By Nada Deyaa’, Daily News Egypt They were born believing the streets are their home. No matter how unsafe home is, they don’t have anywhere else to go to, it’s where they belong. Even if that means facing kicks from people passing by while peacefully sleeping, or searching in trash for leftovers for a meal to survive for days on. They are lucky when they escape torture by kids who find it funny seeing other living creatures suffer in agony. Living on the streets means fearing being killed brutally by people who hate them or are fed up with having them around their neighbourhoods. This is simply the life of stray dogs in Egypt. “3701 stray dogs were executed in Giza last June [only],” said Ashraf Ismail, head of the Giza Veterinary Authorities, to Al-Masry El-Youm. “Usually, they are being culled using Strychnine, which is a poisoning substance dogs are injected with,” said Yasser El-Serafy, Head of veterinarians professors at Al-Mansoura University. When the body is firstly injected with Strychnine, it gets fully paralysed then all the system begins shutting down one by one beginning with the respiratory system until…
Tortured Alive or Poisoned to Death: The Suffering of Stray Dogs in Egypt
September 6, 2015
