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STV News
a day ago
- STV News
Worker 'sprayed dog's blood everywhere' at 'dirty' K9 fertility clinic
An Aberdeen woman who 'sprayed dog's blood everywhere' at a K9 fertility clinic described as 'dirty' has been sentenced. Coral Abel pleaded guilty to multiple attempts to take intravenous blood samples while being unqualified and unsupervised from a golden retriever dog named Zara. Gary Bain, the owner of the facility, also pleaded guilty and has been disqualified from providing service for animals for five years. The pair made multiple attempts to carry out internal artificial insemination, causing 'distress, pain and suffering' to Zara. Scottish SPCA A man who ran a K9 fertility clinic has been disqualified from providing service for animals for five years. An investigation by the Scottish SPCA found a witness attended the clinic to check on Zara, and found Abel taking the intravenous blood sample without wearing gloves. The floor of the clinic was described as 'dirty, covered in dog hair and very unhygienic'. Abel took multiple attempts to find the vein in the dog's foreleg, and as a result, blood sprayed everywhere with pools of blood also on the floor. The witness, who was described as feeling 'distressed and panicked' at seeing and hearing her dog in pain, made an official complaint regarding the entire incident to Bain. He was sentenced on March 21 at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and Abel was sentenced on February 21 at the same court. Bain received a £900 fine and a disqualification order that prohibits him from providing animal services for five years. Abel received a community payback order of 100 hours unpaid work to be completed in 12 months. A not guilty plea was accepted for Aberdeen K9 Ltd run by Bain. A Scottish SPCA special investigations inspector said: 'We are currently seeing a significantly rising trend of serious and organised crime groups opening dog fertility clinics nationally. 'This is a way to launder illegal proceeds through a legitimate business. 'There are no formal qualifications needed to open a dog fertility clinic, which offers services such as ultrasound and non-invasive fertility treatments. 'However, intrusive surgeries including taking blood samples intravenously can only be taken by qualified individuals such as veterinary surgeons or veterinary nurses under supervision.' The Scottish SPCA said it was 'clear' to the witness that Abel was not proficient or confident at obtaining the intravenous blood sample. Zara's fertility levels registered as being too high and, therefore, the procedure should not have been carried out. A spokesperson added: 'When we attended, we observed that the rear of the premises was divided into two rooms, a fertility treatment room and directly next door was the dog grooming area. 'The conditions to the rear of the premises were generally dirty, with dog hair all over the floor. 'The conditions inside of the fertility treatment room were not sterile or even clean. 'The surfaces of the work tops were dirty and unhygienic, the floor was covered in dog hair, grime and dirt and were a real cause for concern. 'The unclean, unhygienic environment poses the potential for spread of disease and a real risk of introducing bacterial infection into bitches who are there for the purposes of artificial insemination (AI). 'We are disappointed with the sentencing as there were animal welfare concerns raised here. 'The collection of blood from a non-qualified person as well as being illegal was detrimental to the welfare of Zara. 'As this individual was not properly trained or qualified, she did not ensure the welfare of Zara during these procedures. 'This event caused Zara distress, pain and in our opinion unnecessary suffering. By performing this in a dirty room and not using gloves to handle the equipment this put Zara at risk of an infection.' Anyone who is aware of any similar instances or other serious, organised or protracted animal-related crimes is asked to contact The Scottish SPCA via the form. Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
Newsweek
2 days ago
- Sport
- Newsweek
Phillies Predicted to Trade Pitching Prospect for Reliever, Outfield Help
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The Philadelphia Phillies know they have two major needs at the trade deadline that is approximately six weeks away: relievers and center field. Dave Dombrowski has his hands full to give the Phillies their best chance of success as they push for the National League East title. Both positions may not be able to be addressed, but a lot can change. Former baseball general manager Jim Bowden predicted they could fill both of those holes in this recent mock trade for The Athletic. MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 16: Mick Abel #40 of the Philadelphia Phillies pitches during the first inning against the Miami Marlins at loanDepot park on June 16, 2025 in Miami, Florida. MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 16: Mick Abel #40 of the Philadelphia Phillies pitches during the first inning against the Miami Marlins at loanDepot park on June 16, 2025 in Miami, Florida."The Phillies' two biggest needs are closer and center field, and this scenario would hit both in one swap, even though it would come at a significant price," wrote Bowden. Here is the full trade: Phillies receive: OF Cedric Mullins, RHP Felix Bautista Orioles receive: RHP Mick Abel Phillies fans can be heard screaming across the country for the organization not to trade Abel. He's done well so far in his time in the big leagues, and teams can never have too much pitching. (Just ask the Dodgers.) However, Bowden still believes it's a deal worth pursuing for both teams. "The Orioles would address their key need, young controllable starting pitching, in acquiring Abel, a 23-year-old who has a chance to become an ace if he continues to develop and his command and control improve. ... It would be tough for the Phillies to lose Abel, their first-round pick in 2020, but with a strong rotation and top prospect Andrew Painter, a future ace, on track to debut this summer, they might be willing to do this deal if they think Bautista and Mullins are the final pieces needed to win the World Series," wrote Bowden. Bautista would give the Phillies a long-term answer at closer while they could look to extend Mullins beyond this year. Abel would be a steep price, but Dombrowski knows better than anyone that coughing up a big piece like Abel is necessary to bolster the roster. More MLB: With Rafael Devers Gone, Could Triston Casas Trade Be Next for Red Sox?
