Dave Bernazani
2009
(Many Middle East, Eastern Europe & Asian countries)– Countries with poor animal control periodically sweep cities of dogs and dispose of them in horrible ways, like in garbage trucks or beating to death.
Many of these governments have been advised that there are better ways of dealing with street dog populations, but choose to ignore the facts. It has been amply demonstrated in hundreds of cities around the world that a good spay/neuter/release program is not only humane but the only effective method of controlling the dog numbers.
Many local SPCA’s and welfare organizations are trying to convince their
local city and country councils of this, but some officials are corrupt and
they award the contracts to friends and relatives. As usual, money is
involved in this form of cruelty like all others. Other officials are simply
too closed-minded to accept new and humane methods of animal control.
I just recently learned that thousands of dogs and cats are poisoned in
Greece, on the otherwise beautiful Aegean islands, known for its tourist
industry. This program is carefully timed to occur in winter, when the
tourists are gone, and even includes putting broken glass in food to kill
the stray animals, resulting in horribly painful deaths. And of course many
owned pets are killed as well by these methods (not that it makes any
difference, of course.)
Who’s fighting it: WSPA, Romania Animal Rescue, AAPN (AsianAnimal Protection
Network), PETA International, EnviroWatch, Elly Maynard, Best Friends,
Care2.com, ALF, Political Animal Lobby, PAWS (Phillipines Animal Welfare
Society), IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare), Animals Asia,
AnimalEarth.org, Noah’s Ark Malaysia, Vier Pfoten (Four Paws- Austria), St.
Fransisc Foundation (Sibiu, Romania), Animal Life Romania, and countless
other sanctuaries, shelters, humane societies and kind people.
Recent progress: The St. Francis foundation in Romania has persuaded the
town of Sibiu to outlaw the culls there, and instead has initiated a
spay/neuter/release program that is currently highly successful. They hope
to serve as a model for other Romanian towns and cities.
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