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[penzelda] ActionAlert! Egypt poisons homeless cats and dogs

 

 

 

PLEASE FORWARD. TAKE ACTION - SEE BELOW: Sample letter to send to

Egyptian Officials

 

 

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7th November 2005

 

 

Egyptian authorities poison campaign against strays

 

 

Dear Friends

 

The following request for assistance is from our friends at Society for

Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt ( <http://www.sparealife.org>

www.sparealife.org). Their struggle is particularly difficult. The

Egyptian authorities have little regard for the suffering of animals,

but they may respond to international pressure. Your emails can really

help this time. Please join in this campaign and show our colleagues at

SPARE that they are not alone.

Mona at SPARE ( <Mona Mona)

states:

" The Egyptian veterinary authorities in Giza announced today in AL

AKHBAR the nation wide newspaper that it is starting its campaign to

poison cats and dogs, despite the fact that the Giza area had

spaying/neutering projectdone through vier pfoten organization from

Austria in cooperation with the society for protection of animal rights

in Egypt (SPARE & the Egyptian society for Animal friends ( ESAF), A 5

year neutering project with WSPA to neuter animals in this governorate

was discussed and agreed with the head of the veterinary department in

Egypt, the project is due to start in few weeks.They are using

strychnine that is prohibited world wide ( harmful for people &

environment) and claim that the animal die in 5 minutes which is not

true as the animal sometimes suffer for hours or days before it dies or

otherwise we would not have received all these numbers of poisoned cats

and dogs at our shelters and saved them.Following is ! the translation

of the article and the Arabic article itself, please cross post and

write to international organizations worldwide to help the animal groups

in Egypt fighting this battle alone .An e-mail will follow with e-mail

addresses and contacts of Egyptian embassies worldwide, please help us

and do not ignore anything you can do to help those animals. Please

Please help. "

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Translation of Al Akhbar's report (30/10/05):

" The veterinary authority of Giza governorate under the Chairman of Dr.

Abdullah Badr established a committee to eliminate stray dogs and cats

in Giza governorate due to complaints from some governmental and private

entities. The committee is carrying out 10 campaigns daily within the

framework of a plan to cover the whole governorate. They are using 10

kg. daily of Strychnine for dogs and Temec for cats. They put half a

gram of the poison on a piece of raw meat or fish weighing 70 grams and

distribute it in areas where the cats and dogs gather. The meat and fish

for dogs inside private areas are provided by the owners of these areas

and the dogs and cats in the street get the meat from the leftovers of

the slaughter houses. The members of the campaigns wear masks and each

animal is surrounded by 4 persons as the poisoned animal suffer after

eating from severe stomach-ache and dies in 5 minutes, after which

police cars carry the dead animal to the burning house ! of the faculty

of veterinary medicine of Cairo university to be burnt and later buried

in the desert. "

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Mona continues:

" We are desperate for your help, animal organizations in Egypt are

taking it upon themselves alone to carry on neuter programs and

vaccinating strays to avoid this destiny for them, but it seems that all

our efforts are not appreciated by the government or the vet authorities

that are not carrying their main job of helping and treating animals

instead of poisoning them.We are also calling upon Vier pfoten to

protest to this action as many of the animals they worked on in May and

June of 2005 will be the victims, not to mention that other areas as

hurghada and sharm sheikh and dahab already had the same action carried

on dogs that were already neutered and vaccinated. "

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Sample protest email but, as always, please write an original if you

can:

 

 

Honorable Government Officials:

Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Word has reached the world/global community that Egyptian veterinary

authorities in Giza have announced a poison campaign against cats and

dogs despite the fact that the Giza area has had a spaying/neutering

project done through Vier pfoten, an organization from Austria, in

cooperation with the Society for Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt

(SPARE) and the Egyptian Society for Animal Friends (ESAF).

 

A five year neutering project with WSPA to neuter animals in this

governorate was discussed and agreed upon with the head of the

veterinary department in Egypt; the project is due to start in a few

weeks. Moreover, it has been learned that they are using strychnine, a

poison that is prohibited world wide because it is so harmful for people

and the environment, and have made the specious claim that the animal

dies in 5 minutes. Evidence shows that this is not true as the animal

sometimes suffers for hours or days, causing a horrible, lingering and

painful death, before the animal finally dies. There is no doubt that

many innocent animals, people's pets, birds and wildlife, will also be

doomed to accidental poisoning as a result of this inhumane plan.

 

Compassionate citizens everywhere are mindful of the issues and problems

posed to a community when there are large numbers of stray animals.

Nevertheless this is not a proper or humane solution and the price to be

paid by innocent creatures is unacceptable in a civilized society. It

goes without saying, that the cruel killing animals will not be viewed

positively, by anyone considering visiting Egypt. We therefore urge you

to take prompt action to cease the barbaric poisoning of innocent

animals and to make every effort to work with the volunteer

organizations that are anxious and willing to help.

 

We look forward to your reply.

 

Sincerely,

(Name/Country)

 

Honorable Ambassador/Counsel of Egypt

 

Please send to:

 

info,

ConsularSection,

consgeneg,

embassy.egypt,

Embassy,

embassy,

egyptemb,

cetech,

ambassadedegypteaparis,

egyptembassyvienna,

educult.eg,

Counsellor,

commercial,

ambegyptvatican,

drfadia,

Mot

 

You can also leave online messages on the following sites:

 

http://www.egypt.org.au <http://www.egypt.org.au/>

http://www.agri.gov.eg <http://www.agri.gov.eg/>

http://www.egypttourism.org <http://www.egypttourism.org/>

 

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Our thanks to Zelda for the sample email.

 

Our continued thanks to all of you for your support and for caring

enough to want to make a difference.

 

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