The display of live sea-food (I refer to these animals as sea-food reluctantly) in restaurants is very popular in South East Asia, as it is in many parts of the world. I came across these crabs in a tank that had been bound so that their front claws were made immobile. I couldn't help but wonder how afraid they might be feeling having their one form of defence taken away from them and then being surrounded by other crabs that they might well see as a threat.

One restaurant had a huge display of live sea-food, and a man even sat proudly at the entrance for the photograph. You can clearly see how inappropriate these environments are for the animals kept in the. The large crabs in the picture below were unable to move because of the size of their tanks. I hate to think how long they might spend in these systems.

In most cases tanks did have some kind of aeration system at least, but few appeared to have anything going on in the form of filtration. The live sea-food sold at markets suffered a worse fate - especially the fish.

Lastly, a video that really sticks in my mind. I don't know how much longer this fish was left out of the water but as you will see he was clearly struggling for oxygen. His lack of any attempt to move suggests he had already been there some time and was either too exhausted or too stressed to keep fighting to find water.

I saw a stand selling fur hats, cuffs, trims and the like. All strewn about on a tarpaulin on the floor and it was all brand new. This stuff was £1-3 a piece. That’s how little the life of an animal is worth. Fur used to be an expensive, special item and now anyone can afford to wear an abused animal. There were so many people rooting through the stuff it made me sick to the bottom of my stomach. It even made my dad angry (and I had just, that morning, rowed with him because he had bought factory farmed bacon).

There is something about fur that just makes me so much angrier than leather or meat. Perhaps it’s the boastfulness of its cruelty. The way it so shamelessly flaunts it’s self as ‘glamorous’. Leather can be justified in the “normal” mind as a byproduct of meat; something we actually use. But fur? When was the last time anyone ate fox?

I had an idea to make up some stickers to go and stick on people wearing fur. A little reminder for them, and everyone around them, that it is cruelty at its very worst and least justifiable.

A bloodied carcass with some hard-hitting wording. I’ll have to get pondering on that one.

If every dog owner (and park user!) knew this simple rule we could avoid many of the unfortunate incidents of dog attacks that result in innocent (if a little fearful) pooches being destroyed .