Paphos pet poisoning

Sir,
Reading your article last week about pet poisoning in Kato Paphos and the claim by the local authorities that the practice wasn’t widespread, I felt I had to write this letter. I work in Kato Paphos and they do poison animals here; just like in the rest of Cyprus, it is a fashionable custom.

Lately they have been poisoning the plants too; all the gardens that should be green by now look dry and dead, worse than in summer, because they spray the weed with poison.

Whether they use permitted poison or not, I don’t know, but we all know that non-permitted substances are sold everywhere in Cyprus, and that is why our pets (though luckily not yet our kids) die everywhere.

Really, it doesn’t matter how it came that the specific pets were killed. The fact is that those poisons that are fatal for dogs, cats and even children, are available all over the island, and people use them in a daily basis.

How many cases of poisoned pets do you know? I know many, and I’m sure the readers of the Cyprus Mail do too. Perhaps all those who do could inform the local authorities in Paphos and perhaps they and the national health authorities will decide to do something on the matter. A Kato Paphos dead dog is not an isolated case and we can demonstrate it here.
AM, Paphos

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