24 January 2008
It is the day when the Orthodox Church honours
the memory of Saint Xenia.
A day when people shall remember the honourable
deeds of the Venerable.
What shall we, Friends of Animals, remember this
day with in the years to come? - With the last attempt of
the Bulgarian Parliament to annihilate the TNR method, provided
for in the Animal Protection Bill as a means for controlling
stray dog population.
Well, the attempt failed, but then the nostalgia
for the isolators prevailed and the socialists' proposals for
'wire fence enclosures outside populated areas' was accepted,
so as the municipalities which choose 'the new old scheme for
misappropriation of public funds' may ruin the results achieved
by the municipalities which will apply the TNR method.
They tried and succeeded - Them again - to maul
to their best the TNR with last-minute proposals, and weird
enough, it was Them again who succeeded in ensuring transparency
on 'temporary shelters' activity providing for unrestricted
access of the animal protection NGO's to them. Whether this
would help repeat the Death Zone
scenario, only time will show. Time will show who of Them was
right and who of Them will manage ahead.
It was this way that Bulgaria got her first animal
protection act - feeble, uncertain, but despite the blows that
crippled it, it's still our baby and we, the PEOPLE, ought to
learn it walk.
So, friends, get down to work!
Let others boast around what a piece
of legislation they created and hold toasts.
We have work to do!
We will just KEEP DOING IT!
Oh, yes, like ever before!
No fatique!
No tears! - please don't. We don't have the time to.
No fear!
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| We
have walked a long way to this Act AFA - Bulgaria and we
keep going. |
Because these animals cannot
not feel that there is an Act adopted in Bulgaria meant to protect
them: hunting season is high, street dogs are being slaughtered
in isolators, shooting squads take village dogs in the field
to shoot them down, neighbourhood dogs are being poisoned, cats
are being walled in alive in basements, yard dogs are being
tied on one-foot leash in the snow, rain and wind so that they
keep the property better…
If we don't want this to go
on like that,
let's get down to work! Because there's A
LOT TO BE DONE!
Aksinia Bosneva
Chairperson
AFA - Bulgaria