Have you found a distressed animal and want to know how you can help?
Many of the animals on the island are kept in unacceptable conditions. Medieval style hobbling of animals in Greece persists much to the shock and suffering of the visitors and animals. It is an age old practice and changing the mentally of people is one of our most difficult challenges.
As a small group of volunteers our main problem is finding hands to help and financing so we need every single one of our annual visitors to assist if possible.
Here is what you can do to make a difference:
If you see an animal being treated cruelly or kept in unacceptable conditions, take photos/videos so you have a record of what occurred. Try to clearly show the type of abuse the animal is enduring. Please note, taking photos/videos of the interior of someone’s house, or of individuals who reside there is probably illegal, so just focus your attention on the animal.
Animal cruelty is a police matter and should be reported. The police station is on the right side of the entrance to the old harbour. Be prepared that they may not view this as important but this is one of the reasons things do not change so insist. Again photographs/videos are very important. You may want to try calling the Police from the location of the animal and ask if they can attend to record the incident (phone number 100). Having more witnesses to confirm the abuse will strengthen your case.
Writing to the Town Hall and attaching photos/videos may seem very little to help but it can and will slowly put pressure on the Town hall to act: Town Hall Mykonos 84600 Greece
If the animal you wish to help seems to need medical assistance please call one of our island vets. If you can afford the treatment it would be greatly appreciated as we have to raise thousands of Euro each month to help to the animals. Ask the vets for a discount as the animal is not yours. Please do whatever you can. If you can’t afford the treatment, please take the animal to the vet anyway and ask them to get permission from Mykonos Animal Welfare to do whatever it is that needs to be done.
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Have you found a distressed animal and want to know how you can help?
Many of the animals on the island are kept in unacceptable conditions. Medieval style hobbling of animals in Greece persists much to the shock and suffering of the visitors and animals. It is an age old practice and changing the mentally of people is one of our most difficult challenges.
As a small group of volunteers our main problem is finding hands to help and financing so we need every single one of our annual visitors to assist if possible.
Here is what you can do to make a difference:
Town Hall
Mykonos
84600 Greece