~The Absolute power, lies, manipulations and worthless lives~
The degradation of moral issues, which all of us may witness each day in one way or another, is fully accompanied by lack of value for life itself – be it human or animal. Life has never been so worthless and all of us should eventually be able to figure that out during our usual everyday activities. Treating victims as numbers, that simple increasing and decreasing of dead body counter, has a single purpose of building emotional distance which prevents us having empathy and feeling sorry for victims. Numbers are just numbers and nothing more – they have no name, no face and no personality. Thus, they carry no emotional value.
The organization that represents itself as an organization that care for and have respect for animals – Orca – has recently abandoned their own brainchild project “Info center for animal protection”, thus trying to wash out the dirt and get rid of responsibility for failure of (as they like to call it) “Strategy for solving the problems of abandoned dogs”. They have informed worldwide known organizations like WSPA and RSCPCA about that and stated that the reason for abandoning this project is the pressure that came from other animal protection organizations and individuals. Although many may suspect that the lack of fundings from government institutions for this year might have caused them to cease this project, the true hidden message in that statement is that they were not allowed to work in isolation from any form of criticism or revealing the project files and documentations to general publicity. The truth is that the actions of Orca's info center have shown no improvement since the beginning as their approach to the problem was not correct.
With this Orca's acts, a full freedom has been given to Belgrade city authorities to solve the problem of abandoned animals in even less humane way. The situation in other parts of Serbia is even more dramatic. Although criminal law is precise, also as a farriery low - animal killing facilities (which usually employ mental defuncts or complex healers) are functioning instead of NO KILL shelter (which are legal obligation of local authorities), and no one can prevent that. Many of humans should understand that there is no such problem that can be labeled as “problem of abandoned animals” but that the true label should be “the problem of inappropriate care about animals”. The animals are not guilty that they are thrown away from their homes, but their previous keepers that threw them away on the street for various “justified” reasons are and these are the one that should be punished.
The responsibility for conducting (or non-conducting) the Strategy is now in hands of “Beokom” service – a service that deals with the communication and coordinates relation with citizens. Beokom is run by Snežana Voštinarov who got her degrees on “Environment protection – abandoned dogs” and “Canine cardiopaty diagnosis” courses. She is also a coauthor of “Creosan poisoning” scientific study, works as journalist for ZOV magazine and popularizes the environment protection and methods of proper taking care of raising and keeping dogs. Her helping hand is Vesna Josić, deputy secretary of city secreteriat for enviromental protection, who could not hide her hatred toward animals in numerous public appearances.
The role that non-government organizations should have is to observe and control the work of this institutions and to act as a proxy between citizens and these institutions. Citizens pay their taxes, which are used to fund these institutions and they expect them to work according to the law and ethics, which they all unfortunately try to ignore. This rude acts create an impression that citizens are here to fund and serve these institutions and not vice-versa as it should be. For example, Orca has never played the role as it should have – even when they were in position to inform publicity of major malfunctions and improper actions taken and conducted in state services like Ovča dog pound or Belgrade's veterinary station, they have decided to remain silent for reasons that only they might be familiar with, thus covering up ones who are committing a crime and practically committing another crime themselves.
One of the last, tragic events is a puppy that has recently been saved from Ovča dog pound. N.S who lives on Zvezdara, Belgrade and takes care of dogs on the streets, has been a witness of inhumane treatment of animals in Ovča dog pound and sadistic acts of employed veterinarians.
Due to a report issued by “Patris Lubumba” students internat manager, who has stated that dogs in that area attack students, dog pound service has came and collected all puppies that live there. All dogs were harmless, there was not even one aggressive dog, yet, they were all described ant treated as dangerous. How can a four month old puppy be a dangerous dog and a security threat to a human? All puppies have been given vaccines, they have been sterilized, marked with microchips ID and after unnecessary prolonged procedure (which many of them might cost a life) returned places where they have been found. Dogs have been returned ill, exhausted due to lack of food and water in dog pound and wounds that have not been threatened properly, with potential diseases that they might have been infected with as they have not been put in a quarantine.
A puppy named Peggy, four months old has been brought into a private vet ambulance with a febrile seizure with body temperature reaching over 40degrees, exhausted, dehidrated, kahectic. The puppy (as her keepers say) has been collected by Ovča dog pound employees and she has spent there over 10 days. She has been sterilized, a vaccine was given to her and a microchip was implanted. After releasing, she endorses serious health problems that have to be healed with medicaments and symptomatic therapy. The X-ray registered pneumonia (on both sides of the lungs) which have caused some additional problems with the heart. This is all followed with constant diarehia and vomiting. Peggy's body was unfortunately not strong enough to fight with the disease and, despite good will and all actions that vets have took to heel her, she has passed away just 5 days later in severe pains and horror. How many Peggies are out there that none of us know of? They are just numbers, additive factors to an someone's statistic calculation.
The lack of capability and knowledge to solve the problem of abandoned animals in Serbia usually leads to a final solution – the mass murder of abandoned animals. Eurovision Song contest is at hand and many of us who respect and love animals, frightened with the worst possible outcome. This outcome has been eye-witnessed by many of us during previous sport manifestations – abandoned animals have been mass poisoned and ones who comited this crime have never been found and brought to a court of law. Unresolved situations like these leads us all to a suspicion that the one who is behind the scene of all this inhumane solutions is either a city or a government institution which have wanted to get rid of these innocent beings as quickly as possible in order to accomplish a goal by fulfilling one more condition necessary to organize that sport's or cultural's event.
Hidden behind political situation which is unstable on daily basis, a huge amount of character dirt rises up to the surface and poisons our daily activities, communication and life in general. The desire of absolute power, corruption, greed and lies are so dominant these days that something humane such as honesty, compassion, truth and justice are almost undesirable and unacceptable. To which society we are heading to and who shall be the role model to our children? The same who lays an oath to upholding a low and upholds a crime instead without guilt feeding and legal consequences? Where is justice and does it applies to all of us? Where is the punishment for the guilty ones?

Many shall argue about animal rights activism with the arguments that we have many problems with the humans and that the rights of humans are more important then the rights of animals. But, that is not correct. Protection of human rights accompanies animal rights protection perfectly. All beings whose rights are violated – be it a right of men, women, children, gay population, animals – just want justice that is equal to all and law that can be upholded accordingly. That might lead to a better and more humane society in which no one should feel isolated but equal. That day might be near or far away – time is relative. But we can only get to that day by trying to achieve higher ethical codes, which could become a standard once we are ready to understand the purpose of existence, to respect any form of life and relations that we have with other beings. That day will come, it is just a question of time when... and it can only be encouraging and inspirational to fight for a proper cause.
      

Ovo je prosto nedopustivo sto se desava, godinama unazad. Zivotinje koje su napustene konstantno stradaju, ja licno ne vidim nekog znacajnijeg napredka. Grad stalno pominje da su izdvojene odredjene svote novca te da su raznorazne "strategije" dale rezultata ali to naprosto, ako ste zdravorazumsko bice, nije istina. Zivotinje se i dalje ubijaju, doduse sad na ne tako ocigledne nacine ali se ubijaju. To mora jednom za svagda da prestane, jos sad, jos odmah!