Every year in Italy more than 150,000 pets are abandoned. 80% will die in traffic accidents, or suffer ill-treatment may be a victim of the training of fighting dogs, the rest spend their lives in the narrow cage of a kennel. This is actually a phenomenon that unfortunately still widespread in our country from north to south Contrary to popular belief the exodus is not concentrated in the summer, drop-in fact, occur throughout the year and the highest point recorded in the opening period hunting, the number of hunting dogs in kennels and the increase of these just from September onwards confirms this barbaric custom. For the prevention of stray dogs and the protection of domestic animals, were approved national law 281 of 1991 and numerous federal, with sufficient funding, delegating tasks to the municipalities of animal protection, and specific responsibilities in the prevention of stray dogs. Ten years after enactment of the law, national legislation is still widely rejected and around this vacuum has developed a stray phenomena that make the real business. It 's the case of many private shelters, often actual concentration camps, created by agreements between companies for-profit and government unable to find solutions that take into account the respect for animals. An important sign of change may come from the first application of the Circular on the implementation of Law 281/91 on the prevention of stray dogs, issued in May 2001 by the Ministry of Health and for which the LAV had collected the signatures of 200 thousand citizens. In this document it is stressed that the management of canii should be given to animal protection associations he and the criteria for allocation of funds should take account in particular the welfare of animals. Finally recognized the figure of the "neighborhood dog", the importance of sterilization, but also the stray owned dogs, and the need for contracted clinics of private practitioners.
A battle of civilizations To prevent stray dogs can still be done, to this end, the LAV has submitted a list of concrete proposals to supplement and give full application of existing laws: the institution of the neighborhood dog, retraining health of kennels and shelters, the registration of dogs and cats in the state of the family, the tax exemption on purchases and expenses for those who adopt a stray. Fundamental then the spread of adoption campaigns, development of programs for the sterilization of stray dogs and the introduction of the ban on the sale of animals, real reservoir of stray dogs. The concrete measures that need to be translated into law and enforced by our government.
An active role can and should be done by citizens Leaving a dog is a crime punishable by the laws of the State (Article 727 of the Penal Code) with a fine of up to 10 million pounds, every person has the opportunity and the duty to report to the police who gave up, who mistreats an animal, or even those who do not register your pet dog anagrafe. But abandoning an animal is primarily a crime "moral", a gesture of profound incivility and as such can not be left still pass in silence. So if we all able to "give voice" to our conscience, we could stop those who still consider an animal to use an object as long as you want and then throw it on the edge of a road.
'' I'm waiting because I know you will come and get me.
You put me here just to make me stretch a little 'legs
because the journey that you made me do was endless.
Then you climbed back e. ... No! You can not have forgotten me.
Yes, I am sure that between One moment you're here!
I sit on the edge of the road ..
I'm afraid of cars passing by fast, but I try to think of you and
our beautiful moments and even ultimately your nervousness to me.
But you have been angry for other reasons, I have not done anything to you!
3 days have passed and I'm still here!
I'm dying of pain, hunger, thirst, terrible loneliness.
My eyes see no farther;
now follow the beat of my heart is tired, he left me for ever.
yet I know you'll come back and stand it in sign of my faithfulness to you,
because you can not be bad ...''
