exercise it. - Monday June 7, 1999 at 08:59:03 |
| Norman Baines | (norman.baines@za.infovu.com) | - Monday June 7, 1999 at 08:08:01 |
| Hayden Bodill | (hayden@stream.co.za) | The Government must wake up - how long must cruelty towards animals go on for?! - Monday June 7, 1999 at 08:04:31 |
| Lynne Brazington | (braz@iafrica.com) | - Monday June 7, 1999 at 07:48:27 |
| Ray Brazington | (braz@gtpta.co.za) | - Monday June 7, 1999 at 07:47:59 |
| S van der Merwe | (claude@dockside.co.za) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 23:18:01 |
| Margaret McKean | (mckean@iafrica.com) | Petition needs wider more robust publicity - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 22:15:08 |
| N. Carklin | (nickyc@hotmail.com) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 21:41:53 |
| Lara Bonetto | (jogs99@ivillage.com) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 21:30:22 |
| Iain & Marianne Buchholz | (bakgat@cyberhost.co.za) | We support the petition to declare animals sentient beings - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 21:01:47 |
| Barry Kinkead-Weekes | (bkw@netactive.co.za) | this excellent campaign needs more publicity - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:45:41 |
| B | (blaise_droid@yahoo.com) | More radio and TV exposure please! - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:44:03 |
| Natalie Newman | (nnewman@icon.co.za) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:39:52 |
| Raymond Berry | (suelewis@global.co.za) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:10:50 |
| Rosemary Berry | (suelewis@global.co.za) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:10:20 |
| Angela Whitehead | (brynderi@icon.co.za) | I support whole heartedly the petition to have animals reclassified as "Sentient Beings". - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:09:45 |
| Caitlyn Lewis | (suelewis@global.co.za) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:09:41 |
| Mathew Lewis | (suelewis@global.co.za) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:09:17 |
| Sue Lewis | (suelewis@global.co.za) | - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:08:48 |
| Brynn Andrew | (brynn@wits.co.za) | Humankind needs to recognise the wisdom and kindness of the animal kingdom and to learn to appreciate its nobility. - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:03:31 |
| Peter Andrew | (petera@ingwe.co.za) | Animals deserve greater respect from often ignorant and uncaring humanity - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 20:00:31 |
| David Andrew | (froy@iafrica.com) | Please reclassify animals from "things" to the stature they deserve and have earned - sentient beings - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 19:58:26 |
| Carole Andrew | (carole@think.co.za) | Compassion and respect for animals is the essence of humanity - Sunday June 6, 1999 at 19:55:46 |
| Lisa Els | (lels2@fnb.co.za) | Don't be cruel to animals, be kind. - Friday June 4, 1999 at 15:13:28 |
| dou weich | (dou@g5.co.za) | I agree - Monday May 31, 1999 at 15:34:02 |
| Nathalie Bélanger | (martinbrassard@attcanada.net) | i am againts all kind or cruelty and all animals should have the righ to be free and live a normal life without pain. - Monday May 31, 1999 at 04:53:14 |
| Leslie Temple-Thurston | (leslie@corelight.org) | Yes absolutely, animals are sentient beings. Please sign my name on the petition. We could use a petition like your's in this country (USA) as well. - Saturday May 29, 1999 at 04:51:08 |
| LISA MORELAND | (LISAM@PANATECH.CO.ZA) | ANIMALS DO HAVE FEELINGS. IT IS ABOUT TIME THE GOVERNMENT RECOGNISES AND RESPECTS THIS. - Friday May 28, 1999 at 08:57:25 |
| LISA MORELAND | (LISAM@PANATECH.CO.ZA) | ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS WHICH DESERVE TO BE RECOGNISED. IT IS ABOUT TIME THE GOVERNMENT RESPECTS THIS TOO. - Friday May 28, 1999 at 08:48:10 |
| LISA MORELAND | (LISAM@PANATECH.CO.ZA) | ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS WHICH DESERVE TO BE RECOGNISED. IT IS ABOUT TIME THE GOVERNMENT RESPECTS THIS TOO. - Friday May 28, 1999 at 08:46:50 |
