LIVE
WASTE
Looking for stray dogs at a derelict shipyard in Algarve, Portugal,
we passed a 5 metres-high pile of multicoloured wreckage like a
wheel-house, a stern, benches, ripped canvas and a lot of panelling
and timber. On this dump we identified three living dogs, so we
stopped and got out of the car to feed them. At our presence, the
colours and shape of the dump changed as it came alive and twenty
abandoned dogs came down to meet us.
At that moment, we realized that we were looking at “live
waste”.
As domestic animals tend to stay with their owners, how do they
turn into strays? Why are they chosen and why are they
dumped?
Puppies are bought as toys for children and discarded when they
don’t react like toys: they bite when they are lifted by one ear,
urinate, bark, collect fleas, get sick or simply grow “too large”.
Pedigrees are bought and dumped on the wave of trends; watching the
shelter population the huskies are clearly “out” in Portugal, where
they should not have been in the first place because of their thick
coat. As sterilisation is too expensive, or is a religious taboo,
the subsequent litters are killed or dumped in waste bins.
Hunters keep one bitch for breeding, select one pup from the litter
and dump the rest together with their other “dysfunctional” dogs.
If the owner moves house, or if the animal becomes diseased,
handicapped or old; these are seen as other reasons to abandon a
pet.
Generally dogs are sterilised by responsible, caring owners.
Abandoned dogs however, are not sterilised and breed new
generations of strays. In all these causes of the stray phenomenon,
we cannot find one reason to blame the dogs who were brought into
being by humans in the first place.
Live waste is the sole product of ignorant and cruel human
behaviour towards our own domestic animals. Then how is it possible
that no political or social responsibility is taken for our
singular human shortcomings? We note that our civilisation has
perfectly organised the funding and processing of our household
garbage. We also note with sadness that our live waste is our blind
spot. There is no policy, let alone budget to repair the misery we
inflict on our domestic companions.
Why are there always budgets to kill strays but none for their
treatment and care? Why has the enforcement of animal protection
legislation – if any – rock bottom priority? Why is the so-called
animal welfare legislation based on pure human economic and public
health interests, with total disregard for the welfare of the
animals as such?
There is a time to think and a time to act!
* . * . *
"FOR A STRAYDOG EACH DAY MAY BE
A TRAGEDY......."
www.youtube.com/user/ManicDogLover from Susan Manicdoglover
Somebody asks: Why there are no straydogs in Dallas?
HERE IS THE ANSWER!:
"For Dallas' unwanted pets, death awaits near the back door"
Dallas Morning News, 1. Mai 2008
* DOGS as
HEROES*
PRAYER OF A STRAY
"SOMETHING DIFFERENT AT THE RAINBOW
BRIDGE"
Abandoned Dogs Alerts: (world wide)
care2 Group (open)
Alert 4 "stray" Dogs- Global call 4 help!
* FACT 1.
Almost every country is facing a problem with neglect and
abuse, as we have seen from our numorous actions - Stray Animals
are abused, starved, deprived of affection, raped, neglected and
viciously tortured and killed all around the world.
*FACT 2.
(WHAT
? ) Authorities kill abandoned and unwanted Animals and its all
paid from YOUR POCKETS!
(HOW? ) City Communal Services are employed and are paid from
city budgets (which are being filled from citizens trough taxes and
fees... )
FACT
5.
Street
Animals are not roamin around by their own free will, those animals
are in search for shelter and food, they are only trying to
do what their basic/ natural needs are...
Abandoned Animals are the problem which is being generated by all
kinds of irresponible breeders (owners, hunters, fight dog
trainers... who overuse their" animals and then abandon them, when
they "do not serve the purpose" anymore etc. ) who sell animals to
who ever (as long as they pay... ) and then when population reach
big numbers- Animals are being punished for being in that possition
in tha first place.
FACT
4.
Street
Animals are not only being chased by Dogs catchers ( working for
employed communal services) but are constantly being attacked and
abused by common citizens too, there are numerous cases of abuse
which is ongoing as people tend to let their frustrations out-
especialy on those who are weak and
unprotected...
*There
are many different reasons why individuals abuse
animals....WHY
DO PEOPLE ABUSE ANIMALS?
Please,
do all you can to stop this madness- these Animals did nothing
wrong... they are abandoned, alone and lost...
Other topics realted to dogs and cats in this
group-You can find on following links:
* TRANSPORT NEEDED- ALERTS
*Adoption ALERT- stray animals in need
homes
* Stop Buying/Selling
Animals/ALERTS
*Missing Dogs and Cats
*Topic:Stray Petitions
*Be
sure to
View Archives
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there
are many past actions-and info can be used for ongoing
actions.
** READ ABOUT THE REASONS FOR
OVERPOPULATION...
Mia's Story
Story
about the abandoned dog who retriewed it's happiness
again...
~*~We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with
which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True
humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is
our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our
circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find
peace. ~Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of
Civilization
