Mauritius Paradise Island or A Place Government Funding is harbouring inhumane animal cruelty
Mauritius is an island nation located just off the southeast coast of Africa, approx. 900km east of Madagascar and surrounded by the warm Indian Ocean but… if you thought that the island would be just a pure paradise, maybe you have never heard that here stray dogs are killed.
Local animal rights associations have been battling for years to end the cruel and unnecessary culling of stray dogs on the island but, remained unheard, they now seek international help.
The state of animal welfare in Mauritius is characterized by a constant rise in animal abandonment, animal cruelty and the widespread of illegal breeding activities. Furthermore, the public institution Mauritius Society for Animal Welfare (MSAW), the only organization that benefits from public funding, has been deemed with evidence to be a place of inhumanly abuse and cruelty on animals instead of being a place where their welfare is guaranteed and a public entity that promotes education and information activities to local communities.
At the beginning of December 2020, following the testimony of an expatriate, who witnessed with his own eyes the horrific conditions in which dogs were kept inside the pound managed by MSAW, skeletal dogs feeding on both dead and dying animals and kept in shelters in unhygienic sanitary conditions with no food, water or medical attention, the situation became of public domain.
Source https://www.oipa.org/international/mauritius-stray-dogs-msaw-2/
Please contact : Prime Minister Mr. Pravind Jugnauth and the Attorney General Mr. Maneesh Gobin asking them to immediate reform of the Animal Welfare Act (2013) and suggesting the establishment of a new Animal Welfare organisation, able to operate in line with the international animal welfare regulations and run by genuine animal lovers with appropriate expertise and passion for living beings, as our friends of the group “ANIMAL LOVERS MAURITIUS”.
source information via OIPA
Contact;
Prime Minister Mr. Pravind Jugnauth E-mail pmo@govmu.org
Attorney General Mr. Maneesh Gobin Email maneesh.gobin@gmail.com ; mgobin@govmu.org
Articles
HELP STOP THE SHOCKING ABUSE OF DOGS IN MAURITIUS
Dogs are caught in nets, flung into a van with other terrified dogs and taken to the Pound. Covert filming over the years has shown dogs crammed together, left for days to fight for scraps of food, and most shockingly attacking and eating their kennel mates. Without anaesthetic, dogs are brutally killed by lethal injection into the heart – it is such a hit and miss affair, that some die immediately, whilst many others pitifully stagger about bewildered, fall over and try to get up again. Such painful torment is unimaginable!!
Despite calls for tourist boycotts by some groups and offers of help to change the situation by others, the Mauritian Government shows no remorse or any willingness to change its inhumane ‘Catch & Kill’ policy.
Source Via Soi Dogs
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Organisations/Rescues in Mauritius
PAWS, is a Mauritian community driven animal welfare organization with no affiliation to any political, ethnic or religious group.
We are a transparent CSR-accredited NGO and are totally reliant on public donations and CSR sponsorship.
OUR MISSION:
PAWS aims to improve the lives of companion animals in Mauritius and assist in humanely managing the population of dogs and cats via education and sterilization. Our goal is to prevent and eliminate all cruelty to all animals whether arising through ignorance, neglect or deliberate cruelty.
OUR VISION:
That all animals be treated with kindness and respect.