Senior Assistant Prosecutor Evgeny Sinelnikov, at a recent round table on one of the most resonant problems – homeless animals, will share the results of prosecutorial inspections, identified violations and current problems related to the placement and maintenance of dogs in Chita kennels. Read more in the story by Ivan Batyrev
Video transcript
We have already covered a round table, the topic of which was the capture and maintenance of stray animals. Now let’s discuss how this work is directly organized, and what problems there are in this area. Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the Trans-Baikal Territory – Evgeny Sinelnikov spoke about violations in the field of catching and keeping stray animals in the regions.
Evgeniy SINELNIKOV – senior assistant prosecutor of the Trans-Baikal Territory
Prosecutors, well, more in other areas, still identified cases where contracts were concluded untimely. For example, in Duldurga, only after the prosecutor saw in April that a contract had not yet been concluded, he reacted, and only after that such contracts were concluded.
Sinelnikova was countered by the head of the department of legal, personnel and organizational work of the State Veterinary Service, Marina Govorova. She stated that late contracting is due to the simple fact that there is no contractor. Keeping dogs in itself is a very expensive business, but it often happens that the amounts initially budgeted for the year can even double over time. And all this is due to the fact that some contractors do not fulfill contractual obligations.
Evgeniy SINELNIKOV – senior assistant prosecutor of the Trans-Baikal Territory
Last year, the prosecutor’s office of this district revealed that the contract they concluded with one of the individual entrepreneurs was in fact not fulfilled. For more than 200 dogs, documents were provided for their capture, budget money of about two million rubles was received, but in fact the capture was not carried out.
According to the prosecutor’s office of the Trans-Baikal Territory, dogs attack people quite often. During the first half of this year, dogs committed 474 attacks, including those causing serious consequences to human health.
Evgeniy Sinelnikov expressed concern on behalf of the department regarding the work of nurseries. And since the head of the Five Stars nursery was invited to the meeting, questions were asked to him too.
Evgeny SINELNIKOV – senior assistant prosecutor of the Trans-Baikal Territory
It feels like no one knows what’s going on inside. How many cases of dog deaths were there this year, I would like to know?
Alexander SOLDATOV – head of the Five Stars nursery
We know all this and provide this information. Well, this year, at the beginning of the year, there was a large death toll in winter, but it was all due to weather conditions, it was a harsh winter.
Nobody euthanized the dogs. The dogs were provided with everything: kennels, straw, all necessary types of food and quality food, and so on. I even buy snow as water.
Over the past year, 23, the death of 605 animals was recorded at the Five Stars shelter; in the first half of the year, 827 dogs died. A prosecutor’s inspection of a nursery in Chita revealed that there was no heating there. At the moment, a trial is underway in Irkutsk, where this case is being considered at the request of the Chita prosecutor’s office. There is no solution yet. Meanwhile, Sinelnikov noted that thanks to the “5 Stars” nursery, there are much fewer stray dogs in the region.
Federal Law 498 “On the Responsible Treatment of Animals and on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” is in force on the territory of the Russian Federation. Article 4 of the law sets out the basic principles of treatment of animals:
1) Treating animals as beings capable of experiencing emotions and physical suffering.
2) Human responsibility for the fate of the animal.
3) Educating the population in a moral and humane attitude towards animals.
Judging by how irresponsibly some Transbaikal residents treat those they have tamed, this law is simply ignored. There are currently approximately three thousand homeless dogs on the streets of Chita. If you catch them all, there will simply be no room left in nurseries.
Ivan Batyrev. Irina Timofeeva, Ivan Dementiev, ZabTv.
