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寄件者: Padma Tserin
寄件者電郵: padma_tserin@yahoo.com.hk
Date: 18 Jul 2003
Time: 14:54:29
Remote Name: 210.17.129.167
Dear All,
Some animal welfare organizations in Hong Kong are seeking support from the general public to help to solve the problem of increasing of abandoned animals in Hong Kong that caused by the regulations of disallowing people keeping pets in public housing estates.
We can anticipate that if the Housing Authority enforces the regulations this August, a lot of pet owners in public estates will have no choice but to either break the rules or abandone their pets, which can even create more problems to the society.
Although there is an arguement that those public housing estates are not suitable for keeping animals, we have to consider the fact that many of the animals kept in the public housings were originally abandoned animals. Many of them were adopted from organizations like SPCA and SAA, or they were found on the street. Even though we say that animals are not designed to live in a 300sq-ft house, it can still be considered a much better option than living on the street being hungry all the time and facing danger.
If the regulations force many pet owners to throw away those animals and that cause many of them to die on the street, it will be a very very bad thing.
We have not yet spoken of the close emotional relationship between the pets and their owners. If the pet owners are forced to throw their animals out, the feeling is just the same as if the parents are forced to throw their own children to live on the street. We can see that many of those who do not like others keeping animals in their houses cannot understand this, they may complain that those animals bring a lot of disturbances to them, but I can hardly imagine how keeping animals inhouse can 'disturb' others or bring any nuisance to the housing estates (except for very extreme individual cases).
Even though pet owners bring their dogs out, as long as they take care of their dogs and make sure that they'll keep clean, the 'disturbance' (if any) that this bring can possibly bring is much much less than disturbance caused by, say, second-handed smoking.
This also reflects the level of being civilized of a society. People of the Southern China region is often discribed as a rude. We often project an image to other people that we are not able to appreciate different values in life, respecting other living beings is one example. The Housing Authority's decision of banning pet keeing in public housing estates shows no concern for such basic values, and demonstrates a very narrow-minded and short-sighted point-of-view.
I reguest that whoever want to support write to the higher authority in the government to express your concern concerns. And if you do support, remember, the whole point is to try to change their mind, not to blame; we should be rational. Try to use REASONS to persuade them instead of criticizing.
With best regards, Karma Padma Tsering
p.s. for more information, please see:
http://www.spca.org.hk/signin/displaysign.aspx http://www.spca.org.hk/
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