Society and animal welfare - Serbia
Illegal dog fights where even the police makes bets - dogs and cats strangled in trees - youths are torturing pets to death, for fun and bragging - dogs and cats decapitated or with their legs chopped off - dogs raped in front of children - dogs sterilized and put back on the street shortly after, where they usually die - shelters filled with malnourished dogs surrounded by feces - dead bodies everywhere - dogs become cannibals because they are starving - this is animal welfare in Serbia!
In the Republic of Serbia, dogs and cats experience inhumane capture and death in a never ending attempt by authorities to control the stray animal populations of towns and cities. Throughout their short lives, animals live a pitiful existence.
These often unwanted animals fight and scavenge for a pittance of food and water in an always increasingly hostile environment. And yet despite their suffering; stray and unwanted dogs and cats maintain the ability to REPRODUCE – make new little cats and dogs! And so, the repetitive cycle goes on, routinely uncontrolled and with no future planning by the authorities.
Throughout their short lives, animals live a pitiful existence. These often unwanted animals fight and scavenge for a pittance of food and water in an always increasingly hostile environment. And yet despite their suffering; stray and unwanted dogs and cats maintain the ability to REPRODUCE – make new little cats and dogs ! And so, the repetitive cycle goes on, routinely uncontrolled and with no future planning by the authorities.
Through a fear of disease and with a lack of knowledge and, quite often, suitable and adequate resources, many authorities throughout Serbia use the most barbarically cruel and ineffective methods of stray animal population control.
Once captured by the ‘Shinter’ (animal catching) teams, animals are often confined to cages without any food or water for many days prior to their deaths. Death is administered in many ways by the Serbian Government authorities.
by paralysis of the respiratory system through T-61 injections into the heart or lungs – T-61 being a neuromuscular blocking agent which is no longer used in the United States.
Injection of Nuvan and Kreozan poisons; causing death by suffocation burying alive, clubbing to death; often undertaken by authority sanitary services hiring non-discerning people to kill animals on their behalf sealing animals in plastic bags and disposing of them on garbage dumps compacting (crushing) animals in authority refuse collection vehicles.
Since 2005 year buy the Veterinary law--article 46, each local community has obligation to take care of abandoned animals. From 1st January 2006, the Criminal Code of Serbia. Article 269,
Paragraph 1: anyone who is cruel to, inflicts violence or kills an animal as defined by this law, must be punished by up to a 6 month prison sentence;
Paragraph 2: if suffering or death is carried out on more than one animal, the person who inflicted this suffering can be sentenced with up to 3 years imprisonment.
any person who is cruel, violent or inflicts death on any animal making up the ‘special protection’ group of animals (as for example, the wolf or the brown bear) can again be sentenced to up to 3 years imprisonment.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 photo, an abandoned dog in the shelter near the city of Backa Topola, about 100 kilometers north of Belgrade, Serbia. According to the official data, the number of stray dogs in Belgrade alone has doubled in the past several years, reaching over 8,000 dogs in the central municipalities and 15,000 in the entire city area, a huge number for the city of 2 million, when, for example, the Russian capital, Moscow, has five times more people than Belgrade, and 26,000 stray dogs.
In the Republic of Serbia, dogs and cats experience inhumane capture and death in a never ending attempt by authorities to control the stray animal populations of towns and cities. Throughout their short lives, animals live a pitiful existence.
These often unwanted animals fight and scavenge for a pittance of food and water in an always increasingly hostile environment. And yet despite their suffering; stray and unwanted dogs and cats maintain the ability to REPRODUCE – make new little cats and dogs! And so, the repetitive cycle goes on, routinely uncontrolled and with no future planning by the authorities.
Throughout their short lives, animals live a pitiful existence. These often unwanted animals fight and scavenge for a pittance of food and water in an always increasingly hostile environment. And yet despite their suffering; stray and unwanted dogs and cats maintain the ability to REPRODUCE – make new little cats and dogs ! And so, the repetitive cycle goes on, routinely uncontrolled and with no future planning by the authorities.
Through a fear of disease and with a lack of knowledge and, quite often, suitable and adequate resources, many authorities throughout Serbia use the most barbarically cruel and ineffective methods of stray animal population control.
Once captured by the ‘Shinter’ (animal catching) teams, animals are often confined to cages without any food or water for many days prior to their deaths. Death is administered in many ways by the Serbian Government authorities.
by paralysis of the respiratory system through T-61 injections into the heart or lungs – T-61 being a neuromuscular blocking agent which is no longer used in the United States.
Injection of Nuvan and Kreozan poisons; causing death by suffocation burying alive, clubbing to death; often undertaken by authority sanitary services hiring non-discerning people to kill animals on their behalf sealing animals in plastic bags and disposing of them on garbage dumps compacting (crushing) animals in authority refuse collection vehicles.
Since 2005 year buy the Veterinary law--article 46, each local community has obligation to take care of abandoned animals. From 1st January 2006, the Criminal Code of Serbia. Article 269,
Paragraph 1: anyone who is cruel to, inflicts violence or kills an animal as defined by this law, must be punished by up to a 6 month prison sentence;
Paragraph 2: if suffering or death is carried out on more than one animal, the person who inflicted this suffering can be sentenced with up to 3 years imprisonment.
any person who is cruel, violent or inflicts death on any animal making up the ‘special protection’ group of animals (as for example, the wolf or the brown bear) can again be sentenced to up to 3 years imprisonment.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 photo, an abandoned dog in the shelter near the city of Backa Topola, about 100 kilometers north of Belgrade, Serbia. According to the official data, the number of stray dogs in Belgrade alone has doubled in the past several years, reaching over 8,000 dogs in the central municipalities and 15,000 in the entire city area, a huge number for the city of 2 million, when, for example, the Russian capital, Moscow, has five times more people than Belgrade, and 26,000 stray dogs.
