The Harsh Reality Of A Street Dog’s Life In Egypt. Stray dogs roam in almost every Cairo neighborhood — lurking in construction sites, scavenging through trash and howling nightly atop parked cars. The government says there’s around 15 million of them. They bite some 200,000 people a year, according to the World Health Organization, and …
An Egyptian Street Dog Is Known As “Baladi” But what is a Baladi Dog? In Arabic, “Baladi” means “of town” “local” “rural” comparable to English “folk” with a lower-class connotation – wikipedia. When the word is applied to a dog, it generally refers to the native stray dogs who run the streets of Egypt. It is …
What To Do? Does Egypt have a baladi dog problem? If you were anywhere near Cairo or Cairene social media in the last few months, you remember the apoplectic furor over the government exporting vast numbers of street cats and dogs to countries where puppies are food. Cairo’s baladi dog population may number up to 15 mn, with poor garbage collection …
Can We Just Agree Not To Kill Them? Mr. President, I write this petition on behalf of a lot of animal lovers in Egypt and outside Egypt. I write this petition on behalf of all poor souls suffering everyday on the streets either by poisoning, shooting or abusing. Mr. President I know you are a …
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