The Unloved Street Dogs And Cats Of The Third World

In a certain third world country, cats and dogs are everywhere on the streets. It is not as though they are healthy and well fed. Instead, most are sick and malnourished. They compete with children and other people living on the streets for food. There is no animal control entity to remove cats and dogs. And so they breed and suffer. Some get hit by cars and other vehicles. Some get injured from stones and other objects that people throw. Their search for food is relentless. Some have rubbed and scratched their skin raw and bloody from mange in order to stop the itching that will never stop. It is not a good life. No one will come to their rescue. Even if they were to be removed from the streets and humanely euthanized, the public outcry from the legions of so called animal lovers in the states and western world would probably prevent that. An animals' suffering only has value to many of them if it is in reference to being euthanized or not. They oppose euthanasia, but are otherwise not involved, no matter how much animals suffer. They might talk about spaying and neutering as a way of evading this difficult problem, knowing full well that no one is going to finance such a thing for hundreds of millions of animals that are difficult to catch, impossible to treat if infected from the surgery, and will still suffer greatly on the streets. And so it never ends. Countless dogs and cats live these miserable lives. No matter how much they suffer, no matter how much their fecal matter spreads disease to both humans and wildlife, no matter how much native wildlife cats in particular destroy, no one is going to lift a finger.