| B Reynolds | (breynolds@nfbfsg.com) | - Wednesday May 26, 1999 at 08:21:49 |
| L A Walton | (lorrainewa@mra.acnielsen.co.za) | Holding thumbs for a reclassification! - Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 17:06:41 |
| Paul Isaac | (entrade@iafrica.com) | Animals deserve to be respected. Its cruel and inhumane to think otherwise. - Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 16:46:35 |
| Liani Guiotto | (Liani@GSMD.com) | Make our animals decent creatures, they deserve it - Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 16:37:33 |
| Sherril Subrayan | (ssubrayan@hotmail.com) | Tueday May 25,1999 - Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 15:21:49 |
| Tercia Amos | (bcptech@iafrica.com) | - Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 15:20:34 |
| Claire Lotter | (lotter.claire@columbus.co.za) | - Tuesday May 25, 1999 at 11:21:41 |
| Deborah Dicks | (ddicks@stithian.jhb.school.za) | - Monday May 24, 1999 at 08:24:46 |
| Meredith Dicks | (meredithd@spatial.co.za) | - Monday May 24, 1999 at 08:02:39 |
| Carol Ceruti | (marcer@webmail.co.za) | My pets experience moods, pain, fear and emotion just as much as any human would. I firmly believe that they are beings with feelings! - Sunday May 23, 1999 at 20:25:25 |
| Mark Ceruti | (markcer@mweb.co.za) | I have 4 dogs, each of which has their own personality and demands and each and every one of them like to have affection shown to them in their own unique way. - Sunday May 23, 1999 at 20:22:09 |
| Tess | (nisbets@icon.co.za) | Some of my best friends are animals. How anyone could consider them to be unsentient is beyond my understanding. - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 20:02:58 |
| Jenna | (nisbets@icon.co.za) | Of course animals are sentient beings with souls and feelings! Thanks for the opportunity to sign this petition. - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 20:01:25 |
| janine smith | (jrough@massmart.co.za) | - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 14:41:30 |
| james rough | (jrough@massmart.co.za) | animals deserve rights. - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 14:40:32 |
| genevieve miles | (jrough@massmart.co.za) | animals have feelings too. - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 14:38:49 |
| janine smith | (jrough@massmart.co.za) | - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 14:37:25 |
| Robyn | (Swan) | Animals are not things! - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 14:06:26 |
| Angela Turner | (angieturn@hotmail.com) | - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 13:53:19 |
| Megan | (griffmeg@mweb.co.za) | Animals are not "things", but, are very clever! - Saturday May 22, 1999 at 10:50:26 |
| Mike Hague | (mikeha@yebo.co.za) | Give Animals the rights they deserve ...... for all the pleasure they give to man they should be more than things in the eyes of the law. Some families they are the only "Children" they will ever have ...... - Friday May 21, 1999 at 22:05:07 |
| Macde | (macde@mweb.co.za) | I have always believed animals are sentient and have souls.... you just CANNOT refer to them as "things" or "goods" - Friday May 21, 1999 at 21:04:05 |
| Sharon Parkinson | (fcp@mweb.co.za) | Of course animals are sentient... Just watch them closely. They feel fear, happiness, love, anger and Loyalty. To be classified as "goods" is disgusting. I know more humans than animals that can be classified un-sentient!!!! Thanks for the oppertunity to sign this petition! - Friday May 21, 1999 at 20:51:10 |
| Warren Wells | (warren.wells@za.arthurandersen.com) | - Friday May 21, 1999 at 16:13:41 |
| Patrick Albisser | (albisser@siemens.co.za) | - Friday May 21, 1999 at 16:02:31 |
| Geraldine Barnard | (gbarnard@nfbfsg.com) | - Friday May 21, 1999 at 15:51:00 |
| Louise Pawson | (lpawson@nfbfsg.com) | How anybody could classify an animal as a "thing" is beyond my comprehension! Have you ever looked into an animal's eyes? - Friday May 21, 1999 at 15:31:21 |
