Stray Free Selangor!
Dear friends,
If you have been following my blog, you will notice that I always try to feed stray animals. It saddens me very deeply to see starving dogs/cats wandering on the streets, suffering from hunger and vulnerable to abuse and harm.
Recently, the Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah and the Tengku Permaisuri of Selangor Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin have launched the Stray Free Selangor campaign. I’m so glad to hear this for a number of reasons. Firstly, fewer strays on the streets means fewer hungry, starving animals. It also means that less animals will be killed through the catch and kill campaigns that were previously conducted. Furthermore, with public education on humane and compassionate methods of dealing with strays, it is my hope that their suffering will be lessened and that the number of animal abuse cases will further reduce.
The stray animals of Malaysia need progressive campaigns such as this one very much and the Sultan of Selangor has set a great example by supporting and launching the campaign. It’s wonderful to know that our society is moving in this direction and I hope that many other states will adopt similar campaigns in the near future.
Tsem Rinpoche
Treat Stray Animals Compassionately – Selangor Sultan, Tengku Permaisuri Launch Campaign
March 24, 2017 09:32 MYT
SHAH ALAM: The Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah and the Tengku Permaisuri of Selangor Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin on Thursday launched the ‘Stray Free Selangor (SFS) – The Humane and Compassionate Way’ campaign.
Joining them in launching the campaign was the Raja Muda of Selangor Tengku Amir Shah. Also present was Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali.
Sultan Sharafuddin and Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin (centre) at the launch of ‘Stray Free Selangor (SFS) – The Humane and Compassionate Way’ campaign on Thursday. –fotoBERNAMA
Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin is the royal patron of the campaign, which is organised by the Selangor Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
The SFS campaign focuses on educating the public on humane and compassionate ways of treating stray animals, as well as to encourage all quarters to work together to spay or neuter stray animals and provide shelter for them.
Selangor SPCA patron Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said the campaign, the first to be organised by a non-governmental organisation in the country, aimed to control the stray population.
“I have discussed with the Menteri Besar and he agreed to arrange a meeting with all local government authorities in Selangor to provide explanation on this programme and the importance of complying with the Animal Welfare Act 2015,” he told reporters here yesterday.
Meanwhile, Selangor SPCA chairman Christine Chin said the campaign was organised to work towards a radical change for the creation of a society that loves stray animals.
The campaign seeks to replace the ineffective, inhumane, unethical and expensive catch and kill approach of dealing with stray animals, she added. — Bernama
Source: http://english.astroawani.com/malaysia-news/treat-stray-animals-compassionately-selangor-sultan-tengku-permaisuri-launch-campaign-136579
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H.E. the 25th Tsem Rinpoche loves animals and is passionate against their harm, torture, and abuse.
The few minutes a day we spend on social media creating awareness for animals who cannot speak is purely spiritual and humanistic practice because we are trying to alleviate pain from another sentient beings and that makes us more spiritual, and that makes us more spiritual and more humane.
I certainly welcome the move by Selangor SPCA. I am confident Selangor will become stray free with the awareness campaign.
It is a great news that the Selangor government is taking initiative towards building a compassionate and loving society by starting the ‘Stray Free Selangor. Looking forward to such measures, hope this will reduce the number of animals that are abandoned. Especially in Perak.
It is a great news that the Selangor government is taking initiative towards building a compassionate and loving society by starting the ‘Stray Free Selangor (SFS) – The Humane and Compassionate Way’ campaign. Previously, local authority will apply the catch and kill method as that would be cheaper and lesser hassle to take care of the stray animals. I witnessed such killing with my own eyes when I was in my secondary school. They chased the dogs into our school compound and then trap and shot them. It is an horrifying experience.
With this campaign, the authority will spay or neuter stray animals and provide shelter for them. Hence no more gruesome killings. While the country is building the nation to be a developed country, we must not forgot to develop a community with a loving, kind and compassion values.
Looking forward to such measures, hope this will reduce the number of animals that are abandoned.
A huge thank you to The Sultan & Tengku of Selangor for this great effort. To have zero strays in a state is not an easy task, and project of this size, can only achieved by authorities at the government level. With the initiatives from the Royal family, and with the cooperations from the state government, this become more achievable.
I think to achieve this, one of the important aspect is education: We need to educate people about the responsibility and the commitment when having a pet, to take care of them, and to spay/neuter them to reduce and eventually stop the over population. Also, breeding should be stopped and people can adopt instead of buy.
I wish this project a success, and hope that more states can follow suit! Thank you Rinpoche for sharing such good news!
Considering that the common current catch and kill approach is not only ineffective and expensive but also unethical as well as inhumane, this campaign is definitely a welcomed move as effective long-term effort towards addressing issues/problems involving stray animals. It only makes sense to nip the problem at the beginning whenever possible rather than to deal with costly aftermath and neutering as well as providing proper shelters directly help to prevent the over population of strays. In fact, according to PETA, the single most important thing that we can do to save cats and dogs from all the suffering and death that their overpopulation causes is to spay and neuter them. In addition, studies have shown that sterilized animals live longer with happier lives on the basis that;
• Spaying eliminates the stress and discomfort that females endure during heat periods, eliminates the risk of uterine cancer, and greatly reduces the risk of mammary cancer.
• Neutering makes males far less likely to roam or fight, prevents testicular cancer, and reduces the risk of prostate cancer.
• Altered animals are less likely to contract deadly, contagious diseases, such as feline AIDS and feline leukemia, that are spread through bodily fluids.
Thank you for sharing such encouraging news of the winds of change in Malaysia in dealing with strays.
