Thursday afternoon I passed by the animal market right next to the Friday Market so I could look for my friends dog. I hadn’t been there in years and even though I was expecting to find puppies and other animals there, I wasn’t expecting to find so many.
The market was just full of cages stacked on top of each other and filled with dogs and cats. I saw kittens that looked like they were born last week and I saw dogs shoved into cages so small they couldn’t fully stand in. Some were lucky enough to have drinking water in their cages while the unlucky ones didn’t. If that wasn’t already bad enough, right outside I spotted three dogs tied to trees that just looked extremely miserable and malnourished. I also assumed the dogs outside being sold were most likely the stolen ones.
I’m honestly not really sure what can be done about this since I don’t believe there is any law against animal cruelty. I just wanted to bring the animals some exposure since after the incident where the municipality shut down the shops due to rent issues, everyone seems to have forgotten about the cruelty that takes place there. If you want to help then don’t purchase any animals from the animal market. If you do, the sellers end up profiting and they will just bring more animals to sell.
30 replies on “The animal market. It’s horrible.”
it’s very sad sight.
i saved a kitten once!
The problem is if you “saved” it by buying from them you just gave them more incentive to keep stealing and selling animals…
we should re steal the stolen animals.
It is disgusting that this place has been allowed to stay in business for so long.
I hope your friend finds his/her dog.
This is disgusting…. they need to create laws that ban animal cruelty instead of banning stupid things to keep in line with ‘customs and traditions’. This is a sign of how uncivilized things have become…
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
Mahatma Gandhi
This market MUST BE SHUT DOWN. PERIOD.
#boycottfridaymarket
To Mark and the community.
I totally support the idea of preventing animal cruelty in Kuwait and worldwide. As most of you know this a recurring theme.
I propose someone with enough legal/political connections looks into the matter, the matter being:
“How does one propose and pass a law?”
Once we find out, how this law can be drafted, only then can we make a positive long term change in the country.
Funding etc, will be easy once the process/plan is clearly identified.
I realize this is not an easy thing to do, but achieving this is by far the best solution I can think of. One with a powerful and efficient longstanding impact on Kuwaits society.
Im not naive, I know once it becomes law, you will need “wasta” to enforce it. But without it being law, even “wasta” cannot help you.
Here are some ideas:
1.) Create a website dedicated to the Kuwait Animal Cruelty Campaign
2.) Create a public Campaign, identify its mission and goals (I’m sure all the local shelter communities will support it)
3.) Get corporate sponsors for the campaign
4.) Identify good public speakers or political figures that are willing to get involved
5.) Identify the legal process and push for it
Id be more than willing to participate in any way that I can.
we need to start somewhere 🙁 im willing to help, that place needs to be closed for GOOD its digusting and heart breaking.
I find this the perfect idea !
how do you expect people who don’t respect humans to respect animals.
In principle I agree with you. However adopting this attitude towards a problem will not be very productive in terms of solving it.
Just blogging and complaining about it wont change anything. But if you get a few organizers to figure out how to best route peoples efforts towards a proper solution things will change.
The trick is knowing what and how much we can work with.
Well said!
They say murders and violent people started with animal cruelty at an early stage.
I think if u shut down the Friday marked it will pop up somewhere else for sure.
What u need is laws and education. Starting with the children!!!
K’SPATH is doing a great job educating the young in schools and other arrangements. You can help them by supporting their programs and by talking to your friends and family about it. One thing is certain buy one and they buy two next day. Adopt Adopt and Adopt.
Mountains is moved one stone at a time. Or in kuwait style, you built a sand castle one shovel at the time.
Who is coming with me in stealing these animals.i will try some day.
ok, so where should one go if they want to buy a dog?
Adopt one from a shelter like K’SPATH or PAWS.
The True Mark of a Society is how protects those unable to protect themselves. Who is least able to protect themselves except animals and children.
The only way to end this suffering is to post an endless presents of volunteers there with video cameras and show the people who exploited and hurt helpless creatures.
I don’t know much about creating a web page but “the shame of Kuwait” web page may get things moving in the right direction since there are no laws in place to protect these animals.
To pass some time in the morning as my wife was shopping at Lu&Lu, I had taken the kids to this place. Even they recognised the cruelty.
My son was saying some rich dude should buy all of them & set them free. But I told him that would only encourage this cruel market.
Such markets should not be permitted by the govt.
