Dear fellow animal rights activists,

as we all know, stray animals in Europe are in great distress. In spite of animal protection acts, they are being chased, slain and poisoned. In many parts of Europe, they are serving as an appreciated source of income and some people are quite literally "making a killing" from the suffering of the animals. All of us have been struggling for years to help those poor creatures, more or less each one for himself and with only little success.

We at Docs 4 Dogs have established a network for stray animals in Europe to help them on a political level. In our opinion, saving individual dogs and bringing them to Germany doesn't change anything. A sustainable and reliable change based on laws in each country itself would be the best solution for the animals - but this is only possible on a political level. Please visit the new website "STARS - Stray Animal Rights in Europe". STARS takes first action by launching a petition to EU-Parlamentarians — please support us with your vote!
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Plovdiv is Bulgaria’s second largest city, located in the central southern part of the country. With eight thousand years of history, it is among the oldest cities in Europe. Plovdiv is regarded to be the cultural metropolis of the country. This article describes a different culture of this city – a culture of killing.

"They throw living dogs into the incinerators"

"There are virtually no stray animals in Plovdiv", says Dimitur Georgiev, chairman of Plovdiv's society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. "We insist on a humane solution of the problem. The conditions in the isolators are cruel. Former employees of the combustion facilities have horrible stories to tell. Some of the dogs wake up after anaesthesia and are regardlessly thrown into the flames of the furnace alive. In comparison with the west we are a hundred years behind, but intellectually it adds up to a thousand years."