Report to the police about dogs being hoarded in horrible conditions

In the Municipality of Acharnes, in Athens city, tucked somewhere between a rough stream and vast nurseries, with no visible access from anywhere, we saw with our own eyes this small isolated plot with makeshift fencing and some very small cells, made of concrete blocks.

We made two visits to the site, two weeks apart. We photographed both times, and took videos capturing the conditions and all the animals that lived there.

Among sewage, garbage, waste and feces of months lived for an unknown period the dogs you see in the photos, and probably many more. The animals we saw the first time were not the same as the second. It was others.

 

 

Most were both breed dogs, mostly hunting dogs, as well as a Caucasian puppy. What this fluctuating number of animals means we cannot know, but we can imagine.

We proceeded with a lawsuit against an unknown person in order to take measures, to address the issue, to rescue the animals, and of course to identify and bring to justice the responsible individuals.

Two hours after the complaint was filed with the police, we proceeded, by order of a prosecutor, to an official inspection of the area, in the presence of police officers and a team of the Municipality, where the really worst conditions that prevailed were ascertained.

 

 

Just all we found there was this. The conditions. Animals were nowhere to be found and the cages were empty. And those cages were emptied in the two hours between the complaint and the autopsy.

It was indicative that there was still stagnant water in the soil, on a very hot day when the water evaporates in a few minutes. Just outside the fence we found an abandoned dog catcher instrument, and a young dog wandering free in a miserable condition, incredibly scared, malnourished and with mange.

We recognized the dog from previous photos, she was staying inside the last cage on the left, We managed to catch her and she came with us to the shelter. We named her Lilac.

 

 

Lilac is the only one of these dogs that was saved. What happened to the other dogs that were removed from there in two hours, we cannot know, and it is all we think about. What has become of them, where can they be, what is their fate, of those, and of so many others who suffer with the tolerance and complicity of many people, and not only of their tormentor.