June 15
We are visiting the local university to distribute educational materials and invitations to the silent demonstration. This is a good target population for us because they are young and educated and more open to changing perceptions about animal welfare.
It is a strange environment here. There are larger packs of dogs, which the locals feed. Many of these dogs will bark and chase cars leaving the parking lot, so it is easy to see why the university might perceive them as a problem. Because it is the nature of some dog breeds to chase cars, this is a difficult problem to solve. We've brainstormed on some possible solutions but haven't come up with anything that is truly practical.
The students don't seem to mind them, but since the university finds them to be a problem, they systematically poison them to eliminate the problem. Part of our mission is to educate about the cruelty of poisoning and another part is to empower these young people to stand up against cruelty and act amongst their own people to make change.
This is an important aspect of what we are doing. The problem will never be solved by outsiders. There are many groups of both Greeks and Non-Greeks outside of the country that approach the problem from many angles. But in the end, it is my belief that it can only be resolved by changing the minds and behaviors of Greeks within their own country.
Read Part I, Part II, Part III , Part V and Part VI of Zoe's adventures.
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