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Chixx001,

Don´t worry about your dog. It all depends where you live. In my personal opinion to live in Santiago (downtown) with a dog is a bad idea, because the apartments are in general very small, and because it is the financial - government zone, that means no parks or areas where you can decently walk a dog. And yes, over there are more stray dogs than in other places.

I live in Providencia and believe me, we "share" one stray dog with like 5 blocks , so that is not really a problem (in addition, he is litlle, and old, so he doesn´t bother anyone).

Check zones that are close to parks where you can walk your dog. "Pocuro" stret in Providencia and Parque Bicentenario in Vitacura can be cool places to live close by.

parisian wrote:I think the situation of stray dogs is sad, but at the same time I think they´re part of the culture for chileans, so the approach is very different for locals than for "gringos". I´m talking as a local here.
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Por lo menos los autoridades en Chile admiten que un país con tantos perros callejeros no es un país civilizado:


"La ley debería contar con dos elementos básicos: un registro canino y un centro de rescate, donde los perros registrados sean devueltos a sus dueños y los otros, sacrificados. Es lo único que ha funcionado en los países desarrollados"

"Ataque de perros" por SOLEDAD NEIRA

Hi to all,

I'm Jonathan, from Agrupación Protectora Canes y Felinos, working with stray animals. We have had tons of work these past year-and-a-half and have managed to improve the functioning of this Organization; in fact, these past four months we have been working to turn the legal concept from a Community Organization to an NGO, which will help us develop a much orderly and professional work.

I forward you the general information about the initial meeting we are helding to inform what the performance of the Agrupación had been so far and to present new lines to project our work in the future.
I invite people in this forum since it is important to add different points of view and ideas, which you may have from your experience in different countries.

I hope you can make it. It is not necessary that you join. Everyone interested in helping strays is welcome, especially if they work from the heart.

Next, the info about the meeting

DATE: Saturday, July 24th, 4:30 PM.
LOCATION: TEMUCO Universidad Santo Tomás Auditorium (Manuel Rodríguez 060, near Regional Museum)

In case you can't make it you can still get in touch with us at: contacto@canesyfelinos.com

Thanks for your attention

Jonathan Jara G.
http://www.canesyfelinos.com

Moderators, let that bit of spam slide. The worse that could happen is someone ends up with a street dog on their lap.

By the way, this is Plata (Chilean slang for cash). A friend went in to a Banco Estado ATM, and came out with plata. Someone had left her inside the door of the ATM area. Very smart, as sooner or later some sucker (or the friend of some sucker), was going to pick her up and take her home. Plata is our newest family member now, as I was on the hunt for a dog for sometime now. In the past, the best dogs found me. Plata found me. The name is great fun, "bueno Plata", "malo Plata", "don't worry, tengo Plata", and so on.

Since some seem to be posting photos of their dogs... I can't resist... some of you have seen them before, but here they are, fully assimilated into Chilean society... at 5 yrs old.

and we have very little trouble from the many dogs here in our neighborhood, although there are way too many loose... most have owners and they just let them run free.

Plata is an awesome name for a dog found in an ATM!
I hope she (he?) can bring some real plata as well, like babies "y la marraqueta bajo el brazo"

Anyway, I think dogs in the street show lack of education and responsible pet ownership, and also lack of policies to end with this, but at the same time it shows that this society doesn´t like to kill to solve problems. Maybe is silly, but we hate the idea of dogs and cats being killed, so we prefer to deal with them in our daily lives. I like that we don´t have a culture of death.

I hope we can improve our lack of education towards pets and our laws in a close future, but the real uncivilization is not the fact of having animals living on the street, it´s to have people living on the street...and in that I think the whole world is in debt. (but that is another story!)