"Kill those who are in sight"

In Armavir, almost 500 homeless dogs were exterminated for six months

The legislation of the Russian Federation on the regulation of the number of such animals allows only their capture and sterilization. But the tramps are killed by thousands throughout the country, zoo defenders say, and at the expense of the budget and with the complete approval of the supervisory authorities.

They often see unnecessary dogs in Armavir, social networks are full of monstrous plots: immobilized, helpless, unfortunate dogs die, sometimes in front of passers -by.

- Dogs are killed right on the street. Often - home dogs, losses. We find them with darts, they die in agony.

This lasts not the first year. I know, somewhere in Tikhoretsk there is a crematorium for them, so sometimes living dogs are thrown into the fire-just immobilized, ”says Anna. The name is fictional, she is afraid to lose work in a state institution.

In mid -December, Anna's associates received a response from the prosecutor’s office to their many complaints. The zoo defenders complained about the extermination of dogs instead of the laid capture and sterilization. And when they read the answer, they struggled: it turned out that in less than six months a contractor who undertook to “regulate the number of hopeless animals”, on a completely legal basis, exterminated 496 dogs in Armavir. They were simply equated with synanthropic individuals - foxes, jackals, etc. Zoo -defenders announced on the Internet on December 14 the day of memory of the dead animals.

“Imagine 496 dogs who look at you good -natured eyes and ask to stroke. They kill those who are in sight. Contact and good, which were on the street due to the fault of a person, then at your expense died in torment from poison. It’s easier to kill them. They are more open to man, believe him and fit themselves. ”

"IP Kolosova E.A." - A contractor who has been engaged in the extermination of stray dogs throughout the Krasnodar Territory for 12 years.

The scale of activity in the city with a population of 190 thousand is really amazing:

• Within the framework of the concluded municipal agreement of 01.03.2021, 315 dogs were killed,

• under the agreement of July 27, 2021 - 181 .

Last year, the Kolosovs also succeeded:

• From February 3 to April 27, 166 dogs were destroyed, about which 4 acts on the work performed were signed.

On average, if you evaluate the pace of the campaign, at least two dogs perish in Armavir daily at the hands of the abolders.

And not a single one is caught in the framework of a civilized struggle against hopeless animals - in Armavir there is simply no appropriate infrastructure.

Since 2020, according to the Federal Law-498, only two methods of combating stray dogs are possible in Russia: capture and lifelong content in shelters at the expense of the budget; And the second, with great difficulty lobbled by zoo defenders, the principle of OSVV-"capture-sterilization-vaccinations-issue."

The program strategy suggests that after 10-15 years, stray dogs, deprived of the opportunity to multiply, will disappear from city streets as a phenomenon. This article of expenses from municipal budgets is financed. Most of the Russian regions, unable to provide dogs with a lifelong pension, formally use the ATV method. In fact, the caught dogs are destroyed.

- To any customer, in this case, we are talking about departments or municipalities, it is not interesting that the dogs return back. But the problem is that a sterilized dog does not lose aggressiveness. They can correspond to aggression to human aggression, protect their territory, get down into flocks around a current bitch, etc.

The complaints of the population continue, and even complain of “bucked” dogs, ”says Ilya Nurutdinov, a zoo defender from Novocherkassk (Rostov Region). - Therefore, the customer is often inclined to turn a blind eye to any violations in order to ensure that these dogs do not return back.

( continues ) to catch and kill “bucked” dogs only if they show unmotivated aggression. But the system is so arranged that any veterinarian can give the contractor a certificate that the dog was aggressive during his lifetime. And any audit of the prosecutor's office will show that everything is legal.

Nurutdinov and other zoo defenders say that the situation is more or less the same throughout the country.

“I very rarely encountered conscientious contractors, in 90% of cases the problem is solved that way,” says a familiar veterinarian.

The poor municipalities are on the positions of doghunters: a dead stray dog ​​once costs a budget of 2200 rubles, a living can “eat” the budget for years.

“The funds spent on catch, maintenance, sterilization, etc. for six months of the same head, during the preliminary calculation were obtained in the amount of 47–50 thousand rubles. On the head, ”the material of the Slavyanovsky City Court of the Krasnodar Territory says, where four years ago the illegality and cruelty of the methods that“ IP Kolosova E. ”were considered” four years ago She was engaged in the implementation of the municipal contract.

To destroy dogs, the contractor used the drug "Andilin-Super", which

“Causes in animals a painful death from suffocation, without losing consciousness and is inhumane” (quote based on the materials of the court).

The methods of work outraged the Azovo-Black Sea Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office, and she filed a lawsuit both to the Slavyanovsk city settlement and the IP Kolosova EA ”. The lawsuit was filed in the interests of an indefinite circle of people injured by paintings by barbaric hunting for homeless dogs, which the Kolosovs turned out in the city.

The administration of Slavyanovsk asked the court to "enter into a position."

- The prosecutor’s office proposes to spend budget funds of the Slavyanovsky city settlement in the amount of 10,750,000 rubles. per year for the maintenance and treatment of 215 heads of hopeless animals, and this is not counting the cost of building an object of placement of hopeless animals. As a result, these same dogs should be released back to the habitat after 6 months, and then a year later they were reduced again for re -treatment and prevention. On average, the life expectancy of a stray dog ​​is 4-6 years, and during this period it must be vaccinated every year. Thus, the costs of 1 head can be up to 200,000 rubles, ”officials said in court, calling the position of the prosecutor's prosecutor's office.

