Vanessa Sarges

Just another photography blog but this one will be a bit heavy on the animal rights stuff. Cemeteries, abandoned places, lots of happy animals and a few people are thrown in here and there. And then there are cats... because what is a blog without cats. There will be lots of pictures of my boys. Take it for what it’s worth. More Stuff on Flickr | Me On Facebook

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The busiest and widest highway in the world is in Ontario, Canada

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Is that the fucking 401

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That is the fucking 401

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Of course it’s the fucking 401

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The god damn

motherfucking

401

You got somewhere to be?

Too bad you’re not getting there.

The 401 is where they weed out the weak. You don’t drive on the 401 to get somewhere. You do it for the challenge. You do it to test your abilities like some Uchiha clan shit. Rush hour 401 is the breaking point between heaven and earth. Are you going to descend into a Lovecraftian hell or reach Nirvana? You will double the size of your biceps death-gripping your steering wheel. There is no time for rest or pulling off over into an exit. Bodily functions shut down. Cars on the side of the road and crashes closing lanes are a constant reminder that you are driving the razor’s edge. Death is mere seconds away at any given moment. They’re always doing construction but nothing is ever finished. It’s a constant roadblock for the hell of it. This is the Dark Souls 2 of Canadian driving. git good or get out

And that’s just normal mode. Have fun in the six-month long Ontario winter and enter some top-tier level of highway driving.

EVO2015. EVO2018.

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I heard that babies are born on the 401, grow up on the 401, and take over for their parents as driver of the family car on the 401

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I thought American traffic was bad.

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I will never complain about traffic in Alabama again.

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Arthur from Vine’s worse nightmare.

“Moved to Canada!”

“Aw, fuck!”

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Ffffffuck that.

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Tarantulas.

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So, for Save a Spider Day on March 14th - I saved a spider.  This is a local Phidippus audax who was saved from an agonizing death by air freshener.  I have set him up, gotten him some flightless fruit flies, and he has returned the favour by being a fabulous model and webbing himself a nice little hammock in his enclosure.  I say ‘he’ out of convenience because I am unsure of sex.  They are still a juvenile.

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Wishing Well Sanctuary, in Bradford, Ontario, has started having their tour days.  They are trying out something a bit differently this season - with tours taking place twice a month instead of once.

Tours will take place on the second Sunday, and on the last Saturday, of every month.  This is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to visit with all the wonderful souls who call the sanctuary home and to be surrounded by love, peace and compassion.

For more information, please visit www.wishingwellsanctuary.org

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Having a field day with the pathetic attempt at sugar coating what they do over at the #farm365 hashtag on Twitter.

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It’s a myth that Aquarians are cold and unemotional. It may appear they can fit their emotions into a box, but when they put that box down, it links to a beautiful underground labyrinth of emotions that most of the other signs can’t match or even comprehend. They just don’t put their box down for anyone.

22 (a Cancer)

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Zodiac Mood Cycle

♒ Aquarius: Aquarius' receive the air sign mood volatility; but their moods are so hard to analyse because they are so unpredictable. What sets off a response in Aquarius one day may not worry them the next. Although detached by nature, Aquarius' still have changeable emotions and racing thoughts which can take introspection to attenuate. It can take months for anger or agitation to build up in the Aquarian.

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 Empire magazine Feb 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road

:x I’ve never made so many posts of the same image before. dammit. sry. help. But this cover wins everything. (No comment on the other one.) So here’s what’s new: a teaser quote from the Empire feature article, director George Miller talking about his new Max. 

"There’s a certain pain and sorrow —  and definitely a danger — to him that I wanted," says Miller of meeting Hardy.

"We just met and talked. My first impression was that he’s very bright and very fast. He’s got this kind of nervous energy. Mel had a similar quality of not being able to sit still, always biting the inside of his cheek. Very lively, unpredictable and funny."

"It reminded me a lot of working with animals, this wonderful thing where you don’t quite know what the creature’s going to do next." 

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From:  http://vanessasarges.tumblr.com/ My sweet Cassius.

(submitted by vanessasarges)

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This sweet boy is Kai - and he is someone, not something. When he and his brother, Bali, were no longer of use to the pumpkin farm - they were on their way to slaughter. Thankfully, Wishing Well Sanctuary stepped in and provided a forever home to them both. They are the lucky ones. Kai still doesn't have a sponsor and is hoping for one this Christmas. If you would like to sponsor Kai, or any other members of the Wishing Well family, please visit www.wishingwellsanctuary.org. Love and Peace for all this holiday season and for the new year. xoxoxo

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Wishing Well Thanks You!

Wishing Well would like to thank everyone for their love and support!

