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[annecollings]

Hi Niki2410

Unfortunately I am finding discussions on this site sometimes a waste of time - they lose the thread and become rude and heated for no reason... Anyway...

I have lived happily in Cyprus with 3 dogs and when I lived on the horse farm, also with several cats. Two of my dogs are 8 and 9 years old and have never been poisoned. All 3 are rescue dogs, the latest addition being about 1 yr and found with a broken leg.... What I am trying to say, is that you can keep pets here happily, but I would have to say it does depend where you live and who you might annoy - if you get my drift. I have always lived in the countryside, although a couple of times I lived in closeknit community villages with my dogs.

Cats are a different question. I know of a couple of people who keep their cats in a huge caged run which adjoins their house for fear of poisoning (and also fear of traps in the country areas). When I lived and worked on the horse farm a couple of the farm cats did disappear, but I don't know what happened to them, but a few of the others are still at the farm today, some 8 years later. Some friends of my bought their cats from the UK but they had always lived inside and knew no different.

I live in an agricultural area where there are no neighbours so I am "hopefully" ok and not annoying anyone.

It is possible to keep cats and dogs here, but you must be aware of the dangers and careful.

Regards, Anne

[VOID]

A BIG THANKS TO PAFIAKOS.


This is a true story,

someone dumped a cyprus poodle on my garden(female),she was cute and loyal,but barked a little bit at night,all the neighbours decided to poison her and were making comments how they were going to do it.One night i caught one of them kicking her and i wont tell you what happend with him as i allready had a dog i decided to give her away and Pafiakos was the only option.

A couple of days later i read an artikel on Cyprus Mail that Pafiakos was sending all the cyprus poodles they could find to homes in USA,hopefully she now resides in a bigger house than she had in Cyprus and she is chillin by the pool,in Florida or California.
So thanks a lot Pafiakos

[Snad]

What a lovely story, well done at least some dogs can escape the barbarism that some, not all, Cypriots feel.

[andri_cy]

A BIG THANKS TO PAFIAKOS.


This is a true story,

someone dumped a cyprus poodle on my garden(female),she was cute and loyal,but barked a little bit at night,all the neighbours decided to poison her and were making comments how they were going to do it.One night i caught one of them kicking her and i wont tell you what happend with him as i allready had a dog i decided to give her away and Pafiakos was the only option.

A couple of days later i read an artikel on Cyprus Mail that Pafiakos was sending all the cyprus poodles they could find to homes in USA,hopefully she now resides in a bigger house than she had in Cyprus and she is chillin by the pool,in Florida or California.
So thanks a lot Pafiakos

What does a Cyprus poodle look like in comparison with the normal poodles? Any differences?

[Niki]

Hi Niki2410

Unfortunately I am finding discussions on this site sometimes a waste of time - they lose the thread and become rude and heated for no reason... Anyway...

I have lived happily in Cyprus with 3 dogs and when I lived on the horse farm, also with several cats. Two of my dogs are 8 and 9 years old and have never been poisoned. All 3 are rescue dogs, the latest addition being about 1 yr and found with a broken leg.... What I am trying to say, is that you can keep pets here happily, but I would have to say it does depend where you live and who you might annoy - if you get my drift. I have always lived in the countryside, although a couple of times I lived in closeknit community villages with my dogs.

Cats are a different question. I know of a couple of people who keep their cats in a huge caged run which adjoins their house for fear of poisoning (and also fear of traps in the country areas). When I lived and worked on the horse farm a couple of the farm cats did disappear, but I don't know what happened to them, but a few of the others are still at the farm today, some 8 years later. Some friends of my bought their cats from the UK but they had always lived inside and knew no different.

I live in an agricultural area where there are no neighbours so I am "hopefully" ok and not annoying anyone.

It is possible to keep cats and dogs here, but you must be aware of the dangers and careful.

Regards, Anne

Thank you Anne

It does seems that Cyprus is particularly bad with 'pets' - unless you keep cats locked away you cannot control where they go. Roaming is a feline instinct.

I get the Cyprus Weekly which has a lot of adverts asking for homes for animals - something you almost never see in the UK.

Maybe the British people are too soft?

A lot to think about.

[unique_earthling]

I can only speak for Paphos as this is the area i live in, but believe me many creatures are poisoned daily here, i do have first hand knowledge of this as i work for the animal rescue here, and know of many many poison cases. a friend of mine was walking his dogs and in a second one of them picked up a peice of meat which had been laced with lanate dispite the owner telling the dog not to touch it. Most dogs are natural scavengers, unfortunately he never made it, and my friend was devasted. This was in the Riccos Beach area, a quiet place where i have walked my dogs too. It makes walking a dog a misery as you have to constantly watch them, and what should be an enjoyable pass time for all, it turns into a hypervigilant exercise, where you are constantly on edge. I will be so glad when this substance is banned from common usage, and common sense prevails

[G.Man]

Can some of you locals explain to me why it is acceptable to throw poison meat indescriminately around areas where there are no stray cats/dogs and the only possible targets are pets?

