Rakhi supports the Blue cross, Rspca, Ifaw (International Fund for Animal Welfare) Dogs Trust and Haws (Hounslow Animal welfare Society).

She cannot see animals suffering, in pain, homeless or sold or killed for the ivory trade. Every year when she goes to India feeding the homeless dogs on the streets is done on a large scale with her friends and family. At the moment she is taking training at her local veterinary practice how to look after strays, help them with minor ailments and health problems.

The biggest problem is that all dogs in India need to be sterilised once that is done then there will be a big end to the unnecessary pain and suffering that they go through.

Thousands and thousands of baby harp seals are killed every year in Canada in an area called Newfoundland for meat, skin. The sad thing is that not even half of the meat or fur is actually used. They are so brutally killed or even tortured that anyone who actually does eat meat would sympathise with the seals.

The Canadian government actually fund these brutal murders and the Canadian citizens pay for it through there taxes, the public don’t even know that this is going on behind there back.

So if you feel that you would like to help please write to the Canadian government. They need to know that these kinds of killings are daylight murders.

IF YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY AND WOULD LIKE TO HELP, TAKE ACTION TO HELP NEEDY ANIMALS

• Report acts of animal cruelty to save lives.
• Do not purchase medicines, teas or tonics containing animal parts.
• Do not purchase products made of fur or ivory.
• Do not buy cosmetics or household products tested on animals.
• Support animal protection legislation and enforcement.
• Adopt a shelter pet.
• Volunteer at a local rescue.
• Encourage others to spay and neuter their pets
• Create garden habitat. Plant a tree or set out a birdbath.
• Spend time teaching a child about the importance of gentle care and sensitive treatment towards all animals

STOP THE SEAL CULLING - MAKE IT KNOWN TO THE WORLD

As Canada prepares to cull 275,000 of the baby seals living off its shores by clubbing them to death or shooting them for their fur, we look into why this barbaric practice must end.

Hundreds of thousands of baby seals will be clubbed to death over the coming days by fishermen as part of Canada’s controversial annual seal hunt.

The seals are born in March and for the first few weeks of their lives they are nurtured by their mothers. But at just 12 days old, when their white coats change colour, it is no longer against the law to hunt them. Only in Russia can ‘whitecoat’ seals still be culled.

Last year, 98.5 per cent of the 224,000 pups killed off of Canada’s shores were under three months old. “They are very much like human babies - they cry and call for their mum the same way,” said one anti-culling protestor.

Yet as soon as the winter ice floes have broken up sufficiently to allow fishing boats to reach the seals, the hunting begins. And this year, the culling limit has been set to 275,000. The Canadian Government says it will not threaten the population of up to six million seals, arguing that sealing is an important part of the local economy.

Few Canadians make a living from hunting seals, however. Sealers are fishermen by trade who make a small amount of additional income for a few weeks a year from the slaughter. In fact, the majority of Canadians themselves are against the hunt, with 72 per cent supporting regulations to ban the hunting of seal pups.

Contrary to popular belief, the native Inuit communities who use seals for their meat and oil only use a tiny fraction of the seal population. For the mass culling that takes place around the world, there is little commercial use for the rest of the seal, so many carcasses are simply discarded on the ice after they have been skinned. Only the seal fur is needed for use in the fashion industry, with each pelt fetching around £25 to £40. Hunters can expect to make £2,000 each in a few days.

Over in Europe, only a handful of EU states have fully outlawed the trade in seal products, and the UK is not one of them. Belgium, Holland, Italy and Germany have all introduced legislation to ban seal products. But while the British Government objects to the hunt, it has not taken similar action, as it believes the EU is close to introducing the import ban.

Still, with ports such as Rotterdam and Hamburg now closed to Canadian exporters, animal welfare groups believe there will be an increase in products sent to British ports unless a ban is implemented.

Welfare groups claim that if the EU was to forbid producers of seal products from trading within European borders, the effects would instantly be felt. In 2006, 32 per cent of Canadian seal fur exports went to the EU. If this practice was banned, Canada would no longer be able to use these European ports to access major markets in China and Russia.

UK Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Robbie Marsland, will be in Canada again this year to witness what is now the biggest marine mammal hunt in the world.He told Sky News, "I've stood on the ice and witnessed for myself the suffering as thousands of seals, mostly pups under three months of age, are clubbed or shot and skinned, often while still alive, so their fur can be used to make luxury fashion items that nobody really needs."Given the nature of the hunt - taking place in a large area over a short space of time - it is very difficult to regulate, and every year we see many seals clubbed but not fatally wounded before being skinned. Others are shot and injured before being either hooked and dragged aboard a boat or slipping beneath the surface of the water to suffer a slow death from drowning.”