Stray dogs. Archival photoNOVOSIBIRSK, Jan 24 The initiative of the Governor of Transbaikalia Alexander Osipov on the need to amend the federal law on the trapping of stray animals is long overdue, the acting director said. Mayor of Tomsk Mikhail Ratner. Earlier it became known that dogs had bitten a seven-year-old girl in the village of Domna in Transbaikalia. A criminal case has been initiated. The Governor of Transbaikalia went to the place and offered condolences to the family of the child. She also said that she would ask for a change to the federal law that regulates the capture of stray animals.The UK will prepare proposals to change the laws on trapping stray dogs «A terrible tragedy occurred in Transbaikalia. A little girl died. Not so long ago, a similar emergency occurred in Yakutia, where stray dogs bit a woman. And such cases are multiplying … I think that after the tragedies that have occurred, Russian legislators need urgently return to consideration of the issue of changing the law. This position is supported by Khabarovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Novosibirsk and other cities of the Association of Siberian and Far Eastern Cities. Appropriate proposals are being drawn up to the federal Duma, «Ratner was quoted as saying in Mayor's Office. The head of the city noted that every year in Tomsk the shelter «True friend», which performs the functions of a service for regulating the number of stray dogs, catches over 3.5 thousand homeless animals. At the same time, more than 400 of the most aggressive dogs are kept in the shelter for life, according to federal law, they cannot be euthanized. There are no more places at the overexposure point. «Such problems exist in almost all municipalities of the country. Last year, the Tomsk administration prepared a draft initiative for the regional parliament on amending the federal law on responsible treatment of animals. The document, among other things, proposed establishing the concept of «aggressive an animal with signs of rabies» and remove the obligation to keep them for life. However, we received an answer that the introduction of this initiative is premature,» Ratner said. He also intends to seek support for this initiative from Tomsk deputies working at the federal level.
The head of the Chita administration supported the idea to change the law on trapping dogs
