Pigeon of Dam Square 3, Amsterdam , Netherlands (original) (2024) 绘画 由 Elodie M. Richard

« Another week, another reminder of what an animal welfare disaster Amsterdam’s Dam Square is.
The week kicked off with a baby pigeon who was on the street all day outside a Dam cafe terrace, until finally in the evening she was picked up by German tourists who got in touch with me.
This 5-week old pigeon is paralysed due to malnutrition in the nest. She is currently under treatment to regain motor nerve function.
As the week ends, several more severe stringfoot cases from Dam Square are now in rehab.
Yesterday afternoon, as I was there to pick up a double stringfoot, a Gemeenteamsterdam utility van which was parked on the square took off, right through the flock of pigeons who were standing around it while being fed by the tourists & families.
The bloody insides of one pigeon were left on the ground in front of all the kids.
Dam Square is not a street or a road!
It is a pedestrian space, with many pigeons crowded on the ground, all around. In these circumstances the shocking killing of this pigeon cannot reasonably be seen as an accident. Instances of City Council vehicles running over, or sweeping up, pigeons at Dam (and other pedestrian areas!) are far too common, according to eyewitnesses.
We request that Gemeenteamsterdam educates their workers on animal safety, & we ask our followers to lodge a complaint about this particular killing. There can be no excuse for this recklessness.
Pigeons at Dam Square are very vulnerable.
They spend all day on the square, dependant & sustained by the visitors & tourists. They do not have a normal fear of humans & are easily grabbed and trampled.
In the coming months there also will be many juvenile pigeons there again, who are even less equipped to protect themselves from human feet, hands, and City Council vans running through them.
City pigeons are estray animals, with all the suffering, illness and accidents that this predicament entails.
Until Amsterdam implements effective pigeon management / pigeon welfare policies then we will continue to witness endless suffering. «

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