Thursday, May 20, 2004

Dos de Perros

Dos historias de perros en Rusia y anexos... Aparentemente a ellos realmente les preocupan los perros. Tanto para llegar a las noticias cosas como:

A Russian veterinarian caught by undercover agents while operating on a cat was cleared on Tuesday of using an anaesthetic banned in Russia but widely used in the West.
A Moscow court ruled there was no evidence to support the charge against Konstantin Sadovedov, lured by drugs officers to a house and filmed while performing an operation using ketamine.


Ketamine, widely used in the West by vets and by doctors as a mild anaesthetic, was listed in Russia as a banned narcotic in 1998. It is also commonly abused by drug users.


Though it was removed from the list this year, while Sadovedov's case proceeded, the use of ketamine remains in a legal gray area since no law authorizing its use has yet been passed.


Russian media have reported raids on surgeries where vets were operating and at least two other cases remain outstanding.


"We didn't expect such an outcome," Sadovedov told dozens of supporters outside the court, some carrying signs reading "Give Drugs Back to Animals."


"Russian vets should be allowed to carry on their business -- that of caring for animals."


"This is clearly a joke," Sadovedov's lawyer, Yevgeny Chernousov, told reporters. "The sides were a vet portrayed as a dealer promoting ketamine and animals portrayed as drug users."




Yahoo! News - Vet Acquitted Over Banned Anaesthetic

y ahora lamentandose la muerte de un perro policia:


Bonny, one of Kazakhstan's top police anti-drug dogs, was killed in a robbery at her handler's home, a local newspaper said on Thursday.


Bonny was bludgeoned to death with dumbbells and a domestic iron after intruders robbed the apartment in the northern city of Petropavlovsk, the daily Liter reported.

It was unclear whether the burglars knew Bonny, an English cocker spaniel, was ranked among the top three police sniffer dogs in Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan and its Central Asian neighbors lie on a busy drugs trafficking route from Afghanistan (news - web sites) to Western Europe via Russia.




Espero que encuentren a los culpables.


Yahoo! News - Top Anti-Drug Police Dog Killed

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