Animal Protection Law approved by Turkish Parliament

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> " Riccardo Agnelli " <ragnelli

>Animal Protection Law

>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:41:33 +0300

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>Dear Friends,

>

>I have good news. I am so happy about what has happened today.

>

>The Turkish Parliament today approved the new Animal Protection Law.

>

>The Neuter and Retrun program that we lobbied the Environment

>Commission over many meetings has now been approved as the official

>method for stray animal population control thoughout Turkey.

>

>I had also tried to get a further provision introduced, that

>privately owned dogs should be compulsorily neutered, but we were

>not able to persuade the Commission to accept this at our earlier

>meetings. However, a member of Parliament who is also a

>Veterinary Professor successfully argued that these same stray

>animals come from private owners in the first place who let their

>animals roam and mate and therefore they should be required to have

>their animals neutered. This provision was also accepted and

>approved by Parliament!

>

>All the discusions about the Animal Protection Law was shown live on

>television this afternoon.

>

>Now we will have to work hard to implement the Law.

>

>Kindest Regards,

>

>Perihan Agnelli

 

 

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