Still Poisoning Stray Animals

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Animal Friends Croatia [prijatelji.zivotinja]

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:52 AM

Alexandra Yurkiw

Poisoning of animals

 

Croatia, a country whose government does not implement a sterilization

(spay neuter) program. Furthermore, according to Croatian law, any cat

or dog found more than 300 meters outside of city limits is considered a

stray and can be killed with no legal consequences. Poisoning of stray

animals is a common practice in this land where tourism is a big

industry.

 

 

I live in a peaceful street of family houses. Almost an idle, many would

say. Until one day when one of the neighbors decided to mix meat with

rat poison and feed our pets with it. At the moment, one cat (that has

probably been dying in agony for a very long time) is dead, one stray

cat is at the veterinarian's where they are trying to save him and a

couple of animals haven't returned home.

 

Do we really live among people who are capable of such an act? And why?

Probably because of a couple of paw prints on their cars. It is much

easier to poison everything that's in their way than to wipe off a small

paw print.

 

The cat that's on treatment probably won't survive the therapy because,

when I found him, he was sitting in the snow in a puddle of blood that

was running through his nose, for days I suppose. If he survives, he is

doomed to mercy of the same good neighbors who poisoned him. And as far

as the vet's bill is concerned, I will pay for it, because in this

country you can either turn your head away or pay out of your own

pocket. And I m not one of those who will turn the head away, no matter

how expensive the costs are.

This is not happening in Dubrovnik so it will probably not be of much

interest to anyone. Ivanja Reka is just a village near Zagreb and not a

tourist destination. But that doesn't mean that the people are not just

as mean and that they don't think that they might have killed some

child's best friend. On the worst, most painful, most cruel way. These

animals are dying for days, in horrible pain.

Dear neighbors of Ivan Anèiæ Street in Ivanja Reka, be humans and not

worse animals than those you kill in such horrific manners!

 

In the enclosure I am sending you a picture, and it's up to you to

decide whether the theme is interesting enough.

 

Yours faithfully

 

I.M.

 

 

PS. In the meantime I received a phone call from the vet, informing me

that the second cat had died. Bleeding from all bodily openings. I don't

even want to imagine the misery it was in. We found the owner,

unfortunately only to tell him the sad news. The cat we named Bo¾o has

been someone's pet for years and did not deserve such an end. We called

the police; they came in 15 minutes, but what they can do, only they

know. More than anything, I'd like for the culprit to be found, so I

could tell him in person how I feel about people like him!

 

 

 

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