Dog Rescue in the UK
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In the last article Plight of Primates, I covered the news of problems facing the world’s primate population as constant and relentless deforestation continues to rob our closest animal brethren of their habitat and thereby reduces their numbers. Here I’m going to cover something closer to home in the problems facing our best friends, dogs.
Dogs have been one of the primary domesticated animals since humans began to live in communities and farm the land, their being a useful guard for our livestock, early warning signals for the threat of intruders, of great assistance in tracking down and capturing our prey and of course being our constant companions.
Of course these days, we don’t really need our dogs for most of the things our early ancestors did, but they are still great companions and live happily in the family unit as our friends, guards and sources of endless entertainment.
So it seems so out of sorts when you hear of so many dogs that are abandoned or badly mistreated by their owners, who are supposed to be their loyal friends. If it were a handful of cases here and there, then you could reason that there are always going to be bad apples in every barrel and some human beings are simply so barbaric and uncouth as to not be worthy of the friendship and unconditional love that a dog gives to its owner.
But it’s not just a handful of scattered cases, but literally thousands of abandoned or mistreated dogs turn up at rescue centres all over the UK every day. Worldwide the numbers arer staggering, easily running into millions.
Its a sad indictment on our race that so, so many people can be so unworthy of being referred to as “civilised.”
So it is for these poor animals that we send out our hearts and prayers to and hope that the rescue centres that take them in and nurse them back to health in cases where they have been mistreated and abused can keep going with the meagre funding and charitable income that sustains them.
The Dog Rescue Pages list many of the dog rescue centres in the UK so if you need to get in contact with them for whatever reason, simply follow that link to their website.
Here at Angel For Animals, we can only write about what we hear about and try to raise the awareness of the plight of animals wherever they are in our society or in the wild. Let’s hope that people begin to become more civilised as the evolution of our species continues and we have the need of fewer rescue centres for dogs and anu other domesticated animals.
Then our dogs can become a true part of every family giving the joy and companionship that every dog shoudl ring to every family, playing happily with the kong toys for dogs that the parents buy so their children, whos lives can only be enriched by growing up with a dog in the family and learning from an early age to respect their dog as a member of the family, can enjoy the association of their pet.
Terry Didcott
Angel For Animals
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