SRI LANKA - KANDY & GAMPOLA

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

 

as we mentioned in our last update, Gampola, a small town near Kandy is

interested to start a humane dog-population control programme. The Mayor of

Gampola contacted us again today also and we made an appointment for coming

Monday. We don't have the funds right now to start another programme... we can

hardly cover all of Kandy ... but we should not let pass by the chance to

encourage the Mayor to work out a humane solution for the stray-dog-problem in

Gampola. However during the telephone conversations we had with him so far it

became already clear, that he has a big doubt, whether the promised funds by the

Health Ministry will be available. We will try to convince him, that

dog-population-control is a public responsibility and that he should find a way

of raising public funds for this, after all the President of Sri Lanka himself

has ordered to stop the practice of killing dogs and to start humane programmes

to reduce the stray-population. However we also have to raise funds for the

Gampola dogs because we will have to monitor the programme and at least one

person will have to be there permanently to ensure, that humane methods are used

in handling, catching, aftercare etc and we may also have to spend on medicines

etc because sterilizing the dogs is not enough, parasites, skin-ailments, TVT

and other common diseases should be treated. Please let us know if anyone can

help to get this started... while in Kandy we work against many obstacles from

the local authorities, here we have their support... a chance, which should not

be missed.

 

Regards

 

Padma

 

Treasurer SOFA

 

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