Maria Daines
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10/20/2006 9:17:56 AM
OIPA newsletter, October 2006 animal welfare/rights
OIPA International Organization for Animal Protection
INTERNATIONAL NEWS LETTER
October 2006
KOREAN GOVERNMENT'S NEW ATTEMPT TO LEGALIZE DOG-MEAT
Hygienically controlling dog meat is nothing more than a euphemism for legalizing it. If this proposal succeeds, millions of dogs will continue to suffer.
If the Korean government is truly committed - as it claims - to reduce animal abuse, then it should stop immediately all measures designed to legitimize dog meat consumption. Instead, it should incorporate all dogs and cats within the definition of "companion animals", and then do everything it can to strengthen and especially enforce the existing animal protection law.
Please send mails and sign the petitions
http://www.oipa.org/public/dogmeat/petition.php
http://www.koreananimals.org
STOP THE GENOCIDE OF STRAYS IN ST.PETERSBURG AND IN RUSSIA IN GENERAL
The city authorities in St.Petersburg go on killing strays with dithylinum and they die from asphyxiation.
There is no place in St.Petersburg - a five million population city - to receive strays, no one open admission shelter. So they go on killing strays and pets on the streets. There is no Federal Act to protect animals from cruelty in Russia. Extermination is today the only official way of dealing with stray animals practiced by the government of the majority of Russian cities and towns.
http://www.oipa.org/alerts/abandonment/russia.htm
PAIN, CRUELTY IN A SHELTER IN TURKEY
The slide show you are going to watch was recorded on Sept 15, 2006, at Sariyer Kocatas shelter http://www.shkd.org/en/AIG/. The Sariyer Shelter is run by AIG, a sub-contractor of Biosav that was given the job of neuter and release in Istanbul by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality as a result of a legal tender.
The June 2004 law stipulating that neuter and release is the only permitted method of solving the stray dog issue was put into effect since July. The boroughs are obliged to handle the problem and to have a good pound where the neutered dogs can recover. The animals have to be registered and returned to their original surroundings.
Because the municipalities cannot organize all this by themselves, they have called for tenders. For a part of Istanbul the work was contracted out to a pesticide company.
The situation is abominable. A lot of dogs die and sick dogs are just turned back on the streets. Cases are known of a mother dog that was captured to be sterilized when she was already giving birth. A dog with a hernia was sterilized and returned to the streets, the same was done to a dog with a broken hipbone.
Also, there are no records of where the dogs were picked up, so they are just put on the streets anywhere; this causes a lot of fights.
http://www.oipa.org/appelli/abandonment_turkeydog_petition.htm
SERBIAN DOGS IN DANGER
Recent reports indicate that the Serbian government is stepping up its efforts to round up homeless dogs and cats. Sadly, the government’s efforts do not appear to include humane methods of capture and handling, leaving the thousands of homeless dogs and cats in the city of Belgrade at the mercy of untrained and uncaring employees of cruel extermination companies. We recently received graphic photographs of dogs found dead and dying.
8-th September, 2006, Mayor of Subotica, Mrs. Geza Kucera, on press conference, promissed to citizens of Subotica: every homeless dogs and cats in Subotica will be killed, when be finish building of place for killing of them.
Serbia is horrible place for all animals, specialy for homeless dogs and cats.
Please write polite e-mails to the following Serbian officials asking them to investigate reports of torture and cruelty to animals.
http://www.oipa.org/public/serbia/petition.php
Dear Congressmen and Pressmen
http://www.oipa.org/campagne/abandonment_korea_dear.htm
AAF PRAISES NANJING FOR COMPASSIONATE DOG-CONTROL MEASURES
Animals Asia Foundation (AAF) praised Nanjing officials for their
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