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Remember these? (design not final)

My commissioner, fellow archaeologist, all around amazing person, and prolific crafter, Kristy, used my lines to make print plates for pressing leather!!

Hominid Coasters!!!! She painstakingly hand painted each piece! These...

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Must get these...

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Why love one and eat the other? Wishing Well Sanctuary www.wishingwellsanctuary.org

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Have you ever wondered what happens to those cute babies that you often see at petting zoos or farms during the summer and autumn months? Once the novelty wears off and the crowds have bought their pumpkins and celebrated Thanksgiving - these babies are sent to slaughter. Taken away from their mums to serve as an added source of entertainment - they become just another mouth to feed and are quickly gotten rid of. We have far too many 'businesses' in Ontario who exploit these poor babies in order to sell more pumpkins and far too few sanctuaries willing to save them. Kai and Bali were destined for slaughter too - until Wishing Well Sanctuary stepped in and saved them from that fate. Wishing Well will provide them with a home where they will be safe, and loved, for the balance of their natural lives - which could be the next 25 years. Our sanctuaries cannot continue to help these babies without getting help themselves. In addition to love and affection - Kai and Bali will need continuous funding to thrive at Wishing Well. And they will need the help of all of us to do that. Please visit https://www.indiegogo.com/…/let-s-build-a-home-for-bali-kai… to help Wishing Well to continue to save lives and provide all of us with a haven to visit them in. They can't do it without our support. Please share.

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Meet Me at the Stockyards - Toronto This is an action taking place on Thurs. Nov. 6, assembly at 8 a.m., at a slaughterhouse in Toronto where 600 cows are killed every day (the site of Toronto Cow Save vigils). While not part of Toronto Cow Save, this effort is supported by many members of TCS and there will be a TCS vigil concurrent with the direct action. The action itself will happen some time after 8 a.m. that morning. We will block a truck of cows going into the slaughterhouse in a non-violent Gandhian manner by simply sitting down in its path, on the road. This is a well organized action; we have thought of every contingency and have a lawyer to help as needed. If you are interested in joining it as a participant and want to know more about it, contact me via Facebook email and I will try to answer your questions. We also have regular weekly meetings leading up to the action itself, every Monday night, for the participants or those who are seriously considering joining. Direct action participants must undergo non-violence training prior to the event and attend some of the meetings. If you wish to be a support person, then simply show up the day of, and of course bring your camera if you have one, and post photos to the social media. And it would be appreciated if you can also share this event for the benefit of those who live in the Toronto area who care about animal rights, social justice, and the environment. Thank you! #MeetMeAtTheStockyards #Blockadia #Toronto

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Ghosts in the Machine - DxE October Day of Action in Toronto

Kensington Market, Toronto, Canada Activists enter a place where animal bodies are being served or sold, separately and secretly but all in funeral attire. One activist brings a small coffin. Another brings a small stand. Two others bring in flowers. They all converge in the general area where the animal flesh is being sold. At a designated moment, one of the activists sets up the coffin on a stand. Another takes a package of meat from the counter -- perhaps a full body chicken or turkey, wrapped up in plastic -- and places it into the coffin. Activists then "appear out of nowhere" and converge around the coffin in a memorial for the lives lost. Each activist comes forward to speak about the lost personality and personhood of animals. The activists then close the memorial with a chant -- It's not food! It's violence! They carry the coffin out on their shoulders, as other activists hand out memorial cards to passersby, which tell stories of animals whose lives were lost. MODEL SPEAKOUT "Not a happy death." --- THE CAMPAIGN DxE’s organizers around the world build empowered networks for animal liberation. Based on the most innovative scholarship on social change, and the recent astounding successes of the animal rights movement in countries around the world, DxE’s model focuses on gathering the kindling for a true social movement to be set ablaze. We do this by: (1) supporting activists locally in speaking strongly for animals under our organizing principles (http://directactioneverywhere.com/organizing-principles/); and (2) connecting those activists with others worldwide to create empowered networks for change. Animal rights activists in 60 cities and 17 countries have united under the banner "It's not Food. It's Violence" since our campaign started in October 2013. We have received media coverage in multiple cities. And the primary focus of our campaign in the United States -- Chipotle Mexican Grill -- has stumbled in the face of our demonstrations. See here (http://directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2014/7/15/chipotle-we-communicate-with-pigs-via-telepathy) and here (http://directactioneverywhere.com/theliberationist/2014/3/29/san-francisco-chipotle-closes-in-face-of-animal-rights-protests). But we need your help -- whether at Chipotle or another place of violence -- to keep up the momentum. Join us this month as we once again demand an end to atrocities against innocent animals.