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Animals dying in state care… GSPCA awaits response from police to two-month old letter
In wake of the article published in this newspaper’s most recent Sunday Special, about animals starving to death in state care, the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) has expressed its concern.
In a statement released yesterday, it was indicated that since the issue was first highlighted in May of this year, the organization penned a letter to the Guyana Police Force. According to the GSPCA, the content of the letter was about seeking a meeting to discuss the issue with a view of coming to a solution.
The two carcasses at the Betwerverwagting Police Station.
However, the GSPCA said that to date it has not yet received the courtesy of an acknowledgement.
“The Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wishes to express its deep concern and dismay about the recent reports in the media about donkeys starving to death in the Beterverwagting Police Station.
The society feels that it is totally unacceptable, that such cruelty could have occurred under the watch of those who were are tasked with the enforcement of laws that attach serious consequences for such gross negligence.”
Back in May, residents of Beterverwagting on the East Coast of Demerara had brought to this publication’s attention the issue of several animals which were impounded and left to starve. Persons expressed the view that the owners were not turning up at the stations for the animals, particularly donkeys, since they are not as of much value compared to sheep and cows.
Some residents had also claimed that when the animals die they are beckoned to the station to dig holes for their burial. However in the recent instance, the animals were left in the compound where their carcasses were left to rot.
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