Proposal re. (CN) More shelters being established for stray/illegal dogs,Beijing

[Guest guest]

Dear John, dear All,

 

as obviously these animals do not stand a much of a chance being

adopted locally, I was wondering whether interested parties from

abroad might be allowed to adopt such an animal.

Would the authorities agree to that, do you think ?

What hurdles in terms of vaccinations and other applicable

regulations for import to Europe or the US would have to be

overcome ?

Surely people have brought their pets with them to China and back

before .. there must be a way, provided access to these animals is

granted.

 

I don't want to sound naive or unrealistic here, but I try to think

of something practical to do, besides writing protests. If a Western

welfare organisation could be involved in this to help organising

transports, etc.

 

I know such continual export of dogs and cats from regions where

animals welfare is unheard of is NOT a long-term solution, ever.

I think we all agree something must be done to improve the situation

locally and make such rescues unncecessary eventually.

 

But here we are looking at a special situation, and it think that

also merits special measures. This 2-month campaign of rounding-up

dogs in implementing the new law of just one dog per household will

be over before the year is out.

Those that remain will be part of a controlled and monitored

population. Let's hope that further campaigns of this sort will then

be unneccessary.

 

But those that are confiscated now or are being picked up off the

streets (if they are not killed immediately) can perhaps still be

saved - some of them, if an effort is made and the authorities play

along.

 

Any thoughts ?

 

Regards,

Diana

 

 

----- Original Nachricht ----

Von: Dr John Wedderburn <jwed

An: AAPN List <aapn >

Datum: 16.11.2006 13:38

Betreff: Re: (CN) More shelters being established for stray,

illegal dogs - Beijing

 

> Either the dogs will be killed after a short time or they will be

> kept in cages long term (if there is sufficient funding which is

> very doubtful).

> Neither is a good prospect for the victims (human or canine).

> The percentage who can be rehomed will be very small. Warehousing

> is NOT the answer. The current inhumane and ineffective

> regulations should be scrapped and sensible proactive measures

> should be introduced with a " grandfather clause " to

> protect those unwittingly breaking the new measures. Will the

> authorities listen??

> John.