Help Stop the Mass Dog Killings in Ukraine!

Help Stop the Mass Dog Killings in Ukraine!


The 2012 European Football Championship is just about to start, and the host countries, the Republics of Poland and Ukraine, have been busily preparing for a surge of sports tourism. In Ukraine, it means shocking efforts to reduce the number of homeless animals across the country in an attempt to hide the country's neglected and abandoned dogs from tourists.
Animals are poisoned, shot, and, in some cases, even burned alive. Authorities in Lysychansk, Mariupol, and other Ukrainian cities use a cremation truck, which has even advertised on national television. The animals are caught and then shot or anesthetized, and then thrown directly into the cremation truck!
Even the Union of European Football Associations, which PETA-Germany contacted in 2009, sharply criticized the cruel practices of Ukrainian authorities and offered financial support to animal protection advocates to neuter animals. Ukrainian authorities have reacted to the efforts of animal rights advocates with repressive measures: They have put pressure on animal activists to stop the international protest!