to be INCENSED with the Mail Online?

[Mintyy]

Look, I know its a horrible right wing rag with a very questionable attitude towards women and this is the reason why I don't read it regularly ...

but I want to know if it is possible to do something to stop its lurid, wanton and totally unnecessary coverage of unspeakable animal cruelty cases!

I don't look at it all that often but every time I do there is some horrific story on there including pictures with NO WARNING. I can't recommend that you look at it today (very very upsetting banner headline including pictures) but I hope some of you will so that you know what I mean.

If I tweeted I would be twittering about this right now! Is there anything else the ordinary punter can do? Can I complain via the website? I can't face going back on there just now.

"It was apparent from your OP that compassion isn't a big part of your personality"

Absolutelyfuckingridiculous.

MailOnline run a story about the cat and dog meat trade every few months. Up till now it's always been lower down the page in the main body as a clickable link.

I've never seen a discussion on here about those previous stories, so todays banner has clearly raised much more awareness.

The Mail might just be doing it for sensationalism, but regardless it HAS definitely brought it to many more peoples attention. There are people signing that petition every 10 secs from around the globe.

Judging by the response to Manchester dogs home fire, I would also imagine that many many people will also have donated.

As distressing as it is, there is no doubt that those prominent graphic images will stir people to action far more than words alone.

The only thing I will agree on here is that it would be better to have a warning and a clickable link, or at least a partially obscured photo if they need to. Shock tactics will work with some people, but with others they will just turn away from it.

Different scenario but: someone posted a video on FB that came up on my newsfeed - it was about race horses and what happens to the 1000s of horses bred for racing who don't make the cut. Let's just say I wasn't prepared for the brutality in the filming, and as a result wasn't prepared to share that video. It's not that I condone the processes, of course I don't! But I don't think that most people will react well to seeing it so graphically. There are other ways to tell people what is happening, and give the idea of it without showing it in all its gory detail.

But there are ghoulish people out there who like to see - so that's why the pictures/videos should be available if they want to see them - then they can click on them.

Thumbscrewswitch You've made some valid points and you are right there will be people who turn away from it. But equally there are those who won't notice or respond unless its thrust in their face.

With that in mind, both and other types of awareness strategies need to be employed.