Animals Archives - Anne Pinto-Rodrigues https://annepintorodrigues.com/category/animals/ Writer. Photographer. Storyteller. Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:38:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 A new life for abused elephants at Wildlife SOS, India https://annepintorodrigues.com/2018/01/21/a-new-life-for-abused-elephants-at-wildlife-sos-india/ https://annepintorodrigues.com/2018/01/21/a-new-life-for-abused-elephants-at-wildlife-sos-india/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:43:16 +0000 https://annepintorodrigues.com/?p=696 Think back to the last time you had a paper cut. Painful, right?! Or got punched in the face by a bully. Now imagine a lifetime of such pain and abuse – relentless, day in day out, and a million times worse. That is the life of a captive elephant. So while that elephant ride may seem innocuous, the reality behind how the elephant got there, is anything but. Some of the tools used by handlers to control elephants Taken from the wild at a very young age, tortured into submission by a horrendous ‘breaking of the spirit’ process (which […]

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