A big heartfelt thanks to our always caring Rinpoche for sharing the good news that the Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah and the Tengku Permaisuri of Selangor, Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin, have launched the “Stray free Selangor(SFS) – The Humane and Compassionate Way Campaign”. It focuses on educating the public with one of the most humane and compassionate ways of treating stray animals, coupling with the encouragement on all quarters to also work together to spray or neuter stray animals and provide shelter for them. This will certainly create a “peace of mind” for all pet-lovers and a humane way to dispense off cruel and senseless killing of helpless animals’ lives! Especially, with our humane country Malaysia having passed off the “Animal Welfare Bill” through the Dewan Rakyat, thus marking another milestone for Malaysia Worldwide, and putting Malaysia at par with other member countries of World Organisation for Animal Health(OIE), such as United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and India. As His Holiness, The 14th Dalai Lama has said, “Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a Human Being, just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.” Om Mani Padme Hung.
This is very good news! I applaud the efforts of the Sultan and wife who are so kind and considerate. Authorities or people should not be going around and hurting strays. Its really inhumane to do so. Its really sad to see them hurt with no help.
I once read about Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage (TNRM) program and I find that it is very good. In a way, it will help so much to control the situation of strays.
I sincerely hope that the SFS campaign will get more exposure and educate those who need it.
This is really great news for having SFS campaign to help the stray dogs. Other than to urge and educate the public to treat the stray dogs with compassionately, SFS campaign encourages for all quarters to work together to spay or neuter stray animals which is an effective method to control the amount of stray dogs. Indirectly, this may reduce the suffering of stray dogs from being abused or die because of starvation.
Good news finally Selangor becaome the first state free from stray dogs. With the support of the royalties and the Selangor Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) organised the campaign to make
the state free of stray dogs and create the awareness of compassionate love towards stray animals.They are working work towards a radical change,thats a worderful news.
Well ,do hope more states will follow Selangor to replace the inhumane way of dealing with stray animals too.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing this wonderful news.
Dear Rinpoche , This is wonderful news . It’s so painful to see strays on the street injured and hungry . The though of being in the “shoes” errr “paws” of these strays is scary and sad. To be all alone , roaming the street , searching for food , searching for shelter , being expose to dangers of being abuse , being knock down by cars . Roaming daily in search for love , for a forever home.
Wonderful good news to learn about this first of its kind progressive campaign to help the stray animals in Malaysia by the Sultan and Permaisuri of Selangor. While stray animals can be a nuisance to the public at large but bear in mind, the strays do not have a choice, and we have a role to play. Neutering strays is a humane and compassionate ways of resolving the program of stray animals in the long run because it largely reduces the numbers of strays on the streets. Neutering and proving proper shelters to strays can prevent thousands of animals from being born, only to suffer and struggle to survive on the streets, be abused by cruel or neglectful people, or be euthanized inhumanely. I have read somewhere that says spaying and neutering makes a big difference: Just one unaltered female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in only six years. In seven years, one female cat and her offspring can produce an incredible 370,000 kittens!
It is really nice to hear that the Selangor royal family has decided to make Selangor free from stray dogs.
Stray dogs are often left alone, but in some cases they are beaten and abused by people who consider them as pest and in some cases the strays are caught and then put to sleep. The campaign will ensure that there are less strays out on the streets and that means that less will be abused or put to sleep.
I really hope that the campaign will be a huge success and may it benefit all the homeless strays wandering in the streets.
I’m over the moon over this change of direction under the patronage of the Selangor royal family. It is very progressive and in line with our nation’s wishes to foster caring and sharing citizens.
For it to work, there will need to be long term and consistent effort from many quarters. To help out in any way you can and for more information do visit: http://www.spca.org.my/news/stray-free-selangor-launching-this-week/
This is definitely a great news and setting a great example to help the poor stray animals. The involvement from the Sultan Selangor is a great encouragement and show how much the state want to develop a compassionate society. Regardless of race, religious and background it encourage everyone to help the animals that unable to speak for themselves and most important is the education to the public how we can help the animals instead. Animals do have feeling just like us and this is a great movement to create a healthy environment.
This very good news Royal Highness Sultan of Selangor and her Royal Highness Sultanah of Selangor for starting this campaign for stray dogs. This a good step and example so other states will do the same. This campaign definitely in the future help the suffering the stray dogs. Rinpoche always try to fed animals on the street by giving food and care all the time, as Rinpoche said we have start somewhere and people will follow your footsteps. thank you Rinpoche for beautiful article. Thank You
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing article. Yay! Finally lesser stray dogs will be killed through this “Stray Free Selangor” campaign. It is good that the public are thought to treat the animals in a nicer manner. It is also good to spay the stray dogs so that they do not give birth to puppies which in the end also end up in the streets like them. Thank you very much to the SPCA of Selangor, his Royal Highness Sultan of Selangor and her Royal Highness Sultanah of Selangor for starting this campaign. May other states start to follow this campaign in the near future so that these stray dogs will have less suffering.
With folded palms,
Vivian
Wow ! Wonderful news ! Its so rare to find people who are concerned for stray animals. It’s about time we move forward positively to acknowledge that we do have a lot of strays out there and the public should be educated on how to be kind to them. Spaying the strays to prevent breeding is a MUST. I really hope the royalties /authorities / individuals will be able to help find long term funds to finance and support the costs of spaying. Thank you to all the current animal shelters who work very hard with very limited resources to care for the strays.
This is very good news and we rejoice that at the government level they have started to take the first step to treat stray animals in a more humane way.
We should support and share with our friends on this.
Lum Kok Luen
This is very good news indeed. Thank you SPCA Selangor for organising this campaign! I hope other states will follow in the footsteps of SPCA Selangor to create a society that takes care of its stray animals.