Business Recorder
3 days ago
- Politics
- Business Recorder
The killing fields of Gaza
Human conscience was brutally bruised when Caine killed his brother, Abel. The conscience is maimed since then. To resurrect humaneness, Abel went into serious 'regret'. He committed himself to reform. Since this event, mankind has oscillated between extreme behaviour of loss of conscience to the other end of the spectrum, where as testimony stands, the glory of human goodness. 'Killing fields' is an idiomatic coinage that emerged from the ruthless killing of over 3 million people by the government of Cambodia ( Kampuchea) between 1976-1978, when the inhuman Marxist dictator Pol Pot proudly displayed a hill of human skulls heaped upon each other, reaching a height of over 8-10 feet. The systematic genocide of the innocent got bracketed as 'killing fields'. Even in that era, that is pre-9/11, the hatred for Muslims was on the rise— 70-80% Cambodian Muslims were exterminated. The genocide by Israel is a locus of Cambodian violence. Gaza today is a scene of mass murder. History is replete with chaos, anarchy, wars, battles and all forms of confrontation between people. Encapsulated on the pages of blood soaked history of human behaviour is the tyranny unleashed by one human upon the other. The adage 'one man's hero is another man's tyrant' is at play all through. In equal measure is the miracle of humanity at its best behaviour of kindness, empathy, love and affection. Historians spin cobwebs of imagination to make bad actions look good. However no individual can justify the ordering of a tower to be built upon live men, who were stacked and cemented together with bricks. Queen Mary, who reinstalled Catholicism in Britain, following her marriage to Phillip II of Spain, put hundreds of Protestants on the pyre, from which she earned the infamous title of 'Bloody Mary'. She showed no sympathy; this characteristic was absent in her. Again gleaning from the folders of history we learn about the atrocities committed by the likes of Attila the Hun, Ghengis Khan, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, etc. The new additions to this infamously famous list are Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu; between the two is a keen contest of who takes the first position. Both are cruel, heartless, merciless and pitiless. They are instigators of blood-thirsty political philosophy. Their attitude is barbaric and callous. They are both guilty of maiming infants, slaughtering of wombs, mutilating bodies, and most inconceivable grotesque and gross indecent human behaviour. 'Man's inhumanity to man/makes countless mourn' (Robert Burns). Israel with impunity kills hundreds of Gazans every single day. The practice is so common, that even run of the mill condemnation messages have gone dry. There is total apathy and resignation to the situation, willy-nilly, the Israeli intransigence is acceptable. The belligerence is stark. The footages of mutilated bodies of infants being operated for implanting artificial limbs, of wombs being knifed, of children screaming in fear, of men and women lining up for seeking provisions and of Israeli soldiers indulging in rebuke, insult and thence point blank killing of the unarmed innocent Gazans doesn't move to tears any of the global leadership. This lends credence to the fact that humanity is dead and gone. The human conscience is scarred beyond correction. Regret, if it resides in the human heart gives a tumultuous reaction to every wrong done. The element of remorse and repentance acts as a catalyst to either undo the wrong or at least show by thought and action that sadness grips upon realisation of erroneous behaviour. Penitence must be seen and be in equal measure to the wrong done. This intrinsic and inherent mechanism works only where a sensitive heart resides in the human breast. Today's Ummah is heartless. If individuals who are devoid of humane feelings manipulate to get into leadership positions, they acquire the ways and means to perpetuate ruthless behaviour against fellow humans. Present day examples are Modi and Netanyahu. Gandhi invoked human conscience when he said, 'what difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Of late, in comparison to Modi, I am beginning to see Gandhi as a saint). While, I am writing this piece, Netanyahu's Israel has attacked the brotherly country, Iran. Not surprised. It was coming. War is a hieroglyphics of nothing but all misery. The gates of hell get opened with arrival of war. The likes of Netanyahu and Modi invoke war for the youth to die. 'To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love' (George Santayana). Cruelty is a consequence of a vile mind and often it proceeds from a cowardly heart. The cruel impulses of the leadership in the Middle East, Europe and across the Atlantic seek justification through more cruelty. 