For more information log onto www.streetdogsofnepal.com

POST a Cheque to:
Street Dogs of Nepal
PO Box 4734
Dublin 1
Phone: 087 2651720

Im hoping to travel to our rescue over the next two months, so if anyone has any Elizabethan collars, medicines, dog coats, or in fact anything we can use please contact me and if I can I will bring it over.

Donations are needed urgently as we are saving for a piece of land as a permanent site.

If you are in Kathmandu and would like to meet up when I am there it would be good too. Please email me and ill confirm my travelling dates nearer the time.

BERNIE WRIGHT

Things to remember:
These figures only represent dogs taken into pounds, they do not include dogs given up to rescue, retired greyhounds (thousands) and dogs handed into vets or put to sleep as unwanted pets in vets.

These dogs come in all shapes and sizes. They are pedigree and mixed breed, large, small and tiny, healthy, suffering from disease and some very ill and abused.

ALL of these dogs need a home. If you cannot give them a home then you can offer help in the form of donations to the various charities who take dogs from the pounds (when the pounds allow the rescues in) or by offering a foster home to a dog until it gets a permanent home or by offering transport to take a dog from a pound to the rescue or foster who has offered it a space. Full details are on these websites:

www.irishanimals.ie
www.lostandfound.ie
petsireland.invisionzone.com SEE URGENT MATTERS
board.irishanimals.ie SEE URGENT MATTERS

There are 4 tabs or worksheets.

Finally you can email the department of the environment and request that they take measures in order to DECREASE the destruction rate of dogs in Ireland. They can do this by

1. Implementing the Recommendations of the Working Group on Breeding Establishments
2. Promote Spay and Neuter
3. More funding for rescue centres
4. More protection for our animals in the Animal Welfare Bill

Click here or copy and paste the link into your internet explorer for the official pound stats
http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/DogControl/PublicationsDocuments/FileDownLoad,17494,en.xls

[Friday, May 23, 2008]
Yesterday, Congress enacted the federal Farm Bill, [B]including
provisions prohibiting animal fighting ventures and limiting the
importation of live dogs into the United States if the dogs are
younger than six months old and imported for the purpose of resale.[/B]
President Bush’s earlier veto of the bill was overridden when the
House of Representatives voted 316-108 on Wednesday, and the Senate
voted 82-13 on Thursday to override, easily exceeding the two-thirds
majority required of both houses to override a presidential veto.

The override was not without controversy, as a printing mistake left
out 34 pages of the vetoed bill that dealt with international food aid
and trade. Realizing the mistake of voting for a different version of
the bill than what the President had vetoed, the House voted again
(306-110) in favor of the complete bill, enough to override another
Presidential veto. The Senate is expected to revisit the measure in
June if necessary. However, both House and Senate leadership have
cited parliamentary precedent regarding such an occurrence as being
constitutional and therefore not needing another vote.

In short this means the Puppies under the age of 6 months CANNOT be imported into the U.S.A for sale/distribution. Up until now very young puppies were being bred here in puppy farms, bought by agents and shipped to the U.S.A for sale in Pet Shops, as breeding stock or to enter a life of breeding hell in a puppy mill. These puppies suffer from health problems, lack of socialisation and many more issues. This is an activity that must be stopped.

Once the Minister for the Environment John Gormley puts through the working groups recommendations for breeding establishments and toughens up our Animal Welfare laws this will make it far more difficult for those breeding primarily for monetary gain to continue exploiting the vunerable dogs and puppies.

We welcome this development.