Recycling machine feeds stray dogs

22 August 2014, 11:16

A Turkish company has invented a vending machine that encourages animal lovers to recycle by feeding stray dogs.

Every time a can or bottle is recycled, some food appears in a dispenser at the right height for stray dogs in Istanbul.

The vending machine, called Pugedon, works because the profit from the recycled bottles covers the cost of the food that the machine dispenses.

Turkish industrial company YCN Yucesan group created the innovative vending machine because it wanted to boost recycling and help Istanbul's huge number of stray dogs.

A company spokesman said: "The solar powered vending machine operates by the insertion of cans and plastic bottles to be recycled and in return provides food and water in its basins for strays, pets and wildlife."

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In the run-up to Sochi's Winter Olympics, hundreds of stray dogs roamed around what is now the Olympic Park and authorities threatened to have them put down.

The BBC's Daniel Sandford reports on what has happened to the city's strays.

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India: Probe into blackbuck killings at Kanpur zoo

Authorities in India's Uttar Pradesh state have ordered an investigation into the killing of 31 blackbucks by stray dogs at a zoological park in the city of Kanpur.

Seven employees, including the director of the zoo, have been suspended in connection with the incident.

Reports say a pack of stray dogs entered the zoo on Saturday night and attacked the blackbucks.

The blackbuck is a protected species of small antelope in India.

A zoo official said the dogs had possibly entered the zoo through a gap in the boundary wall which was broken.

"The wall had fallen down and was being repaired. But it appears it hadn't been fixed properly," chief wildlife officer Rupak De told the BBC.

The dogs attacked the blackbuck's enclosure that was closest to the wall.

Experts say the small antelopes are "very nervous by nature".

"When they were attacked, they tried to escape but their enclosure was shut. Some were then killed by the dogs, many were injured, while others died of heart-attacks brought on by shock," Mr De said.

Reports say zoo workers found two dogs eating the carcasses of blackbucks on Sunday morning.

The zoo's doctor ordered the guards to kill the dogs.

Officials say they are treating the incident very seriously as blackbucks are endangered animals in India.

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Nunavik Sled Dogs Need First Aid and Care Too

ScienceDaily (June 1, 2012) — In Nunavik, there are many dogs -- sled dogs, pets, and strays -- but no veterinarian, so the University of Montreal International Veterinary Group has given Andréanne Cléroux, a veterinary student, the mandate to design and deliver a first aid guide for dogs in northern Quebec. "The problem relates mainly to animal health care, immunization, and dog population control," Cléroux explains. "We wanted to create a guide that would provide basic tools for pet owners so they can provide care to their animal while waiting to contact the remote veterinary consultation service to get advice from a veterinarian at the CHUV (University of Montreal Veterinary Hospital)."

The initiative is part of the Support project in veterinary public health and animal health in Nunavik, which began in 2008 with the creation of the remote veterinary consultation service.

Last year, Cléroux spent a month writing the guide before flying to Nunavik. During her one-week stay, she presented a draft of her work to several inhabitants of the town of Kuujjuaq. She was accompanied by the junior college student Emaly Bibeau Jonas, who provided interpretation between Inuktitut and French. "Through their comments, I was able to rework the guide to make it more simple, concise, and user-friendly," says Cléroux, who was supervised by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine's Dr. Denise Bélanger, Dr. Cécile Aenishaenslin, and Dr. Josiane Houle.

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Killer stray dogs put Bulgaria on edge

Sprawling in the sun or barking and chasing cars, stray dogs have become part of urban life in Bulgaria but after a pack mauled a US university professor to death, the mood of tolerance is over.

The 87-year-old man, who chose to spend his retirement in his native Bulgaria, was attacked in a Sofia street late last month by some 25 dogs who knocked him to the ground, tore at his face and bit his legs and arms to the bone.

He died in intensive care 10 days later, prompting the government to suggest a large-scale euthanasia programme for aggressive animals and construction of emergency shelters to remove other strays from the street.

Rights groups struck back, accusing authorities of weak control over pet owners who do not register their animals and often abandon them or their litters on the streets.

"This spring there are about 1,000 more stray dogs than last year," said Aksinia Bosneva of the "Care For the Stray Dogs" non-governmental animal rights group.

She also blamed corrupt practices when it comes to castrating dogs.

"Some dogs are only partially neutered so that castration squads can return and get double money. Dogs already neutered are captured twice and workers get paid for something already done," Bosneva charged.

For Lolita Radeva, head of the Sofia municipal council's environmental committee, the economic crisis has made things worse.

"The current economic crisis has forced people to increasingly abandon their pets. Many dogs were also let go from abandoned construction yards they used to guard," Radeva said.

She put the total number of stray dogs roaming the capital, which counts two million people, at about 9,500.

A new city hall programme aims to halve this number within two years and get rid of all the animals by 2016.

Current legislation only allows authorities to put down sick and aggressive animals, while others must be neutered and returned to the streets.

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Animal laws fawn over ‘murderer’ dogs

Had the resident leopard bitten off the sambhar fawn's neck, nature's court would not have charged the big cat with homicide. But here in the lush jungles that wedge in Siswan dam, a pack of stray dogs were prevented from adding another innocent to their serial murders across the Lower Shiwalik foothills. These are lean and mean unnatural predators and animal welfare laws literally fawn over dogs. 

Accompanied by photojournalist Gautam Singh, this correspondent had taken a rugged trail deep into the Siswan jungles. At high noon, as we returned to the dam's waters, a grim drama was unfolding. A fawn, which had come to drink water, had been separated from its mama by three dogs. We had seen these dogs earlier indulging in the socializing rituals before a hunt. The fawn was at the water's edge, where the dogs were somewhat uncomfortable in pursuing it. 

Cunning as canines are, the pack withdrew. The inexperienced fawn made a dash for the seeming safety of the jungle only to find dogs lying in wait. Making a U-turn, the fawn plunged into water. Sensing their victim was escaping, two dogs followed while the third circled ahead to cut off an escape route into jungle. The fawn swam desperately but one dog managed to catch its ear and its teeth locked in hard. The most piteous cries, not unlike that of a pup whose leg is trapped under a car wheel, emanated from the fawn. The ear is loaded with multiple nerve-endings and being close to the brain, the pain of a dog bite paralyses an animal. Hunting dogs are known to tackle huge wild boars similarly by latching onto the ears and flooring an otherwise lethal adversary. We threw stones, waded into the water and challanged the dogs, who fled. The fawn swam away, literally, from the jaws of death.


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