Dog owners protest against mandatory sterilisation plan

Dog owners take part in a rally against a proposed law by the government related to household pets (Yorgos Karahalis/AP)

Several hundred dog owners and their pets have gathered outside Greece’s Parliament in protest against a draft law that will make sterilisation of household pets mandatory.

The dog owners railed against the Bill’s “abolition of amateur breeding, the backbone of dog loving”, as they called it in a statement.