The People's Khural of Buryatia immediately passed in all readings a bill allowing the killing of stray animals. “Things like this” drew attention to this.
The document allows the euthanization of homeless animals suffering from incurable diseases or injuries, animals recognized as “socially dangerous” — that is, those with “unmotivated aggression” or “incapable of adaptation”, as well as animals who could not find owners after a month of living in state shelters. The explanatory note to the bill states that in 2023, only 10% of stray animals in the region could be found; there are now 3,554 dogs in shelters in Buryatia.
The head of the Republican Department of Veterinary Medicine, Amgalan Darmaev, presenting the bill, said that the practice of SVVV (trap-sterilization-vaccination-return) “is becoming obsolete and ceases to be effective,” and keeping dogs in shelters requires “huge financial resources.”
< p>The bill also allows stray animals to be placed not only in shelters, but also in temporary detention centers.
“Caught animals that do not have an identification tag or chip are proposed to be placed in temporary detention centers. They will be looking for owners for him within 30 days. If the dog has a tag or chip, then it will be kept in a temporary detention center for 3 days, then 60 days in a shelter to find its previous or new owners. All provisions of the law are aimed as much as possible at ensuring that a stray dog finds an owner. Shelters have the right to keep animals without owners without time limits at their own expense,” said Semyon Matheev, chairman of the committee on land issues, agrarian policy and consumer market.
The authors of the bill believe that it is more humane to euthanize stray animals, “rather than leave them to suffer on the street.”
“Such cases” note that similar bills are going to be adopted by the authorities of the Magadan region and the Stavropol Territory.
In July, Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which the authorities of Russian regions will be able to independently decide how to control the number of stray animals. Animal rights activists called the initiative proposed by the deputies a “law on euthanasia.” The authors of the bill themselves said that it was aimed at “protecting people from attacks” by stray dogs.
After the document was adopted by the State Duma, the head of Buryatia, Alexey Tsydenov, spoke out in favor of euthanizing stray dogs and added that this would happen to stray animals who would not be taken from the shelter.
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