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[devil]

OK, no problem if you have correct doc and vacc.

[sk]

yes u are all right about poisoning animals in cyprus but the reason is why!well as far as i know most cypriots dont teach their animals how to behave ,they basically teach them how to bite and attack !the neighbours get upset with this especially when they fall victims of dog attacks.they call the police,the police tells them they have to file a lawsuit against the dog owner,the neighbours find it not really worthing it to go to the court and pay a laywer so they poison the animals.so my advice would be to teach your animals not to be very aggressive....if you do that believe me it wont be a problem!!!

[devil]

I'm sorry, sk, that is pure male bovine excretum.

1. The poison is more commonly put down for cats which never use their own gardens to keep people awake all night or to use as public toilets, if they are not feral.

2. It doesn't matter how aggressive or peaceful a dog is, if it finds and eats the bait, it's a-goner if it doesn't have a rapid atropine injection. Most of the bait is scattered in public areas. It is just bad luck if a dog is killed, no matter his character.

3. I discussed this problem with our vet and he informed me that he gets calls for help (regularly) from people with all kinds of dogs and cats, living in urban and rural districts alike.

4. The real problems are a) that Lannate (R) is easily available to those who have no professional need of it and b) that a small number of psychopaths take pleasure in inflicting cruel deaths to animals, knowing that the police couldn't care less in applying the law.

I think an appropriate punishment for these people would be to administer a lethal dose of Lannate to them and attempt to save them with an atropine injection, in extremis.

[sk]

devil,if u say so u must be right....i dont have a pet myself so i dont have any experiances,what i wrote is from friends who have pets.......but i agree that killing an animal (no matter the reason )is a bad thing.

[sam doherty]

please can anyone help me find a cheap or good way to send my dog to cyprus to live with us i am desperate and have no clue where to go next.

[annecollings]

Devil,

Your response re poisoning of animals in Cyprus is spot on. Well done!

I am helping at animal shelter in Limassol (heart breaking!) and when we are lucky enough to re-home a dog, I always warn them of the problems of poisoning in Cyprus.

We unfortunately lost our 10 yr old Jack Russell recently. We believe she went into next doors garden and he had discarded empty chemical/ fertilizer containers in a bad to put out for the rubbish, and we believe she must have put her nose in there and accidentally got poisoned. We are devastated. Even though I have lived in Cyprus for 7 years I have never actually seen the symptoms of poison and believe me it is something I would never ever want to go through again. (In the UK you would not have to watch your dog die in pain, the vet would take it in and monitor it over night). I even had the injections at home because we live a fair way from any vet, but did not realise it was poison because the other two dogs were fine and we had not been out of our own garden! We have no neighbours apart from our neighbour with his fruit trees. I also had the added problem that it happened on a saturday afternoon and it was 2 hours too late before I could find a vet approximately 50 km away!

[annecollings]

Sam Doherty

Am I to presume you are moving from the UK? There are many international removal companies in UK that know how to bring dogs. Contact an airline. I am sure vets and/or some kennels would know where to start. I moved from Cyprus using BFAWS kennels at Dhekalia (British Forces), then back to Cyprus from N.Ireland and used a kennels near to airport specialising in transportation/travel of dogs. They did all paperwork, had the dogs in kennels for the last 72 hours for their vet checks, parasite treatment etc (if I remember correctly) and saw to it that the dogs got to the airport for their flight. Then we met the flight at Larnaca, paid lots of money to lots of people, including government vet who didn't even look at crates to see if seal was still attached and that dog was in good health! Oh dear, I must not get started.....!!!

[Amber]

Hi,

Just to give you some information about the kennels in Agioi Trimithias that Devil mention (Thanks for recommending us Devil), we are located just outside Nicosia, if you wish to visit I can send you a map by fax or go to our web site at www.rosewoodkennels.info.

The kennels were built about 4 years ago, they are spacious indoor kennels (heated during the colder months) with outside runs, we also have 3 large securely fenced garden areas were dogs can just roam around or play with other friendly boarders or staff (we only let dogs out together that are compatible with eachother) I am English and live also on the property so the dogs have 24hr supervision. As regards to a cattery unfortunately ours is not up and running yet, we have put in for building permission but it will take a least a year for everything to be finished.

[Jan]

I am living near Paphos and have a tiny and very girlie like Lhasa Apso. Unfortunately my mother was going to look after her for a month as I have to go back to the UK, she is now not able. Does anybody know of a "kennel" or one-to-one type house where my little one can stay? I dont want to leave her in the traditiional type kennels because she is too timid.