DOGS – WILD ANIMALS? In the following interview, Marit Paulsen (ALDL, Sweden), tells EU Reporter and correspondent in Strasbourg, Peter von Kohl (DK), why it is important to stand up against the European Commission and the European Council in the fight for right definitions, when it comes to the question how stray dogs are to be classified. The background is the denial by the commission to follow the wishes of MEPs who want to find ways out of the brutal handling of stray dogs in several EU member states. (Text: EU Reporter) --------------- Under the new EU Animal Health Law, stray domestic animals, such as dogs and cats, might be considered wild animals... This is unacceptable as it could open the doors to a massive eradication of them. Allowing hunters to shoot homeless animals has already been proposed in the past in various EU-countries and this could become reality with the declassification of homeless animals as wild animals. Over millennia, dogs and cats have evolved to not only be mans best friend but to be regarded as integral part of the human family that is caring for them. Suddenly, thousands of years later since the domestication process started, we are being forcibly re-conditioned mentally and emotionally to accept that the abandoned, homeless dogs and cats are “wild” animals when their families are no longer around or immediately available. This, if accepted by the society, as a whole will give a free ticket to the EU authorities to get rid of, and to ”clean” the cities of any living being that falls into the “wild” category. According to this new approach, being abandoned and homeless becomes a crime for which the victims are stigmatized as “wild” and therefore, soon, as “dangerous”. This stigmatization can then be used to justify the mass killing of these animals as a “humane” solution to the newly classified problem. This new “ideology” is a new Pandora’s Box which, if accepted by the citizens of Europe, will change humans’ mentality and views of life on Earth until no one will be safe and could become an easy victim of this new type of societal order. In this way, humans will be mentally and emotionally deprogrammed, ripped off of the most important trait that defines us: empathy. If this new paradigm will be accepted and implemented then, technically speaking, the next potential target could become any abandoned being: homeless humans (children, elderly, disabled individuals etc.) who, for certain rationale, would be soon considered wild humans. “The sleep of reason produces monsters” (Francisco Goya) very soon could become a tangible, immediate situation. Already history has repeatedly demonstrated to us how easy it is to provoke a disaster while trying to walk such a slippery slope in using disguised discrimination as a “humane” approach to a problem. Humanity witnessed the devastating, long–term consequences of thoughtlessly accepting any form of discrimination disguised as a harmless, valid re-classification or as a value system re-arrangement. Simply put, it is worth remembering that the Nazi culture promoted bit by bit a venomous social order which was sneaked in the Germans’ life over several years: nothing happened overnight and was very well documented by the survivors of this terrible era. The result was the total abandonment and exclusion of helpless, incapacitated individuals resulting in their eradication, the mass killing of people based on their ethnicity. Considering the lessons learned from these historical events, should we not be cautious in accepting and believing in seemingly harmless re-classifications as proposed by the European Union? PLEASE SPEAK FOR EUROPES HOMELESS ANIMALS! It is extremely important that European citizens, and compassionate people from all over the world, speak up against this ‘two-class system’ for dogs and cats, depending if they have a family or not. This classification is not only ridiculous, but it could lead to confusion in legal terms - to serious misunderstandings and legal uncertainty in all Member States - and be downright dangerous not only for homeless dogs and cats, but also for owned animal companions that might have got lost, or have escaped. All in all, such an illogical distinction is scientifically wrong as it ignores the fundamental biological distinction between wild and domestic animals, and poses a serious threat to homeless animals as it would stigmatize them as second class animals. It would decrease their level of protection, ignoring the will of the European citizens who are calling for a BETTER protection of ALL animals. In fact, this outrageous re-classification would mean a major step back for the European animal welfare as it offends the notion they are independent sentient beings and is a clear violation of the spirit of Article 13 TFEU and Written Declaration on Dog Population Management 0026/2011. Profoundly insulting to the conscience of any decent human! Please dont let this happen! Please speak up against this discrimination by SIGNING OFAs registered PETITION to the EU, at: https://change.org/p/martin-schulz-reject-the-proposal-contained-in-the-draft-of-the-eu-animal-health-law-that-defines-stray-domestic-animals-as-wild-animals?just_signed=true Thank you, in advance.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:26:31 +0000
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