CSPCA calls for respect for animals on international day

THE CYPRUS Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (CSPCA) is calling on the public and state alike to ensure animals’ rights are being protected, as World Animal Day is celebrated tomorrow.

“Animals have rights and humans have a duty to respect them,” the CSPCA announced. “Each animal has a place and aim in life, so that there is harmony and balance in nature.”

The society condemned any sort of violence towards innocent, defenceless animals. “Animals are like small children who need human care; our behaviour towards animals represents our human dignity and level of cultural development.”

The CSPCA called on pet owners to care for their animals with love and responsibility.

“We are also calling on the state services in charge of protecting and ensuring animals’ welfare to take all the necessary measures provided in the relevant laws to ensure all forms of cruelty and irresponsibility towards animals are combated,” the CSPCA concluded.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.