The authorities of Transbaikalia supported the law on euthanasia of stray dogs

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Trans-Baikal Region adopted a law in the first reading that allows stray dogs to be euthanized after capture. This is reported by “Chita.Ru”.

According to Andrey Lym, head of the Trans-Baikal Region State Environmental Service, trapping points will be created in the region, where the animals will be kept for 30 days, after which they will be euthanized. We are talking about “aggressive” dogs and animals that definitely do not have an owner, Lim noted. If, based on a number of signs, it is established that the animal may have an owner, the dog will be sent to a shelter for six months.

After this period, if the dog is not picked up, it will be sent to the capture point, and after 30 days it will be euthanized. According to Lym, the law will help save budget funds, since the maintenance of one homeless dog costs the budget 54 thousand rubles per hour.

The authorities have been preparing the bill for three years, deputy Mikhail Yakimov noted. He declared that “the main value of our state is people,” and “disabled children and our humanity as a whole suffered from the absence of such a law.”

On December 24, a rally against the adoption of the new law was held in Chita, and on December 25, a resident of the region went on a single picket demanding an end to the killing of animals.

• In July 2023, the State Duma of Russia gave regional authorities the right to independently decide what to do with homeless animals: to continue to implement the federal program OSVV (Catching – Sterilization – Vaccination – Return), keep them in shelters for life or kill them. Regional laws to euthanize animals for which no owners have been found within a certain period have already been adopted in Buryatia, the Altai Republic, and the Magadan Region.
• At the same time, in the Astrakhan region, due to protests by animal rights activists, a similar bill was withdrawn.

• Animal rights activists, public and cultural figures actively spoke against the draft law allowing the killing of homeless animals. Protest actions were held in dozens of Russian cities, in Moscow protesters gathered several times near the presidential administration building. More than 136 thousand people signed the petition against the law.