Stray Cats And Dogs In Turkey

Toxocara canis and Toxocara cati are roundworms of dogs and cats.

Stray cats and dogs in turkey. One of the reasons for the high prevalence may be due to ingesting oocyst disseminated by stray cats feces. How Turkey started to take care of street cats and dogs. In Istanbul Turkeys largest city half a million dogs and cats roam the streets.

But Turkey was not always a paradise for stray animalsDuring the 90s and 2000s Istanbul and other Turkish cities had to deal with aggressive and sick cats and dogs that infected people with various diseases such as rabies. Holiday resorts like Akyaka where there are so many visitors pensions and restaurants in summer months become places where unwanted animals are dumped. I first saw a couple stray cats while walking to the Nish Palas my first hotel while in Istanbul.

Food and water will be left at the living environments of street animals such as parks and gardens and particularly animal. On one hand I love how people and animals here live together on what often feels like equal terms. Oguz B1 Ozdal N1 Serdar Deger M1.

In Istanbul alone a megacity of 15 million people there are thought to be 130000 dogs and 125000 cats roaming free. As an animal lover one of my favorite aspects of life in Turkey can also be one of the most challenging. I thought nothing of them.

In Turkey most of the citizens are closely associated with stray cats and they love to pet and feed them on the streets. As in many other countries in Turkey sick and harmful cats and dogs were killed in order to stop the spread of. But then I saw more and more cats.

Seeing cats and dogs live on the streets. January 14 2012 at 354 PM. The actual pet cats which includes ours outnumber them.