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Tuğba GÜNEY – Koç MBA’10

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Everyday we see cats and dogs at the streets, trying to find some food, a safe place to sleep, protecting their babies from people or the other animals.

We call them:

What had WE done?• Made them domestic• Destroyed their natural environment• Abandoned them to streets.

That’s why, WE HAVE TO take some responsibilities by choosing our pets from streets instead of pet stores.

They are the homeless animals which are forced to live at streets by humanbeings.

STRAYS

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WHERE DO WE GET OUR PETS FROM?

• Responsible Breeders

• Pet stores

•Streets / Shelters

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RESPONSİBLE BREEDİNG• BREEDING STANDARDS

proper medical care from a veterinarian

clean and safe surroundings

loved pets, treatened in a human way

Akbaş Breeding Center, Sivrihisar, Turkey

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PET STORE / PET SHOP REALİTYWhat is behind the scene?

“storage”“mass-production (puppy- kitten mills)”

No medical careNo foodNo social lifeNo spaceEven NO VOICE

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PET STORE / PET SHOP REALİTYWhat is behind the scene?

Over-production

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STREET ANİMALS – STRAY DOGS & CATSWhere they live?

•Streets

•Woods

•Shelters

•2,000 animals living in streets*.

* Source: “Turkey's Changemakers: Tolga Oztorun sheds light on hardships faced by street animals.”http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/

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STREET ANİMALS – STRAY DOGS & CATSThe danger they are faced with

•Illnesses

•Hunger/ Thirst

• Poisoning

• Traffic accidents

•Inhumanity - mistreatment

Ezber Film – http://www.ezberfilm.com/

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STREET ANİMALS – STRAY DOGS & CATSAnimal Welfare Associations & Volunteers

blog.myletsadopt.com

www.shkd.com

www.barinak.gen.tr

www.haytap.org

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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Gandhi

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STREET ANİMALS – STRAY DOGS & CATSWhat is the solution?

• Do not abandon!

• Sterilizate, Vaccinate and Let them live.• Adopt!

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• STERILIZATE, VACCINATE AND LET THEM LIVE

Sterilization: is an operation which renders an animal unable to procreate

Vaccination: is the administration of antigenic material to produce immunity to a disease.

STREET ANİMALS – STRAY DOGS & CATSWhat is the solution?

Source: “Derelict Dogs Educational Booklet”, SHKD

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STREET ANİMALS – STRAY DOGS & CATSThe story of George

Adopted!

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Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another who is not kin, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities from the original parents.

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ADOPT!

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ADOPT!

Adopt your dogs and cats from streets or shelters, instead of buying them from pet stores.

•Don’t pay•Save a life

do not buy - ADOPT!Thank you…