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Dogs of misfortune
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In July 2023, a law entered into force, which allows the regional authorities to independently decide how to handle homeless animals. In November, patients and “socially dangerous” animals were allowed to kill in Buryatia. Later, similar laws adopted in four regions Astrakhan region, Altai Republic, Magadan region, Trans -Baikal Territory. .
The correspondent of Doxa went to Ulan-Ude and spent the day with the volunteer: Kami, who take dogs to other cities.
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January 24, 2024
Two thousand dogs, -25 degrees
“We are generally felons, but we don’t choose here,” says Katya, the volunteer of the Foundation Dog Foundation , while we are going to animals shelter in the south of Ulan-Ude. Katya brings up two daughters, but because of the affairs in the fund does not always manage to take them from school and kindergarten in time. - I have quit recently. She worked at the aviation plant, checked the contract, but since such a situation ... until everything is settled, she decided to quit. ”
In mid -December, the Foundation "Dog of Happiness" filed a lawsuit to cancel the law on euthanizing animals. The first meeting was held on January 16, now the court is studying the case file. “We are afraid to jinx it, but the dynamics are positive,” they say in the fund.
Animal shelter "Ananda"
Katya along the way says: “How the plots [about the court] came out, we went negative comments. Both from doghan, and from ordinary residents. They write all nasty things: “Let them attack. Yes, their children [dogs] are not touched.” On the radio, Andrei Gubin sings the Winter-Kholoda. Outside the window minus 25, today is sunny.
- In the administration of the republic, the law is justified by the “educational” function: “Throwing an animal, a person will know that, [...] if he refuses the animal, as a result it will be killed.”
- In winter, the tender for the killing of dogs won LLC "CASS". In the spring of 2020, the zoose -holders: Tsy stated that the "CASS" illegally kills puppies illegally.
- “These powers are not given for euthanasia An animal euthanasia is carried out according to medical reasons: for example, if the pet has unbearable pain that cannot be stopped or an incurable diagnosis is confirmed at the late stage of the disease. The killing of homeless animals does not fall under the definition of euthanasia. animals, it is prohibited. And [so that] in the places the subjects of [Russia], based on their features, could apply the entire spectrum of the APVV program [captive-sterilization-vaccinations-REPORT], ”lawyer Sergei Egorov, who collaborates with the“ dog of happiness ”, said in a trial in Ulan-Ude.
- Zoojet: TSI claim that the republican law contradicts the Federal Law of the FZ-498 "On responsible treatment of animals."
- "Dog of Happiness" is not the only team that takes out dogs from Buryatia. The united groups of volunteero are also saved by animals: to Ulan-Ude.
Tonight, eleven dogs will leave the shelter to Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Tomorrow morning - five more. The new hosts: the fund finds in social networks for them: they lay out a photo of animals and call up from the subscribing: tsami who respond to the post. Then the volunteer: Ki go to the shelter and are looking for dogs that are ready to pick up.
At the entrance to the shelter, it turns out that Katya and I are both afraid of dogs. Katya in childhood also attacked the mongrels. And not only in childhood. “Here I gave birth to a second daughter, went to the store.
Alabai hefty flew out at me. He failed me, there people managed to do on time
But I realize that the dog’s aggression depends on education: did they beat it, did they feed it? What people were with her? " - explains the volunteer.
"There is no nickname, only numbers"
On Sanskrit One of the languages of India and the language of classical Indian literature. "Ananda" means "happiness." So called the largest According to volunteers, the shelter was built with part of state investments. Now it is a private institution that can only apply for grant financing from the state. A nursery in Ulan-Ude: about two thousand homeless dogs now live in a hundred aviars of Ananda . On each aviary, a number is written in red or blue, on some sheets are glued with a note: “Close the doors” - or the names of the cities where the pets will leave. Some dogs are kept on chains in booths. Tired of the cold, they whine and barely wave their tails.
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A brown muzzle with a tag 12449 peeps out of a wooden booth 12449. Eyes on the bright sun shine like a jasper. In five meters, another dog lies on the booth - it is very quiet, the left eye barely opens. Two dead mice are lying around the tail.
- Do they have names? - I ask Katya while she is looking for a photo of a dog on the phone.
- No, only numbers. The tag is on the ear, ”she explains.
- Do they walk with them?
- To feed everyone ...
“They feed them here differently,” Katya continues. - Either the food is steamed in the broth, or the porridge is cooked meat: Hercules and trachea, a scar. Now let's pay food from the money that was collected from curators.
To feed so many dogs, you need about 200 thousand rubles a day
Now their [dogs] are two thousand, and [before exporting to other cities] there were three. ”
There is a rumble from barking. The dog is linked to Katya, stands on her hind legs and hugs the girl. “You don't let me go? Okay, stand. Oh, how hard it is, it is not getting sick. Well, that's it, Stella, I stay here, I found myself a man. Or is it a girl? " - Katya turns to another volunteer: Ke.
“Where are you taking my dogs? To fuck them there? "
In an hour, Stella and Katya find more than half of the dogs that will leave from Buryatia today. Volunteers put green collars on animals and record a video for the new hosts: to to know the dogs at the station.
