Cruel measures to control animal overpopulation are legally used in different countries on domestic companion pets on the street, as well as wild animals. Even if they are not strictly legal in some places, the authorities have no interest in enforcing the law and are often the ones who are breaking it.
Cruel methods are used to kill stray dogs, as they are deemed a nuisance and there is the belief that doing so will stem the spread of rabies. In reality, this is ineffective and vaccines should instead be used.
There is no regard for the animals terrible & prolonged suffering, despite humane methods being available. In some countries officials pay citizens to kill stray dogs and they do not care if it is done if the most cruel of ways – even burning them alive!
In many of these countries, the cruelty of these animal overpopulation control measures reflects on the countries contemptuous attitude towards these animals as a society.
Mayor Pays Citizens To Murder Stray Dogs
To cut stray animal overpopulation, the Mayor of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora, México pays citizens around $20 to slaughter strays in any way they wish. $20 is around what it would cost for a charity organisation to neuter each dog and release them once they were fully recovered. The Mayor, Manuel Baldenebro Arredondo, sees nothing wrong with citizens killing innocent stray dogs using extremely cruel methods such as poisoning, stabbing, and beating them to death.
In other parts of Mexico, legal and acceptable animal overpopulation control methods include electrocution of stray animals.
Between 2008 – 2012, at least 50,000 stray dogs were cruelly burned alive, shot, beaten to death, hanged and poisoned in Ukraine. These actions were to cut the stray animal overpopulation before 1.5 million people were expected to visit Ukraine for the Euro 2012 football tournament the country hosted.
Around 7000 dogs a month in Donetsk alone were being killed in these horrifically painful and inhumane ways. Purposely poisoned dogs that are suffering tremendously painful and distressing deaths, were heartlessly thrown in to the bin to die.
CORRUPT OFFICIALS POCKET FUNDS MEANT FOR ANIMAL CONTROL:
Officials in Ukraine are suspected of corruption and pocketing 99% of the funds that should have been used for animal overpopulation controls. With the 1% left, they chose cheap and inhumane methods. Animals who are poisoned suffer prolonged and agonising deaths. Evidence filmed in the country by charity Naturewatch shows dogs with their bodies racked by spasms in their death-throes.
DOGS PARALYSED TO STOP THEM STRUGGLING, THEN BURNED ALIVE
The country had mobile incinerators in to which they threw innocent stray dogs alive and fully conscious, after first paralysing their muscles with a syringe gun. This was so they could not struggle and escape and had no hope of defending themselves.
The Ukraine wanted to get rid of the stray animal overpopulation problem there before Euro 2012, but did not want people to know that this is how they are going about it.
Image: Clockwise starting from top left: Boycott Euro 2012 in Ukraine banner; body of a dog visibly burning after being thrown in to a portable furnace in Ukraine whilst alive and fully conscious, just paralysed by a drug; innocent dogs beaten, poisoned and shot dead due to cruel animal overpopulation measures being used in Ukraine in time for Euro 2012.
The Burning Alive And Massacres of Stray Animals In Romania
Although they are part of the EU, Romania ignores EU animal cruelty laws. It illegally and inhumanely kills numerous animals secretly, behind closed doors every day.
Romania’s animal overpopulation controls involve beating stray animals to death, hacking them to death with axes, and burning them alive.
The authorities do not just do this to animals in their own municipal pounds, where the dogs are kept in inhumane conditions before they are killed. They are also known to forcibly enter rescues run by charitable organisations, and massacre the innocent animals in those establishments too.
For example, 230 dogs and puppies were massacred overnight in a rescue run by The Ador Association in Botosani, Romania. The massacre was ordered by Mayor, Catalin Mugurel Flutur, and possibly the Chief Veterinarian. Volunteers arriving at the rescue to tend to the dogs in the morning were confronted by their blood soaked dead bodies and officials.
It has been known for people who try to save street dogs from the authorities’ illegal, inhumane and unjust treatment, to be killed.
Magyari Loredana, a citizen of Romania, is brave enough to speak out and share this:
“I am Romanian and do everything I can to help stray dogs.We have a dog shelter in our city financed by a German Organisation. They also do sterilisations twice a year. I am thankful to these foreign people that
help us. Otherwise the same as in Botosani would happen here. The authorities in our city illegally kill hundreds of dogs. Such things are normal in our country. The stray dogs in Romania are a money making industry. I hear every day about animal cruelty in our country. I could not kill an animal even if somebody would offer me all the money in the world. Most of the Romanian authorities, and Romanian people, have no respect for the animals. PLEASE, we need help from outside to convince the Government that the solution is sterilisation. If they leave the local authorities to decide what to do with the animals, we will have such terrible news every day. And most of it we will not even know about. The people who commit such things should be punished by the law.
PLEASE HELP US MAKE THEM TO RESPECT THE EUROPEAN LAW!!! How many million stray dogs should die more until we can change the situation in Romania? I am ashamed to live here!”
