A recent Foreign Policy article presents Georgia’s stray dog program as something close to an authoritarian horror story. Dogs are “vanishing”. Vans are “sweeping through cities”. Smoke is seen rising at night from a crematorium at a municipal shelter in Gori. Activists tell of the smell of burned fur and meat. The reader is then … Read more
TBILISI, DFWatch–Fighting broke out Tuesday at Tbilisi City Council over a proposal to shut down a large private dog shelter in the capital.
Neighbors of the shelter showed up at the council session to demand that it be shut down because they consider it a nuisance.
TBILISI, DFWatch — While the country is rocked by political tension, rallies and protests, up to twenty students and others today gathered at Tbilisi Concert Hall to mark World Animal Day.
They told DFWatch that they view it as a day for the protection of animal rights