pantheman wrote:cyprusgrump wrote:pantheman wrote:hellopaul wrote:And then....? A strange post. The reply to your question "Is animal cruelty in Cyprus the norm" is obviously "yes". This is patently clear to anyone who has lived in Cyprus or even just visited for a few days or more. Cypriots are famed for their hatred of all animals. Animals are there to be starved, shot or beaten. They serve no other purpose in Cyprus.
Oh please get off your high horse. I have given up counting how many programs I have seen showing the RSPC and the US equvilent on trails of animal cruelty in those respective countries.
Horse beaten and left to starve in the UK, dogs boxed all day with no food in the US. You have just seen fit to jump on this puppy band wagon and start critisizing Cyprus.
If you just take a simple item of comparison, the amount of money GDP that the US and UK create is gigantic compared to what cyprus generates. Those bigger countris can afford the expenditure on animal welfare, but even then it falls way short considering the amount of money we are talking about.
Cyprus, as much as it would like, does not have the same financial power and if it is faced with money for social benefits or money for animal welfare then I can guess where they will be directing it. Given the enormous developments that have taken place in cyprus, infrastructure wise in the last 5 - 10 years you can see where most of that money goes to.
Critism is accepted in some cases but to demonise the whole country as being ALL non animal lavoers is taking the biscuit to day the least.
Lets just get things into perspective here. Otherwise this thread and similar will turn out like the Cyprob thread.
A slight digression here,
Niki, a question for you. Do you know that the person dumping the puppies in the first place was actually a Cypriot? Could he have been a Brit, a Yank, a pole, a Russian? Why you suddenly asumed he was Cypriot? I think it just shows the racial tendencies here a bit !!!!
Its like when a black man gets arrested he says "just because I am black?" Well, you have just done the same, unless you know for sure what he was?
Just an observation.
Oh come on!
Our local vet is Cypriot - he knows who dumps the dogs around here!
Clue: It is not Brits, Yanks, Poles or Russians
Yes Grump you would say that, wouldn't you?
Do you know who dumped the puppies was the question? Anything else is just empty accusations.
Oh and "Our local vet is Cypriot " well then, he must be a cruel basterd as well since he is Cypriot right??
I didn’t say that all Cypriots are cruel bastards.
However, if you look at the dogs which are ‘kennelled’ in tin sheds under the sun in distant fields with little food or drink then they’re not owned by British, Yanks, or Russians. Unfortunately, those same dogs are also not required (apparently) to be licensed or chipped.
And there is plenty of evidence as to who is dumping the dogs – not British Yanks or Russians.
As I said, I’m not anti Cypriot, nor do I think that all Cypriots are cruel bastards (the puppy that I managed to re-home the other week belonged to a Cypriot). However, Cypriots do seem to learn from an early age that being cruel to animals is de rigueur. We’ve all seen it – I can’t believe that you haven’t…
