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Sofia to seek contractor to neuter street dogs

Tue, Feb 21 2012 23:36 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Sofia to seek contractor to neuter street dogs

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Sofia municipality is to call a tender to supply a mobile clinic in a 150 000 leva (about 75 000 euro) project to neuter stray dogs.
 
This was announced on February 21 2012 by Maria Boyadzhiiska, deputy mayor in charge of environmental affairs, news website Mediapool said.
 
The animals will be captured by special teams, taken to the dog pound and returned to their usual locations on the streets, the report said.
 
The municipal company in charge of street dogs and non-governmental animal protection organisations would by the end of March carry out a census of stray dogs in Bulgaria’s capital city, according to the report.
 
The municipality plans to increase to six the number of teams capturing street dogs. Recent bad weather had made it "impossible" to perform neutering operations because of the difficulty in capturing strays.
 
After restructuring of the municipal company in charge of dealing with strays, the number of people dealing directly with capturing and processing street dogs will be increased, from eight to 12.
 

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This inadequate approach is just delaying real solutions. It do not address the source of unwanted animals, namely the owned dog population and particularly latch-key dogs that give birth unrestrictedly. Led by the best practice, Sofia City Hall shall appoint special officers also known as "dog wardens" to sanction any owner allowing its animal to range freely.
Maria Bojadzhijska continue to be a proponent of doubtful policies in pet population management. He was appointed six years ago and so far did nothing to solve dog overpopulation problem. Since starting the "catch-neuter-release" program in September 2006, a total of [...]

 Read the full comment 26,400 wele reported as caught but general public remains unaware about what happened to them. Moreover, 7 million leva were spent in this mainingles activity.
Bojadzhijska's performance presents a criminal case. In a letter of August 2011, Animal Programs Foundation insisted Mayor Fandykova to fire Maria Bojadzhijska over incompetence. It also present to the mayor a proposal to create a multi-stakeholder committee to prepare a program for effective local dog and cat population management. Mrs Fandykova did not reply.


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