More people ill-treat and abandon their pets and the purebred animals are not an exception. In a news conference at IPN, Irina Marcu, a member of the initiative group for founding the Party for Animal Rights and manager of a shelter for abandoned animals, said that if the animals were sterilized, they would not breed in an uncontrolled way.
Irina Marcu noted that the shelter houses dogs that were brought in a critical state after they were kept tied without water and food, were beaten and poisoned. The tendencies also influence the people’s decision to abandon animals. “If the Husky dogs are in vogue, the German Shepherd dogs are abandoned. Many of the animals taken to our shelter are females that are used to reproduce and are then abandoned. The people do not understand that if they adopt a dog, this is adopted for 15 years and they should take care of this,” stated Irina Marcu.
The shelter is now home to 350 cats and dogs. “The people in our country are not very interested in volunteering,” stated the woman, adding that the foreigners become more involved.
The initiative group for founding the Party for Animal Rights intends to struggle for nature protection and for animal rights in Moldova. Lawyer Ion Dron, a member of the initiative group, said the problem of animal rights is not a headache, as the authorities believe, but is a social problem.
The initiative group adopted also a manifesto saying that the emancipation of slaves and ensuring of gender equality should be followed by the serious treatment of animal rights. The ideas stated in the manifesto will be detailed in the program of the Party for Animal Rights, which will specify the party’s political orientation.
