Jan Leeming

#Broadcaster; Corporate Presenter; VO Artist
Patron @AnimalSOSSLanka @SafeHavenforDonkeys @SouvenirUK

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Don’t like going in to London but enjoy journey time to read. My latest read by Ben Jones who for five years has been Director of the Free Speech Union helping ordinary people who’ve found themselves victims of the Cancel Culture. VERY interesting.

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Westminster Hall Commissioned by King Richard II in 1393, it is the largest medieval timber Hammerbeam roof in Northern Europe. Amazingly escaped the Great fire and bombing in WW2. Oliver Cromwell ruler of Commonwealth between execution of Charles 1 and Restoration of Monarchy

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Eduardo Goncalvez who works so hard and is the inspiration behind the movement to Ban Trophy Hunting. Also Heather Mills and Michaela Strachan. Vickie Michel - my chum- was also there. Do watch informative moving video in my last post.

[Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting @CBTHunting]

It’s Time to Abolish Trophy Hunting. We call on the UN to end this cruel, destructive ‘sport’. The campaign is inspired by Jane Goodall & led by ex-Presidents, wildlife experts, indigenous & faith leaders, public figures & NGOs.

Join the Movement today:
https://t.co/wrHvh9KKKZ

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A firefighter lost his job after refusing to leave a burning house until he found the family dog.

A house fire broke out in Los Angeles, and by the time firefighters arrived, flames had already spread through most of the home. Everyone inside had been evacuated. Except the dog.

Firefighters searched as long as they could, but the house was getting worse by the minute, and the chief finally gave the order for everyone to pull back before the structure collapsed. One firefighter didn’t leave.

He kept searching through the smoke until he found the dog hiding behind the bathtub, coughing, scared, and barely breathing. He carried him outside, placed an oxygen mask over his face, but the dog went limp, he had to perform CPR.

For a moment, everyone thought it was too late. However, paramedics were able to step in and use emergency equipment, and miraculously brought the dog back.

But days later, the firefighter was fired for disobeying orders and risking not only his own life, but the lives of the crew who might have had to go back in for him.

The story spread fast, and his fellow firefighters didn’t stay quiet. They stood by him, saying he made a dangerous choice, but not a heartless one.

Two weeks later, with the help of public pressure and the support from his crew, he was reinstated, compensated for the time he missed, and allowed to return to duty.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The orphan lamb that Eduardo adopted in the spring has now, beyond all doubt, decided it is an alpaca. This is causing mild confusion across the flock and a great deal of quiet pride in Eduardo.

It began as plain survival. The lamb lost its mother, Eduardo had a vacancy in his heart roughly the size of a small herd, and he took the post without hesitation. He stood over it in the rain. He hummed to it, the soft alpaca hum, and the lamb learned to answer in a sound no sheep has ever made.

But a young animal becomes whatever it grows up beside, and this lamb has been studying the wrong tutor with total devotion. It has given up grazing like a sheep, head down and shuffling, and taken up grazing like Eduardo, lifting its head between mouthfuls to scan the horizon for threats it does not understand and could not fight if they came. It has tried to kush, folding its legs to sit the way alpacas do, which on a lamb reads less as dignity and more as a deckchair quietly collapsing.

And last week, in the moment Eduardo will treasure to the end of his days, the lamb met a startled rambler on the footpath, drew itself up to its full and unimpressive height, and tried, with everything it had, to spit. It does not yet possess the equipment. What came out was mostly hope.

The other sheep regard the lamb with the patient bewilderment of relatives at a long Christmas dinner. Eduardo regards it as the finest alpaca in all of Wales.

There is something genuinely true beneath the comedy. An animal is never only its breeding. It is also the company it keeps. Raise a creature alongside calm and care and unshakeable attention and it grows up shaped by exactly those things, even if it also grows up faintly ridiculous.

The lamb thinks it is an alpaca. Eduardo is not about to be the one who tells it otherwise.

[Dog Lovers @DogLovers03]

Newborn at home so the dog has to go .

For those who give up their dogs when they have a baby, I'm posting this photo of a family whose 15-year-old Jack Russel Terrier is treated as one of the children (because he was their first child) and who is the protector of his two human brothers and sisters.

Never use the excuse that you had to let your dog go because you have a baby in the family and the doctor advised you blah blah blah and other lame excuses.

Never abandon your pets. They are family

[Sandie J @SandieBlickem]

@Jan_Leeming My little Frankie never did anything wrong bless him.

[IAPWA @IAPWA]

Patients like little John are running out of food 🚨💔

Our food supplies are running low and we urgently need donations for £5 Food Packages to help feed the hundreds of animals who rely on us every day.

Please help us ensure their bowls remain full 🙏🏽
https://t.co/CG5WJwFQYX

[McDoodaa @Felt_the_heat]

@Jan_Leeming 😆 my dog destroys my slippers...I've given up buying them 😏

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Just watching Riptide. Why does every series, film, TV show have to tick boxes. Is it really necessary.

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

What a world so full of scams, fakery and AI. I suppose the natural conclusion is that people will stop giving. Know I would think twice about a Facebook appeal or Fundraiser and don’t give to large charities anyway.

[BirchillsBoy @BirchillsBoy]

ALmost certainly made up for click Jan. I called someone out on Facebook earlier and they got quite shirty. There's a trend now, to have AI videos of a child lying in bed dying of cancer. Tearful parents say, please don't scroll. They're grifting for money for hospital bills and then it cuts to the child spending 7 hours a day crocheting little flowers and £39 a pop... Many variations exist. They're online scams, some of them just run by bots. I called on out and they responded with a thank you. (automated).

