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| The Reason behind Founding The Bodrum Animal Welfare Association and Our Progress |
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Bodrum Animal Welfare Association was founded on September 6th 1995. The association's main principle is : "all animals that open their eyes to this world, have the right to live" Our association has tried to find solutions to problems being faced by animals, especially dogs and cats that share our neighbourhoods with us but are without caring owners. What did we do! Through constant negotiations with the Bodrum Municipality we were able to stop permanently the destruction of these animals. With the presentation of our project "Neuter, Vaccinate, Let Survive", we were able to persuade the municipality to accept the benefit to be derived from this project. We started our neuter/vaccinate/treat programme at a very small building allocated to us by the Bodrum Municipality. The neutered dogs, that were marked by special collars with number plates, were either homed or taken back to their streets, this way a circulation was started. As a result of this well-working scheme, we succeeded in signing a protocol, which we believe to be first in Turkey, with the Bodrum Municipality. After the signing of this protocol, the municipality built the present shelter/clinic, where we have been carrying out our activities for the past four years. As a result of this municipality / association cooperation approximately 2200-2300 pets (dogs and cats) have been neutered, vaccinated, and some of them homed, the ones that could not be homed are taken care of at the shelter. |