Good points made all around, and I understand it's about the athletes as well that have devoted their lives to making the team. Others of us devote our lives to other causes, and animals happens to be one of mine. I know many other countries aside from Greece have a terrible way of dealing with over population of abandoned animals, but as Leslie and others have pointed out, the spotlight is now on Greece! They have had a very careless concern all along for the many homeless animals, and too few rescue groups to address the issue. When Athens was chosen(years back) to host the 2004 Olympics, and had the Humane Society Of the United States, and multiple other well established groups willing to step in, and help address the over-population problem, they should have spent a few thousand out of the billions$$ to welcome the help in a humane manner. Feeding poison balls, and glass shard laced food to half starved animals only makes Greece look bad to an entire nation. I know it's all happened in other countries as well, but one would think in a so called civilized nation, there could be a whole lot more compassion.