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Theresa, I am so sorry you lost your puppy, it's heartbreaking to see them ill and know you can't help and they can't tell you what is wrong. I hope you will feel able to help another dog have a lovely life sometime in the future. Sometimes pedigree dogs aren't so strong as the Heinz 57 ones, who seem to have developed more resistance to disease.
It's awful the things that go on abroad, but a lot of it is down to ignorance I think.
I have a very kind and caring Maltese friend with a son the same age as mine so we see each other often when we visit Malta, in fact she calls my son her second son and he could go and live there if he wanted, not that he would but you know what I mean.
Years ago when the boys were young we went round on one visit to find they had a cat, called Ginger, a lovely ginger and white tom. He was kept in a travel cage the sort you take pets to the vet in. He would be let out into their tiny back yard to do the necessary and they would watch him for the few minutes he was outside and then he was brought back in, sometimes they would have him out and stroke him on their laps for a few minutes and he was allowed out to eat but otherwise he was kept in the cage. I tried to persuade her that it wasn't kind to keep him like that but she was scared he would escape if she let him go free all the time. I think in the end they gave him away to someone.
Last time we visited they had moved house and have a little dog, I can't remember what it is but it's really tiny, I think it might be a chihuahua. It races round the flat like a mad thing when visitors arrive and runs all over the furniture which I hate. It never gets taken out for walks and when they go out it's shut in the tiny bathroom or in the son's bedroom.
Our other friends, again very kind caring people, had a boxer pup tied up on a long rope in the garage they run, it can lay outside on the concrete pavement or inside the garage on concrete, no cushion or bed for it and it's left there alone at night, altho now they are building a penthouse flat on top of the garage to live in so maybe it has more company. The 21 yr old daughter had a small dog and in all the heat she was dressing it in pink tshirts and such and carrying it round in a Paris Hilton dog carrier bag, round the shops, at the restaurant - we sat outside - and I had to suggest they asked for a dish of water for it, it was obviously overheating, poor little thing. They had bought a puppy for a cousin who hadn't been allowed to keep it so they had that in the back of the car on old blankets but left it where we parked, they did leave some water for it and left the window open and the carpark attendant watched the car, as my friend is a Police Sergeant and her daughter a Police constable there, so they are well known. That little puppy had the runs and was obviously not well, it needed to be getting treatment not left alone in the car, but they just don't seem to understand how to care for animals properly and it's hard to see them making mistakes but also hard to know how to teach them to be different. I seem to remember the daughter telling me a while back in an email that they had another dog as well now.
At least in China more people are keeping dogs as pets now and not wanting to eat them. I read an article somewhere about it and this woman was saying how awful she felt for eating dog when she was young.
It's a good thing there are animal lovers around to help out and rescue and rehome some strays.
In Corfu, there are some people who have banded together and formed a rescued pets place, and they ask for people to go and help walk the dogs and such, and rehome when they can to British and others who move over there. However, they have had Brits go home and abandon their pets or hand them over because they don't want to pay the cost of taking them back with them. Just like a bit of furniture they leave behind!
Lizx
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yes Sharron they do, twice I've caught them shooting little birds off my roof. I react like a mad woman. 3 more dogs of neighbours died yesterday from poisoning, and today I caught the man I suspect with his teenage son lurking around my land, I ran up behind them and asked what they wanted, he said he was looking for the pups, I asked why and he replied that he wanted to have 3 of them, said he would bring them up as goat dogs. I said you already have 4, you want 7 goatdogs?. I told him they weren't on my land which is true, and anyway they are too young to be taken from mum. I don't believe a word of what he says. We now have a rough idea where they are hiding but don't want to go near in case this man is watching us. This is all so awful and it doesn't fit that he would poison the other 3 which aren't connected with us. Sorry to go on about this, but it is playing about on my mind abit.
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Theresa, so sorry to hear about your dog.
And I do believe very strongly that all animals have souls.
They are much wiser and live at a higher spiritual level than we do. A good book to read is "When dogs know that their owners are coming home." (or similar title) it is not only about dogs but cats and birds too. Great insight into their higher selves. You will meet your dog again Theresa, I'm certain of that. Have peace.
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