Ethiopia: Homeless Animals Protection Society (HAPS) specifically work intensively to stop poisoning of dogs

January 2010

Animal welfare is challenging in developing nation like ours, despite all the challenges HAPS made a great struggle for animal welfare to be considered as an issue to be addressed by creating awareness among the community and the government using experiences of other countries as a model.

HAPS specifically work intensively to stop poisoning of dogs as a means of disease and population control by putting aside alternatives such as Animal Birth Control and vaccination against diseases and also the drawbacks of the poison from ethical and environmental point of view.

Accordingly HAPS carried out a one year Animal Birth Control program which was open to different Medias such as National TV, Radio and Newspapers and also to a personal visit to a directly concerned higher officials and veterinary experts of the Addis Ababa city......


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Homeless Animals Protection Society
P.O. Box 2495
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel: 251- 11- 654 47 56
E-mail: info@haps-eth.org.et
Web: www.an-group.org/x_haps.htm

Source: Homeless Animals Protection Society (HAPS) - Report 2009
Author: HAPS