As a pet owner, I can’t stand the thought of losing my pet. Once lost, it means that their life will be very difficult and they can only wait for death.
This story is related to foreign stray animals. They have been living in animal shelters, thinking that they do not have to endure hunger. This is not the case. Their situation is no less than having no stability. All stray animals.
In December 2020, a foreigner’s dog was lost. While searching for the dog, he accidentally visited an animal shelter on the paradise island of Mauritius. When he walked in, he found about 40 dogs in cages. Some of the dogs must have owners because they were wearing collars around their necks.
After a while, a female staff member came out. She looked a little embarrassed and there was a lot of blood on her apron. What he saw next shocked him. All the dogs were starving. I saw a group of dogs besieging an extremely thin dog. After it died, they began to eat their companions. I felt unspeakably uncomfortable in my heart. This was abuse in disguise!
Logically speaking, this is a shelter run by the local government. How could the dogs end up in such a situation! It is understood that the local government rounds up thousands of stray dogs every year, most of which have owners. However, because they are not vaccinated and sterilized, they also cause a lot of trouble to tourists on the island.
An organization once implemented a sterilization program and opened a free animal clinic, which was also successful locally. It was originally planned to implement an island-wide animal sterilization plan, but after repeated communications, it has still not been implemented.
As veterinarian Xiao Ming said, the purpose of the Mauritius Animal Shelter is not to help stray animals, but to provide them with a different wayJust death. In fact, animal life is worthy of respect and should not be ignored casually. Although the local method of killing stray animals can solve some problems, it cannot really reduce the number of stray animals.
Popular science from veterinarian Xiao Ming: Why are there more and more stray animals?
First of all, the emergence of stray animals is caused by human abandonment. Some of them are because they are no longer interested in raising them, and some are because of diseases or the inability to continue to raise them. We should start with ourselves and fully consider our own financial affordability before raising them. Since we have raised animals, we should be responsible to the end.
Secondly, the occurrence of stray animals is also due to their natural reproduction. We can consider neutering our dogs and understand the pros and cons before neutering. After neutering, they no longer have estrus, their moods are relatively stable, and the probability of getting lost is greatly reduced.