I remember when the Maltese started importing and adopting husky dog breeds around ten years ago, and it suddenly became fashionable to own one. There was reckless and unregulated breeding and selling of these dogs in Malta, which were subsequently owned by many irresponsible people who took them on simply because they looked fashionable at the time.
Husky dogs are very demanding and social animals and are also demanding to train. They are also not suited to warm climates, but the Maltese adopted them en masse, and today they are owned by many owners who barely have the time to take care of them. They are very demanding dogs.
Our nation’s collapse in values and morality is also directly proportionate to the way we treat animals, and our treatment of animals under Labour has been getting progressively worse.
Husky dogs have been increasingly abandoned at animal shelters as a result. Recently, animal rights activists alerted the Animal Welfare Department to a husky dog that had been abandoned in a derelict house in Żebbuġ. The dog lives alone in this house and is rarely, if ever, taken out, and those taking care of it apparently hand it food using a rope from a neighbouring building.
The dog has been abandoned in this house alone for two years and counting.
Incredibly, the Animal Welfare Department said that it would not intervene to rescue the dog. The owner said that they are in hospital.
Labour’s values with regard to animal rights have collapsed rapidly over the last ten years, and especially under Robert Abela’s administrations. There is a pervasive animal welfare crisis in Malta, and it keeps getting worse.
The feature image is of a separate husky dog that was lost last April.
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