Following a communique released by the ministry of agriculture which is technically responsible for pets affairs, anger prevails in the animal welfare circles.
Everyone already knows more or less about the indifference of the Greek state towards animal welfare. Now for inexplicable reasons the vice-minister of Agriculture wants to disrupt the work provided by volunteers from humane societies who actually are the only ones to provide rescue services for animals.
For some bizarre and completely unexplainable reasons, the vice-minister seems to have decided to give leverage to rumours about a possible traffic of pets between Greece and western European countries and make the transport of dogs more complicated and less sustainable.
We are reaching a level close to insanity where recognised NOGs from Greece and other countries of the EE who are already enduring a hard enough work, are being suspected of trafficking on the grounds of gossips. Not even one case of animal trafficking was ever discovered and every knowledgeable person knows that chances for a inter-European sustainable traffic of pets are extremely thin.
On the contrary, simple mathematics attest with a lot of certainty that if the about 500 unwanted dogs and many cats from Paros wouldn't have been rescued and rehomed in loving homes mostly in Germany, there would have never been enough homes for them on Paros or in Greece and most of them would have found most horrible deaths by poisoning, shouting, hanging, traffic accident, disease or other. It is to be noted that our archives as well as those of the collaborating German organizations keep trace of each one of the rehomed animals.
The federations of Greek animal welfare societies instead of using its resources in more productive actions, have now to fight the state's ignorance and cretinism but we hope that in the end sense will prevail!

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