Spending my
summers in rural Greece as a child, I had witnessed various appalling behaviours
towards companion animals. These behaviours were common practice then, some 30
odd years ago, and unfortunately still around today. One such practice is abandoning new born unwanted puppies and kittens in fields, either in plastic bags or in boxes, to die of starvation and exposure or in
garbage bins to be mulched up by the garbage truck. I have been
made aware of other methods such as drowning the newborns in a pail of water, squishing them
to death with a hoe or burying them alive. In a conversation years ago with someone,
he explained to me he puts unwanted newborn puppies from his dog in an area he knows
foxes live so that the foxes will eat them.
