Fw: [animal_net] Sri Lanka - Dogs, too, suffer in aftermath, and situation grows desperate

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Monday, January 17, 2005 11:08 AM

[animal_net] Sri Lanka - Dogs, too, suffer in aftermath, and

situation grows desperate

 

 

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> January 16, 2005

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> Dogs, too, suffer in aftermath, and situation grows desperate

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> ULLE, Sri Lanka - They are perhaps the most overlooked victims of last

month's devastating tsunami, increasingly desperate creatures existing

without shelter and little food or even clean water. And under a new

government program, their days are numbered.

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> They're dogs of all sizes, color and character, former pets that have been

left without masters after the tsunami flooded this eastern Sri Lankan

village, killing at least 1,000 of its 6,000 residents.

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> http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/01/16/a3.int.quakedogs.0116.html

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