Moscow Gives Up Deportation of Thousands of Stray Dogs in a “Camp” on The Outskirts
by Thousands of stray dogs on the streets of Moscow have to shake his tail. Following pressure from animal rights organizations, the municipality of Moscow has dropped a plan to provide gathering, trasnportarea and closing them in a huge shelter outside the city, qualified non-ists as "concentration camp".
Moscow’s plan closely resembles the Mayor declared intention Bucurtestiului, Oprescu, to collect stray dogs from the streets and closing of a shelter on the outskirts of the capital.
Special funds, which have disappeared without a trace
According to the Associated Press, about 2,000 activists and celebrities from Russia pressured the mayor to abandon the plan, arguing that the gathering of so many dogs in one place would in turn trigger uncontrollable epidemic. Many animal lovers have described the shelter as a “concentration camp for dogs.”
“We are very pleased to have won this small victory. The plan was removed from the mayor’s agenda, “said Natalia Iunitsina, president of a local NGO. City of Moscow Council would vote on the plan Thursday, but it was withdrawn from the agenda at the last minute.
According to estimates, the Russian capital’s streets are about 26,000 stray dogs, some smart enough to get off that elevator, take the train or subway, and others more violent, attacking and scaring citizens, says the Associated Press.
The controversial plan to send dogs provide a shelter urais Yaroslav region, about 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow is.
Moscow spent during 2008 – 2009 about 1.3 billion rubles (45 million U.S. dollars) per dog shelters, sterilization programs and other measures designed to solve the problem, but the NGOs complained that much of the money actually had unknown destinations.
Activists are application fees, pet sterilization and imposing stricter dog owners, the main source of abandoned dogs.
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On March 8, 2011 at 3:30 pm
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