'Man when he is an animal is worse than animal' (Rabindranath Tagore). Pain of others gives pleasure of a primitive and savage nature. Sympathy, empathy and pity are natural to man; yet in violation of these intrinsic characteristics, man indulges in cruelty to the extent of being rightly called a savage, and Netanyahu is that savage. Natural and historical corrections of injustices perpetrated upon one another also are chronicled in history, except that it seems to come, a trifle late. Those who once were mightily acclaimed lie delivered into the abyss of oblivion. They are dust and bones. In the manner of how events have panned out post-Oct 7th 2023, one is compelled to wonder what exactly was the plan that Hamas wanted to execute and achieve. The quizzical paradox is: did Hamas not anticipate a virulent reaction from Israel when they launched the attack? Was Hamas leadership so naive? There are many intriguing questions that arise and remain unanswered. There could be no disambiguation of Israelis' intent and motives. It has heavily committed itself to evil design and objectives. In this pursuit they are aided by all—the United Nations and the all so- called pivots activated. The UN alongside the West is equally complicit in the crimes committed by Israel upon the unarmed and hapless, Gazans. Resolutions and statements against Israel are immediately backed up by commitments of sending fresh supplies of armaments to the notorious Netanyahu. Diplomacy, once a hallmark of decent nations, stands replaced with 'Expedient Duplicity '. The governments of those involved countries do not have the backing of their own people; otherwise how does one explain the voluntary marches taking place across the world against Israeli genocide? The Jewish Rabbis are part of protests and processions. All the hard work and efforts of South Africa to bind Netanyahu to global standards of peaceful coexistence have been totally wasted. There seems to be no interest to pursue peace in the Middle East. They have decided to use the Middle East as a theatre of war but also to keep it on the back burner, so that, whenever required, they can call upon the Zionists to unleash upon the unarmed people of Gaza. If the United Nations, West and the big powers of Europe, along with OIC, were to be serious in halting the human misery and inhuman conditions, they will have to be resolute in rewriting the history. The United Nations and the West must impose sanctions on Israel in the event of non-cessation of hostilities. Let there be clarity in the minds of the people that it is not Israel alone that needs to be tamed; it is also all the governments of the European Union and across the Atlantic. They are today as guilty as Israel. They continue to support and re-arm Israel. If UN has since its formation consistently failed in maintaining peace, let there be a global debate on its charter and its relevance today. May be it is time to house it in a funeral parlour or designate its headquarters as such. The verbosity of support must end with timely action. The inherent deception in these statements at best is servilely flattering the ruthlessness of Israel in its intolerable genocidal actions. There is reluctance and tacit refusal by the Ummah to be aroused from its slumber. By being an ostrich the Ummah is also complicit in its own ethnic cleansing. The essential principles of provoking good and forbidding evil are at stake. The values that demarcate human behaviour in respect of life and death, glory and infamy, stand totally smudged. This has led to utter helplessness and serious submission to brute power of in-humaneness. The silence of Muslim governments is piercingly loud. The decibel of infants' cries has reached dizzying heights, yet it seems to fall on deaf ears. The Ummah has lost its faculty of hearing. Insensitivity is at its zenith. Maira Salman, who is possibly not even hit her teenage years yet, wrote a moving poem, which her father, Muhammed Salman Butt, posted on a professional social media site. It is titled, 'Genocide, not War'. She writes, 'Lone arms and heads lay on the ground/ The rest of the bodies nowhere to be found/ The children cry ,as this is all they see/ Oh! My, Oh! My! Will this happen to me? /......In a corner a mother whispers low/ The fear of her child starting to grow/ My child is hurt with a permanent scar/ This is genocide, not War'. A genocide. Not a war. Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
Daily Record
4 days ago
- Daily Record
Dodgy K9 fertility worker sprayed dog's blood during illegal veterinary procedure
Coral Abel and clinic owner Gary Bain were convicted of carrying out illegal artificial insemination and taking blood without vet qualifications. An unqualified shop worker left a pet and its owner distressed when the dog's blood sprayed across a dingy 'surgery' as she carried out an illegal veterinary procedure. Coral Abel, 25, terrified the golden retriever, which had been taken in for artificial insemination – a procedure illegal to administer for non-vets. Animal crime investigators at the SSPCA were called in and they swooped on the K9 Fertility business, in Aberdeen, which was routinely offering vet services despite being unqualified. The charity's Special Investigations Unit found Abel and boss Gary Bain, 38, operating in filthy conditions, with hair from dog grooming posing a contamination risk. The owner of retriever Zara told investigators how Abel visibly botched efforts to illegally take an intravenous blood sample from the dog and could not find a vein. A spokesperson for the animal charity said: 'While Abel was taking the intravenous blood sample, she did not wear gloves and carried out the procedure on the floor which was particularly dirty, covered in dog hair and was described by the witness as being very unhygienic. 