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Last week a video shot with someone’s cell phone caught Serbian dog catchers brutally choking to death a stray dog they had captured on the street.
For the thousands of homeless dogs and cats in the Republic of Serbia brutal treatment and tortuous deaths are how their short lives play-out, as the government struggles to control animal overpopulation.
Animal Friends of Croatia reported that over the past few weeks “countless Serbians concerned about the startling escalation of blatant animal abuse in their country,” have contacted their organization to spread the word about the atrocities they see happening every day to abandoned animals.
The information for this story was shared to me by a Care2 member who has also seen this abuse.
How Did The Problem Get This Bad?
Serbia has several laws on the books to protect those who are cruel to animals. They also require each community to sterilize, give medical care and food to stray animals.
But since the war ended ten years ago, the country has been overwhelmed with abandoned cats and dogs that live on the streets and reproduce at alarming rates.
Towns don’t have shelters big enough to handle the large number of homeless animals, workers are uneduated about humanely treating animals and the country never implemented a sterilization plan to stop the birth of new puppies and kittens.
The problem has now grown so bad that many people and communities have become indifferent to the suffering of the cats and dogs.
Their goal is to just get them off the streets, by any means possible.
In some cities like Belgrade, “professional pest control companies” have been hired to capture street animals and dispose of them. These dog catching teams, called the Shinter are untrained about how to humanely trap, house and compassionately euthanize homeless animals.
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Witnesses report that the Shinter often confine cats and dogs to cages without any food or water for several days at shelters before killing them.
Their form of euthanasia includes cruel methods such as: clubbing, burying animals’ alive, sealing live cats and dogs in plastic bags, crushing and poisoning.
Several Solutions
A small group of concerned citizens and animal welfare organizations are calling for the Serbian government to take action. Serbian Animals Voice is advocating for a plan similar to a Trap-Neuter-Return program.
They want to spay/neuter stray animals, put ID tags or ear marks on them, vaccinate them against disease and release the cats and dogs back into the neighborhood they came from.
The Alliance for Animal Rights is also asking the government to close current shelters and build humane animal shelters, have a registration system for owned animals, provide a humane education program for the public and enforce the penalties for animal abuse.
After ten years of talking about the humane treatment of street animals, please ask the government of Serbia to stop the killing and start acting on behalf of the welfare of stray cats and dogs.
CALL TO ACTION
CLICK HERE to sign the petition to stop killing dogs and cats in Serbia.
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+ add your ownI wonder how long it takes before those animal murderers change their targets to humans? Oh, wait, that's where they started!
This is so sad to see, you get tears in your eyes.
I have 4 rescue dogs and 7 rescue cats myself, and I think that every animal in this world need a good life.
Marianne
je crains que ce soit difficile de changer les mentalités, mais avec la nouvelle jeunesse il faudrait prendre la bonne habitude de leur faire respecter les êtres vivants
It won't be easy, but if people get together and neuter those dogs and rescue them, it will be better for those animals.
What do they have in the place of the heart? an unfeeling, insensitive stone? Regret when you get it back in the same coin.
PLEASE WORLD, HELP US!
I HAVE NO STRENGTH TO SE THESE HORRIFIC PICTURES!!!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12430&id=100000655718455
The pictures are made in Serbia, in the city of Loznica. These dogs were stray dogs that were taken to a place that someone stupid called >shelter
I live in Serbia.
As a Balkan people we inherreted bad treatment to animals from our ancestors. Here people base their food on meet and everything made by meet. In the rural villages every house has a dog, but not because they love dogs, but because they see him as a door-bell, a device that protects house and barks when someone comes in their yard. The dog is chained and always left outside, it is considered as a dirty animal (he must be because all his life he spends in the mud and dirt), he is usually fed with some old bread and water and maybe a little fat in this mush. In some rural houses people beat their dogs constantly so they can be more agresive and mad.
Of course it's not practice in every house but can be seen often.
In the cities people try to change something but it' all (for now) mission impossible.
There is a law that is active, but our state still allowes people and companies not to obey.
People are poor, hungry and disapointed and they have problems to bring food to their table, so many of them treat us who fight for the animals right-as mad! They are hungry, have no money to buy clothes and school books for their children, and we are talking to them about dogs on the streets.
That's the problem-right now, unfortunately it's just not priority in my country, and hungry people without jobs just have no sympathy. I'm not on their side,but it's the naked truth!
such a travesty of evil in this world. humans know better, can do better and must choose to do better. yet, they don't time after time.
BilanaP.
I live in Serbia with sadness, I have five dogs and would like to save them more.
I Wonder what the foreign tourists are comming to see in Belgrade when there are so many agly things, abendoned dogs, even a dog with cutted all of here four legs was founded recently on the parking in Belgrade and the police do not want to do anything about that invalid dog and never will fing the person who abbused that dog. The goverment only have promissed to us Animal police, but never did it... A lot of our stray street dogs are going in Germany, Swiss,Austria and some of us are paying for their trips just to send them in a better future and far away from serbia and people from here...after addoption they stays in our hearts forever, it is a problem that in serbia are less and less people with the heart. Save dogs, adopt them from here if You can.
This type of abuse is totally uncalled for. While I realize that there are overpopulations of animals in many animals (the US included), there are more humane ways to handle things. Strangling stray animals in the street is about as low as they can go!
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