Construction at the Veterinary Clinic

This post is a continuation and update of two previous posts. It fits right in with the post about unsanitary veterinarian clinic practices and happened the same day I took a stray dog to the vet as chronicled in the post about dog cruelty.

To get right to the point there was on-going construction in one of the rooms housing dogs.

Clearly you can see they did not remove all the dogs from the room before they started work on the ceiling. The cage in the foreground has an open top so there is nothing to protect the dog from falling debris. One of the cages is even being used as a table to place materials and tools. 

In these pictures you can see more of the work being done.

These men are installing a new ceiling. New wooden panels. Once installed they are painting them with a roller which means paint is being flecked about as the roller moves. I have done this kind of work and know that flecks of paint will inevitably get all over the place yet there are no tarps covering the animal cages left in the room. You cannot see in the picture but there are a few cages sitting outside in the back. Why not move the rest outside or move the remaining cages to one side and work that half of the room and then shuffle them back to finish what remains?

Construction, even this kind of light construction, always has hazards. I have helped install drop ceilings and painted ceilings before and it is a fact that debris and paint will fall all over the floor. It cannot be helped. Perhaps the amount of falling debris and paint might be small and non-lethal but that is completely beside the point. Those falling hazards are dangerous for these dogs. Especially the dog who's cage has an open top. Who knows what will happen? That is why safety measures are taken on all construction sites. But not in the Philippines. In the Philippines safety consistently takes a back seat.