'Abel could not find the vein in the dog's foreleg and as a result blood sprayed everywhere as well as pools of blood on the floor. 'It was clear to the witness Abel was not proficient or confident at obtaining the blood sample. She was concerned Abel was hurting and injuring her dog as it took so many attempts.' Officers found the clinic using a progesterone testing machine, which checks fertility levels in female dogs and determines the optimal time for artificial insemination. Such machinery should only legally be operated by trained vets. The spokesperson said: 'Zara's fertility levels registered as being too high and the AI should not have been carried out. 'The witness was feeling distressed and panicked at seeing and hearing her dog in pain and the entire process was a huge ordeal for herself and Zara.' The SIU officer added: 'The surfaces of the worktops were dirty and unhygienic, the floor was covered in dog hair, grime and dirt and were a real cause for concern. 'The unclean, unhygienic environment was the potential for spread of disease and a real risk of introducing bacterial infection into bitches who are there for the purposes of AI.' Bain and Abel pled guilty at Aberdeen Sheriff Court to multiple attempts to take intravenous blood samples while being unqualified and unsupervised, resulting in distress, pain and suffering to the dog. They also made multiple attempts to carry out internal artificial insemination procedures. Bain was sentenced on March 21 at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, where he received a £900 fine and a disqualification order prohibiting providing services for animals for five years. Abel was sentenced at the same court on February 21, where she was given a Community Payback Order of 100 hours unpaid work, to be completed in 12 months. A not guilty plea was accepted for the Aberdeen K9 Ltd company, run by Bain. The SSPCA has his out over the lenient sentences. The spokesperson added: 'We are disappointed with the sentencing as there were animal welfare concerns here.' After Bain's ban, he sold the clinic to a new owner. The new management said: 'We have no connection to the previous ownership. 'Our services are all compliant with UK law and we are in regular contact with DEFRA to ensure that is the case.'
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Incredible But True Rangers Stories
You may have heard of Taffy Abel or you may not but -- if you care for vintage Rangers history – now is the time to hear about one of the biggest, best and funniest of Blueshirt backliners. Before the Rangers were born, Abel already had made a name for himself as an amateur. Taffy was an American Olympic hero decades before Uncle Sam's Gold Medal winners of 1980. Advertisement Here are some worthwhile Taffy Abel notes: * A FIRST: Abel was the first Native American (Ojibwe in the Winter Olympics 1924 Silver Medal) , He also was the Team USA Flag Bearer. And the first American-born player in the NHL. * HOME TOWN: Taffy came from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. * BEST FEAT: Working alongside future Hall of Famer Ching Johnson, Abel starred on the Rangers first Stanley Cup-winning team in 1928. Because of his being overweight – Taffy loved beer – manager Lester Patrick regularly had his heavyweight defenseman get on the scales. Then Patrick would bawl him out. "Taffy just grinned and continued on his way," Frank Boucher wrote in When The Rangers Were Young. "He loved to sing and harmonize and then would break into a soft-shoe routine, a marvelous grin creasing his round, glowing face." Advertisement One day after a practice, Patrick was instructing his two defensemen on what they should do on a three-on-two break. Boucher: "Lester carefully explained how they must make certain the puck carrier could not drive between them, that they must wait until the last split-second and then 'Spread Out,' covering the two wing men, one of whom would be taking the pass from the centerman." Incredible But True Rangers Tales: The Forgotten Cup Hero Of 1940 Incredible But True Rangers Tales: The Forgotten Cup Hero Of 1940 The "Put A Banner Up For Chris Kreider" bloc simply doesn't know what it's lobbying about because it doesn't know Advertisement Rangers history like The Maven. Since Lester's lecture sounded like the drone of bagpipes, Taffy fell asleep. When Patrick awakened Abel with a shout, and admonished him for snoozing, the defenseman shot back: "I wasn't asleep, I was just resting my eyes." Lester then asked Abel what he'd do if alone on defense and a three-man rush came down on him. Taffy thought for a moment and then shot back: "I'd do exactly what you said I should do, – I'D SPREAD OUT!" P.S. Abel also played on the Chicago Black Hawks 1934 Stanley Cup-winners!
