Russia (bbabo.net), - Reports of stray and completely domestic dogs attacking people in different regions of Russia have recently resembled a summary of hostilities.

So, at the end of December in Yakutsk, a pack of dogs killed an associate professor at the North-Eastern Federal University. In January, in the village of Domna in Transbaikalia, animals killed a seven-year-old girl, and in the Privolzhsky district of the Astrakhan region, a man who was going to work. Dogs are certainly to blame, but more, probably, people - who daily drive hundreds of annoying pets out into the street. And also officials who turn a blind eye to packs of stray dogs, considering such populations in cities and villages to be quite normal. For example, according to the materials of the prosecutor's office in Znamensk, Astrakhan region, a criminal case was initiated against officials of the city administration, whose inaction led to more than 120 cases of attacks on people by stray dogs. On similar facts, criminal cases were initiated in the republics of Bashkortostan, Tuva, Bryansk, Voronezh, Murmansk, Samara and Sakhalin regions.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, "permissiveness and impunity" in the treatment of animals is facilitated by the weak development of legislative norms. As explained in the supervisory authority, in response to a request from RIA Novosti, this primarily concerns the lack of preventive measures in the form of administrative liability for violating the law "On Responsible Treatment of Animals."

"In modern legal realities, they require regulation of measures to regulate the number of animals without owners. Currently, the monitoring of the number of such individuals in the territories of municipalities is carried out based on the number of applications for catching from citizens and organizations," the supervisory authority noted.

In addition, the Prosecutor General's Office proposed to develop criteria for "unmotivated aggression" of stray dogs that pose a threat to people and which should not be returned to the streets.

At the moment, according to the supervisory authority, there are no unified criteria for the unmotivated aggressiveness of neglected animals, which, according to the law, cannot be returned to their habitats after sterilization and vaccination.

The absence of such criteria, according to the prosecutor's office, "prevents the adoption of prompt measures against individuals that pose a danger to the life and health of citizens."

What is proposed to be done with aggressive dogs - to be kept in a shelter for life or euthanized, is not explained.

In January, the Prosecutor General's Office agreed on a draft amendment to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, which should introduce administrative liability for unscrupulous pet owners, including abandoning pets. Currently, there is no such provision in the Code of Administrative Offenses.

The prosecutor's office also supported amendments to the law that give the subjects of the Russian Federation the right to establish additional requirements for keeping and walking pets. At the same time, these requirements must take into account local traditions, including those of small peoples who, for example, use sled dogs.

Back to news Dog owners will be required to mark their four-legged friends from June 1.

Municipalities are vested with the authority to vaccinate, label and sterilize animals admitted to the shelter. This, as well as the capture of stray dogs, as well as their maintenance in shelters and the search for new owners, will be able to municipal enterprises and organizations or individual enterprises under contracts with municipalities.

The deputies believe that it will now be easier to find the performers of these works. If earlier there were almost no applicants due to low pay, now it has grown significantly. Thus, the standard for the cost of a service for catching one animal without an owner is increased from 884 to 2,500 rubles, the cost of a transportation service - from 1,066 to 1,700 rubles. The payment for keeping an animal in a shelter will also increase. Now it costs 3306 rubles for 20 days, and it will be 6300 rubles. In addition, the standard for the cost of accounting, marking, vaccination and sterilization of an animal without an owner is set in the amount of 4691.47 rubles.

By the way, as I already wrote, the parliamentarians of Bashkiria advocated that the citizens of the country bear full responsibility for their dogs, and sent a bill to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the mandatory registration of human friends - chipping. It aims to make it easier to find a lost pet. But most importantly, chipping would help bring to justice the citizen who threw the animal out into the street, as well as establish the owner of the dog that attacked the person. However, this bill was rejected.

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