I went there the other day and i saw one of the rabbit sellers just tossing the rabbits all willy nilly from one cage to another…
Grasping them around the head and everything…horrible people!!!
i hope this post of your mark reaches to the govt authority somehow, and a real strict action is taken, as we as person on authority level would not be able to do much effective work. govt interruption is must
Honestly, I have been thinking about this for a while and every time I do, I want to punch someone in the face. I have a dog, who is like a son to me. I could never imagine seeing him caged up like that. I love all animals and I refuse to even look at the market whenever I take my dog to the vet. I’ve honestly even thought that maybe even setting fire to this market and killing these innocent animals is better. If you think about it (yes many innocent animals will die and thats the worst scenario ever imaginable) but in the long run the market will be closed, more innocent animals will be saved & with the right support, they will not rebuild the market. I am sorry to say this but I honestly don’t know what else to think of.
I know its bad ….
But its a fact … this market is better than before
I go there every week ever since I was 4 … and now am 25
so there has been few improvements and less animals are suffering
they use to trow all the dead animals in the middle so when you pass its filled with dead birds and what ever it was super sad ….
so lets hope for the best
Oh dear! :O that’s horrible! :/
20-30 years ago the market was different. A nicer place. If you go to the “Friday market” week after week you get to know the sellers and they know you.
Fast forward to today, the Friday market has moved to its current location. Animals still being sold but in a different way that the past. What has from yesteryears are the sellers and them having a physical place. The current place used to be known as “Souk el hamam” or the pigeon souk, and the pigeons were placed in large cages.
The product sold is similar but the people have changed.
Can’t we report this market to PAWS Kuwait? Are’nt they supposed to be an organization that is protecting animals?
its a disgrace…a hell hole…to all those looking the other way ..shame on you..the owners who just want to profit shame on you..shu zanb hadol el 7aywanat ..3shan yetbahdalo hk..this is ta3zeeb.. and God will surely punish those who are treating them as a product . disgusting
Hello,
For a long time i have been planning to adopt a dog.My little sister keeps insisting we buy a lab or a retriever puppy, and our parents have agreed to it too. I keep surfing the net to find any new adoption shelters. A friend of mine has visited K’SPath,Wafra, but informed me that most of the dogs there are too big(i.e they are Dogs not puppies!), and my sister just really wants a puppy on her birthday! I know how important it is to adopt a pet and save a life, so could anyone please suggest me any more animal shelters for puppies, in Kuwait?
Thank you!
Its really sad and something should be done soon to save them
Yes it is so sad and heartbreaking reality of the bird market. Mostly people focus on cats and dogs and birds to get as a pet, but lately i have noticed the little ones there in an extremely helpless condition, and those are baby chickens. I got 6 of them and brought home, inspite of 55 degrees temperature weather, they one by one died of cold. I didnt know how to take care of the little ones at that time. I have no words to explain their pain and suffering and dying one after another each week. I even took them to the vet near the bird market but doctor said they usually die and dont survive. As per him, if we want to have few as pets, we should get them in plenty so even if many of them die, some will be able to survive. Seriously!
I was very sad and thinking, dont people feel those little ones have life? They are not toys or lifeless belonging, they breath, they can sense, see, and feel just like humans. I had no idea what exactly was needed to be done. I had sleepless nights thinking of each death infront of my eyes and in my hands. Then, i visited the market once again got the 6 babies again and adopted a different approach. I remembered that the earliest ones died of cold, so this time, in the hottest weather temperature, i kept them in a small store room and kept a heater in the room on all the time. Unfortunately, one died next morning and one in the next week, but rest 4 survived and they are grown up now.
I know how carefull i was this time, but still i couldnt save 2 of those, felt very sad and heartbroken💔 From all my experience i learned, that the sellers in market are selling them only for money and considering them toys for the kids visiting the market with their parents. I asked a seller, how old are these chicks, he said 3 days old, and i was shocked. How can they survive without a mother if they are being brought in the market for selling in just 3 days or probably 1 day after birth? We are talking about fhe babies chicken? How delicate are they, cant the sellers see? Dont they have hearts? They should only bring them minimum at the age of 3 months, so they can fight the extreme cold as a babies, or atleast they should tell the buyers what temperature is right for them so they stay healty and survive, or probably they dont want them to survive, so they can keep selling more and more. I saw them in a big cage lying on each other so helplessly, if a weaker one falls down in a cage, it cannot stand back and the ofher just run over it. I have seen with my own eyes one lying flat probably his bones were broken and was taking last breaths, and all other babies were running over it. When i told the seller he just picked it from a leg and threw in the trashbin kept next to the cage, the baby was still on last breaths💔
How? This cruel? Can business and money be this important over lives? Since that time i feel so helpless thinking who to contact and ask for help of those poor and helpless lives. I pray there is some place where such concerns are raised and heared. I pray somebody pays attention and some laws are passed for the poor animals right soon in kuwait too. I really pray God hears this request and help saving his little ones, being traded for just the paper called Money!