http://news.yahoo.com/actress-hilary-swank-helps-bucharest-stray-dogs-132424868.html
QuoteThousands of Romanian street dogs have found a friend in Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank.
Swank, who won for her portrayal of a waitress-turned-boxer in "Million Dollar Baby," visited Bucharest last week and showed a different kind of skill: fighting for animal rights.
Swank, who says travel has been her best education, rarely leaves home without Kai, a devoted Jack Russell stray she rescued in Los Angeles.
In the Romanian capital on Friday, she visited projects set up by the animal welfare foundation Vier Pfoten that encourage interaction between stray dogs and institutionalized people.
Bucharest has 35,000 strays and their fate has sparked a fierce debate here. Some believe they should be put down, others advocate putting the dogs in shelters, while others want strays to be sterilized.
Swank spoke to The Associated Press about her devotion to animals, her belief in sterilization and the ways street dogs can help disadvantaged people.
'I believe that is so healing to these kids who don't trust people anymore," she said. "The unconditional love of an animal is very healing and teaches them about not just unconditional love but about a relationship, about responsibility, about anger management."
Swank said she is starting a U.S. charity called Hilaroo to bring needy children and animals together. The charity combines her name and that of her late dog, Karoo.
'I've seen firsthand how it changes the path of the soul, for the animal and for the child," she said.
Visiting a retirement home, she talked about one special dog that changed the life of an elderly woman.
"There was a woman didn't get out of bed, and after a few weeks of the dog coming to visit she's up walking," she said. "The dog literally got her out of bed."
Last week, the 37-year-old actress was in Paris for the Salvatore Ferragamo Cruise Collection 2013 show.
Next month, Swank begins work on "Martha and Mary," an HBO movie with Brenda Blethyn about two women trying to eradicate malaria. Directed by Phillip Noyce, it will be shot in North Carolina and South Africa.
Before leaving Bucharest, she urged people to neuter unwanted dogs and cats rather than kill them.
"I believe in a "No-Kill" policy," she said. "Hopefully (we are) getting to a place where we have "No-Kill" universally and just a more caring attitude in general to all animals."
Somebody's gotta do it. The Romanians sure as shit aren't going to.
Dogs are the best thing ever.
We should make them the lords of Romania.
On a similar note I've a friend who left this area to move to just outside the Fukushima evacuation zone so she can volunteer going into 'the zone' to feed the abandoned animals. I so want to visit....both for the helping the doggy-woggies factor and the getting to live out my Stalker fantastes factor.
It is only natural, since she looks like a dog herself. Woof.
Well good for her.
Really 35,000 strays? I am no animal stats expert but isn't that pretty high?
Quote from: Valmy on June 27, 2012, 09:34:32 AM
Well good for her.
Really 35,000 strays? I am no animal stats expert but isn't that pretty high?
Not really. My suburb euthanizes 15 000 cats each year. They don't catch them all.
Quote from: Valmy on June 27, 2012, 09:34:32 AM
Well good for her.
Really 35,000 strays? I am no animal stats expert but isn't that pretty high?
Cue Seedy with numbers on euthanized animals in America in 3....2....1....
Hilary Swank is a woman? I thought she was just a really ugly man.
Quote from: The Brain on June 27, 2012, 12:34:58 PM
Hilary Swank is a woman? I thought she was just a really ugly man.
So now you don't want to do her?
Quote from: katmai on June 27, 2012, 12:36:02 PM
Quote from: The Brain on June 27, 2012, 12:34:58 PM
Hilary Swank is a woman? I thought she was just a really ugly man.
So now you don't want to do her?
I don't follow.
She needs to do some work in Argentina. Way too damned many strays there. Even out in the countryside you see them running around all over the place.
Animal control and Bob Barker's message isn't exactly at the top of developing nations' lists of things to do.
Unless eating them is a status symbol thing, like some other subhuman pipples we know.
Who cares?
I did not see this coming. Stray horses, sure. Stray dogs?
I don't care what you haters say...I like Hilary Swank, and I think she's cute.
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 27, 2012, 06:52:48 PM
I don't care what you haters say...I like Hilary Swank, and I think she's cute.
