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Can you afford to keep your pet? Animal activists say this is a dilemma a growing number of Lebanese owners are facing as their purchasing power nosedives.
Tens of thousands of Lebanese have lost their jobs or seen their income reduced to a pittance due to Lebanon s worst economic crisis in decades.
As many families struggle to stay afloat, activists say increasingly more pet owners are asking for help to feed or re-home their animals, selling them, or in the worst cases abandoning them.
At the Woof N Wags dog shelter in southern Lebanon, volunteer Ghada Al Khateeb watched a female dog lying on her side, breathing weakly under a grubby white coat, after she was rescued from the local trash dump. She said pet abandonments were on the rise.
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As poverty bites, Lebanese give up their pets
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14/05/2021 - 03:54 Rescued dogs at the Woof N Wags shelter on the outskirts of the village of Kfar Chellal, south of the Lebanese capital Beirut JOSEPH EID AFP 4 min
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Ibrahim al-Dika had raised his Belgian shepherd Lexi since she was a tiny pup, but then Lebanon s economic crisis made him jobless and he had to sell her to repay a bank loan. It got to the point where I was no longer able to feed her, the bank was pressuring me, and I hit a wall, said the 26-year-old, devastated beside her empty kennel outside his Beirut home.
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