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Good Companions
International
Homeless Animals’ Day
Third Saturday of August
Under the organization model of the International
Society for Animal Rights
August 20, 2005
| Spanish Version |
This year Ánima organized the event in honor of International Homeless Animals’ Day in a park called “San Martín” in Mar del Plata city, Province of Buenos Aires.
Ánima focus on the need that all the community has to be involved in the solution related to stray animals that are the “visible victims” of the issue called “homeless animals”.
Ana María Aboglio, lawyer and president
of the organization, conducted the event and informed
the public about the importance to demand public
and efficient spay/neuter programs to control
animal companion overpopulation, laws changes
–according to Ánima's Bill- that
prohibit suffering and killing of dogs and cats
with investment in ecological and integral programs
for the benefit of humans and non humans animals.
Activists of Ánima distributed educational brochures. Gabriela Romer, Ánima representative in Mar del Plata, read real stories about people emotionally affected because of killed dogs by Municipality of Mar del Plata and Lanus in Buenos Aires Province. Denunciations, stories, music and poems were listened by the public.
Candles were lighted up for all the cats and dogs killed in Municipal centers, poisoned animals or killed in pseudo protectionist shelters around the world.
2005
Movements > Campaigns > Good companion Project > International Homeless Animals'Day
