dealing with the realities of the dog overpopulation in Ireland
You may wonder why “cute puppies” are used by Spay Week Ireland in our efforts to persuade people NOT to produce cute puppies. We agree that it’s a bit of a paradox, and it would be more “truthful” to have a photoshoot with some examples of the undernourished, sickly, unwanted dogs that are the result of the surplus of dogs in Ireland. Some have even suggested that we use photos of dead dogs in our press releases.
The fact is that if we want to get our message across to people, we have to attract their attention via the media, and in particular, the newspapers. And there’s no way that unsavoury photographs would be printed. So we might feel that we were presenting the situation more truthfully, but nobody would get a chance to see the shocking photos. So what would be achieved? We would lose the opportunity to spread our important message.
Many of our supporters feel that we ought to show more of the rough side of the world of stray dogs, and they’ve posted this type of footage to the Spay Week Ireland Facebook page. If you have any doubt about the scale of the problem in Ireland, please visit our Facebook page to see for yourself.