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URGENT! Please read this - RESCUED BY THE CENTRO CANINO.... CONIFISCATED & CONDEMNED TO BE DESTROYED BY PALMA COUNCIL

Wickedness comes in many shapes and forms, but maybe I’ve been incredibly blessed because until today, Tuesday 10th April 2007, I’ve never seen wickedness like this.

The dogs who’ve been rescued by the Centro Canino had been saved from a life of misery & suffering. Until today they were living happily in clean purpose-built kennels, waiting for the day when someone would adopt them, take them home & let them give and receive love.

Instead, Palma council arrived today & confiscated five of our dogs. In all probability five more will go tomorrow, five more on Thursday… You get the idea, within a week all our hard work will have been for nothing.

Why? Are the dogs we’ve rescued being badly looked after by us? Not a chance, they get food, water & almost as importantly, love & affection, our team of volunteers groom the dogs, play with the dogs, walk the dogs.

Never believe anything a politician says. The excuses & reasons we’ve had from Palma Council have been a (very unfunny) joke.

If they cared even just a minute bit about family pets, they could have saved our dogs from this terrible fate.

I read an interesting article recently about a Parisian woman, who during the Second World War, bumped into Hermann Goerring (the Nazi Reich Marshal) in Hermes. He was buying gloves & was very courteous towards her.

The woman went on to say that one must never confuse culture for morality. Goerring was a cultured man who loved opera & fine wines. He was almost a revolting, terrible, blood-thirty inhumane man.

Palma council may show culture. They put on concerts and sponsor operas, but they’re showing their true face here. They have NO COMPASSION. They have NO MORALITY.

Please be assured we are doing everything possible to get things sorted & to be able to continue rescuing dogs that have been mistreated. Palma council want to make it hard for us. We’re just going to have to work even harder to stop them.

Please email Palma council at batlia@a-palma.es and let them know how you feel about them. I don’t actually think they care (many of my friends have emailed them, and none have ever had a reply); but it doesn’t hurt to try.

Today, just like the Holocaust films we’ve seen at the cinema & on TV, Palma Council made their ‘Selection’. Which dogs shall be the first to be taken to a life of sadness & imminent death?

Tomorrow maybe, they’ll be back for the second selection. Why? Because they can. Because they have power on their side & policemen with guns behind them.

If you had seen the sad, scared faces of our dogs today being forced onto the truck bound for Son Reus, your heart would be as sad as mine.

Dogs are man’s best friend. I’m not saying all of them deserve to live in five-star comfort, but none of them deserve to be taken from a comfortable home where they’re doing no harm, and taken to a Council depot where they’re ignored & only given a very short time to live.

Palma needs to wake up & join the 21st century. Deliberate unprovoked cruelty is not acceptable. The Mayor should be ashamed.

Follow the story in the Majorca Daily Bulletin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxH9tCRFah8