EXCLUSIVE: A video obtained by The Daily Beast shows the heart-breaking slaughter of dogs by kill teams in Tangier. (WARNING: Videos in this story contain graphic footage)
Campaigners say the animals have been shot or poisoned on the streets of the coastal city found at the juncture of Africa and Europe. Many of the slaughtered dogs were tagged with yellow earmarks to show they have already been neutered and rabies-vaccinated.SFT Animal Sanctuary
Kadaoui, alongside an army of volunteers and drivers, has been racing against time collecting tagged dogs and bringing them to the SFT shelter, which is already home to over 600 dogs, cats, donkeys and other creatures. “Some of the locals and tourists have been dropping off animals too. I’ve just rented another house, beside the sanctuary, paid a year’s rent in advance, so we can use it immediately as a safehouse for the dogs.
Another stray, Dina, a four-year-old caramel-coloured Beldi, a native breed, who was spared execution after a lawyer and his wife took her into their home during last October’s cull, was slain outside a school. “Everybody loved Dina,” Kadaoui said. “She walked the kids to school and back home every day. Imagine shooting dogs in front of children? A stray bullet even hit a motorcyclist, with many witnesses. I do what I do because I was traumatised like this as a child.
“I heard the gunshots and saw armed men shooting dogs in broad daylight,” said a resident, who cares for a handful of the neighborhood strays and wished to remain anonymous. “I rushed outside, snatching as many dogs that I could stuff into my small fourth-floor apartment. It’s incredibly barbaric killing cats and dogs like this in the street. It shows Morocco is uncivilized and unfit to host anything, let alone the World Cup.
In 2017, Kadaoui and her team launched Project Hayat, ‘life’ in Arabic, with the goal of making Tangier the first rabies-free city in Morocco by vaccinating and sterilizing 30,000 dogs by 2025. So far, they’ve vaccinated and released nearly 4,000 animals and homed several thousand in the country and abroad. Morocco’s Ministry of the Interior70 million to support the TNRT initiative to humanely reduce the city’s stray population.
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