Upsetting the Locals

Apparently some of the wild dogs you see about the place aren’t actually wild after all.

Nooo, indeed not. 
A surprisingly large number are latch key dogs.

They’re allowed out to walk themselves - though how would you know seeing as they are all (homeless and homed) without collars and genitalus intactus if you know what I mean. 

Now, this presents a problem.

KAR - Kyrenia Animal Rescue - bunch of Brits, backed by the RSPCA who go about ‘rescuing’ and re-homing strays and stuff - have a policy of rounding up the wandering dogs, and if they are happy and healthy they just remove their unmentionables and simply return them to exactly where they found them. 

The logic behind this is simple: -

a) they can’t pick up all strays as they’ve got nowhere to put them
b) a lot of the strays are doing quite nicely thank you in the wild
c) there is a real need to reduce their numbers and so by removing their you know whatsit bits they can’t reproduce!

So, at the end of the day everybody’s happy (a bit sore for a few days but happy).

BUT...KAR have inadvertently been upsetting the locals by whipping away the assets of countless latch key dogs.

I mean, imagine your surprise...you’re a Turkish Cypriot, you’ve a big manly dog - we’ll call him Steve for the sake of it (the dog, not the Turkish Cypriot) - you’re proud of just how much testosterone Steve has as his manliness is a testament to your manliness I should think...and you’re about to go to work and so you let Steve out for the day to go and play with friends.

Little do you know that while you go about your working day Steve has been scooped up, sedated, snipped and placed back on the streets to find his own way home.

You arrive home expecting big butch Steve to swagger in and regale you with stories of how many girl dogs he’s sniffed today only to find he’s morphed into Stephanie right before your eyes...no longer is your pride and joy genitalus intactus - no siree Bob, his assets are dawggone!

And, yes, you can imagine this has been causing a little tension between us do-gooding settlers and the locals who were quite happy before we waded in and started meddling with the unmentionables of the local wildlife.

Trouble is, on the whole Kyrenia Animal Rescue are heroes...I guess they just need to be a bit less enthusiastic with their scalpels!