Fw: [AR-News] (CA - US)Truly dedicated veterinarian: Headed to Thailand on mission of mercy-Tsunami animal welfare misery

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At 12:47 AM 2/17/05 -0400, you wrote:

The animal Welfare groups who were doing sterilization in Thailand should

return to Thailand

and treat these animals.They should give priority to Thailand now.

In Sri lanka the statistics they have given for immunisation of rabies

in Tsunami areas is false.Every body in Sri lanka surprised to hear such

statistics.Every body know that

is not true.

All those who have collected money from various animal lovers made a big

mistake.

They should do something to correct that .They were informed but

unfortunately the officers who are here still doing the same mistake.

People have given money to help animals .In future the animal lovers should

be careful regarding contributing money and they should not send money for

such organisations.

The Humane method of rabies control programme organised by WSPA and Kacpaw

was a failure.

The rabies cases have increased.

We are not happy about that .The Government officers in North East have

informed me that these groups are trying to organise programmes in North

East.They turned blind eye to killing of immunised dogs in Kotte and other

areas.

 

 

Human rabies reported in Sri lanka

The year deaths

2002 64

2003 76

2004 86 Earlier they have reported that as 92 but some are

notconfirmed as rabies

 

Kala Santha

 

" There's more than enough work there to do, " said Holmes, who only within

the last month became aware of the enormity of the problem for animals in

Thailand. In Bangkok alone, Holmes learned, as many as 300,000 sick and

hungry dogs roam the streets.

 

>But the conditions for dogs and cats Holmes learned about in his research

are just too pitiful to be ignored. As a rule, dogs and cats in Thailand are

not treated in the same way as the U.S. But the tsunami has exacerbated

already abominable conditions, i.e.:

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>There are no agencies to protect them from abuse;

>There are no humane shelters;

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>Dogs and puppies are rounded up in mass neutering and spaying sessions, and

after a short period in holding pens, put back on the streets where their

neutering wounds often reopen and become infected;

The