Please note!  This piece was written to highlight the attitude of irresponsible owners and the system that facilitates them.  It is by no means aimed at Dog Wardens or others, who have to work within the constraints of this system.Ireland's Throwaway Society Just got better!

We've had the Celtic Tiger, the housing and holiday boom, everything we want at our fingertips thanks to online shopping; now we have the very latest in consumer convenience...  Dump your pet!

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1. Going on holiday/emigrating/moving house?  Dog a problem?

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3. Kids upset at prospect of Fido leaving?

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This might be funny if it weren't true.  The numbers of dogs surrendered into our pounds tells me, it is true, it also tells me that we, as a nation, are cruel, uncaring, selfish, and negligent, when it comes to our animals.  To listen to the cries of surrendered dogs, and see them watch the door, waiting for the return of their owners is unbearable. 

We have become a rich nation, we have money for everything and value on nothing.  In relation to our treatment of animals, we as a nation,  should hang our heads in shame; not just at the plight of these dogs, but the fact that no one in a position to do anything about the situation, cares enough to change it.

This country is a collective of people who, regardless of whether we are animal orientated or not, have a duty towards these defenceless creatures.  We are the ones these animals are relying on, if we can't pull together to do something then there is no hope, and these animals have little enough of that as it is.

Between 2002 and 2004, we as a nation, have destroyed 55,650 mainly healthy dogs in our pounds.  this is the equivalent of almost 2 Mount Everests!!  We are producing companion animals just to slaughter them. This has to stop!

In the words of Mahatma Gandhi:

"You can judge the moral stature of a nation by the way it treats its animals."

Based on this statement, we in Ireland have very little in the way of moral stature.