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Found, a dumped malepuppy in the village of Malatya. I was told by the locals there that it had been roaming the area crying for the past few days..
He is about 6 -7 weeks old and a real cutey as you can see from the photo.
We already have 2 rescue dogs and 2cats and am reluctant to take on anymore, which might sound heartless to some, but 4 pets is my quota.
So before I contact KAR and Hope4pets I’m putting the feelers out to see if someone out there would take him on and give him a loving caring home.

I know just how you feel and I admit some people have many more dogs than your 4 and my 4 and I would love to have more. Then I work out how much, clipping, feeding, yearly jabs, microchipping, visits to Vets etc., cost and then I have to harden the heart and say, enough is enough. He is a real beauty though isn't he? Dumped without food or water in this heat is pure evil on the part of someone.

I do not think the situation will be resolved until there is a cull of street dogs and shelter dogs as none of the shelters can cope with current population levels. Currently we have two strays in the village and my immediate 3 neighbours have taken on about 8 collectively in the last year. One of the strays, a lovely rottweiler bitch has just been covered by the other stray and there are 8 un-owned puppies just down the road. Some dogs, local and expat are just allowed to roam and consequently there is "ooops" everywhere.

Neutering is the way to go

Any normal, civilised country woukd agree with you Thornaby and reduce by a large margin the charges levied by the Vets. It won't happen of course. Education I hope is beginning to get through to the children here, but NOT to the adults by and large. Killing all strays (don't beat about the bush, call it what it is) is not the answer. Many, many strays wandering about the streets are actually "owned" by someone, so we're back to neutering them all. Kill an "owned" dog, and heigh ho, the locals will go out and buy another designer dog until they are bored with it and then you have a stray again. State Neutering is the way to go. But as there is no money to be made, it wont happen.

The shelters and pounds are all full, and there are at least 11 strays in my village without counting the ones that are "owned"by expats and locals. If you cannot cull them because they are "owned" you cannot neuter them either. KAR have apparently closed their doors and the pounds are full. We are self funding the neutering of strays so we do not have another 8 unwanted puppies and still our streets are covered with excrement.

The time has come to admit this is a serious problem and cull. I am not heartless and have had and loved dogs all my life but currently there is no balance.

This puppy is on top of 10 more dumped further up the mountain in Malatya, fortunately a walker heard them crying & now we are trying to rally help for them.

sophie wrote:I know just how you feel and I admit some people have many more dogs than your 4 and my 4 and I would love to have more. Then I work out how much, clipping, feeding, yearly jabs, microchipping, visits to Vets etc., cost and then I have to harden the heart and say, enough is enough. He is a real beauty though isn't he? Dumped without food or water in this heat is pure evil on the part of someone.

Snap. I so often see a dog I would love to give a home to, but three already are as much as I can afford. It seems such a shame that legislation (eg micropchipps) is counter- productive as it is ignored by irresponsible dog owners but the cost adds to preventing responsible owners who could give a an animal a good home from doing so. There is also the problem of exercise , so many of the places where dogs could be taken for a run are built over and dogs taken walkies on a lead and their carers are at risk from "strays" which jump out from behind gates and fences on the attack. Several of these appear to be "owned" but allowed to run free and terrorise the local population. Some are quite expensive breeds and one would think their owners would not want to risk them getting run over, but apparently not and they frequently include animals which are on the Uk dangerous breeds list. One of my small dogs was attacked and needed stitches as a result of an unprovoked attack by an animal with a KAR tag on its ear and the locals who came to my rescue told me several people were afraid to walk past the house where it had take up residence .

The other problem for prospective adopters is that some are reaching the age where we might not outlive the dog and there is the problem of whether we should take it on on the basis at least it might get a year or two or happy healthy life before facing abandonment again.

I have said this before, but the animal charities need to concentrate less on group housing, and put their resources to making a a climate where experienced animal lovers and carers can adopt without having to spend their savings and will get help when necessary..

RR, without going into detail, if, in the unlikely event we were to take on another dog, if and when one of our "oldies" goes to the kennel in the sky we would certainly never take on a puppy. We would only take on similar aged dogs, so they are loved and cared for in their dotage (would that I could be certain the same would happen for us two but can't guarantee it)

I take you point Sophie but a puppy might still prefer a few happy years to staying where it was mistreated or dying in a few weeks of disease or malnutrition.

It is not always possible to tell the age of a dog. Rosy was assessed as five or six, but my Vet said she was at least twelve. Two years later she still thinks she is a puppy and apart from her teeth (probably malnutrition as a puppy or of her mother) is (DV) active and healthy. Also my dogs tend to be long lived, 18 and 20 years for terriers and l6 for a spaniel who died thinking he was still a puppy.

Me, I think I am already in my dotage and I would love to have the prospect of the love and care my dogs get!