Vier pups, net een week oud in de container gegooid in Sitia
1-09-2010
Er kwam vanmiddag een smsje van Peter Erades in Sitia wat alleen dit zei: “4 puppies in de vuilnisbak oogjes dicht”. Dan weet ik dat ik hem moet bellen en het was inderdaad weer eens raak. Peter werd gebeld door een vuilnisman in Sitia die 4 puppies in een zak in een container had gevonden. Ze zijn net een week oud en de oogjes zijn nog dicht. Peter en Andy zijn ze gaan halen en vanavond gaan ze naar de dierenarts om ze te laten euthanaseren. Lees het verslag van Andi...................
"Look at the first picture; this is the beach road in Sitia, Crete. Maybe you think it looks like a nice place for a holiday but you are wrong, this is Hell. Look again and you will see a rubbish bin by the side of the road. The second picture is the bag taken from the rubbish bin by a street cleaner this morning.
This morning a street cleaner telephoned Peter to tell him they had found some live puppies in a rubbish bin. The street cleaner took the bag out of the rubbish and put it in the shade of a tree. This is the only small positive in this story, the street cleaner took them out of the bin or by now they have been crushed alive and are in a land fill site with only the person who did this ever knowing these small lives existed. From now on the story is all bad, the street cleaner works for the local authority who are responsible for animal welfare by the Greek Law but can the street cleaner tell there employer, No, they don’t care, they don’t do anything for the animals, in fact they even send the street cleaners out early in the morning to pick up the dead bodies when there has been poisoning so as not to upset the tourists, this is the daily reality in Crete . The street cleaner did not contact the local Animal Welfare organisation because either they don’t know it exists or they know they will do nothing, either way they contacted Peter because they know he cares about the animals.
Now we have the puppies, there are four, about one week old with their eyes closed. To survive they would need to be fed by hand every few hours, this is really hard work even with one puppy, we know we have done it many times. Unfortunately there are very few people living in Crete who care and even less people prepared to help. Later today we will take them to the Animal Doctor to be humanely euthanized, this is the only option.
How many times a day does this happen in Crete and nobody knows about it? Cats and Dogs in Crete are treated as garbage to be thrown away if not wanted."