www.everyclick.com The abusive treatment of animals in Greece is absolutely appalling and has been going on for many, many years. Their government just seem not to care, and as one Greek friend said, they dont bother about their own people and the elderly, so why would they care about animals. There are a many decent greek people trying to help, but they openly admit, they are in the minority, a good majority are in denial and the rest are just cruel thugs, not like the greeks we read about in history books at school. I do applaud those greeks that are doing what they can to try and stop this cruelty and I feel sorry that they admit they are shameful. The one's who are in denial, simply throw out the old chestnut, well it is not just our country. But "our country" has been in the EU for 27 years, flout more EU regulations than any other, and have the worst record per capita for animal abuse in Europe. Greece is not an impoverished country, and claws in millions of tourist euro. Hundreds of thousands of cats and dogs have been destroyed,noticably prior to the Athens Olympics in 2004. PETA and WSPA tried to get involved prior to this, but the with greek attitude about humane euthanasia (they prefer poisoning) and their backward attitude towards neutering programs, talks fell apart. Incidentally, 12 million euro were destined for shelters and neutering programs, but this has just vanished!!!!!! A lot of people are unaware of this cruelty, possibly because they go in the ...
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