I’m a dog lover, dogs, dog behavior fascinates. In Illinois I run a dog school, boarding, doggie day care. Improving our relations with dogs my passion; happy dogs my goal since 1983. In Puerto Rico I listen to island dogs “satos” or street dogs tell me about their lives contrasts and comparisons of our pets, island dogs and wild dogs’ behavior. Dog language and social interaction is far more amazing than I could have imagined. Exploration the lives of canis familiaris by Tricia Carr
Sunday, January 2, 2011
SPAY IS THE WAY PUERTO RICO
100,000 feral dogs roaming beaches, city streets, verdant country valley or palm tree orchard. Dogs fornicating; puppy corpses rotting in the road; is this the image of Puerto Rico?
How about rounding up the strays by the truck load and needling them; is this the image for Puerto Rico? Sad eyes rolling down the highway to death camp is not what dog loving tourists want to see; nor do we, very strongly we do not!
As if this problem were not bad enough; what would happen to the rat population if the dogs were gone? Would they bring in fox or coyote? Or would they poison?
When your poisoned pets die, people of Puerto Rico will you cry? Or will you demand of your leaders another way?
Will it take the death of a beloved family pet of a vacationing rich man? So if you can’t poison the rats, what are you going to do when rats ruin the food crops of the island?
Spay, trap & release anyone?
Powerful and well written!
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