Guest guest Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 After all these hopeful moves... the Health-Minister talking about humane rabies prevention, the President giving an order to stop the killing of dogs... we were all waiting for the implementation of the humane alternatives and of course for a new rabies-act in order to ensure that the law will protect the dogs from being killed once and for all. We were told again and again, that a no-kill-policy will be followed in future, but nothing was given in writing. However the word had transpired, that a new rabies-act will soon be discussed in Parliament and we tried in vain to get hold of the draft until last week finally Sagarika Rajakarunayake from Satthva Mithuru was handed over a copy by the Health Ministry and it confirmed what I had suspected for quite some time: the same old draft by Shiva Obeysekara, which was rejected by all the animal welfare organizations last year, is still being under consideration. In this draft it is clearly said, that no dogs are allowed to remain unobserved and unleashed in public places. Fact is: more than 50% of the Sri Lankan dogs live in public places, some are community dogs, most are owned, but not restrained in their movements. According to this draft, they all should be impounded and either given over to animal-welfare-organizations or they must be killed. Essentially this draft is not diffrent from the old law. It looks as if we still have a long way to go, but we won't give up. Padma (SAVE OUR FRIENDS ASSOCIATION) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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