October 4th newsletter.
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Category: Stray Animals
It Is 2018; not 1618 – so its time to give animals the respect they deserve.
Break the cages, close the labs, shut down the slaughterhouses; stop the transport; trash all the bear bile facilities and free all the bears. Put money second just for once; respect ALL sentient beings.
https://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/
MISSION OF WORLD ANIMAL DAY
To raise the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe. Building the celebration of World Animal Day unites the animal welfare movement, mobilising it into a global force to make the world a better place for all animals. It’s celebrated in different ways in every country, irrespective of nationality, religion, faith or political ideology. Through increased awareness and education we can create a world where animals are always recognised as sentient beings and full regard is always paid to their welfare.
Get involved – https://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/get_involved
WAD – Twitter – https://twitter.com/worldanimalday?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Animal_Day
Please be their voice – Thank You.
Celebrate all the good things today;
Regards Mark and Venus – WAV.
Dear all;
We still have the old ‘Serbian Animals Voice’ site running; and we are cross posting all of the articles on this site (WAV) to old SAV also.
If you want to visit SAV, which is full of all our Serbian campaign work for over 13 years, and also learn a lot more about the Serbian animal situation, and how the (national) laws are failing to be implemented for the benefit of animals, then please go to:
https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/
SAV Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SerbianAnimalsVoice/
We hope that after all these years, which has involved some hard campaigning; the brilliant Serbian campaigners have now taken control and are pressing on hard with things. We have gone global via this site – WAV.
Only Serbian people can really make the changes for the better in Serbia. We wish them every success with their work; now and in the future.
Regards Mark
26/9/18 – Latest News From Save Korean Dogs.
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Love dogs especially ? – and naturally cats; then please visit our SAV Facebook site by clicking on the following link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SerbianAnimalsVoice/
This site is on going and deals daily with shelters and animal issues in the Balkans. It provides the service of allowing some 1,300 members to post appeals and issues that are daily related to them. If you wish to find out more about these brilliant Serbian shelters and the wonderful animals and people which are living and working in them; then please visit this site.
If you love dogs then you will love this site and all the information that is here.
This site is constantly updated every day by members of the group and it is an ongoing site. There are many animals seeking adoption and forever homes.
Apply to be a member if you wish and join up hundreds of other brilliant animal welfare people and be able to add your views and comments to this forever growing family.
Regards Mark
Deutsch and English versions – – – for English version, please, scroll down
German – 291 Tiere wurden bei einer Kampagne in Mioveni sterilisiert
Um die Situation der Streunertiere, die durch Besitzertiere verursacht wird, in angemessener Weise zu lösen, ist die korrekte Information über den Vorteil von Sterilisation und die gesetzlichen Vorschriften sehr wichtig. Information über verantwortliche Sterilisation ist der Anfang für erfolgreiche Kastration, der dann als Nächstes mit kostenlosen Sterilisations-Programmen erweitert werden muss, da die finanziellen Möglichkeiten von den Besitzern sehr beschränkt sind, besonders in ländlichen Gegenden.
Die Stadtverwaltung von Mioveni hat das alles sehr gut verstanden, und SEdC Mioveni öffnete die Türen für die Ausführung eines Sterilisations-Programms, das die Adoption von Shelter-Hunden ermöglicht und bessere Lebensbedingungen für die 400 Hunde, die momentan in dem Shelter leben, gewährleistet.
In Zusammenarbeit mit der Stadtverwaltung von Mioveni organisierten wir vom 3. bis zum 8. September die erste kostenlose Sterilisierungs-Kampagne in Miovenis öffentlichem Shelter. Im Ganzen wurden 291 Tiere kastriert, 124 Hunde aus dem öffentlichen Shelter und 167 Hunde und Katzen mit privaten Besitzern.
Die Sterilisations-Aktion wurde finanziell von „Helft Handeln“ aus Deutschland unterstützt, der NGO, mit der wir schon seit mehreren Jahren den Tieren in Rumänien und ihren Besitzern geholfen haben. Zusammen mit der österreichischen „Salzburger Initiative 50+“, die auch stark an Sterisierungs-Projekten beteiligt ist, werden wir weiterhin bei dem öffentlichen Shelter in Mioveni tätig sein. „Helft Handeln“ war nicht nur finanziell, sondern auch persönlich an den Shelter-Aktionen beteiligt und organisierte den Transport von Tieren, deren Besitzer keine Möglichkeit hatten, zum Ort der Sterilisations-Kampagne zu kommen.
