Guest guest Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 www.island.lk Monday 8th December 2003 Opinion -- Cruelty to animals at tourist hotels We have been regular visitors to Sri Lanka and have come to your beautiful island over 20 times. However, during our recent visits, we sadly noticed a new development with regard to the poor animals, mostly dogs, that innocently come straying into the premises of the hotels that we have stayed in. We have observed that hotels on your beautiful South coast arrange to kill these dogs by feeding them poisoned food. These animals are so friendly that sometimes they are led away by the hotel staff and later we do not know what dreadful things have happened to them, as we do not see them thereafter. The poor cats too, are caught and put into bags and even dashed on the ground and trampled or crushed to death, as we have learnt from sympathetic employees of these hotels who deplore what happens, but are helpless to stop this. In the last hotel we stayed at Kalutara, one kind employee was able to hide and save a pregnant cat, that was to suffer the same fate. We have been regular visitors to Sri Lanka, not only because of the very good beaches and other attractions, but also because Sri Lanka’s tourism promotion speaks much of the Buddhist traditions of tolerance and compassion to all living beings, that has had a great appeal to us. Yet, due to this increasing brutality to animals that we have seen, we are now disillusioned. How can we have a pleasant holiday, knowing what happens to these innocent animals who also seek human company and are also liked by most tourists? We call upon the tourism authorities in Sri Lanka, such as the Tourist Board and what we have heard as Hotels Associations of tourist areas to stop this cruel killing of dogs and cats, and make arrangements to carry out humane methods of controlling their breeding such as regular sterilization. We feel that hotels should put a stop to this cruelty to animals, because we wish to come and enjoy our holidays in Sri Lanka and not be troubled by the cruelty to animals in your Buddhist country. _______________ Shop online for kids’ toys by age group, price range, and toy category at MSN Shopping. No waiting for a clerk to help you! http://shopping.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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