Solomonov did not find a decision. Kolosov was forbidden to use Andilin and engage in catching dogs for six months, the administration of Slavyanovsk - to conclude agreements for the extermination of dogs without providing animals with an alternative in the form of a built municipal shelter.

There is no shelter in Armavir either. The prosecutor’s office regularly issues a warning to the city administration on this score, the administration does not dispute them and continues to conclude contracts for “regulation of numbers”, which turn out to be exterminated. The circle does not open.

Yes, and citizens, zoo defenders say, for the most part support shootings.

“This is the fact that stray animals are a consequence of the irresponsible behavior of people: they start an animal, they do not sterilize,” Anna almost cries. “You would know where we find them.” They brought one, a puppy of a large dog - stabbed with a pitchfork. Near the third school of Armavir, some maniac wound up at all-we find brutally tortured dogs, even a pair was raped with a stick.

There is a criminal article for brutal handling of animals. But someone had a bitch in someone, they put the offspring in the box and threw it into the garbage container-they do not consider it a cruel circulation.

The way out of the situation could be the coming to the market of bona fide contractors who have authority in the zooisine world - by the way, very ruthless to people who do not sympathize with animals. But this is from the field of science fiction, as well as the creation of public councils that would control the work of the Oblasts. When people are raped by mop - who cares, who and how kills stray dogs?

And also - corruption: contracts for “catching” dogs often receive the same companies. In Novocherkassk, zoo defenders say, such a row somehow ended up in the section "Cleaning the city beach." Only one who knew where to look for. Veterinarians who are ready to conscientiously fulfill the order and even help municipalities with the construction and content of shelters; Conduct preferential sterilization and vaccination - the entrance is closed into this system.

So far, rare caring people confront the giant murder of homeless dogs. For example, in Rostov-on-Don, entrepreneur Sergei Menshikov, together with other philanthropists and zoo defenders, built and contains a center for sterilization and vaccination of hopeless animals “Dog patrol”. Processed animals from it are still released, but the very presence of such a center, along with working similar municipal institutions, removes from city officials the need to switch to “deadly contracts”. How long? It's hard to say.

The arrival in this sphere of caring professionals is the only thing that can save homeless Russian dogs from mass destruction. Such people are already helping volunteers throughout the country. They would help more if they could work with contracts.

“Sterilization of one dog, depending on the weight, we have from three to six thousand rubles,” says Alexander Serezhnikov, owner of the Phoenix Vetklinic (Novocherkassk). - We help volunteers, as we can, sterilize - we take money only for drugs, not for work; We put on tags, let go. In this area (regulating the number of hopeless animals), it is necessary to use as many professionals as possible - dog handlers, veterinarians. Only they can determine whether the animal is aggressive, it is necessary to destroy it or not.

The representative "IP Kolosova E.A." Another position.

Firstly, he insists that he uses only humane methods of extermination of dogs; Animals do not suffer and only aggressive individuals are destroyed.

And secondly, the Kolosovs system are considered inhumane itself.

From the response of the contractor - "Novaya Gazeta"

What are those who are engaged in the catch and extermination of dogs. Letter to New Gazeta

“Wandering dogs are a very serious danger to people, because you come across them every day, just going out into the street. In addition, an increase in the number of stray dogs is clearly embedded in the general policy of the atomization of society, to incite hostility between people, between neighbors and social networks. That is why the criminal and anti -human anti -human policy is planted.

To date, stray dogs are trying, in fact, to endow the rights higher than that of people!

The main reason that customers contact us are citizens' complaints about the aggressive behavior of dogs on the streets. Aggression is manifested by attacks, biting, covering, intimidation, especially children, pensioners, and a healthy man is also scary.

That is, the reason is not in the presence or absence of dogs in dogs, but in the very presence of dogs.

Not a single representative of the municipality in a sober mind asked us to return the damaged dogs back. Not one - never once! Understand that the city is not the habitat of stray dogs and the most striking example is Moscow.

You do not know in Moscow what kind of phenomenon this is. In Moscow there is no OSV, in Moscow - irrevocable capture. You can read the story about the Moscow OSVV (1994-2002) on the Internet, and it ended tragically.

Therefore, Muscovites, in principle, do not understand what is happening in the field.

Another important aspect why OBVV does not work is money. The cost of the service for one head ranges in regions up to 30 thousand (Surgut) 23 thousand (MO) rubles for the head. Our services are an order of magnitude cheaper and much more effective, where we work, there are no attacks, or they are very rare. In addition, some places of dog maintenance, infrastructure, equipment, mass of staff are needed. It is all very costly and it is unrealistic to build it to local budgets, and they will not do it. ”

Maxim Kolosov, representative of the contractor

In the spring of this year, State Duma deputies introduced a bill for consideration, which would legitimize euthanasia of stray animals and save thousands of officials from the need to balance between humanity, concern for citizens and law. The project lay in the Duma for a day and was withdrawn due to the sharp reaction of the public.