| Name |
Views and Comments | Date |
| terri hillman |
china skines there animals alive. It's sick, very sick. Has anyone taken a look at how they kill there animals for a meal or for the fur trade... They put them in boiling water alive and skin them, also cats. I have also seen where they tie a dogs neck to a fence and start cutting on him while he is screming for its life, all of this is while the animal is alive. Most people will not watch this, its like out of sight, out of mind... If peolpe do not see this, then they do no know about it. I would love the news to get a hold of this while they are over there and view this for the US to see. It bothers me every day... i ask of all, please do not buy anything in the stores that has fur on it or even looks like fur made from china... They label will not say what it is that you are buying, but its cat and dog fur and if you buy, then you are saying its ok to kill these animals they way they are being killed or tortured |
8/6/2008 |
| Vanessa Patoula |
I am an American living in Greece with my 3 dogs, and I know for a fact that Greeks, generally speaking, DO NOT LIKE DOGS! They either fear them, or think they are filthy! Everywhere I go with my dogs, I have to endure abuse from random people on the street!!! Whether they say something mean, or just give me and my dogs a look of death, the message is clear! I've noticed this as being more common in the older generation of Greeks, than with the youth. I am always hearing stories of neighbors trying to poison the dog next door! These stories coupled with the way people act on the street makes it IMPOSSIBLE for me to believe that the Greeks have NOT been poisoning the animals! It seems to me that education is desperatly needed here in Greece! In addition, I have visited Greece twice in the 3 years prior to the Olympics, and finally came to live here 2 weeks before the Olympics began, and I can tell you...the cold absense of the massive amounts of dog packs that roamed all corners of the cities, was staggering! Syntagma square was literally, completely dog free, during the olympics, when in the years before it was the presence of the multitude of strays in Syntagma Square that afforded me the opportunity to meet my future husband! I must add however, that a handfull of dogs have come back to Syntagma Square this past week in mid September, now that the Olympics are over, but the dogs I've seen have only been ones that are being cared for by a local doggy welfare org. (They're fat, and have collars with tags from that organization.) Certainly not the original Syntagma Square gang members that I remember so well from my first visits to Athens. Their treatment of animals certainly makes them look a lot more like a 3rd world country than they'd like! I recently visited 3 vets for a skin problem with my smallest dog, and each and every one of them told me that dry dog food is BETTER for dogs than a properly organized raw diet, like the BARF diet. In fact, they'd never even heard of the BARF diet. It seems that Greece as a whole is lightyears behind America as far a pets are concerned!!! Most pet owners I've met here know little to nothing about dogs, and have only a vague idea of how to care for them, info which they get from the vets, which as I've just pointed out is quite out of date!! Something must be done to help the Modern Greeks out of their primitive mind set towards animals, and get them to fall in line with the rest of the Western World, and I believe, as with most issues facing the world today, education is the only way, but how and by whom??? |
9/16/2004 | |
