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Check out our new TV advert
 | | | Slitting donkeys' nostrils to help them breathe more easily and work better is a myth. It actually inflicts pain and misery and puts them at risk of serious infection.
Well-meaning owners think they are helping their faithful animals by having their nostrils slit.
The Brooke works with communities to dispel the myths surrounding some traditional treatments such as nostril slitting, which are passed from generation to generation. |
| Allah Ditta, a brick kiln worker from Pakistan, took his donkey to a local healer to have his nostrils slit because he had heard it would help his animal work better and breathe more easily. He was horrified with what happened saying: "blood was everywhere, and my donkey was in terrible pain."
Allah rushed his donkey to a Brooke veterinary clinic. A Brooke vet, Dr Rab Nawaz, quickly alleviated the poor donkey's pain and gave him emergency veterinary treatment. He also advised Allah that nostril slitting caused nothing but distress to a donkey and could put an animal in serious danger.
Education and training will save working horses and donkeys from mutilations based on traditional beliefs. With your help we can put an end to this miserable and unnecessary practice, and provide emergency treatment to the victims who need us.
•£3.50 can provide a five-day course of treatment for tetanus
•£13 can provide a week's supply of painkillers
•£40 can provide a community training session to teach owners kinder ways to treat their animals |
| The advert is being broadcast on ITV3, Animal Planet, Horse and Country, Discovery Knowledge, Discovery Travel and Life, Euronews and Sky Arts from January 5th.
View the advert here... |
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