(6 Feb 1998) T/I: 10:22:58
Former screen star Brigitte Bardot, who has become an animal rights activist, appealed to Romanian authorities on Thursday (05/02) not to kill thousands of stray dogs roaming the streets of Bucharest.
Bardot, in Romania to promote her new book of memoirs, also appealed to the public to adopt the dogs.
She said adopted two pups at a city pound and gave a third pup to a Romanian foundation that protects dogs and fed dogs at the pound that were due to be killed.
City authorities in Bucharest estimate that up to 200,000 stray dogs roam the streets. An average 50 people a day are bitten by stray dogs, many of whom carry rabies. Doctors say the hospital emergency wards are treating hundreds of dog bite cases each month. All are immediately inoculated against rabies.
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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA, 5/2
VS thousands of wild dogs in street in bucharest;
vs dog catchers chasing dogs and killing dogs;
VS emergency hospital in Bucharest with doctors presenting hundreds of files of people bitten by dogs in one month;
child receiving rabies injection after dog bite;
VS Former screen siren and animal rights activist Brigitte bardot feeding dogs,
being kissed by dog on mouth;
vs man bringing one of the two wild dogs to be adopted by Bardot to the
Hilton hotel;
SOT - Brigitte Bardot, in French: "I know they are problems for the people here, but I am Brigitte Bardot and I take care of animals.";
VS Bardot at book launch;
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