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Euro 2012 Halts Dog Slaughter
Animal rights campaigners are in talks to stop tens of thousands of stray dogs and cats being slaughtered in the Ukraine ahead of football's Euro 2012 tournament in June.
Ukraine, co-hosting the event with Poland, has agreed to let Germany's Vier Pfoten - Four Paws in English - begin a mass sterilisation of strays after the country's environment minister Mikola Zlocevski gave the plan his backing.
Vets will use mobile operating theatres to carry out the ops in the four cities hosting matches, said Four Paws founder Helmut Dungler.
Now the group will press the Ukraine to halt all the country's stray slaughtering squads while the castrations go ahead.
The Ukraine has faced world-wide condemnation for its police of simply killing tens of thousands of wild and feral dogs and cats to clean up the country's streets before the tournament.
Horrific animal shelters were piled high with hundreds of bodies every day as canine bounty hunters collected 35 GBP a head for every pooch they killed.
Judith Pein - from Germany's animal welfare group PETA - said: "It would be cruel to do this anyway, but to do it for football is outrageous."
Austrian Times
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