''30 millions d'amis'' (English: "30 Million Friends") is a French television program, a French monthly magazine with its posters, and a French foundation: the Fondation 30 Millions d'Amis. All three focus on pets, especially

cat The cat (''Felis catus''), also referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae. Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the ...

dog The dog (''Canis familiaris'' or ''Canis lupus familiaris'') is a domesticated descendant of the gray wolf. Also called the domestic dog, it was selectively bred from a population of wolves during the Late Pleistocene by hunter-gatherers. ...

horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 mi ...

ferret The ferret (''Mustela furo'') is a small, domesticated species belonging to the family Mustelidae. The ferret is most likely a domesticated form of the wild European polecat (''Mustela putorius''), as evidenced by the ferret's ability to inter ...

rabbit Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas). They are familiar throughout the world as a small herbivore, a prey animal, a domesticated ...

guinea pig The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (''Cavia porcellus''), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy ( ), is a species of rodent belonging to the genus ''Cavia'', family Caviidae. Animal fancy, Breeders tend to use the name "cavy" for the ani ...

rat Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents. Species of rats are found throughout the order Rodentia, but stereotypical rats are found in the genus ''Rattus''. Other rat genera include '' Neotoma'' (pack rats), '' Bandicota'' (bandicoo ...

hamster Hamsters are rodents (order Rodentia) belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae, which contains 19 species classified in seven genera. They have become established as popular small pets. The best-known species of hamster is the golden or Syrian ...

mice A mouse (: mice) is a small rodent. Characteristically, mice are known to have a pointed snout, small rounded ears, a body-length scaly tail, and a high breeding rate. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse (''Mus musculus' ...

, canaries,

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parrot Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines (), are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet. They are classified in four families that contain roughly 410 species in 101 genus (biology), genera, found mostly in ...

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reptile Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic metabolism and Amniotic egg, amniotic development. Living traditional reptiles comprise four Order (biology), orders: Testudines, Crocodilia, Squamata, and Rhynchocepha ...

goldfish The goldfish (''Carassius auratus'') is a freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae of the order Cypriniformes. It is commonly kept as a pet in indoor aquariums, and is one of the most popular aquarium fish. Goldfish released into the w ...

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, and other

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s, but also

wild animal Wildlife refers to undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant species which can exist in their natural habitat, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife was also ...

s like for example,

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s and

cheetah The cheetah (''Acinonyx jubatus'') is a large Felidae, cat and the Fastest animals, fastest land animal. It has a tawny to creamy white or pale buff fur that is marked with evenly spaced, solid black spots. The head is small and rounded, wit ...

Television program

The first episode of the program, initiative of the French journalist

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, who was worried about the fate of pets, was broadcast on 6 January 1976 on

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. It is one of the television programs that has the fifth-longest longevity of the French audiovisual field, after ''

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'', ''Automoto'', ''

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'' and ''Stade 2''. The music of the title sequence was composed by Jack Arel. The program was ended by the channel on 27 December 2003 and was transferred on 6 March 2004 on

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. It was then broadcast since 10 September 2006 on

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. Since 27 April 2004, the program was expanded of 20 minutes and started in September of that year its 39th season. In 2015, the program got back its initial length of 25 minutes. The voices of the program were Sylvie Bariol and Didier Gircourt. The director of France 3 announced on 8 January 2016 on

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that after 40 years of existence, the program would definitely end in June 2016. A petition was published online on the official site, the Fondation 30 Millions d'Amis, to fight against the decision of the channel.

Magazine

The magazine was created in 1978. In 2001, while the magazine reached 85,000 copies with 48,000 subscribers and 36,000 sales in newsstands, Empa France sells it back to the French media group Aniwa, founded by Bernardo Gallitelli, where the main stockholder is the animal food maker

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. Aniwa also recovers the rights to use the brand on both paper and Internet. In January 2005, Bernardo Gallitelli left Aniwa while in restructuration and buys back the magazine to create the media group ''Télé-Animaux'', and where the subsidiary company Buena Média Plus publishes through ''30 Millions d'Amis'', as well as other animal magazines like ''L'Essentiel'', ''Petmarket'', ''Lignées'', ''Pharmanimal'' and ''Vet Focus''. In 2013, the magazine launches its numerical version on pad and Smartphone (IOS and android). In 2014, the total broadcast of the magazine reached over 73,000 copies with 70% of subscribers. It is largely the leader of the animal media in France.

Foundation

The Fondation 30 Millions d'Amis was created in 1995 by Jean-Pierre Hutin, who became the president. At his death on 1 June 1996, his wife Reha Hutin replaced him for the presidency of the foundation. The objective is to battle any kind of animal sufferance. For this, it uses various forms of action: help, struggle, pedagogy, as well as the encouragements through prizes and visas.

Help to animals

The help concerns any animal in difficulty, whatever it is mistreated, abandoned or wandering. It often takes form of a financial support in favor of different refuges but also bearing the cost of veterinary expenses.

Struggle

The foundation is opposed to all activity that engenders sufferance to animals. Since then, it is implicated with other foundations, at the abolition of hunting and corrida, ending animal trafficking, the use of fur as well as the animal experimentation. It also watches over the life conditions of the farm animals. To reinforce its action, it has the judicial possibility to file a complaint against any person or organism breaking the laws but also to be the civil part at lawsuits. In parallel, it incites at the evolution of the judicial status of the animal in order to ease the protection. In addition, it often demands the support of the public opinion, via petitions, in order to reinforce the impact of its opinions. Its actions are not limited to France. Indeed, the foundation expands itself on all continents and all fields. Massacres of Eastern dogs and elephants in Africa, martyrized bears in China, protection of monkeys in South America are some examples of its international implication.

Pedagogy

The foundation frequently organizes campaigns of sensitization about different themes like mistreating and abandoning. In parallel, it favors any action that permits the presence of animals to fragilized persons like blind or handicapped people, children in psychological difficulty or persons in institution.

Rewards

The objective of the rewards is to honor the initiatives that put the animals in value, by defending them and/or watching over their good living. Two prizes exist until now, one concerns the literary field and the other the municipalities. The foundation also delivers a visa to film productions who respect the characteristics of animal good when these are used.

Literary prize

Since 1982, the foundation delivers every year a literary prize to a novel or an essay who has honored the animals. The laureate must then give the amount of the prize to the foundation of their choice.

Ruban d'honneur

Created in 2008, this prize has for vocation to honor the municipalities which the engagement in favor of the animals have been particularly remarkable.

Visa 30 Millions d'Amis

This visa appeared in 1995. It attests of the good treating of the animals during the filming. Thus the film ''

The Fox and the Child ''The Fox and the Child'' ( French: ''Le renard et l'enfant'') is a 2007 French adventure drama film directed by Luc Jacquet. Starring Bertille Noël-Bruneau, Isabelle Carré and Thomas Laliberté. The English version of the film is narrated by ...

'' has beneficiated of this visa.

Mascots

The television program has had several successive mascots who have always been dogs owned by

and his wife Reha Hutin. These mascots, all

German Shepherd The German Shepherd, also known in Britain as an Alsatian, is a German Dog breed, breed of working dog of medium to large size. The breed was developed by Max von Stephanitz using various Old German herding dogs, traditional German herding dog ...

s, have been in order, Mabrouk, Mabrouk Junior and Mabrouka.

References

External links

Official website
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