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

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[Sandie J @SandieBlickem]

@Jan_Leeming @buitengebieden That's guilty look if ever I saw one! But who could be angry with a face like that.

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

😡😡😡😡😡😡 Part of the blame lies at the doorstep of Reeves from Accounts. Not all farmers are wealthy and in many cases they are Asset rich and cash poor which is commonplace these days especially with older people living in big houses.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

It is a grey morning in 2026. The cows go in for milking at half past five, the same as every morning for forty years. This is the last time.

The herd is a hundred and twenty Friesians. The farmer knows most of them by sight, some by name, and a few by the particular trouble they cause. His father built the parlour. His grandfather bought the first of the land.

He gets forty-four pence a litre for the milk. Two miles away the same milk sells for seventy-two. The maths stopped working three years ago, and he has been farming on his overdraft and his stubbornness ever since.

His father died in the winter. The inheritance tax bill that landed this spring, calculated on land valued by buyers who want it for carbon and have never kept an animal, is more money than the farm has cleared in a decade.

There is no vet within forty minutes any more. The young ones do cats in the town, and the last large-animal practice for miles cut its farm work last year.

He cannot find anyone to take it on. His son saw all of this coming and trained as an engineer, and he does not blame him.

So the cows are sold. The herd that took three generations to build is gone by Friday, loaded into a single line of lorries. The parlour falls silent for the first time since 1985.

The land is bought by a fund that plants it with trees, to offset the emissions of people he will never meet. The barn becomes a holiday let.

And a long way off, a ship is already loaded with the milk that used to come from his field, bound for a country that decided, one reasonable policy at a time, that it would rather not bother making its own.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Whales are being harpooned again in Iceland in 2026, despite overwhelming evidence that these hunts cause fear, suffering, and prolonged deaths.

These vulnerable whales are intelligent, social beings who feel pain, form bonds, and fight to survive. They should be protected, not targeted for profit.

Please send our letter urging Iceland’s leaders to end commercial whaling and stop allowing whales to suffer for an industry that belongs in the past.

Act now: https://t.co/SeobHjJ4Fx

#Whales #Iceland #Cetaceans #AnimalRights

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Hope she gets a prison sentence but doubt it.😡😡😡😡 Why on earth get an animal if you are not going to love and care for it, in sickness and in health.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

This is the 'vile' dog owner facing an animal cruelty probe after she allegedly tied her Japanese Akita to a lamppost and abandoned it on the hottest day of the year - then jetted off on holiday to Egypt. 
Wardens raised the alarm after the distressed dog was discovered running around an industrial estate having been tied to the lamppost outside PetPractice vets in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on Wednesday, as temperatures soared to almost 35C. 

The 'petrified' American Akita called Carla escaped from its harness before running close to nearby roads and was eventually rescued and taken away for treatment. 
Now the Daily Mail can reveal the Akita's owner is 47-year-old Paula Blackwood, who left for a sunshine break to Egypt shortly after trying to give away her pet. 
The day before Carla was found, Ms Blackwood was on social media begging someone to take Carla off her hands 'immediately'.
She posted on Facebook that Carla was free to a 'good home' because its separation anxiety was causing distress to neighbours

She wrote: 'Japanese Akita to give to good home today. Really good temperament, so loving. I can't keep her as she has separation issues when I'm out, causing neighbours distress.' 
Hours later, she returned to Facebook to ask: 'Anyone know who takes dog immediately?'

When she returns Ms Blackwood now faces the prospect of an animal welfare investigation over claims the female Akita was deliberately abandoned. 
Wiltshire Council's Public Protection Service said in a statement on June 24: 'This dog may have been intentionally abandoned this morning after being tied to a lamp post on one of the hottest days of the year. 
'We are aware who the likely owner of this dog is and we are currently investigating the matter.' 
It is believed the dog, which was microchipped with incorrect details, managed to slip out of her harness before running loose near surrounding roads as members of the public struggled to approach her

One eyewitness said the Akita was 'petrified', making it difficult for rescuers to get close. 
In a subsequent update, the council said it had identified the dog's owner. The council added: 'We're pleased to confirm that the dog is receiving the care and treatment she needs and will remain safely in our care.' 
Ms Blackwood has been looking after Carla since the beginning of last year after being given the dog by a friend.

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Totally agree. Am amazed that products, not reaching UK standards, are allowed in.

[Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation @ConservativeAWF]

Ministers should secure a clear animal welfare carve-out within trade agreements. Imported products must be required to meet the same welfare standards as those applied to UK producers. Practices prohibited in domestic farming should not be permitted to enter the UK market through imports

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Going to be hot again tomorrow but have to go to London for this reception. It’s a decade since the outcry over killing of Cecil but this diabolical and completely unnecessary’Sport’ continues. And Labour Government reneged on promised support- as I understand it. 😡😡

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Founder Kim travels economy (and is no longer young) and is making quick trip to Sri Lanka taking Veterinary medication which is much more expensive in Sri Lanka. It will 'break my heart' and Kim's and all the wonderful volunteers if all her 'babies' had to be euthanized😭

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

All the @AnimalSOSSLanka stories are 100% bona fide. PLEASE HELP 🙏🙏🙏

[Jan Leeming @Jan_Leeming]

Experienced same thing when friend's dog chewed up one of my DKYN trainers. Wouldn't have minded but don't like trainers in general but these were good looking slip ons. Went for replacement - no longer made🤣

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Guilty or innocent? 😅