AR-News: (GR)Athens unleashing a plan for its strays

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[from International Herald Tribune]

ATHENS  As it struggles to complete its odyssey of pre-Olympics primping,
this scraggly city finds itself pressed to prove more than its ability to
pave roads, plant trees and prettify monuments.

It has to show that it hasn't gone to the dogs.

They are legion, and they are leash-less. Strays saunter through public
squares, tails wagging or teeth bared, depending on their dispositions and
the nearness of meaty alms. Strays flank the gilded portals to fancy
boutiques, like furry, four-legged doormen with a naked hankering for
table scraps.
...
Just a few months ago, the national government enacted legislation
intended to reduce the population of strays by holding Greeks more
accountable, with toughened pet-registration requirements and stiff fines
for abandoning their pets to the streets.

Athens, for its part, is funneling about $2 million this year into new
animal shelters, new animal control officers and a major sterilization
project. If the newly neutered strays are not adopted in two weeks, they
are set free to roam anew, but in a less reproductive fashion.

full story:
http://www.iht.com/articles/131264.html

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