Russia (bbabo.net), - In Yakutsk, dogs attacked a woman. She was 53 years old. Her body was found in the area of ​​the Arctic State Agrotechnical University. This news was shocking, but ... not surprising. In recent years, dogs alone, and more often in packs, attack people with an "enviable" regularity. Often this happened in the same Yakutia, but more than once residents of many other regions of the country also turned to doctors. Correspondents of "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" told how in the cities and villages of the country they are fighting with stray dogs. And why they are invincible.

Thunder struck

According to the Investigative Committee, the attack in Yakutsk took place on December 29 at about 13:00 on the territory of the hippodrome. Investigators opened criminal cases on the negligence of officials of the administration and on the fact of the death of a person.

After the tragedy, an emergency regime was introduced in the district, and a high alert regime was introduced on the territory of the city. The Yakutsk authorities have created an operational headquarters that will be engaged in trapping stray dogs.

15 brigades have been formed, they will be provided with vehicles and the necessary special equipment. Each has dog handlers with experience in catching or handling aggressive animals. This was reported on the Mayor's Instagram page.

And in the councils, mobile groups have been created that will patrol the streets and, when dog packs are found, transmit information to the catchers.

Promptly. However, the inhabitants of Yakutia have suffered from the attack of dog packs for several years. Here are just two cases. Seven years ago, the country was shocked by the news that a pack of dogs killed a nine-year-old girl. Alive, but with severe wounds after the "meeting" with the feral dogs, the boy remained in 2020.

The law does not help

A year ago, in Astrakhan, in the Kazachiy microdistrict, homeless dogs tore a 72-year-old man to pieces. Relatives were looking for the pensioner for three days. Investigative bodies were also engaged in this, and a criminal case was also initiated against the officials of the city administration.

The Astrakhan City Hall was informed that the authorities understand the problem and are fighting it, but there are difficulties. The law does not allow killing dogs, orphaned four-legged animals can only be sterilized, vaccinated and, having put on a tag, released back. In total, about three thousand dogs were caught and spayed this year.

Four shelters for homeless animals were opened in the region, while before that there was one. It is planned to build another one in the new year. The total capacity of the four-legged shelters is more than two thousand places. They will not be able to accommodate all of them.

Nevertheless, the governor of the Astrakhan region, Igor Babushkin, during a direct line with residents on December 29, expressed the hope that the State Duma of the Russian Federation would pay attention to the need to improve legislation to regulate the number of homeless animals in the territory of the Russian Federation.

The bill was rejected

In Bashkiria, the problem of stray dogs, huddling in flocks and attacking people, is acute even in the capital of the republic.

On December 16, in the Shaksha microdistrict of Ufa, several dogs bit the legs of a 10-year-old boy, and a few days later, in the same place, a pack attacked a 13-year-old girl. Her hands, feet and face were bitten. And here the regional investigative committee opened a case.

The most tragic story was in the village of Safarovo, Uchalinsky District, where in April 2021 a flock of dogs bitten a four-year-old boy to death. Apparently, the head of the Safarovsky village council will be responsible for his death. In late December, he was finally charged with negligence, which inadvertently resulted in the death of a child.

After the incident in Safarovo, discussion of the problem of regulating the number of homeless animals in Bashkiria was conducted at all levels. Some deputies of the State Assembly of Bashkiria even proposed to suspend the federal law on the responsible treatment of animals, which was adopted in June 2020. After all, it is precisely in it that the prohibition on killing dogs is contained. But the municipalities have no money to create shelters. And the maintenance of one dog in a shelter costs about 20 thousand rubles a year.

“Money cannot solve this problem either,” said the speaker of the Bashkir parliament, Konstantin Tolkachev. “Until people start watching over their pets and stop throwing them out on the street, the situation will not change.

After a long debate, parliamentarians of Bashkiria called for people to bear full responsibility for their dogs, and submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation a bill on the compulsory registration of dogs - chipping. It aims to facilitate the search for a lost pet.

But the main thing is that obligatory chipping would help to bring to justice the person who threw the animal onto the street and to establish the owner of the dog that attacked the person. However, this bill was rejected.

400 thousand per month

Kaluga Mayor Dmitry Denisov also proposes to strengthen the responsibility of pet owners for the future of their pets with the help of electronic tags in which information about the owner is entered.In the region, the trouble is with summer residents, who get themselves a living toy for the summer, and in the fall leave it to their fate.

