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Ana Filipa Palma

INSANE: In our country abandonment is normalised pets still left behind | Rare Historical Photos

Ziro and Mike spent their whole lives in happy homes. For both of them, water, food and having their owners nearby was all they needed. Each lived alone with their elderly owners as one another's only company.

They did not know each other, did not walk the same streets, but at the end of their lives they shared the same home: SOS Animal Portugal. In both cases, the owners left no document indicating what should happen to their pets; most likely they did not realise they could. Their future was therefore decided by a relative who chose to leave them on the street.

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