To keep warm, we go into the wooden house at the gate of the shelter. A small dressing room goes into the kitchen - here they scan dog chips, drink tea and smoke at the furnace. A box for donations hangs here, on it the inscription: “I dream of your eyes at night that I could not help you. She did not intervene in the fate of the dog. She regretted, but did not take it. "
Aziza Rakhimova sits in the kitchen with a cat on his knees (the name was changed at the request of the heroine. - Doxa) , which controls the shelter. “What is happening right now will be for us ... This hell lasts forever Prior to the adoption of the Federal Law “On Responsible Management of Animals” in 2018, homeless dogs were killed in Buryatia. . The installation has already been given on top. And if all other regions will all begin to [accept the laws on euthanasia], where to take dogs? In Khabarovsk, too, right now, this dick is being considered Resident: Nitsa Khabarovsk published a petition with a request to adopt a law on the killing of stray dogs. ", Aziza sighs. “Where are you taking my dogs? To fuck them there? " - The controller is the controls for the volunteers.
“Someone began to encroach on my cats,” continues Aziza. In the kitchen live a dog Schucha and three cats. One of them hides the muzzle in the mittens, while Aziza laughs: “Yes, these are generally my personal, they do not stand on the balance sheet of the shelter. Well done!
Or maybe you will take me yet, attach me?
Aziz’s phone breaks from messages and calls.
Aziza Rakhimova has been managing a shelter since the spring of 2022. She is also a zoo defender, previously led another animal assistance fund. In the summer, when the shelter ended with money, Aziza began to invest her savings in Anandu. And so that the dogs are not killed, the manager rewrites Homeless dogs remain municipal property until they are rewritten on individuals and are removed from the balance of the municipality. They are on itself: the law allows us to euthanize only "hopeless" animals. In recent months, a woman practically lives in a shelter.
While Aziza is looking for a scanner for chips, a guy of about twenty enters the hall and reports that one dog escaped.
“You will be responsible for me for the safety of dogs,” the manager says sternly.
- Wow! OK…
- Right now there will be dog volunteers every day. That's who passed the dog, he will pay a fine of five thousand.
Volunteers in the shelter "Ananda"
Fox and Belolapka: two dogs who went to new households: Kam
On the kitchen table are forms in files - applications for the transfer of dogs to new households: Kam. It takes more than an hour to fill them. While Katya is engaged in papers, one of the cats of Aziza sits in the hood. “Relax, relaxation, working moment,” the employees of the shelter laugh.
The door to the kitchen with her back is opened by a girl of about twenty -five years old. “We pass! Come on, come on, do not sink. Come in, you’ll be more complete, ”she turns to the dog, which she calls the fox. “Do you hold the door of someone? I brought the fox. She's shaggy, like a chau-chau, right? " - the girl continues.
The fox is wrapped in a terry towel. Tonight she leaves for Blagoveshchensk.
Che, went? I went, brother. Okay, let's good luck
- An employee of the shelter hugs the dog goodbye. To send a fox, it remains to scan the chip and write its number in the table. Aziza is trying to count the chip, but it does not work.
“You are such an affectionate girl.” They called you a fox. What the other she became, ”says Aziza.
- And what was it? - asks the volunteer.
“You were thin,” Aziza addresses the fox. - You are here to die with us, what, have you forgotten? My good, today you will already go on the train. My brain will soon melt just ...
In parallel, the volunteer is trying to find out if there is short -haired dogs in Ananda: “There is still a small request for a small one. They said about about the size of the size. Maybe a little more, but not huge, in general. To the Sverdlovsk region. I took a picture of one, but I don’t know, it will be too big. ”
- Che, is your aviary there? - the employee of the shelter turns to the volunteer.
- Yes, here is the white -headed already, count, they took it. The 13th, then the 23rd [aviary] was completely released.
Khazar: The dog that was found
“Aziza, there is your soul,” the employee calls.
- Who?
- Well, go out, look.
In the hallway, a guy of about 25 hugs a large dog, similar to a retriever. “Ananda” is the third shelter in which he arrived in January. “Found!
We went on vacation, and the dog fed his father's neighbor. Fed-fed, and on the second day he says: there is no dogs
At first we thought that we found him in “ Revival An animal shelter 30 kilometers from Ulan-Ude. ”, But it turned out, this is not him,” says the owner.
- A boy or a girl? - one of the employees of the shelter asks. - Boy. He became heavy ...
- As I visited the resort. Still a little, and he would have left somewhere: to Novosibirsk, Kazan, Moscow ...
“Well, scared, Khazar?” That's it, now you are left without offspring. You will know how to run away from home.
“But he will now be flexible.”
The dog hides the face in the knees of the owner, while he draws up the documents. Khazara was considered missing from October, a month before the death of dogs was allowed in the region.
The volunteer says that there are many dogs in the shelters that, after the loss, they did not look for the economy: Ki. These animals still have collapses: “For some reason, we have the norm that you can let the dog go for a walk somewhere outside the gate. And when they are caught [service], the owners do not follow them [to the shelter], but take the second dog. ” So Khazar was lucky.
Ulan-Ude train-Khabarovsk
In the evening, the volunteers and I meet again at the station. Of the three cars, girls withdraw 11 pets. There are not enough hands, so they give me two small dogs. One of them is spinning and confusing the leash.
- In total, how many dogs do you have? - the Russian Railways employee addresses Stella.
- Oh, remember more ... eleven.
About nine in the evening, volunteers open a special entrance so that the dogs do not have to go through metal detectors. A Russian Railways employee nods a colleague to the dog, who is carried in her arms: "Look, I'm going to work." On the platform of the animals, two conductor of the postal and bagge wagons are greeted. Volunteers are talking:
- The ears froze the fuck.
-Some kind of boiling shipment this time.
- And they, apparently, the very sufferers remained.
“Igor, let's go, I’ll send you the food,” the conductor in the fur cap to the colleague, who will follow the dogs on the road, addresses you. Volunteers laugh and return to the cars. At five in the morning they have a train again.