[Gpdd] [PETER GURNEY] <world pet/animal day and sites>

Janneke Staaks jannekestaaks at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 13 04:38:54 EDT 2006


Hi all,
The feast day for St Francis of Assisi is 4th October is already world 
pet/animal day, so the world pet day idea is already taken care of 
;-).Ahem...here comes the historyteacherfreak hidden inside me... In 1929 in 
vienna there was a conference of animal protection groups (sorry for the 
crappy translation) and they decided to make the date that saint francis 
died the international day for animals. Sint-Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), 
was the founder of the order of the franciscans. The stories about his life 
concerning his great love for nature and animals inspired both catholics and 
protestants and went even further than that. Animal day is the most 
important day (at least here in the netherlands) to have campaigns to 
promote animal wellbeing. It was founded to create public awareness for 
aminal rights, which should be protected. It fits between other 
international days like day of labour (1890), women's day (1910), mother's 
day (1914) and tree plant day (1919). (okay sorry for the history lesson ;-) 
)

so....as far as i know there's no guinea pig day... so i agree that it could 
be peter's birthday. maybe pet day on oktober the 4th is a nice day to have 
the first lightning of the candles?

Ow and i just wanted to point out these sites:
www.peter-gurney.co.uk
this site is probably already posted on this list but is is there to keep 
his memory alive.
www.are-you-ready-for-this.co.uk
on this site guinea pig lovers can vent their nasty experiences with vets, 
pet shops etc. Or just a nice guinea pig story. Peter was known to ehm... 
have a strong opinion about the above and when he called his friends to vent 
his feelings he started the converstion with "are you ready for this" 
followed by a long rant.
Both pages are probably still under construction. Btw his family asks for 
donations for the cavy trust. They also asked this on his funeral, instead 
of flowers and the dresscode for his funeral was not black but guineapig 
t-shirts. (sorry if i'm overrepeating something that has been said before, 
i'm slightly over-peter-gurney-ed by all the messages ;-) )

grtz
Janneke from the winky girls






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