In case you are not aware, we also run another site; still for Balkans animals.
It is called “Balkans Animal Suffering” (BAS) and can be accessed through the following link:
http://balkansanimalsuffering.wordpress.com/
All of the Balkans specific posts covered on this site (SAV) are also covered on BAS.
No other (non Balkans) international animal issues are dealt with on BAS – it is a Balkans animals site exclusively dedicated to helping animals in Balkans states.
BAS was established due to the fact that SAV has become much more international regarding the animal welfare issues it now covers. Whilst we welcome publicising animal welfare work across the world, the original concept of the SAV formation has now taken on a much broader and very much more international status. So we needed to revert in some way to a specific site dedicated to only Balkans animal issues. That site can be found at BAS.
Both SAV and BAS will continue to be updated regularly; SAV will continue to lead the way with global animal issues; and with BAS covering only those which are associated with Balkans events.
We hope you get a chance to visit BAS sometime. The vast majority of text is the same (as SAV), the ‘posts’ are the same, but the overall layout is a little different.
SAV.
Here are just a tiny selection of the masses of Balkans animal photographs we have stored in our archive.
Filed under: CAMPAIGNS - Global Animal Welfare Issues, GENERAL NEWS - International / National / Regional, PHOTOGRAPHS - **WARNING** (Animal Suffering)
I am deep ashamed because I am homo sapiens, and I am not able for any other feelings ,but for deep and permanent Shame only .
Why can’t someone take action and save these poor dogs, like arrange a rehoming service. The government needs to be involved to help and punish those people who abuse animals. All the stray animals need to be sterilized and rehomed and taken care of, the Government should be ashamed of themselves for allowing such cruelty WHERE ARE THEY STILL IN THE DARK AGES. Just awful, those poor dogs
Dear Madam or Sir,
with big dismay all members of the European Union follow the present discussion concerning the plan to take up the killing of stray dogs again or to intern them into huge camps.
During an interview on February 3rd 2010 Mr. Mihai Atanasoaei, prefect of Bucharest, proposed to lift the ban on killing stray dogs again.
As a reason he stated that the mayor and the residents felt equally annoyed by the strays. After massive protests on the internet, on 8th February he declared his intention to comply with the law and to refrain from killing the dogs. Instead he proposed to put them into shelters because ‘… the European legislation prohibits euthanasia except for animals with incurable diseases.’
It is impossible to keep tens of thousands of dogs like that – the shelters are extermination camps of terror!
Since the 15th of January 2008 the killing of stray dogs is prohibited by law! This long overdue ban, which was welcomed throughout Europe, has not at all done damage to the reputation of the Romanian government – quite the reverse: The willingness of this young member of the EU to take responsibility, its humanity and far-sightedness, was internationally acknowledged.
And now this step back towards barbarism?
Will Romania become a country again, in which dogs are hunted, caught, tortured and slaughtered?
Scientific studies submitted in Brussels have long ago produced proof that neutering is the only lasting solution in reducing the population of strays. For years numerous international animal welfare organizations have assisted you, funding and performing neutering campaigns on stray dogs. The majority of the population supports these actions and has made clear how important they consider the wellbeing of stray dogs.
We demand that you refrain from the planned mass killing of stray dogs as well as the animal camps under discussion!
Moreover, we ask you to take up dialogue with animal welfare organizations in order to perform appropriate neutering projects which have proven successful in other countries. These projects may receive funding by the Animal Health Strategy in Brussels.
We want to point out that legalizing the slaughter of stray dogs would meet with indignation and detestation throughout Europe!
The citizens of the European Union would draw their own conclusions if you should really put this idea into action.
Let us make together a modern and animal friendly Europe!
With kind regards
Deana
So painful atrocity and men blindness. Mails sent with pray
for the lives of innocents. Disgusting.
I could cry when I see so many dogs hurt, starving, killed, abandoned, these are our best friends WHAT THE HELL are some people doing don’t they have a heart for these beautiful innocent animals. All governments need to take a stand and introduce tougher laws for people who abuse and abandon animals. I AM DISGUSTED