Morocco's Cruelty to Animals

  • by: Grainne
  • recipient: Anyone with a soul

I am asking everyone to boycott Morocco until they change their way of treating animals.

Please sign this petition to show that you will not visit Morocco or buy Moroccan goods while they continue to abuse animals.
 
I have created this petition after living in Morocco for 6 months. I moved there with my husband, intending to invest and create a life there, but within a couple of months, I realised that the country is filled with horrible, soulless people and we cannot wait to leave. For now, we are stuck here waiting for rabies test results for my family (one pictured to the left) before we can return to a civilized nation.

I have seen the most disturbing things here. As a vegan, I have to be very careful deciding from whom to buy my fruit and veg: Many sellers transport their goods by donkey. These animals are very thin, often look sick, and are left by the side of the road all day (in the burning sun) while the market is open. I once saw a horse with a hole in his side! Vets have no problem with docking tails or ears. Outside the tourist areas, cats are treated as pests, and pedestrians see nothing wrong with kicking them out of their way.


Originally I moved to Morocco because of the millions of stray cats living there. I thought I could help my local cats by setting up my own small TNR program. I leave a bowl of food and water outside my house, and bring food with me wherever I go out (there are literally cats everywhere). I brought some of my local cats to the vet for sterilizing and was reported to the police. As there are no animal protection laws in Morocco, the complainant could only have been issued in the hope of receiving a bribe from me. Another neighbour shouted at me for feeding the cats. A few days later, this same woman pushed me because I was petting a cat near a food bowl that she (presumably) thought I had left there. It was filled with cous cous and vegetables, so it most definitely was not something I would feed a cat. Just today, I had planned to bring one of the friendlier cats to the vet for a rabies vaccination and was told by a passing neighbour that he would shoot me if I didn%u2019t immediately release the cat. His reason was that the cat belonged to the security guard %u2013 the same security guard who told me, when one of my cats was missing briefly, to take another cat if I couldn%u2019t find him.

This country is filled with diseases such as rabies, typhoid and mange, and almost all the cats have worms and lice. Despite this, I get shouted at for trying to help. All the cats I could have helped in the future will die of starvation or disease, but I cannot stay in a country where I am afraid to leave my house.   

I can only assume that the people in Morocco are so angry because they see all Europeans as millionaires and are jealous. Due the high numbers of illiterate women, I had planned to set up a co-op, or similar, to help these women by selling Moroccan goods online. Since getting to know the locals, I have lost all interest in helping them. I still pity their animals; they need our help.

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