Pets Taken From Poor And Brutally Killed

Published: October 14, 2007, 1:04 am

This is a sickening story, and shows how the poor of the world are not treated as other people are. They are not respected, and many times governments and individuals treat them as though they were second-class citizens and not worthy of having rights.In the town of Barceloneta in Puerto Rico, the city government decided the poor should not have the right to own pets. They banned all pets from the town's HUD housing projects. When many did not get rid of their pets, the city hired a private company to recover the animals and take them to a shelter in a suburb of San Juan.The city contracted to pay the company $60 for each animal recovered, and another $100 for each trip they made to the shelter. Evidently, the company interpreted this contract to mean they could use any means neccessary to make their money.On Monday and Wednesday of last week, the company conducted massive raids on the housing projects. Animal welfare activist Alma Febus said, "They came as if it were a drug raid.

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