Photos: Moscow 24/Anton Velikzhanin
the Inhabitants of Moscow have taken more than 2.3 million dogs and 800 cats from municipal animal shelters in 2019. About it have told in Department housing-municipal economy of the capital.
Deputy head of the GBU “dorinvest” which is created by the Moscow government for the operation of shelters, Victor deacons thanked the workers and volunteers.
He said that compared to the 2018 Moscow residents began to pick up animals from shelters. A year earlier found a new home on 210 dogs and cats less than 167.
“Muscovites can always join the volunteers, or do a good deed and take home a new pet” – quoted by TASS.
over the last five years of the capital’s shelters took more than 12 million dogs and more than 3.5 thousand cats. 13 institutions of Moscow is more than 16 thousand dogs and more than 1.1 thousand cats.
In 2019, the government approved the methodological guidelines on the treatment of animals without owners. Stray animals need to be caught so that this does not result in injury, serious injury or death.
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