Every year during the summer months in Buenos Aires the stray animal population swells out of control. Domesticated dogs and cats find themselves on the streets for the first time, scared, disoriented, darting between cars and buses and scrounging for food. There is one cause for their terrible fate: human irresponsibility. As the city’s … Read more
Wander through Buenos Aires’ streets, parks and plazas and you will see an abundance of abandoned animals. Nowhere in the city is the stray animal population more noticeable for visitors than in the ‘Jardín Gatonico’ (or ‘Cat Garden’) as the city’s Botanical Garden is sometimes jokingly called. Amongst the exotic trees and plant life of … Read more
The city of Buenos Aires has formed a program to address the animal control problem with preventive mass sterilization. Mari Atúnez, long-time animal protectionist and head of the new Animal Protection Agency says they plan to sterilize 100,000 of the city’s animals annually. Currently, the city sterilizes about 6,000 animals per year. The agency will … Read more