Thousands of pets left starving

[spindrifter]

in North as owners dodge the rockets (Haaretz)

Wed., August 09, 2006 Av 15, 5766

By Eli Ashkenazi

More than 8,000 dogs and cats have been abandoned in the north by owners who have fled south. These include street cats who lost their food supply.

"Numerous abandoned dogs are roaming the streets in the Galilee, and many cats have been left with no food or water," says veterinarian Gil Shavit of Yesod Hama'ala.

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(Someone named Gaya)Goldberg describes the animals' conditions in the north as catastrophic. "Thousands of dogs have been abandoned. The cats have lost their food supply and simply die. The dogs are helpless, they can't even jump onto the garbage containers. We try to collect them and bring them to dog pounds, but the pounds are full."

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"In the last few days rockets have been raining on us and we don't have a shelter nearby. We asked the regional council for a mobile security room but they laughed at us," (Motti Sudai, who runs a dog pound in Kibbutz Gesher Haziv in Western Galilee with his wife) says.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/747453.html

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Unintended victims of the situation in the M.E.

[Tom Joad]

1. PETA should demand a cease-fire.

[freeplessinseattle]

2. this just breaks my heart

truly innocent victims

[barb162]

3. Totally innocent , utterly unaware of why this is happening

Very sad

[catmother]

4. poor babies. they are truly the innocent. they can't understand.