A nice story for once...

cannedmoose · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject: A nice story for once...

UK pair pay £4,000 for stray dog

A couple spent £4,000 on bringing back a starving dog that followed them for eight hours while on a holiday trek.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/4162734.stm

brother · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject:

That is really nice but if you done an anonymous poll most would have let it die i reckon, pessimism in my old age.

cannedmoose · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject:

brother · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

I have to agree that its deplorable the way they treat animals in cyprus but could you afford to open a sanctuary???

erolz · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject:

Until recently when the 'passport for pets' scheme was removed from north cyprus (some EU thing to do with green line regulations I think) Kyrenia animal resuce had help several tourists here send stray animals (cats and dogs) they had found to the UK. We have had in the past some that stayed with us until their 6 months free of rabies period was over and then they went to the UK to the homes of the tourists that found / adopted them. The whole process costs several thousand pounds for the tourists!. Before the changes in regulations KAR had sent about 25 animals to the UK and Germany this way! Now however the whole thing has been stopped as we are now no longer ecognised under the passport for pets scheme and can not take animals to the south and fly them from there either :(

I'll dig out some piccies of 'smidgen' a small cat that was one of the first such animilas that KAR helped with - cause you can never have too many piccies of cute kittens on the web Smile

cannedmoose · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject:

Prefer dogs myself... agree that you can never have too many fluffy small creatures in one place... just like Scruffy mou...

brother · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:

Here we go moosey plastering his white fluffy rug all over again. Laughing

erolz · Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject:

Just in case anyone is interested below is a link to a copy of an article written by my partner / other half / better half for the KAR magazine winter 2004 issue (called the Ark - which I help out with printing and stuff - hence my access to the original word versions of the articles). Its a bit 'disordered' as it was actually laid out in pageplus for the ark with the different 'stories' in boxes but you get the general idea.

http://www.visionmatters.co.uk/cyprus/PET.htm

Crash Test Dummy · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:38 am Post subject:

sorry animals dont cut it for me. all they do is eat and shit everywhere and cost money. its liek having a kid just he never grows up to play footy with you in the garden. animals = food