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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!
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, Aksinia Bosneva |