In einem öffentlichen Shelter muss Vieles neben der Sterilisation unternommen werden. Deswegen wurden Hunde mit medizinischen Problemen behandelt und operiert, und Welpen wurden entwurmt und geimpft.
SEdC Mioveni gewährleistete eine vorbildliche Zusammenarbeit nicht nur durch die Teamarbeit mit uns, sondern auch wegen der prompten Einführung von Verbesserungen für die Lage der Hunde im Asyl, die wir mit ihnen besprochen hatten.
Ausserdem haben die Stadtverwaltung und SEdC von Mioveni mit einer Aktion begonnen: „Das Shelter ist kein Zuhause“. In Zusammenarbeit mit National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA) werden die Stadtbehörden ihren ersten „Adoptions-Tag“ in einem Park vor dem öffentlichen Shelter durchführen, bei dem auch kreative Unterhaltung für Kinder angeboten wird. Wir bitten Alle, die sich ein Haustier anschaffen wollen, zu adoptieren und nicht zu kaufen! Die Dankbarkeit und Erfüllung, die durch eine Adoption gewährt wird, kann niemals bei einem Verkäufer gefunden werden.
Carmen ARSENE
Präsidentin
National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA)
ENGLISH VERSION ………
291 animals neutered during the campaign organized in Mioveni
Appropriate information on the benefits of animal sterilization and the requirements of the law is paramount in solving the situation of stray animals that is generated by the owned animals. Information in responsible way is the basis, the start, in sterilization programs, and then supplemented with free sterilization programs because the financial possibilities of the owners, especially those from rural areas, are very low.
All these have been understood by the Mioveni City Hall and the SEdC Mioveni that have opened their doors to the implementation of a sterilization program, promoting the adoptions of shelter dogs, collaborating in order to provide better conditions for the 400 dogs that is currently in shelter.
Within the partnership that we will develop with the Mioveni City Hall, we organized the first free sterilization campaign in the public shelter of the Mioveni City Hall, on 3-8 September. 291 animals -124 dogs from the public shelter, and 167 dogs and cats with owner were sterilized by our collaborator vets.
The campaign for sterilization was financially supported by “Helft Handeln”, from Germany, the organization with whom we have been working for several years in support of animals in Romania and their owners and who. Together with Salzburger Initiative 50+ from Austria, also deep involved in sterilisation campaign, will be constantly involved in the Mioveni public shelter. “Helft Handeln” has not only been involved financially but also practically through effective participation in shelter actions as well as by ensuring the transport of animals of the owners who did not have transport facilities, to the site, for sterilization.
A public shelter involves many requirements, which is why our activity in the shelter during the campaign was not just sterilization, but also the treatment and operation of dogs with medical problems, deworming and vaccination of puppies.
SEdC Mioveni has proved an exemplary collaboration not only through team work we have done, but also through the quick start of some of the works we have discussed in order to improve the conditions of dog shelter.
Moreover, Mioveni City Hall and SEdC have launched the campaign “The shelter is not home”. Within this campaign, in partnership with National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA), the local authorities organize the first “adoption day”, in a park, outside the public shelter Mioveni, as well as creative themes for children. We urge anyone who wants a pet, to adopt and not buy! Gratitude and the satisfaction of adopting an animal from a shelter are feelings which can not be found in any trader’s location.
Carmen ARSENE
President
National Federation for Animal Protection (FNPA)
Below – The Heroes !
As a tourist on the beaches of Italy, Greece, Romania or Spain you can hardly overlook the misery figures of the stray.
Instead of a name they wear a dirty word, instead of sleeping in a basket they cuddle up in mud.
Street dogs and street cats are many in Europe, they live dangerously.
In southern and eastern Europe there are tons of dogs on the street.
Mostly exposed as young dogs, they feed on small groups or as lone wreckers, almost always chased, abused, poisoned, hung up, run over by cars, and mostly killed in cruel ways.
Their lives are harsh and short, the body is full of parasites, many walk around like shadows, plagued by hunger, infections, diseases, injuries …They are joined by dogs who have a home but are left in the morning by their owners.
Every mating female dog gets pregnant and gives birth to her puppies somewhere. This creates an incessant stream of dogs that people do not want.
But they do not do anything about it.
The communities fear impacts on tourism, and the majority of society in “stray lands”is silent and tolerates the daily crime against stray.
In reality, these are really big numbers.
