Stray animals remain a problem in Naples

[unhappycamper]

A group of stray or abandoned dogs available for adoption gather at a gate of the Lega Pro Animale veterinary clinic and shelter in Mondragone, Italy.


Stray animals remain a problem in Naples
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, February 8, 2009

NAPLES, Italy — Marcella Falco loves her job. But each morning, she dreads going to work.

Will this be another morning when she finds a dog chained to the gates of the animal shelter?

"It just breaks my heart. Every week, we find one dog, two dogs, just left outside the shelter," Falco said. "Sometimes they are just running around outside the gate. Sometimes they are chained. What choice do we have? We give them a home."

In Italy, animal shelters too often become the final home for thousands of abandoned or stray dogs, including the 550 dogs and puppies that reside at the privately run Rifugio San Francesco in Ischitella, a suburb of Naples.

"Adoption? No, not many Italians adopt," Falco said. "Maybe, maybe the puppies will be adopted. But the adult dogs — they come here to stay here, to die here."


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=60559

[newfie11]

1. Call PETA

They will adopt and kill all of them

:sarcasm:

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Maybe China and other countries have the right idea? - Eat them?

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I'm not sure how we decided to put cats, dogs, budgies, etcetera on our "DO NOT EAT" list . . .

We eat cattle, pigs, chickens, partridge, deer, moose, - and many other creatures.

Who took cats and dogs off the menu?

Something to ponder