Cyprus Pride House

Honey_Bear

I adopt older UK dogs and rescue cats. I'm at a loss to understand why we have to spend charity money transporting animals to the UK in the hope that they will find a home here when we already have thousands of unwanted animals. I'm sure there are people with big hearts finding animals abandoned in countries while they're on holiday that need good homes, but I've never found a place in the UK that doesn't apply to either, but the ratepayers pay to keep those dogs off the streets, in Dog Pounds and police custody because they're softies too.

There are several charities in England importing collie puppies from Southern Ireland, and I also know of an organisation specialising in importing retrievers from Southern Ireland. I absolutely know they're genuine, but my problem is that by rescuing these dogs, we're not helping with spaying !!!!!es there, or neutering the dogs - so it's never-ending. All we're doing is denying another dog that has been here all its life, the hope of a 'forever home.'

stir_crazy

I think it is a good idea if it is genuine. Yes, adopting an animal from another country might not help with the overall problem of not having enough neutered animals, but rescuing animals from what would surely be a poor life in another country and giving it a loving home counts for something.

We do have thousands of unwanted animals here in the UK, but in my area I found that it's actually pretty hard to adopt a suitable pet for my household. If there is a pet in Cyprus who would fit into my household with minimum stress for the animal and my own pets, then I would go for it.

rochja

Thank you stir crazy. The way I see it different countries have different mind sets when it comes to animals. In the UK we generally love them, so if we become aware of animal cruelty we will take action to stop it. In countries like Cyprus and Tunisia animal cruelty is invisible. The general situation for animals is therefore far worse. Bringing an animal over is akin to spitting on a house fire, but you can never know how it will work out in the grand scheme. Maybe it will be 'woops there goes another rubber tree plant.' I like to think of it as highly directed and effective overseas aid.

Kinski

Not trying to put you of the rescue you've mentioned but Many tears in Wales have quite a few cavvies in, most of these dogs will have been used as breeding machines and have had horrendous life's before being rescued. There is a lot of cruelty that goes on in this country one of them being puppy farmed dogs and very little is done to stop it.
http://www.manytearsrescue.org/dogslookingforhomes.php

rochja

Thanks for the post Kinski. I know from your other posts that you love dogs, but there are so many reasons I could not support this charity I would not know where to begin to explain. I would not be swayed from this viewpoint so I would prefer not to delve into it. Like your doggie pics though

Kinski

rochja wrote: »

Thanks for the post Kinski. I know from your other posts that you love dogs, but there are so many reasons I could not support this charity I would not know where to begin to explain. I would not be swayed from this viewpoint so I would prefer not to delve into it. Like your doggie pics though

I got my Bichon from there but I have heard a few things

SadBunny

Honey_Bear wrote: »

I'm at a loss to understand why we have to spend charity money transporting animals to the UK in the hope that they will find a home here when we already have thousands of unwanted animals.... but the ratepayers pay to keep those dogs off the streets, in Dog Pounds and police custody because they're softies too.

There are too few "softies" in this world: They had heard screaming and saw the old woman stabbing at a box with a pitchfork. Sadly one of the pups had already been killed...

... and in all fairness to people I think it is difficult to understand just how horrible things are for animals in some countries, unless you see it. When we moved here we were shocked and if someone had explained it to me prior to us moving, I still think I would have found it difficult to believe.

In the Uk, there is animal suffering but there are laws against animal cruelty. You wouldn't see dogs being kicked about in the street and people walking past as if nothing was happening, pups freezing and starving in the snow and people kicking them out of the way. Here, there is no RSPCA and nothing else for the dogs that we rescue and that is why many people do adopt from us or support us. (Diane)

https://www.facebook.com/rudozemstreetdogrescue

Not only is she now helping the animals in Bulgaria she is helping the community by slowly "educating" them about animals and helping them to learn more humane ways of treating them instead of beating, kicking and shooting them. Changing a mindset of animal abuse is helping people! Taking animals off the streets helps the community!and reduces any dangerous situations. (Anita)

http://www.care2.com/causes/wrong-turn-leads-hiker-to-rescue-in-the-mountains.html

There are 30 council run dog shelters across Bulgaria. These shelters are more often than not, places of torture run by sick individuals...
Dogs are often left with no food and water. For some, the only thing they can eat, is the dogs that have already died. These places are the last stop for so many animals. One isolator reported killing over 47,725 dogs in just one, two week period. To cut down on costs, they are often beaten to death or just left to starve.

I will spare you the horrendous and heart-wrenching photo's.

Our aim is to raise funds ... so that we can start a sterilization scheme. It will also be used for dogs whose lives are in imminent danger, due to sickness or injury. It is unrealistic to think that we can get all the dogs off the street, but this will reduce the number of puppies who are born to this life of misery. These are not dangerous wild dogs or dogs that are a danger to livestock, many are friendly dogs who are craving love and attention. It is heartbreaking to see one of them go up to a person, wagging its tail and rolling over only to be kicked and spat on. For more information on how RSDR started and the persons involved, please go to our About Us page.

An RSDR dog/cat is a rescue animal that might have suffered or seen much abuse on the streets in Bulgaria, and has been taken to the RSDR shelter. He/She has been slowly rehabilitated over a period of time, and has become used to the security of shelter life & the humans that look after him/her.

Therefore prospective adopters should give this careful consideration and there are links to useful info about adopting a rescue dog on this page.

esuhl

Honey_Bear wrote: »

All we're doing is denying another dog that has been here all its life, the hope of a 'forever home.'

But why would a dog in one politically defined region be more deserving than a dog from another? It doesn't really matter whether a dog is from Bath or Leeds or Nicosia -- it can still suffer the same. And I doubt that dogs are particularly patriotic!

gettingready

Honey_Bear wrote: »

All we're doing is denying another dog that has been here all its life, the hope of a 'forever home.'

Not necessarily - sometimes UK based charities are too picky as to who can adopt from them so they end up with so many dogs in their care.

Foreign charities have less tick box exercise rules for people wanting to adopt from them.

I do have friends who tried to adopt here, were turned down so many times - they adopted from Poland and those dogs have very happy lives.

They still do home check (in my friend's cases they did anyway) by their members living in UK but do not insist on "fences, 4 hours, no kids, no work etc" so are much more realistic.

A dog, any dog will be happier at home then in a kennel - the home does not have to be "perfect" and "tick all the boxes".

chucknorris

Kinski wrote: »

Not trying to put you of the rescue you've mentioned but Many tears in Wales have quite a few cavvies in, most of these dogs will have been used as breeding machines and have had horrendous life's before being rescued. There is a lot of cruelty that goes on in this country one of them being puppy farmed dogs and very little is done to stop it.
http://www.manytearsrescue.org/dogslookingforhomes.php

Dylan is a total wow dog! He could be the brother of our dog Mills:

http://www.manytearsrescue.org/display_mtar_dog.php?id=6186