There are about 150,000 strays in Istanbul, a total of six million in Romania, and up to 60,000 in Bucharest alone. The crisis in Greece is said to have led, local animal rights activists, that there are now 3.5 million dogs lived on the streets because they are too expensive for the owners. That’s a million more than two years ago. There are even 30 million strays in India!!
Spain claims that it is free of stray dogs. The reason lies in the continuous catching of dogs by state dog catchers. After 21 days, the dogs are killed, unless the owner or an animal rights activist brings the dog out of the kennel.
In a year, 140 000 dogs and cats were caught in Spain!!
In Hungary, the killing of stray dogs is allowed after a certain time: The dogs are continuously caught and killed. The result is: There are no dogs on the street. But at what price?
Many stray dogs live in Greece, an estimated 3.5 million!
There are not many state animal shelters and no dog catchers there. However, there are always many locals murderers who want to solve the problem themselves, for example by poisoning, which is the most common method of homicide of the strays in this country.
In Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, the puppies are “mass-produced” according to “Four Paws” and separated from their mothers far too early. The illegal puppy trade, which is often sick, is a major problem in these countries. If such puppies can not find a buyer or get too old, most of them land on the street too.
Romania, with 6 million strays, is the country with the largest amount of stray in Europe.
The strategy varies between brutal and massive killings and doing nothing. Animal activists throughout Europe are calling for an end to the killing of dogs in Romania and regulations on the handling of stray animals at EU level, such as castration. Because the dogs are often not castrated, they multiply unchecked. When people feel threatened by the large dog groups, poisoning, abuse and new brutal killings are the result.
If the dogs have had their time guarding the houses, people put them on the edge of busy roads. Others leave the dogs in remote villages to their fate – uncastrated. The uncontrolled and unwanted propagation is then programmed.
The preferred strategy by the Romanian authorities today is to capture and kill the dogs.
This has become a lucrative business and is well deserved!
Therefore, animal rights activists have been working for decades to tackle the root of the problem. Their strategy is called “Catch, Neuter and Release” or “Castrate and Release” and means something like: capturing stray dogs, castrating them and bringing them back to where they were found. So they occupy an area, but do not multiply.So far this is the only strategy that works.
So far the EU has not helped any EU country solve this problem in a humane and civilized way. She claims: “Animal welfare is a matter of each country”, and lets rich subsidies flow into the cash of unscrupulous communities, that drive the business of death with the strays.
And so, fall always the responsibility, the cost, the grief on the shoulders of the animal rights activists of these countries.
Until today, I convinced four people to get an (and some of them more) animal from an animal home. I know it’s not much, but small steps often have big effects. At least for these animals!
But nothing scares people today as much as the responsibility for the life of an animal.
Infantilism and apathy is the beloved lifestyle!
“Go to an animal shelter and get an animal in your house”
And to finish this post; we would like to show you the treatment of stray dogs in Serbia.
In the following footage you can see a stray dog which has been fully sterilised by volunteer group Vier Pfoten. There is no way that this dog will ever produce yet more street living puppies; to be caught and killed by the shinters.
The dog has been fitted with a very visible red button in its ear to show all; including the shinters; that it has been sterilised and cannot reproduce any more. A no kill sterilisation programme which we have called on the Serbian government to introduce for many years.
So what happens ?
A balaclava wearing shinter (clearly seen) waits on the street in full view of the public once the dog has been targeted with a drug dart; which is also clearly visible. The effects of the drug dart on the dog are clearly seen – it is writhing in pain and the effects of the drug. The shinter waits. When the dog is drugged and easier to collect; the shinter will move in and collect it. The dog will disappear like all the others and be killed off; another sterilised animal destroyed.
So we have – A dog; sterilised by a welfare organisation, which will NOT reproduce and continue the cycle of stray dogs in Serbia. The red button in its ear clearly identifies it as a ‘treated’ (sterilised) dog; but regardless of this, the shinters ignore all the positive signs and decide to dart and capture the dog. It is taken away to be killed along with all the other captured strays.
Why does this happen ? – money, and the greed of it. Local authorities are paid a bounty (each month) by central government for each and every stray that they capture and kill. Money paid for this tends to find its way into the pockets of municipal leadership; so the continual capturing and killing stray dogs is a very financially worthwhile cause for them – and hence the great lack of interest in any support by regional authorities or government of a national sterilisation programme to reduce stray numbers by ‘no kill’ which we have been campaigning for over the last 13 years or more. The ‘continuation’ of many dogs to be rounded up and killed provides a never ending source of additional income for the leaders in authority. Any wonder they wont adopt a national sterilisation programme ? = corruption wins in this case. And in 13 years, thousands of dogs which could have been sterilised have instead been killed simply for want of additional finances.
