cruelty to animals

[temporarysplit]

My neighbour has two medium size dogs in a small kennel that are never taken out and have a tendency to howl in the middle of the night. Are there any laws that would get him on the size of cage or the problem with the night barking?

Perhaps with a bit of help I might be able to sleep at night

[Ribaric]

It's endemic. Everywhere here you'll see dogs in solitary confinement and owners who have no clue as the mental torture they put these hapless animals though. It's heartbreaking.

[ray51]

I noticed such things often ; seems that all of southern Europe is more or less similar , in that regard ?
Just take a drive , in Andalucia , from Malaga airport towards Nerja and Granada, on the magnificent free new motorway ( EU-buxxxx ) and observe any number of deserted , starved , skin'n'bone dogs wandering about , disorientated , hoping for something to eat ( before they get run over by some speeding idiot or a truck or a bus ) ;
a total heartbreak and also totally ignored by most natives ;
the savages !
which is one of the reasons I'm not ever going there , to such a cruel place again , even though their hotels , bars and beaches are obviously very much better and cheaper than in HRvatska .
After much experience , I'd offer to say that obvious cruelty to animals diminishes as one moves northwards in EUrope ; certainly , most of Germany , regimented as it is , is great to animals , as is Austria , BeNeLux , France ( I'm only discussing pets , like dogs , cats , birds and suchlike ) .
Who knows what else happens , behind the cosed doors ?

[anton]

All the animal sanctuarys in Spain seem to be run by British ex-pats. One of them in Andalucia told me that when the farmers' hunting dogs are past their active live the farmers hang them. As a mark of respect for the best dogs they are hung the highest which must be a great consolation to them.

[ray51]

I am not surprised to learn such stuff ; the Spaniards really are savage with any animals , the Portuguese are not any better ; don't know abot the likes of Roumanians , Magyars etc ;
so this is the fab EU , of cruel primitives , which everyone is bending over backwards to join ?

[londoncro]

Korean love dogs.

[gary]

Yep, the Spanish have a lot to answer for.......is it the Mediterranean "macho" thing, or the result of 600 years of Arab rule, where even women are regarded as chattels?

God knows where animals would come on their list?

I've seen no end of dogs chained up in gardens during the Spanish summer, in full sun, with no access to water.

It is said that you can judge the level of civilisation of a country by the way they treat their animals.

On the bright side, bull fighting has been banned in the Valencia region.

The papers here are full of adverts for dog and cat charities, all run by British women of a certain age.

I once lived in Ulice Kamoufova near the Womens hospital in Zagreb, where one of the residents of our block took it upon himself to strangle all the local stray cats in the back yard.

I don't think it's a national thing.......evil people are everywhere.

Edit: As are good people.

[Ribaric]

Apart from the revulsion, I've never understood how people who commit such atrocities can live with themselves. We just took in a kitten which was found dumped in a remote forested area. This is our 17th cat in 5 years (3 dogs so far) all of which have been found homes or died from natural causes (including the local highway). It isn't difficult to deal with neutering, health checks, injections etc... How can people sleep at night knowing that the kitten they just threw out of the car is starving and screaming for it's mother somewhere?

[ray51]

Gotta be the case of "diff'rent strokes , for diff'rent folks" ?
Maybe it goes with the territory , or the education and upbringing ( or : lack of such ? ) .
Here , I know ( well ) a number of persons who have opted rather to save some mongrel of a dog from SPCA , even when the animal was not at all well ( plus : a donation ) , than to buy a highly-pedigreed prestige puppy .
Degrees of civilisation , or of human development , perhaps ?
My brother in Croatia has in recent years rescued 2 abandoned wandering and suffering dogs , from the streets of Samobor ; they are now both big and quite demanding ; however , he and his wife put up with this , what they see as their duty to soul and kindness .