aNt's aNgle:
Two articles in The Star grabbed my attention today.
The first on the heinous shooting of dogs still happening in Jitra, Kedah.
The second on the comments by a Pakatan MP on the list of councillors in Selangor.
Have a read. We'd love to hear your comments about it.
PET+BLOGSPOT
Sunday July 11, 2010
Cruel to shoot dogs, say animal lovers
PETALING JAYA: Animal lovers are up in arms over the attempt to shoot a stray dog in Jitra, saying that it is a cruel act and must be stopped.
MBPJ canine advisory team (CAT) chairman Anthony Thanasayan said the incident proved that shooting stray dogs was not only cruel but endangered people as well.
“MBPJ has already stopped this barbaric practice but some municipal councils are still shooting strays,” said Thanasayan.
On Friday, a seafood restaurant worker was accidentally shot by a man aiming at a stray dog in Jitra.
P. Rajagovallan, 65, was hit by shotgun pellets in both legs at 3.30am on Friday while he was sweeping at the restaurant where he works.
Mandy Cheong, a representative from myanimalcare.org, said her cousin from Kelantan saw dead dogs on the street after being shot.
“The bodies were then thrown into a lorry to be taken away. It is not right to use guns, ” she said.
A spokesperson for Malaysian Dogs Deserve Better says: “Shooting strays just proves how trapped in time we are. It does not augur well for our country which prides itself on having a caring society.”
Sunday July 11, 2010
Unite and finalise councillor list, PKR urged
PETALING JAYA: PKR should pull itself together and ensure the list of Selangor councillors is completed and finalised, said DAP’s Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng.
“This is the third year Pakatan Rakyat is running Selangor. There should not be any more delays. The list should have been finalised one or two months back,” he said yesterday.
Thursday’s swearing-in ceremony for local councillors for Petaling Jaya and Subang Jaya was called off at the last minute following instructions from the state government and purported technical glitches.
Lim claimed the list delay occurred because some leaders were lobbying for their people to be appointed as councillors.
“We should look at the matter at a macro level. We are talking about Pakatan versus Barisan (Nasional) and not Pakatan versus Pakatan. They have to get over it and pull everyone together. We should fight for our cause and not fight among ourselves,” Lim tweeted yesterday.
He said he was speaking up over the matter as it involved the Pakatan coalition, adding that the DAP had given its list to the media before the Selangor Mentri Besar announced it.
Meanwhile, Transparency International Malaysia also expressed concern over the delay in the naming of new councillors, suggesting that names of candidates should be made public first before formal appointments were made.
“Details of new councillors should be made available to the people and their views taken into account first,” its president Datuk Paul Low said in a statement yesterday.
“This will help in ensuring that the most important stakeholder in the exercise, the taxpayer, is involved in the process,” he added.
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