Continued Animal Torture!

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Marijo Gillis [twinkieperkyebby]

Friday, February 06, 2004 4:49 PM

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PLEASE, please CROSS POST, as yet another heartbreaking Greek Update.

 

 

 

THOUGHTS from someone in ATHENS, GREECE to the CIVILIZED WORLD!

 

 

 

Press

Release

 

Athens, Greece

24.01.04

 

On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 GREEK TV viewers were horrified upon

seeing the morning program of ERT 3 " Ç ¶ëëç ÌÝñá» (The Other Day)

which featured the GOD awful " Animal Shelter of Northern Greece " , at

Peraia, Thessaloniki. At this 'exclusive' shelter for abandoned and

abused animals, amidst animal feces and carcasses, one saw emaciated

dogs, most with appalling skin diseases, and maggot crawling in open

wounds.

 

Viewers saw the poor dogs fighting over a stale, filthy loaf of bread,

while little paraplegic and blind souls desperate and terrified, dragged

themselves in front of frightened puppies and dogs suffering in the last

stages of Leishmaniasis, a horrifying disease, causing intolerable

suffering. Oh, by the way, in the past, Cannibalization has also been

a featured item for viewing audiences.

 

 

 

For the thousandth time, TV viewers were witnessing the blatant

violation of all animal protection laws by 'shelters' and the

indifference of the Greek state. What is the point of legislation? Can

someone tell us???

 

True to form, despite this documented evidence of an Animal Auschwitz,

the Greek government remains indifferent and mired down in inertia and

perhaps plain, old, unadulterated inhumanity.

 

(Let us bring up once more, the ahem, mysterious disappearance of

thousands of abandoned dogs as the City of Athens prepares for the 2004

Olympic Games!and the magical disappearance of their carcasses.)

 

A guest featured on the morning program was Mr. Patikas, Director of the

Veterinary Directorate of Thessaloniki, who constantly referred to the

" notorious " new law, gazetted in July 2003 under No. 3170 entitled

" Companion Animals, stray companion animals and other provisions " ,

without even once whispering the words " companion animals and sentient

beings " , and also withholding the very pertinent fact that he represents

the responsible body for the implementation of the new law!

 

The same Mr. Patikas, in October 2003, after receipt of official

complaints was forced to inspect the above mentioned shelter and

concluded that everything was perfectly in order! Perhaps this

gentleman is missing a chromosome?

 

Furthermore, throughout the duration of the program, Mr Patikas failed

to explain how, after only two and a half months, the disgusting

situation which the camera was revealing shot-by-shot, had developed.

Naturally, he did not see fit to propose immediate intervention by the

authorities to relieve the animals' suffering, although the health and

welfare of animals is his responsibility. Needless to say, he did not

inform viewers where the dead animals were buried!

 

It would seem that in Greece, laws are voted in parliament to justify

the existence and salaries of the 300 MP's; thus law 3170 was passed -

full of promise - but without the slightest infrastructure for its

implementation. Yet another law to seduce and mislead and destined for

the rat eaten files of the House of Parliament, as is the travesty of a

law, whose provision defines that the state reply within 15 days to a

citizen's written request. Otherwise a certain concerned party would

have received a reply to her letter of September 4, 2003 in which she

complained about the reprehensibleg conditions in the above shelter.

" Concerned party " addressed her letter of complaint to Prime Minister

Simitis, Agriculture Minister, Drys, New Democracy Party Chairman

Karamanlis, Agriculture Deputy Minister Hadjimichalis, Prefect of

Thessaloniki MPsomiades, and Director of Vet Directorate Thessaloniki

Patikas, Mayor of Peraia Mantzari, Mayor of Corfu . Mastoras, Director

of Vet Directorate Corfu and the Prefect of Corfu Machmari..

 

If the Fathers of the Nation are not disturbed when, through their own

failings, Europe considers us barbarians, rude and arrogant Balkans,

they should not be disturbed at the boycott of the Olympic Games and the

influx of hooligan tourists at the summer resorts.

 

A call a " spade a spade " Greek animal rights organization, " run by a

phenominal Greek, raised abroad, is waiting to see whether the famous

Greek 'filotimo' (reciprocal duty to honour) exists...Because if it

does, then every member of the Pan Hellenic Veterinary Association

should undertake without charge, blood testing, treatment and neutering

of the animals at the 'Shelter for Strays Northern Greece', and this is

the minimum they should undertake in view of the promises made at their

meeting in 2000. As for the Veterinary School of the University of

Thessaloniki, it should always actively contribute towards relieving the

plight of the stray animals.

 

In 2004, the year of 'Volunteering', the government should encourage in

every possible way those distinguished veterinary surgeons of the

European Union (amidst them, professors of renowned universities) who

offer their services free of charge throughout the country, to neuter

and treat desperately sick stray animals. On the contrary, with its

indescribably idiotic bureaucracy, the government is, indirectly,

ensuring that no such help shall be available to the strays, ever. God

help the animals of Greece