COURT CASE POSTPONED IN KANDY

[Guest guest]

Dear Padma,

 

Thank God for small mercies.

 

May I suggest that you do not stop the sterilization of owned animals. Quite

often, it is these owners that leave fresh litters in public places or

give the

pups out in adoption to irresponsible owners who allow them to breed and

perpetuate the problem.

 

Have you considered ear-notching (instead of or in addition to tattooing) to

make the spayed ones more visible? Please contact Bob Blumberg for

feed-back on

this. I will be happy to send down a cauteriser if you will use this method.

 

Regards.

 

S. Chinny Krishna

 

Quoting Padma <padmaeva:

 

> We are only too lucky, that the mass.slaughter has stopped by itself

> after five terrible days... if that would have been depending on this

> case, many more dogs would have died because the court is not giving

> priority to this. In today's hearing Dr. Jayasinghe was asked to

> bring proof for his statements by 21st October... that's all. For us

> this means another three weeks uncertainty, whether to release the

> grown-up dogs into their territories, whether to take in new ones and

> to sterilize them, whether to concentrate on sterilizing domestic

> dogs in the meantime, or whether to keep our funds safe without doing

> anything to make sure, that the dogs, which are with us now will

> remain protected and looked after. It's hard to decide on anything

> right now, but we will have to and will soon have an AGM for this.

>

> Dawn Peacock from HSI was with us today and shared some of her CNR

> experiences from Bali and from the Tsunami areas. She couldn't really

> advice us on our ever tight budget problem, but we were happy to hear

> abot the progress in the south-cost, where it was possible to get

> written agreements signed by the municipalities, that the tattooed

> dogs will not be killed. Whether the team will be able to check on

> this, since it is moving from place to place? There would have been

> many more questions, but she had to move on and we had to go home...

> but thanks to the internet we'll remain in touch...

>

> ... as we are with all of you

>

> Padma

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