“Stray dog ​​plague of Southern Italy”

‘Human Dog – Feed love’, a Coop Lombardia project in favor of pets, raised the sum of 40 thousand euros with its campaign. Funds donated to Apa, Action Project Animal, to start a sterilization process in Southern Italy. “This donation will be used to finance the fight against the plague that is gripping the whole of Southern Italy, namely stray animals – explains Davide Acito, president of Apa, on the sidelines of the photographic exhibition. “This project stems from a small test that we had done last year in Calabria. We had sterilized 23 units that had brought the previous year to 60 births. Our intervention brought births to absolute zero, which is why we decided to replicate it. in Guidonia in the province of Rome. “Guidonia is an area particularly sensitive to the phenomenon of stray dogs, as explained by Acito.” It is an area rich in shepherd dogs and we have discovered that they are the starting point of this problem. it is about dogs that are not registered and are free to go from the countryside to the suburbs to mate and create herds that risk being dangerous even for people. We are talking about a real problem for the whole community “. The project, he continues, “serves to solve all this, we believe that it will bring good results and that it will be an example for the institutions. We are in fact making agreements with the local ASL to register the dogs in the name of the shepherds because they too must be responsible for their animals. The project is preceded by an awareness campaign towards dog owners since it is essential to educate them on how to behave “.