Dog Electrocution in Manila Stopped! but keeping writing letters

July 11, 2005

>Envelope-to: ANPEOPLE

> " Hashim, Anna Nieves P. " <hashimap

>FW: Dog Electrocution in Manila Stopped!

>Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:56:59 +0800

>

>Dear Meritt, Kim, Sally, Kelly, Pradeep and all our friends in animal welfare,

>

> Victory for the animals! Permit to electrocute

>dogs in Manila Pound has been revoked today.

>Full report below.

>

>Sorry if I failed to acknowledge everyone in

>this hurriedly-typed press release but the news

>reporter was asking this from me barely 30 mins

>after I got the results of the meeting from

>Ramona Consunji - one of PAWS' representatives

>who attended the meeting this afternoon. I was

>at work so what I did was copy and paste some of

>the info I got from Pradeep and Meritt to

>augment the report about the revocation of the

>permit to electrocute the dogs.

>

> Thank you everyone! The battle is not yet

>over : it is not clear how the Manila Pound will

> " eliminate " dogs now but we will monitor this

>and try to meet with the City Mayor to propose a

>spay-neuter project with them. (On a separate

>note, we are also grappling with problems on

>sudden-rental imposed on our animal shelter but

>we are confident that - with your letters sent

>to the City Mayor, Dept of Agriculture Secretary

>and BAI-AWD head - we can convince the local

>government allocate budget for the euthanasia of

>the unclaimed dogs and do a spay-neuter

>campaign. Please do send your letters to the

>govt officials we mentioned in our first email.)

>

> Again, thank you and God bless!

>

> -Anna, PAWS

>

> Hashim, Anna Nieves P.

> Monday, July 11, 2005 4:33 PM

> 'tsantos'

> Dog Electrocution in Manila Stopped!

>

>DOG ELECTROCUTION IN MANILA STOPPED!!

>

>Bowing perhaps to the pressure of animal welfare

>advocates, the Committee on Animal Welfare today

>revoked the permit it earlier granted to the

>Manila City Pound for the electrocution of

>unclaimed stray dogs.

>

>No explanation was rendered but the Motion made

>by Ms. Nita Hontiveros-Lichauco, President of

>the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)

>and Comittee on Animal Welfare (CAW) Vice Chair,

>to revoke the said permit at 1pm this afternoon

>was immediately approved by the Committee.

>Months ago, Lichauco lost to the majority of CAW

>who voted to give Manila City Pound a license to

>electrocute the dogs.

>

>Public outrage at the electrocution of about 100

>dogs in Manila City Pound last Thursday (July 7)

>which PAWS brought to the attention of the

>press may have had something to do with the

>immediate revocation of the permit. According

>to the detailed account of PAWS Volunteer Emil

>Rebaño who witnessed the electrocutions, dogs

>were pinned in varying positions by steel metal

>roof and were electrocuted with 300 volts for 3

>seconds but the dogs were still alive and

>crying in pain. This required second

>electrocution and most of the dogs die only on

>the second try.

>

>According to information gathered by PAWS, " The

>Royal SPCA of Great Britain experimented with

>electrocuting animals from approximately 1885

>until about 1928, before concluding that it

>could never be considered acceptably humane by

>British standards. They then exported the six

>Royal SPCA electrocution machines to India,

>during a rabies panic in the early 1930. Dogs

>were legally electrocuted in India until the

>last of these machines known to remain in India

>was dismantled in 1997. Dogs continued to be

>illegally electrocuted in the city of

>Visakhapatnam until 1998.

>

>This is the statetment of VSPCA (India) on the said matter:

> " Electrocution of dogs is the most cruelliest manner of

>killing dogs. We videoed the whole episode secretly to send to the entire

>world and it was shown in BBC in 1998 as one of the six most cruelliest

>manner of killing dogs and then we got a stay from the court

>order. We now have shown the alternative to dog population is the

>animal birth control(ABC). Killing dogs is not the answer to dog menace

>if at all because more dogs would come in ie., fresh ones and the cycle

>goes on and there is no reduction in rabies. So the best means is the

>ABC. The Phillipine Govt. if they are conscious of economy/ cost

>then they should realise that killings cost money and it is continues

>forever while the ABC programme in the longterm reduces the costs when

>there are no more breeding dogs. Also the killings by electrocution are

>very cruel and inhumane while ABC eleiminates all these and produces

>healthy community dogs liked by all. "

> quote from Pradeep Kumar Nath, of Visakha

>Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

>(VSPCA)

>

> " We will continue to monitor the Manila City

>Pound and ensure that the dogs are not killed in

>a manner that is inhumane and cruel, " Anna

>Cabrera, PAWS Director said. " We will also ask

>the city govt to enforce preventive measures

>like launching a spay-neuter program in

>coordination with our group so that

>overpopulation of stray animals can be avoided. "

>

--

July 12, 2005

Dear Friends,

In unity, there indeed is great strength.

Working together, we can make a difference.

Congratulations to our collegues in the Philipines.

Kim Bartlett [anpeople]

Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:36 AM

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Dog Electrocution in Manila Stopped! but keeping writing

letters

>Envelope-to: ANPEOPLE

> " Hashim, Anna Nieves P. " <hashimap

>FW: Dog Electrocution in Manila Stopped!

>Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:56:59 +0800

>

>Dear Meritt, Kim, Sally, Kelly, Pradeep and all our friends in animal

welfare,