Sick dogs rescued from 'state of neglect'

Mary Borg

Aug 14th 2009, 09:12

Would like to be kept updated about the two dogs who were taken to be examined. Poor dogs! His pride and joy, my foot! Something must be done in Malta...a wrong and ignorant notion that animals don't feel hurt. They feel hurt, sorrow and neglect they just don't respond to it or respond to it with love towards the owner.

Charles Micallef

Aug 14th 2009, 05:03

Since you have also sat on your computer and passed on your knowledge on to us, as you also do quite often, may I suggest that you perhaps are more qualified to approach these poor sick and unfriendly animals and examine their state of health, as since I am not a qualified vet which is what the animals require the attention of, I will leave you to perhaps advise how we can approach ther situation and then you can sit at your computer and relate your expereince to the readers?

Incidentally I have already had direct correspendence with both Minister Pullicino and a Director of Noah's Ark about these animals and offered that I will fund their treatment, so you see it will be more beneficial if some of us keep our trap shut instead of sitting at our computers and tell others what to do!

Franco Farrugia

Aug 13th 2009, 18:06

@ Charles Micallef - Perhaps you could find the kindness and see to the dog in question, rather than ask 'someone' to do the work - animal welfare volunteers are inundated with work and especially in summer, such volunteers deserve their break as well and so, more hands on deck are needed. I know many areas around Malta where there are stray dogs that are very well looked after by neighbours, .... together. Such as Valletta, for instance. We cannot just pass on the buck to each other. It's very easy to sit there behind that computer and pass on one's wisdom to everyone, in the comfort of one's home.

joyce aquilina

Aug 13th 2009, 14:44

@ R.Azzopardi,

thanks

R. Azzopardi

Aug 13th 2009, 13:31

@Joyce Aquilina

The contact numbers of the Animal Welfare Department are 25905198 or 25905207

R. Azzopardi

Aug 13th 2009, 13:29

@Christian Pisani

I hope, for the dogs' sakes that what you are saying is true. Even if it is true however, the dogs' owner needs to learn what "taking care of a dog" really means. The conditions that the dogs were found in may have been acceptable when the owner was a child. We have come a long way since then and he needs to learn that what was acceptable 60 years ago is certainly no longer acceptable today. Back then, people had a bath once a week if they were lucky and privileged. Things aren't the same today are they?

@Charmaine Marmara - I too am a dog lover and the dog I had was as spoilt as yours was, and I would spoil my next dog (if I ever have another one) in the same way. That's what pets are for... to keep us company and to amuse us with their funny antics.

joyce aquilina

Aug 13th 2009, 13:27

please,does anybody know the phone number of the welfare department?

Charmaine Marmara'

Aug 13th 2009, 12:41

@ christian pisani . I am a dog lover and my dog sleeps and eats with us at home, she's the queen of the house not in a filthy room chained . I would like to see you there in place of that poor dog. It brings tears to my eyes when i see things like these WE NEED HARSH LAWS IN MALTA FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY . And thank god for the animal welfare at last someone that really cares.

n mifsud

Aug 13th 2009, 12:32

@Christian Pisani

What about the dog in the picture?? this picture speaks for its self dear !!!!! stop defending the owner. if he really is a dog lover like he says, why are the dogs kept chained and in that dirty "room"?????

Christian Pisani

Aug 13th 2009, 12:21

I'm writing this comment to defend the owner of these dogs. I've known the owner for these last 4 years and I know him very well. He's a dog lover like me and I can assure you that he feeds well his dogs and he never took them for dog fighting.
The dogs are well kept and look after. Dogs are really his passion and he looks very well after them. He spends a lot of money to keep them well and I can assure you that the dogs aren't in a 'state of neglect'.

vania Lamanna

Aug 13th 2009, 11:23

what beats me is people always begging for others to do something-what are YOU doing to help? do you volunteer? Do you regularly donate money, food suppples, medicines , your time etc? stand up and make a difference, no matter how small, instead of expecting others to change the world for you! another thing-why was this man allowed to keep the other dogs, if he abused 2 of them? I have never heard of anything like this- it would be as though someone accused of abusing one child had one child put in foster care but allowed to keep the others! appalling.

Charles Micallef

Aug 13th 2009, 11:08

Can someone out there please, please do something about the 5 strays which are always in the environs of HSBC CALL CENTRE at Swatar, one dog is seen to pass blood with the urine and the other is all skeleton and bones…………..!

Anne Marie Bonello

Aug 13th 2009, 10:08

@ r.eLLUL

both dogs were taken (those suspected as being used for dog fighting) (in Qormi)
the other 44 are another story....they werein decent health (in Birkirkara)

r.eLLUL

Aug 13th 2009, 10:01

wHY WERE THE REST OF THE DOG'S LEFT WITH THIS MAN WHEN REPORTS WERE MADE THAT THE DOG'S WERE BEING USED FOR DOG FIGHTING???

SOME ONE WHO LOVES HIS ANIMALS WOULD NOT LEAVE THEM IN SUCH CONDITIONS

D Schembri

Aug 13th 2009, 09:56

I think at last, we have an Animal Welfare department which is doing something.

Well done and keep it up. My only concern is our judicial system, where culprits end up with a small fine, but that is another issue altogether.

R. Azzopardi

Aug 13th 2009, 09:47

Dogs are his joy and passion? Pull the other one. I don't know of anybody who keeps his "joy and passion" in such disgusting surroundings. During my pigeon racing days my pigeons were my joy and passion and they were housed in large, airy, scrupulously clean lofts and were cared for more than I care for myself.