Bob51
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Location: Belfast
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 Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:27 am Post subject: New wave of reds immigrating into U.S. |
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It could be the "start of a wave". That must be alarming to some :)
| Quote: | Mainland mutts find new homes in America
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Forty abandoned pet dogs will be heading for the United States next month in what could herald the start of a wave of international adoptions from the mainland.
The dogs have been cared for by volunteers from the Beijing Human and Animal Environmental Education Centre and, with the help of US-based International Fund for Animal Welfare, have jumped through the necessary administrative hoops to gain entry to the United States. Those adopting the dogs will pay the costs.
New homes could not be found for the dogs in Beijing, so the fund pledged to find families for them overseas and track their progress. The dogs were selected from 500 at the Beijing centre due to physical health, personality and adaptive ability.
To make the grade, the canines had to be easy-going, friendly to humans, open to new environments and able to make the long journey to the US.
All have been vaccinated and sterilised according to international animal adoption standards. An electronic chip has been inserted under their skin to record their particulars as well as information about their future host families. This will allow the animals to be traced and monitored.
For Zhang Luping, head of the non-governmental Beijing centre, the decision to put the dogs up for international adoption was difficult but necessary. "Too few Chinese people are willing to adopt the animals and treat them in a decent and caring way," she said.
About 100 pets from the centre have found new homes in Beijing, but only a fraction have gone to Chinese families.
"Some people come expecting to find expensive, beautiful pets here. People are too ignorant to really respect the pets and this has made it difficult to find good homes for the animals," she said.
Ms Zhang said that in the decade since the centre was established, she had been repeatedly frustrated by people looking for pets as toys or animals to breed commercially.
A representative of the fund said it hoped the project would help people become more aware of animal adoption and to take better care of their pets. |
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