You can watch the video here. The red ear tag in the dog is clear; and yet the balaclava wearing shinter just hangs around on the street ready to pounce and take the dog (for killing) when he can.
Here below are Serbian shinters, or dog catchers, in action. Note how the dogs are crammed alive into the small trailer:
Best regards to all, Venus
This is the reality of the dog catchers / Pozega Pound – where the caught dogs end up.
Dear Denise,
We are enormously grateful for the kindness are and such generous donation, that will help our kennels and food costs for over 75 dogs we rescued from the most horrific places in Earth. We had a really rough summer and this contribution has come at the most needed moment
Please send our deepest respect and love to the volunteers who make and sell dog biscuits to help the dogs in need!
The world would be a better place if there were more people like You!
With love,
Humanimal Balkans Admin Team
https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2013/10/05/serbia-video-footage-the-dog-catchers-of-pozega-plus-group-links-and-other-video-footage-pozega-shelter-links/
Here we go again – the EU piling out all the words on how wonderful they are; whist the reality is they do little.
https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/welfare/strategy_en
So ‘It focuses on enhancing knowledge among the many key agencies, organisations and individuals who are involved in the process’. For the last 13 years we (an organisation ?) have supplied endless information – text and photographs to the EU informing them that Serbia; a ‘candidate country’ for EU membership; has not been applying its own national laws – ‘the rule of law’; with regard them enforcement of existing national legislation for the welfare of animals.
See a summary of what we have been saying; and our arguments at https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/about-serbian-animals/
Our evidence to the EU: Serbia – the dog who’s eyes cried pus.
The result ? – the EU has never once been in contact with us re the issue of Serbian animal welfare.
Does the very recent post by Venus – https://worldanimalsvoice.com/2018/09/08/state-and-meat-mafia-team-work/ not really sum up the situation –
“The new state minister of economic affairs, Julia Klöckner, makes a good impression at the farmer’s day. Because there, she demands something that many farmers have been longing for: animal rights activists, who secretly film in stables at night, should be punished harder.”
“By law, she wants to penalize the entry into stables. Finally, it is the duty of the veterinarians to ensure animal welfare compliance: But how well does veterinary monitoring work? How consistently are animal abusers punished in agriculture?”
“2015. Although the investigation is still ongoing, these recordings show again animals in too narrow crates, injuries.
In 2017 and 2018, Greenpeace will release these images from the plant. Refunds Advertisement, because of too narrow crates. Again, it is being investigated.
But the procedure, according to the criminal complaint of Greenpeace, has been discontinued”.
Sounds rather pathetic does it not ? – and this is Germany, the powerhouse of the EU. So what chance of enforcement in Romania, Lithuania; Greece; Spain – and other EU member states.
The reality – Weasel words and documents from the EU that mean nothing.
Another reality – we can say with almost certainty that within the next few years Serbia will be welcomed into the EU club regardless of its application of the rule of law with its own, existing national legislation. With the UK walking out of the EU because i8t is bummed off with its dappy legislation; the EU is fishing for new member states to come along into the ‘believe all is well with us’ club. The EU has to show that it rules Europe come what may; enforcement of its own legislation; the rule of law; or not.
Animal rights activists being prosecuted for obtaining images and information of animal cruelty and suffering in member states; is this not an EU ‘Ag Gag’ pathway that we have witnessed over recent years in the USA ? – protect those who abuse whilst hitting the man who obtains the evidence of the cruelty ?
Something is wrong; very wrong; but as Venus says in her post; we have a stable and meat mafia teamwork; and they must not be shown to be doing anything wrongly or incorrectly.
The EU has always been known for its lack of enforcement of animal welfare offences. And so will it continue. The mafia must remain at the helm whilst the evidence gatherers are hung from the nearest river crossing bridge.
And so it continues – the supply of evidence simply ignored by the EU – do not disrupt the mafia system that we have going and which we enforce for the EU abusers.
“Enhancing knowledge ?” . Quite the opposite – keeping the abuses hidden from sight. Knowledge is a dangerous thing you know.
And the EU certainly knows how to keep it safely away from the common EU man and woman.
World Animals Voice 