Some people like Horses. No problem. :)
Quote from: Siege on June 27, 2012, 05:08:33 PM
Who cares?
They all can't fit into Palestinian wells, you fucking war criminal.
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 27, 2012, 07:07:09 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 27, 2012, 06:52:48 PM
I don't care what you haters say...I like Hilary Swank, and I think she's cute.
Some people like Horses. No problem. :)
[Thor]I say thee- NEIGH![/Thor]
One of the reasons I don't live in Bucharest... it was like a warzone. Imagine coming home in the evening and being surrounded by 20-30 hungry dogs that try their best to taste your neck.
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 27, 2012, 09:05:37 AM
It is only natural, since she looks like a dog herself. Woof.
You crazy as hell old man. She gets 8.5 tent poles out of ten.
My boss lived in Bucharest for a while and told me the conditions there are horrible. It's actually amazing that when you see Warsaw, Krakow or Prague you tend not to realize that the rest of CEE is such a shithile.
Quote from: Siege on June 27, 2012, 05:08:33 PM
Who cares?
People who mistreat animals weaker than them and treat them like vermin tend to apply the same reasoning to groups of humans as well. As a Jew, you should be keenly aware of that - as a gay person, I know I am.
I don't get the Hillary Skank fascination. Her face looks like a failed Photoshop experiment.
And I googled Hillary Swank and she is not that bad. Sure, her jaw is quite masculine and toothy but other than that it's alright.
Still doesn't make up for showing up at Kadyrov's birthday party.
Quote from: Syt on June 29, 2012, 03:16:46 AM
I don't get the Hillary Skank fascination. Her face looks like a failed Photoshop experiment.
She's an alright actress. I don't know that there's many people claiming she's some kind of great beauty.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 29, 2012, 09:42:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 29, 2012, 03:16:46 AM
I don't get the Hillary Skank fascination. Her face looks like a failed Photoshop experiment.
She's an alright actress. I don't know that there's many people claiming she's some kind of great beauty.
But there are plenty of people denying she's some kind of big ugly.
Like Julia Roberts she is the kind of woman only a woman (of whatever sex) would find non-ugly.
Quote from: Scipio on June 29, 2012, 06:50:31 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 29, 2012, 09:42:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 29, 2012, 03:16:46 AM
I don't get the Hillary Skank fascination. Her face looks like a failed Photoshop experiment.
She's an alright actress. I don't know that there's many people claiming she's some kind of great beauty.
But there are plenty of people denying she's some kind of big ugly.
I would say the word "fascination" fits better those who find her exceptional than those who find her ordinary.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 29, 2012, 07:24:08 PM
Quote from: Scipio on June 29, 2012, 06:50:31 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 29, 2012, 09:42:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 29, 2012, 03:16:46 AM
I don't get the Hillary Skank fascination. Her face looks like a failed Photoshop experiment.
She's an alright actress. I don't know that there's many people claiming she's some kind of great beauty.
But there are plenty of people denying she's some kind of big ugly.
I would say the word "fascination" fits better those who find her exceptional than those who find her ordinary.
The Edsel is exceptional. But it ain't pretty.
Who is this hilary swank?
All this time I was thinking of hilary duff.
I thought thies thread was about Hilary duff.
Somehow i read duff.
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too old, too fat
Quote from: Siege on July 01, 2012, 05:30:33 PM
Who is this hilary swank?
Her best-known role is a chick boxer in Million Dollar Baby.
She also raced at the Belmont.
Hillary Duff is looking a lot like Rachel Bilson these days.
Wait someone really has the last name "Swank". I thought that was just for porn stars or something.
Stray dog problem, eh?
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:licklips:
I see someone has gone native. <_<
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on July 01, 2012, 11:16:01 PM
Stray dog problem, eh?
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:licklips:
<_<
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 01, 2012, 05:37:01 PM
She also raced at the Belmont.
Ok, this made me laugh out loud in the library. Thanks. <_<
Quote from: katmai on July 01, 2012, 11:21:49 PM
I see someone has gone native. <_<
Well, if they're gonna get euthanized anyway...