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Take life day by day and be grateful for the little things. Don’t get caught up in what you can’t control. Focus on the positive.

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Take life day by day and be grateful for the little things. Don’t get caught up in what you can’t control. Focus on the positive.

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Like the ocean finds the shore, I’ll always find you.

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Sofia Loren

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if i murdered someone she’s the person i’d call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor

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67-68 / ∞ flawless pictures of the grey’s cast

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Date someone who thinks your sneezes are cute. Someone who plays with your hair, and who rakes up piles of leaves just so you can jump in them together. Date someone who gives you their sweatshirts and who dances with you when you’re breaking in new shoes. And, above all, date them if they make you happier than anything else in this world.

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Howdahs are the large metal or wooden saddles used by many elephant owners. They often come adorned with decorative and regal looking covers reminiscent of the days of the Maharaja’s but are they necessary and what are they hiding?!

Howdahs are very bad for the long term health of elephants as they are proven to cause many injuries such as;

Pressure Wounds Spinal Damage Belly Abscesses Rope Sores Internal Injuries Dehydration and Starvation

They will ultimately take years off an animal’s life. Howdahs even cause difficulty in drinking, eating and simple moving or breathing, because of the tight fitting harness, similar to a person wearing a tight corset.

Howdahs are often poorly constructed and the elephants are overloaded and worked for long periods of time, this leads to the frame rubbing their backs, causing blisters, abscesses and open wounds that can become infected.

Riding bareback or with a slightly padded blanket is an obvious, cheap solution to the Howdah issue. Combined with limiting the number of riders at any one time, this will eliminate many of the injuries that elephants working in the tourist industry suffer each year. Simple alternatives such as these will lead to the animal suffering less stress and having a longer, happier life.

text credit to MEF

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“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

Dead Poets Society (1989)

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