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Sat, May 26 2012
UK Dogs Trust give workshop in Sofia
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On September 27 and 28 the UK Dogs Trust visited Sofia to deliver a workshop designed to instruct schoolchildren about animal welfare and safety around strays.
Homeless animals is a pressing problem in Bulgaria; in Sofia alone there are at least 8000 stray dogs.
The event was hosted by Animal Rescue Sofia (ARS) and took place at the Hotel Kolikovski.
Nadia Stancheva from ARS said: "I strongly believe that any problem can be solved through education".
On September 27 there was a visit to a local school in Sofia where Alison Russell delivered an entertaining, stimulating and well received model lesson on dog awareness to the children. Alison works for the dogs trust in Scotland and is one of the 12 full-time education officers funded by The Dogs Trust fund in the UK.
The conference was attended by delegates from organisations across Bulgaria and Romania.
All the delegates left the workshop with many resources and ideas, ready to help children in schools in their areas.
If your child’s school would like to find out more about this free training about safety around dogs and proper care of dogs, then please contact Animal Rescue Sofia by email - office@arsofia.com
Homeless animals is a pressing problem in Bulgaria; in Sofia alone there are at least 8000 stray dogs.
The event was hosted by Animal Rescue Sofia (ARS) and took place at the Hotel Kolikovski.
Nadia Stancheva from ARS said: "I strongly believe that any problem can be solved through education".
On September 27 there was a visit to a local school in Sofia where Alison Russell delivered an entertaining, stimulating and well received model lesson on dog awareness to the children. Alison works for the dogs trust in Scotland and is one of the 12 full-time education officers funded by The Dogs Trust fund in the UK.
The conference was attended by delegates from organisations across Bulgaria and Romania.
All the delegates left the workshop with many resources and ideas, ready to help children in schools in their areas.
If your child’s school would like to find out more about this free training about safety around dogs and proper care of dogs, then please contact Animal Rescue Sofia by email - office@arsofia.com
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It is a shame that some people can't see the link between cruely to human animals and cruelty to non human animals (dogs, horses, chickens etc). Any education to address cruelty to the vulnerable is both useful and to be applauded. The FBI amongst others consider animal cruelty to be one of the predictors of violence to human animals and considers past non human animal abuse when profiling serial killers. So as Ghandi said “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. Mahatma Gandhi. I must add that 95% [...]
Read the full comment of attendees of this course were Bulgarian and perhaps the commenter above might want to help towards a more humane Bulgaria by encouraging rather than denegrating? Contact is in article.
This is the most blatant case of putting the cart before the horse I have ever seen. But of course, these are Englishman who will ride horses to their deaths but for whom a dog is worth more than a human.