My cats came to join me in cyprus in may, and within 4 weeks both were dead, the victims of pet murdering poisoners...

One day one of these poisoners is gonna lose a child or member of their family due to their selfish and hateful actions perhaps then they will learn the dangers of such rediculous behaviour..

I am sorry about your cats but talking about how someone is gonna lose a member of their family is pretty cruel in itself. There are many reason people might be laying poison including rats and snakes and other things people do not want in or around their property. Your pets are your responsibility like mine are my responsibility. Maybe we all need to teach our pets where they can and cannot go and where they can eat or cannot eat from. We cant just put blame on everyone else and then wish harm on them and theirs cause our pets died.

How can anyone say its the owners responsibility, if these murderes are throwing poison meat in your back garden? My dogs are allowed to go into my garden, does this make me irresponsible, for letting them out???
I notice you live in the USA, if that is the case you can't possibly know what the situation is like here in Cyprus for pet owners.

Oh please give me a break. Where I live right now doesnt mean I dont know how things are in Cyprus. You have lived there for a while and makes you more an expert than me on what grounds? I have lived there for 22 years until recently so you can keep that line for someone who can buy this crap. If you let your dogs in your yard it is your right. But you cannot whine about what happens to them if they go to the neighbors yard. By saying that of course I will be pictured as someone who doesnt love pets blah blah blah blah. I have 3 dogs of my own, that I let into MY yard too. If they go to the neighbors yard and mess with their animals or their garden, I have no place to speak if something happens to them, because they are MY dogs and I have to teach them to listen when I say no. If someone is putting poison in YOUR yard, then you have grounds to call the police. I am not saying these people are doing the right thing and I am in no way shape or form standing up for them. But we do have to man up to some of the responsibility that comes with owning pets and stop blaming the neighbors and all the Cypriots that are "animal haters" and all kinds of crap that everyone is coming up with. When you have pets, they become like your children and therefore you carry some responsibility for them. IF they like to roam where they are not welcome, the owner IS responsible to try teach them not to. And since you brought up where I live, I can tell you that my neighbor has 10 cats and I have never seen one of them come into my yard so there IS a way to teach your pets where to go and where to not. Millions of people are doing it on this continet, are you telling me that they are that much smarter that all the people whining under this thread?

You are a prize idiot of the first order..

If you are such an expert, perhaps you would like to explain to everyone here how you train a cat not to wander?

I cannot believe you can condone the murder of peoples pets for wandering into someones garden...

IT IS ILLEGAL, it is illegal for a reason, it is not illegal for a cat to walk accross someones lawn to persue a mouse/lizard/bird...

Why do they lay this poison in public places? A child could get it on their hands before eating and then die....

I dont give a toss how many years you lived in cyprus for, it makes no odds, law breaking is law breaking... These people are CRIMINALS plain and simple... Murdering animal hating criminals... There is no way you can transfer the blame as I am not doing anything illegal THEY ARE...

Now unless IQ's dropped sharply in recent years I am right and you are wrong...

Just typical of the attitude most cypriots have towards others pets

[michalis5354]

There is no excuse for these idiots who commit these attrocities. My grandmother has lost a cute cat and we suspect the neighbour of throwing poison to the bowl that the cat used to drink. These idiots are murderers. There is a difference if you kill a cat by accident or kill it by your own intentions. No way I can justify their actions nor I can accept any responsibility for not teaching the cat where to drink!

[unique_earthling]

I am just baffled why they dont just ban the stuff, it wouldnt take a genius to work out thats its not ethical to kill or safe to use this stuff. Maybe to educate people to spay or neuter the animals so cats dont reproduce and dogs dont wander off looking for the bitch in season. I am amazed at how many dogs wander around, On my way to work i saw a 3 month old puppy sitting in the middle of the road whilst its owner was watering the plants. Its like many dont worry about what happens to them and leave it all to fate or chance that they survive. In one week at the shelter i have had 30 puppies and as many if not more dogs, we rescue over 7000 a year every year, so something needs to change...

[Snad]

I spoke to one Cypriot woman who has three Cyprus Poodles and she was moaning that the dogs always manage to catch her bitch. I said why don't you get her spayed and her answer was. I am not paying the vet 80cyp, I have better things to do with my money

I can't understand the mentality of them, they have dogs and cats, but don't seem to care what happens to them, they can always get another.