Turkish Stray Dogs “Natural Habitat”

Protests have been triggered in the streets of Istanbul (see here) following proposals to change animal welfare laws that include the vague idea of “natural habitat parks” to be used when animal shelters become full. The fears are that they would be little more than concentration camps and that all unowned dogs would be rounded up and dumped into them. The vociferous protests suggest that the legislators may have misread Turkish society’s attitude to unowned dogs.

To me, the irony is that the streets already are a dog’s “natural habitat”.

Learn more about the lives and issue of unowned dogs in my e-book ”A Stray View” available from Bangkok Books (readable as .pdf on any computer)