DOGS AND PUPPIES REGULARLY BURNED ALIVE IN CRUEL ROMANIAN ANIMAL OVERPOPULATION CONTROL MEASURES:
Every week, hundreds of innocent, terrified dogs of all ages are taken to the Chief Veterinarian’s crematorium facility, approximately seven kilometres from Tulcea in Romania. There, they are BURNED ALIVE. Despite the opposition to these actions, and even court cases won, hundreds of innocent puppies and dogs continue to be burned alive there every week because of Romania’s cruel animal overpopulation measures.
IT IS NOT JUST THE AUTHORITIES WHO TORTURE ROMANIAN ANIMALS:
Romanian animal lovers put themselves at risk to try to help save animals from cruelty. They remark at how Romanians are brought up to have no respect or compassion for animals and to be violent towards them.
Citizens beat the street animals to death, or shoot them, or hurt and kill them any way they can. It seems to be a pastime for citizens to ‘help solve’ the animal overpopulation problem by finding ways to torture these innocent animals to death.
Thirteen dogs were tortured and beheaded for no reason by Romanian factory workers. Dog rescue volunteers who help stray dogs also find themselves to be targets of such dog hating people.
Image: This is Lori the dog. In Romania, someone attacked her with a screwdriver, leaving her for dead and in excruciating pain. She only survived because ‘Our Friends Dog Rescue’ came to her aid. The rescue, based in Romania, is (at the time of writing) under threat of closure from authorities. Most Citizens accept horrifically inhumane animal overpopulation controls with complete indifference.
People also set traps for street dogs to get caught in. In one such trap they slowly get strangled to death as they try to escape. Either that, or as the wire tightens around their body, it slowly cuts them in half.
One dog was rescued from such a trap in Romania by a Romanian animal lover, who named the dog Petronel. Petronel was found caught in a trap being choked to death, and there was another tight wire around his middle that was cutting deeply in to him, almost cutting him in half. On taking him to the vet, the rescuer was told that Petronel had also been permanently blinded due to a blow to the head.
Petronel’s rescuer sat on the veterinary clinic steps and wept. Many people passed by but nobody showed any compassion. Then Petronel’s rescuer felt a gentle touch to the leg. It was Petronel. Through all his misery and pain, and despite what humans had done to him, this blind, gentle, terribly abused little creature, still wanted to show love, affection and comfort.
Cruelty like this goes on all the time in Romania. Sadly, Petronel is just one example amongst a huge number of other cases.
Image: This innocent and non-aggressive dog, who was minding its own business and not being a threat to anyone, was mercilessly shot until dead in front of people.
Below is a video showing dog torture in Serbia:
People have even gone to the trouble of seeking out animal rescues in Serbia and thrown poisoned meat over the fence of the rescues, killing the dogs in the rescue’s care. Volunteers arriving at the rescues have been devastated to find the dogs, that were not doing any harm to anyone, had been purposely sought out and murdered.
In order to deal with the animal overpopulation, local authorities are known to pay people to inhumanely murder these innocent animals.
Even when seemingly humane ‘Capture, Neuter, Release’ programs are implemented by local authorities, the dogs are neutered but thrown out on to the street long before they are recovered and while still very vulnerable to infection, many with open wounds. Sadly, many of them die a prolonged and painful death due to this.
Image: This female dog, Coral, was found dying in a ditch in excruciating pain after being neutered by the Serbian authorities. She was thrown back on the street having had no stitches and no after care. Her intestines were spilling out of her stomach and she was left in terrible pain. She was rescued by Serbia’s Forgotten Paws, but sadly died. There are many more like Coral, the result of capture-neuter-release programs not being carried out properly. Countries with animal overpopulation problems often receive grants from the EU for these programs, but corruption means it is misused, so animals continue to suffer.
Dogs are not neutered by owners and are regularly abandoned, and abandoned dogs and newly born puppies freeze to death in the low temperatures.
Image: This 6 month old puppy was beaten viciously, then tied up to a car and dragged for a while at high speed. The pup ended up with horrific injuries and was left to die in the garden by the owner. All this happened in front of many witnesses, including neighbours, but nobody reported it. After three days, the puppy was rescued and found to have 3 broken legs, broken toes on the back legs, multiple open wounds, some infected, torn ligaments and the worst – infection spreads fast and could get to the bones.
Image: Bulgaria deal with the animal overpopulation in inhumane ways such as mass poisoning of dogs and cats, which causes slow and excruciatingly painful deaths.
The video below gives an insight in to how animals in Bulgaria suffer:
Every single day, Moldovan dogs are abused, tortured and killed using extremely cruel animal overpopulation controls. There are thousands of homeless dogs on the streets, and the Moldovan Government is not interested in using humane methods to solve this problem. They seem to feel that killing them with unbelievable cruelty is perfectly acceptable.
Everybody in Moldova knows it happens, but nobody seems to care enough to help these dogs. In fact, most citizens of Moldova support this cruelty and are keen for a larger number of dogs to be killed this way. They regularly call the dog killers and request vans to collect dogs and take them to the “territory of death”.
Dogs are known to be tortured before their death by being skinned alive for their fur. Their fur is sold at local markets and used to be made in to such items as belts.
Other dogs are killed simply because they are on the streets, and it is easier to kill them in inhumane, brutal and cruel ways instead of investing money and helping them in civilized, humane ways.
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