In the two days since Ana Orosh died after being mauled by a pack of dogs in the Lake Moriy area, authorities have blamed each other but failed to find clear city-wide solutions to the problem. problem. In parallel with the establishment of those responsible for the death of Ana Orosh, it is necessary to take the necessary measures to prevent the repetition of another tragedy. What should be done?

The number of loops must be increased

According to ASPA representatives, 7 teams, about 15 people, are engaged in catching dogs in Bucharest. It’s a bad joke compared to the surface of Bucharest. Many Bucharest residents who called ASPA’s dispatcher complained that the agency’s response was cumbersome and were told by the dispatcher that they intervene on the weekend only if people are bitten by dogs.

It is necessary to urgently increase the number of dischargers, including on weekends, because the response must be prompt. Dogs do not stay in one place for 2-3 days and do not wait for litters.

It is necessary to increase the number of places in shelters

Since 2017, the capital city hall no longer euthanizes dogs. Detainees are kept in three shelters of the municipality until they are adopted.

According to data obtained by HotNews.ro from sources, as they were not officially transmitted, the capacity of ASPA shelters is at the limit. They are designed for 1,200 dogs, and at the end of December, as the representatives of the institution noted, there were about 1,400 dogs in the shelters. If Mayor Nikushor Dan leaves the decision not to euthanize the dogs, the capacity of the shelters must be increased quickly so that the captured dogs can be housed, and the capture is not dependent on the number of adopted dogs and available places.

The district mayors offered to provide financial support to solve the problem, and if the municipality does not have money, this support can be used.

Institutional coordination is important

Currently, according to information gathered by HotNews.ro, the law is poorly enforced in Bucharest, with 10 institutions involved in one way or another in dog management. ASPA seizes dogs in the open, 7 local police officers punish dog owners who don’t spay and microchip their animals, ANSVSA checks that animals are spayed and microchipped, and the National Police.

The problem is that these institutions have only sometimes coordinated their activities and do not have a common strategy and goals to solve the problem. ASPA can only catch dogs on public land, it cannot enter private land except for local or general police. Whenever he faces similar situations, ASPA asks for help from the police, but it takes time. For starters, every capture team should have a local police officer to be effective and able to act when dogs get onto private property, catch and fine owners who allow their dogs to roam the streets. The effort for the local police would not be too great. A maximum of 3 people will be required from each local district police and from the local metropolitan police to escort the 7 hingheri teams at all times.

The capital city hall with district city halls, local police, national police and ANSVSA should form a working group, strategy and act together, for the good of the citizens, without political parties and other small things. If they don’t get together, there is no way to solve the problem, they can only do small things.

The dog pipeline must be stopped

The city hall catches dogs on the streets in vain, if the source of the problem, where the dogs come from, is not solved.

A large part of the dogs that can be seen in public access are not strays. These are owned dogs that either escape into the public domain or are left by their owners to roam the public domain.

Then, because dog owners don’t sterilize their animals, they reproduce and the puppies are either killed, which is horrible and illegal, or they are thrown out into society, far from home, and become strays. This is the source of the dogs and you need to act here.

The law prohibits both practices, but it is not enforced, and local police currently impose very few fines compared to the scale of the phenomenon.

According to GEO 155/2001 on the approval of the program for the management of stray dogs, the owners of dogs of ordinary or mixed breeds are obliged to sterilize them. Failure to comply with this legal provision is a violation and is punishable by a fine of 5,000 to 10,000 lei.

According to the latest amendments to the Law 205/2004 on the protection of animals, leaving them in public access is punishable by a fine of 3,000 to 12,000 lei.

Teams made up of local/national police officers and ANSVSA representatives are to go out over the next period, starting in the suburbs where there are the biggest problems, and check that dog owners have been spayed and microchipped. animals to explain to the owners what the obligations are and to impose fines if necessary.

Sometimes the dogs are kept by low-income families who have nothing to eat, who cannot afford to pay several hundred lei for sterilization and microchipping of animals and never pay fines. They need to be directed to offices where the city hall sterilizes dogs for free and offer them help, because otherwise they can get another 100 fines, the problem cannot be solved.

Holding owners accountable, fines or information, is important. People understand that they are responsible and guilty if their dog bites or kills someone, risking jail time or hundreds of thousands of euros in compensation.

Alignment with Ilfovul

Dogs do not stay at the administrative border of the city, and Bucharest and Ilfov must solve the problem comprehensively. Dogs from neighboring settlements arrive in Bucharest, given that not all settlements in Ilfovo have dog care services and the ability to properly deal with the problem.

The problem is managed by mayors, everyone has their own plan. There are 32 communes and 8 cities in Ilfov. There have been several accusations in the public space that dogs are brought from Ilfov or other counties and unloaded in the fields on the outskirts of Bucharest.

If everyone united and acted in harmony, the results would be definitely better.

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