And money will not be superfluous. Recently the Kaluga shelter for stray dogs announced a fundraiser. The nursery needs to buy cereals and gas for its preparation - this takes up to 400 thousand rubles a month. Hay is very necessary to insulate the enclosures - among the inhabitants of the kennel there are many puppies and old dogs that may not survive the harsh winter in cold cages.

Temporary shelter

The problem of stray dogs that pose a threat to people is quite relevant for Kalmykia. A particularly difficult situation has developed in the gardening partnership "Meliorator 2". There, wild dogs even run into the yards: they gnaw at domestic animals, attack people.

By law, as already mentioned, stray dogs should be caught and sent to specialized shelters, which must meet a number of conditions. There should be gas, water, electricity, sewerage, heated floors, a room for specialists. You also need two hectares of land. In addition, the shelter should not be located closer than 150 meters from residential buildings.

So there is no such nursery in Kalmykia yet. The city authorities have just chosen a place for it. But a critical situation is already ripe.

“So far there is no dog shelter where animals can be quickly sterilized, they give birth, and their number on the streets is increasing. Over the past year, about 740 people in the republic went to doctors after a dog attack. About half of them are in Elista. And these are only registered cases ", - says the head of the regional executive committee of the ONF, deputy of the People's Khural Baatr Mergulchiev. According to him, until a project is made for the shelter, money is found, while it is built, too much time will pass.

Dead end? It turns out not. "The best way out of the situation would be a temporary nursery in any hangar where aviaries and fences can be installed," Baatr Mergulchiev suggests.

Flocks are replenishing

In Murmansk, on Orlikova Street, a flock of stray dogs has chosen a playground. There are other dog hotspots in the region.

According to Olga Kuznetsova, deputy governor of the Murmansk region, dogs can be sterilized in the region for free for those citizens who intend to take homeless animals for themselves or find good hands for them. In 2021, 100 dogs were spayed for free. In 2022, this quota is supposed to be increased to 200. This is also good, although, of course, it does not completely solve the problem.

Svetlana Anchishkina, head of the Murmansk public organization Shelter, pointed out mistakes in this work, which has been dealing with the problem of homeless animals since 1996. In her opinion, systematic work is not being carried out in the Arctic. A number of stray dogs are caught in various places, but there is no control over their number.

In the flock remaining at large, the loss of the "retired" is quickly replenished. The budget money spent on catching is ultimately wasted, says Svetlana Anchishkina. According to her, in those places where the largest number of stray animals is noted, it is necessary to neuter them until the entire population has passed this procedure.

Dogs are inviolable

But it turns out that sterilization and tags do not completely solve the problem either. This is what they told our correspondent in Rostov-on-Don at the "City Center for the Management of the Number of Neglected Animals."

Specialists went to the site at the request of animals living in the area of ​​the Zvezdny residential complex. Three dogs were caught. A repeated application came. We left again. And they left. “It was found,” the center said, “that animals with non-removable tags live within the specified address. According to paragraph 1 of part 2 of article 18 of the Federal Law of December 27, 2018 No. 498-FZ“ On the Responsible Treatment of Animals and on Amendments in separate legislative acts of the Russian Federation "sterilized animals without owners, having permanent or indelible marks, are not subject to capture."

By the way, tagging and neutering does not make all dogs completely "white and fluffy". And they do not guarantee that they will not be aggressive, especially if the dogs are hungry.

Do something !!!

A resident of the city of Kambarka in Udmurtia, Eduard Glukhov, recently published on social networks an appeal from the student's mother to the authorities: let go forward. I am an adult, I was scared, if there were only one child, the dogs would have bitten them. Do something !!! Do not wait until there is an emergency. "

The answer of the administration of the Kambara region: "Unfortunately, at the present time we cannot take measures against stray animals only in the event of situations with possible harm to human health. In these situations, you need to contact the police by phone 02, 112".

Meanwhile, according to the Veterinary Directorate of Udmurtia, there are about seven thousand stray animals in the region.

So, let's summarize. The law does not permit the killing of dogs. They must be caught, sterilized, labeled and released. This takes money. There are not enough of them.The first stalemate arises, as, for example, in Udmurtia. The price of the contract for "Catch-Sterilization-Vaccination-Return" is 6195.58 rubles per head. This is not enough. Accordingly, contractors do not enter into contracts. A full cycle of work only at cost will pull at least 8,000 rubles. And that's not counting the cost of treating animals.

Second stalemate. Catch at least round the clock, but if the owners without conscience continue to throw animals out into the street, the process will become endless.

All this suggests that the part of the law on the responsible treatment of animals, which concerns stray dogs, it would be good for legislators to re-read, having studied the situation in the regions.

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