In what seemed to be a normal day of animal activist Sanaa Alaa’s life, she was playing, in the company of her daughter and a friend, with the stray dogs she had been taking care of since she moved to her home. With the light breeze of sunset, while Maghrib was about to be called, families of doormen gathered alongside stray dogs in the green sidewalk waiting to start having their food. The scene was then disturbed when a man got out of a large white van—she later knew it was the municipality’s—and started to put bluish food for the dogs to eat. After her story captured the heart of many Egyptians for her will to give up her life in order to save stray dogs from being poisoned, Alaa shares her moments of facing death while trying to prevent the municipality from using strychnine to kill stray dogs in Sheikh Zayed, Giza governorate. “‘No one states that this is a strychnine poisoning condition’ was the first thing the hospital’s manager told the staff before I even received any medical care,” Alaa said.

Source: Daily News Egypt June 04, 2017 00:56 UTC