NO MERCY FOR ANIMALS IN SERBIA Serbia is one of the last countries in Europe that adopted the Animal Welfare Law, in June 2009. According to the Serbian Animal Welfare Law, the local authorities are under obligation to carry out a strategy for resolving the problem of stray animals (Article 54).
Since the adoption, the Law has not been implemented, and local regulations were not harmonised with it. Citizens and the authorities are not educated in humane animal issues and furthermore most of them do not care.
The improvement of animal welfare is not the priority of Serbian government officials. The police and the veterinary inspection are not interested in animal protection!
The streets of Serbia are inundated with abandoned dogs and cats. We witness brutal scenes of animal abuse almost every day: stray dogs and cats are poisoned, burned, cut, slaughtered, shot, beaten by individuals who are not punished for their crimes against animals (since January 2006 the abuse and the killing are forbidden by Serbian Criminal Law, Article 269).
Stray dogs and cats are brutally abused and killed by citizens and zoo hygiene services. Local authorities across Serbia hire city communal firms to catch and kill stray animals: Novi Sad, north Serbia - source Loznica west Serbia - source
When the authorities make it known that there is an area affected by rabies, the season of catching innocent stray animals starts. Usually it is enough that somebody finds a dead fox near a Serbian town, and it is questionable if the fox even got rabies. Dog catchers start their perfidious game - catching and killing of dogs in the most inhumane ways!
There is no observation; dogs are killed in pounds by applying T-61 directly to their hearts, with no premedication. The city of Zajecar, east Serbia, a city where hundreds of dogs were brutally murdered in 2010 because of rabie - sources
Serbian Animal Welfare Law (Article 66) says that local authorities must provide shelters with standard life conditions (Article 61). Smederevo pound was a specific case - dogs were left alone without food and they were killing and eating each others.
While it is encouraging to see improvements in the Smederevo pound, the reality is that there are still hundreds of stray dogs and cats living on the streets of the same town that need urgent help - source
Everyday scenes - The streets of Serbia are filled with abandoned dogs and cats. Brutal scenes of animal abuse are witnessed almost every day.
Stray dogs and cats are poisoned, burned, cut, slaughtered, shot, beaten by individuals who are not punished for their crimes against animals although since January 2006 the abuse and the killing are forbidden by Serbian Criminal Law, Article 269.
Stray dogs and cats are brutally abused and killed by citizens and zoo hygiene services. Local authorities across Serbia hire city communal firms to catch and kill stray animals.
The animals are seen only as vermin to be removed from the streets and squares.
Since the adoption, the Law has not been implemented, and local regulations were not harmonised with it. Citizens and the authorities are not educated in humane animal issues and furthermore most of them do not care.
The improvement of animal welfare is not the priority of Serbian government officials. The police and the veterinary inspection are not interested in animal protection!
The streets of Serbia are inundated with abandoned dogs and cats. We witness brutal scenes of animal abuse almost every day: stray dogs and cats are poisoned, burned, cut, slaughtered, shot, beaten by individuals who are not punished for their crimes against animals (since January 2006 the abuse and the killing are forbidden by Serbian Criminal Law, Article 269).
Stray dogs and cats are brutally abused and killed by citizens and zoo hygiene services. Local authorities across Serbia hire city communal firms to catch and kill stray animals: Novi Sad, north Serbia - source Loznica west Serbia - source
When the authorities make it known that there is an area affected by rabies, the season of catching innocent stray animals starts. Usually it is enough that somebody finds a dead fox near a Serbian town, and it is questionable if the fox even got rabies. Dog catchers start their perfidious game - catching and killing of dogs in the most inhumane ways!
There is no observation; dogs are killed in pounds by applying T-61 directly to their hearts, with no premedication. The city of Zajecar, east Serbia, a city where hundreds of dogs were brutally murdered in 2010 because of rabie - sources
Serbian Animal Welfare Law (Article 66) says that local authorities must provide shelters with standard life conditions (Article 61). Smederevo pound was a specific case - dogs were left alone without food and they were killing and eating each others.
While it is encouraging to see improvements in the Smederevo pound, the reality is that there are still hundreds of stray dogs and cats living on the streets of the same town that need urgent help - source
Everyday scenes - The streets of Serbia are filled with abandoned dogs and cats. Brutal scenes of animal abuse are witnessed almost every day.
Stray dogs and cats are poisoned, burned, cut, slaughtered, shot, beaten by individuals who are not punished for their crimes against animals although since January 2006 the abuse and the killing are forbidden by Serbian Criminal Law, Article 269.
Stray dogs and cats are brutally abused and killed by citizens and zoo hygiene services. Local authorities across Serbia hire city communal firms to catch and kill stray animals.
The animals are seen only as vermin to be removed from the streets and squares.
An old faithful servant - chained his whole life - is cruelly taken away and transported by municipal employees.