Animal rights activists from Finland want to persuade us that our stray dogs are peaceful.
The EVZ campaign called “What do we do about the stray dogs?” continues to encourage debates among our readers. The debate has reached Finland, where an animal rights organization and some activists asked us to stop bolstering the population to cruelty towards animals.
We continue the debates today and include some opinions coming from our readers. Tomorrow’s episode will be dedicated to the animal rights organizations, which have been disdained over the past years, but still manage to find a clear perspective over the matter.
Finnish education
Jukka Kinnunen, Anu Raatikainen and Kiia Vasko, the president of Pro Animals organization in Finland, reacted to our campaign through e-mails in which they express their beliefs regarding how languid stray dogs really are: “I’ve heard you’re collecting stories about how aggressive stray dogs are and I find it amusing to hear so, because over the past 10 years, I’ve been traveling to many countries that are confronted with this issue. I’ve never met an aggressive or dangerous dog in Russia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Leetonia, Romania or Slovakia. In fact, people are more likely to have problems with their pedigree dogs. Stray dogs are afraid of humans”, Jukka Kinnunen thinks.
”The sole purpose of your campaign is to create hysteria among the citizens and this will lead to more cases of brutal killing of the dogs. Romania already has a sad past concerning dog massacres. Only sterilization will reduce the number of dogs on the streets”, Anu Raatikainen writes us.
Kiia Vasko, the President of Pro Animals Finland has sent us some photos of a shelter in Rovinari, where dogs are mistreated and concludes by saying that “the media should encourage people to act responsible and in a humane way with these animals”.
First official reactions
Andrei Chiliman, Mayor, of sector 1 in Bucharest will ask the local council’s approval to set up a shelter on a 4,300 square meters in Bucharest. The City Hall will spend 2 million lei (538.000 euros) in order to have the shelter built in about two months. Citizens will have a hotline available to call the Animal Police, which was recently founded.
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