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You are here: Home / Kitty Wisdom / Egypt’s Four-Legged Citizens Need Your Help

Egypt’s Four-Legged Citizens Need Your Help

February 4, 2011 By: Sparkle Cat24 Comments

A true humanitarian takes ALL species into consideration.I’m not sure what happened to the Egypt that worshipped us cats several thousand years ago, but it is quite a different place now, where not as much value is put on either human or animal life as in antiquity. Maybe out of the current crisis there, something positive will happen to change that, but in the meantime there are animals in Egypt that need your help. I am not talking about just cats or personal pets, but animals on a much larger scale. With banks closed and a chaotic situation, the rescue group ESMA (Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals) has taken over feedings at the Giza Zoo. Horses, camels and donkeys are working animals in this country, and many are suffering because of the unrest. Pet stores have been shuttered, and it is hard to get to the animals to feed them. Humans who want to get out of Egypt are often not able to take their pets with them. So the problems there are complex.

How do I know all this? My human belongs to an organization of professional cat writers and one of its members, Heike Hagenguth, lives in Cairo. She has been spreading the word for those who don’t speak. Plus Best Friends has a networking and news section for Egypt. Here is their recent news item about evacuees and their pets.

Heike mentioned several groups that could use financial aid from foreign sources, since help inside Egypt is hard to come by right now. They are:

ESMA — Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals — the organization that is helping the animals at the Giza Zoo. They are also doing a lot of things on a day to day level for animals. They also have a Facebook page.

SPARE — Society for the Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt — they also have a Facebook group.

The Brooke — they help donkeys, horses and mules in eleven countries in Asia, Africa, Central America and the Middle East, including Egypt.

Egyptian Mau Rescue — these are the original cats worshipped by the pharohs and even in peaceful times, they are poorly treated in their own country. This organization especially needs your help now.

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  1. Veronica Dickey says

    February 9, 2011 at 8:17 am

    I share with you all on how God wants us to treat the animals. In fact all religions promote kindness to animals, the believers just sometimes simply choose to ignore these teachings:

    “[I]t is not only their fellow human beings that the beloved of God must treat with mercy and compassion, rather must they show forth the utmost loving-kindness to every living creature… And indeed ye do worse to harm an animal, for man hath a language, he can lodge a complaint, he can cry out and moan; if injured he can have recourse to the authorities and these will protect him from his aggressor. But the hapless beast is mute, able neither to express its hurt nor take its case to the authorities … Therefore it is essential that ye show forth the utmost consideration to the animal, and that ye be even kinder to him than to your fellow man.” Abdul-Baha, from the Bahai Writings

    My donation was given to ESMA through paypal. Folks give what you can, American dollars buys much more in Egypt than it does in the United States.

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  2. Cat's Cats says

    February 4, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    Thanks for bringing attention to an issue I didn’t even know existed Sparkle!!!

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  3. Harry Spotter says

    February 4, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Thanks for the post. We are purring and praying for everyone. Fiona thinks you would look awesome in that T-Shirt with your name in Bling.

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  4. Mr Puddy says

    February 4, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    Poor animal !
    Sparkle , thanks so much for this post. So many things we learn from you
    xxx

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  5. Simba says

    February 4, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    It is so sad about the animals in Egypt. Thank you for drawing attention to the problems.

    Regarding your hawk, it is very pretty. Dad says that without seeing the tail, it is hard to match it up with the pcitures in his book, but he has three possible candidates. In each case he thinks it is a juvenile female, or anyway, a female.
    Cooper’s Hawk
    Sharp-Shinned Hawk
    Merlin, a type of falcon. – this would be the smallest .

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  6. caren gittleman says

    February 4, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    sharing this NOW!

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  7. BeadedTail says

    February 4, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    We’ve been thinking about the animals over there in all that mess so thank you for this information Sparkle. We hope the unrest is solved soon but we’ll see what we can do to help for now.

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  8. Abby says

    February 4, 2011 at 3:04 pm

    I meant “CAN’T” figure it out….

    I need a new typist
    ~Abby

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  9. Abby says

    February 4, 2011 at 3:03 pm

    Why is it that when the humans can figure things out that the animals suffer?

    *sigh*

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  10. Cats of Wildcat Woods says

    February 4, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    Great post. We always worry about the animals in countries in unrest or war. We will pass this on!

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  11. Pierro and Miles says

    February 4, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Oh my thank you for sharing all of this with us.
    this news makes us sad, very sad. We are sure many animabibbles are afraid!!!
    We will look over these organizations and see what we can do with some of our moneys.

    bonks!

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  12. Pricilla says

    February 4, 2011 at 9:59 am

    It is sad that in times of unrest animals do suffer so

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  13. Fuzzy and Zoe says

    February 4, 2011 at 9:32 am

    It’s a shame that all humankind doesn’t put the appropriate value on animals’ lives.

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  14. Cathy Keisha says

    February 4, 2011 at 9:16 am

    This is a tragic and volatile situation in Egypt and unfortunately the animals are caught in the middle of the unrest. Thanks for alerting us and for the links.

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  15. Cheysuli says

    February 4, 2011 at 8:13 am

    It is always the animals who suffer the most because they cannot flee from the confines that humans have left them in and they can not get their own food. We feel so terrible for them.

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  16. mariodacat says

    February 4, 2011 at 7:51 am

    Thank you dear friend for getting the word out. We will go visit those places also an see how we can help. Those poor anipals

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  17. Penelope CatFromHell says

    February 4, 2011 at 7:08 am

    Sparkle, thank yous for letting us know about these poor animals! Having been treated poorly, me understands a little about how important it is for people to open their eyed to the plight of animals in these situations.
    Purrs
    Nellie

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  18. Brian says

    February 4, 2011 at 6:47 am

    Thanks for sharing such impawtant information Sparkle!

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  19. Hannah and Lucy says

    February 4, 2011 at 6:11 am

    Those poor animals are innocent victims in this turmoil. We hope there is a way to save as many as possible – they must be so scared with all the shouting, fighting, and the sound of those big tanks.

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  20. The Island Cats says

    February 4, 2011 at 4:18 am

    We feel so bad for all the animals there, Sparkle. Why do the troubles of the humans always affect the poor animals??!? Thanks for this info…we’ll go check it out.

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  21. Marg says

    February 4, 2011 at 4:08 am

    Thanks so much Sparkle for all that great information. We will certainly go visit those places and see what we can do. It is always so worrisome when things like this happen. Why can’t everyone just get along. Take care.

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  22. Angie, Catladyland/Katt Food says

    February 4, 2011 at 3:32 am

    Thank you for posting this — I’ve been following the info about/from Heike on the CWA Yahoo Group. What a scary time for both humans and animals.

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  23. Rumblepurr says

    February 4, 2011 at 1:18 am

    Oh my friend… what a horrible thing, it never even occurred to us that this would be going on, those poor sweet animals…:(

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  1. CatSynth » Weekend Cat Blogging #296 says:
    February 5, 2011 at 9:35 am

    […] I did look into stories about animals in the land that once worshipped cats as gods. Through this article, we did read about Egyptian Mau Rescue, and browsed the Facebook page for the Egyptian Society for […]

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