Height, weight, color and a tag: stray dogs to be counted in Kazan

Height, weight, color and a tag: stray dogs to be counted in Kazan

<p> For two weeks, students of the Kazan State Veterinary Academy named after N.Bauman will conduct a census of stray dogs in the capital of Tatarstan. This information will allow to determine the number of homeless animals and to improve the work of municipal bodies. </p> <p> The census takers are distributed in 10 sections of the city. Today, about 10 students and staff of the Veterinary Academy, as well as dog handlers began the census in the Kirovsky and Moskovsky districts of Kazan. Special attention is paid to the places where dogs are most often found: garages, parking lots, industrial zones and others. </p> <p> All the dogs will be photographed, and their data will be entered in a special file. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the age of the dog, height, color, signs of illness and other criteria for analysis. The collected data will be merged into one document, displayed in quantitative and qualitative indicators. “All dogs are different, aggressive and not, it is impossible to predict the behavior of an animal, so we will not come close to the animal, we will make a description by a photo”, - said Anastasia Butova, a graduate student of the Veterinary Academy. </p> <p> The census takers will check each site at least three times to avoid uncertainties, she noted. “The dogs do not migrate often, only in emergency situations, when they feel stress or danger, so many homeless animals live in the same place for 10-15 years,” Anastasia Butova noted. </p> <p> “There are also a lot of pack animals. We can work with them in the future according to the already existing pattern: trapping, sterilization and vaccination. Zoo psychologists will be engaged to work with dogs that show unmotivated aggression, this will solve the problem of congestion in shelters”, - Anastasia Butova explained. </p> <p> A similar practice of counting animals has already been used in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don. “The animal census is the recommendations of the World Animal Health Organization on how to count and analyze the results,”- said Farit Nurgaliev, Dean of the Veterinary Medicine faculty at the Kazan Veterinary Academy. </p> <p> According to Iskander Giniyatullin, deputy head of the Executive Committee, there are about 10 thousand stray dogs in Kazan. “The Mayor of the city instructed to make Kazan safe for citizens and promote animal welfare – he noted. – Today there are discrepancies in standards and real figures, I hope that this census will provide accurate information, so that we can continue to work”. </p> <p> For reference, the decision to conduct a dog census in Kazan was made at a round table dedicated to the issue of stray animals, headed by the Mayor of the city Ilsur Metshin. </p>

2021-10-20T12:35:23+0300