Monthly Archives: July 2010

Rusty the golden

Every day Let’s Adopt! receives no less than twenty letter from golden retrievers owners in Istanbul wanting to get rid of their dogs. They give us a wide range of amazing reasons, here are some of them 1. I bought

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DANSK FOLKEPARTI RÅDER FOLK TIL AT SLÅ DERES EGNE HUNDE IHJEL!

Nej til udryddelsen af 13 vidunderlige hunderacer i Danmark og dermed et stort NEJ til den nye hundelov! Hvorfor? Fordi problemet er at den er uretfærdig! Den er baseret på påvirkninger fra mediernes massehysteri og ikke på fakta og forskning. Politikerne der

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And Brindi went home!

On February 25 we launched our 13 days campaign, designed to rally people around the world in support of a single dog, Brindi, unfairly put on death row by Peter Kelly, the Mayor of Halifax, Canada. The campaign and the

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The Crime of Kayseri. REWARD

It has taken one day to reach my computer screen but this morning I have received the most graphic video imaginable of an horrific event hat took place in the Turkish city of Kayseri. The scene, gruesome beyond the imaginable.

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Be Stupid

Traditional awareness campaigns are clearly failing in their mission. Pet shops and Puppy Mills have become a multimillion dollar industry, with animal lovers as sole patrons. Pet owners breed their own animals to satisfy a misguided sense of “love” and

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Turkish animal lovers: the Big Disconnect

As some of you may know I’m writing this from Istanbul’s best veterinary clinic where I am staying besides my dog, Peke. Because of what we do at Let’s Adopt! I am no stranger to veterinary clinics and their daily

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Turkey: Citizen outrage repels Pitbull Law

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”. Martin Luther King Last week the Government ordered the rounding and locking up in shelters of all pitbulls in the country. As usual, the Government, when dealing with something that cannot

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