| Kim Shrosbree | (kermitshros@hotmail.com) | If we don't speak for the animals - who's going to? Animals may not have voices but they do have feelings! - Friday May 21, 1999 at 15:29:17 |
| Brendan Connellan | (bconnellan@nfbfsg.com) | - Friday May 21, 1999 at 15:06:31 |
| LIZA COLLINS | (lcollins@nfbfsg.com) | - Friday May 21, 1999 at 14:21:58 |
| Andrew MacKay | (amackay@nbs.co.za) | About time the S.P.C.A. received some government funding as well. - Friday May 21, 1999 at 14:11:13 |
| Marie Wells | (mwells@nfbfsg.com) | If all South Africans took the time to do this sort of thing for each others world, wouldn't this be a better & the best place to live. ALL, creatures great & small should be respected and loved dearly by ALL of us - Friday May 21, 1999 at 13:58:13 |
| Craig | (craip@siemens.co.za) | Go for it!!!! - Friday May 21, 1999 at 12:40:58 |
| Fiona Riley | (FionaR@Siemens.co.za) | I can't believe that animals have the same rights as "things" - they live, breathe, eat, drink, cry and hurt, just as humans do. Animals, however, have more compassion than a lot of humans. If animals don’t deserve sentient rights – than neither do humans. Give animals their due rights! - Friday May 21, 1999 at 11:26:19 |
| Michael Pokraka | (michaelp@siemens.co.za) | Hmmm, my dictionary defines 'thing' as 'an inanimate object distinguished from a living being'.... which part are they battling with? All living beings deserve to be respected as such! - Friday May 21, 1999 at 10:48:36 |
| Vaughan van Dyk | (jvd@global.co.za) | I became a vegetarian precisely for this reason -- animals are sentient beings and should be respected (all animals). It is a gross violation and exceptionally misguided to assume that living, breathing animals are simply the equivalent of inanimate 'goods'. - Thursday May 20, 1999 at 23:00:25 |
| Jan Vermeulen | (mebjan@rsb.lia.net) | I agree with the drive to reclassify animals as sentient beings. - Thursday May 20, 1999 at 22:37:31 |
| Frank Fay | (Animallib@aol.com) | Apes have rights!! And they are extremely smart, please give them the respect they deserve. Frank http://www.enviroweb.org/aip/petmain.html |
| Lateefah Johnson | (aemotors@netactive.co.za) | Dogs are considered a mans best friend, so why dont we as humans treat them at the best of our ability. I adore my two dogs. They are part of my family. - Wednesday May 19, 1999 at 15:28:07 |
| Lateefah Johnson | (aemotors@netactive.co.za) | Dogs are considered a mans best friend, so why dont we as humans treat them at the best of our ability. I adore my two dogs. They are part of my family. - Wednesday May 19, 1999 at 15:27:31 |
| Sally Cain | (sallyc@damelin.co.za) | - Wednesday May 19, 1999 at 12:24:40 |
| Sarah Mackay | (sarah@duxbury.co.za) | - Tuesday May 18, 1999 at 14:46:02 |
| Rae Mc Cann | (rae.mccann@pixie.co.za) | I have two beautiful labs who would protect me no matter what, and they also deserve to be protected. - Monday May 17, 1999 at 22:57:44 |
| Jimmy Tolmie | (tolmie@netactive.co.za) | the president has to forced to re classify animals - Monday May 17, 1999 at 17:53:03 |
| Cynthia Tolmie | (tolmie@netactive.co.za) | I would rather see humans die than animals suffer - Monday May 17, 1999 at 17:50:29 |
| Dorothea Fernandez | (DorotheaF@Transnet.co.za) | - Monday May 17, 1999 at 09:25:23 |
| Catherine Beck | (catherine@silverweb.co.za) | My cat Pentium is definitely not a thing(even though he's named after a computer chip). I hate to think that the law classifies him as such. - Wednesday May 5, 1999 at 19:34:17 |
| Antony Day | (ant@silvermine.co.za) | Who asked them whether they wanted to be killed for food, experimented on and generally exploited? The world will be a better place if we consider animals as sentient beings. - Wednesday May 5, 1999 at 19:27:14 |
| Jacqlyn Edge | (jacqlyn@i-cue.co.za) | The European Union has done it and so should we. As long as animals have no more status than mere objects, they will never be afforded adequate protection. - Tuesday May 4, 1999 at 16:05:42 |