Each July 27 is celebrated on World Day of Dog Street, a date that seeks to honor all those dogs that were abandoned and that survive in sad conditions without a home or a family.
Most of these animals grow and die in difficult situations. They are condemned to live a life of mistreatment and faminemany are run over and are exposed to suffer various diseases.
This date seeks raise awareness about abandonment and the animal abuse that man’s best friend in the whole world suffers. Furthermore, it encourages adoption and vaccination and sterilization campaigns.
What is the origin of Street Dog Day?
The initiative was promoted by Ignacio Gac in the year 2008, at that time a journalism student at Chile.
Gac chose the month of July since it is winter in the southern hemisphere and that is when stray dogs suffer the most. cold and the lack of a home.
Stray dogs hardly receive medical attention if they are get sick or hurt, and they also do not receive the love and company they need to be well, which turns each day of their life into a fight to survive.
Gac’s campaign not only focuses on encourage adoption, but also insists on the need to provide the care that these noble animals deserve.
Stray dogs not only suffer a difficult life, but some of them also end up being a danger to humans and other animals.
Stray dogs can transmit diseases
In a popular science publication of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)a group of specialists warned that abandoned animals can transmit infectious and parasitic diseases to people, including rabies, ringworm and scabies, in addition to promoting the presence of fleas and ticks.
Although there is no single breed of stray dogs, it is believed that mestizo They top the list of abandoned animals.
In Argentina it was sanctioned in the year 1954 the Ley 14.346 of the Penal Code, which typifies the animal cruelty as a crimeestablishing sentences of fifteen days to one year in prison for mistreatment or acts of cruelty.
Other countries in the region, such as Brazil For example, they establish penalties of two to five years of prison against the abuse of dogs and cats.
Also Peru promulgated in 2016 the Ley 30407 of Animal Protection and Welfare which punishes cruelty, abandonment and death of domestic and wild animals with sentences of up to 5 years.
Animal shelters in Argentina
Although there is no official record on the number of shelters in Argentina, there are many organizations non-profit throughout the country who are dedicated to rescue, care, rehabilitation and responsible adoption of stray dogs.
El Campito Refuge
He Campito Refuge is a non-profit organization and is considered one of the largest stray dog centers in Argentina and Latin America.
The shelter located in Monte Grande works since year 2009 and currently houses around 750 stray dogs.
The organization is dedicated to rescue, recovery and adoption of dogs in vulnerable situations, with special emphasis on dogs disabled, elderly and chronically ill.
The dovecote dogs
Los Perritos del Palomar is another non-profit organization, and is one of the animal protection associations oldest in the country.
The shelter provides assistance, food and medical care to the stray dogs that were abandoned.
The entity receives economic contributions from the municipality of February 3rd for the purchase of food and medicine. Abandoned dogs are rehabilitated and later put up for adoption.
Villegas puppies
Villegas puppies is an organization promoted by a group of volunteers who love dogs and cats.
The shelter located in the district of The Killing has rescued more than 600 dogs and cats who lived in critical situations.
The organization insists that, to ethically solve overpopulation animal, it is necessary to carry out sterilization campaigns.
