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Dear Kim, Chandi, Hari, Pradeep, Sherry, Brindha, , Maneka, Suparna,

Chinny, Kelly, Bob, Chialee, Arun, Pat, Champa and all others, who try to save

the dogs in Kandy

 

Today I received another alarming call: they started killing again... though

not in a big way like last time, it seems, otherwise we would have got more

calls about it. (Actually we received only one call, but unfortunately it was a

relieable one, tomorrow we'll verify to be 100% sure.)

 

Immediately Sagarika gave another call to the Governor and one of our members

phoned the Chiefminister, both claim they have no say, the other one should

intervene. We don't know the set-up well enough to understand who is right here,

however, even if we knew, we can't demand, we can only plead.

 

While we prepare for the 29th, the day we have the hearing in courts, the

killing may go on and we watch helplessly and what makes it worse: some people,

who are missing their dogs, come to the pound and ask whether their dogs are

there and we have to tell them: sorry.... So far nobody blamed us because they

can see, that we are keeping our foothold on the KMC pound in order to protect

the lives of those 100 dogs, which are there now, and because we hope to get the

programme back in place through the court-case, which we have filed... yet fact

is, that those dogs, whose owners came in search of them, could have been saved,

if the pound would be operated by the KMC because then they would have kept the

dogs alive for three days, though under terrible conditions... three days

torture for the sake of a few, whose owners really love them. There is no

question about this right now, definitely we will stay on, because on this point

the court-order is very clear and so far the KMC was not violating our right to

use the pound as a transithome. But it is a very sad experience for us to have

to say sorry to those people and to feel their pain.

 

If we would not win the court-case this time, we would have to re-think whether

we should stay in the pound, because if they continue to kill, we will not take

up the sterilization of Kandy street-dogs again and would not need a

transit-home for that purpose, but then the question would arise: where to go

with these 100 dogs?

 

We still hope it will not come to such a situation, but the possibility looms

heavily on our minds because we have no funds to build a shelter, we only used

to get just enough to keep the programme going, the daily food for the dogs and

the weekly pay for the sterilizations.

 

Just received the letter WSPA has sent to the Health Minister, I wish he would

do something, but after he got so many mails and letters from so many

individuals and organisations and showed no response, I have lost hope now.

However, if those of you, who are in Colombo, would try to meet him in person,

we have a small chance to get some help from him... by phone he is hard to

contact, mails and letters may not all be read by him personally.

 

And those of you, who still believe in God inspite of all these terrible

suffering, which animals have to undergo in this overpopulated human society,

please pray for a miracle to save the dogs of Sri Lanka, who are being killed in

the thousands islandwide and now even the sterilised and vaccinated ones in

Kandy. Please also pray for all other species tortured and killed by the human

sub-animal.

 

Let's join our efforts to make this earth a better place to live... for all

creatures.

 

Padma