Some methods that public services of Belarus use to combat fleas in the basements of apartment blocks and the way the sanitary regulations for fighting fleas affect the lives of cats and their owners.
Belarus has no law against owners who throw their cats into the streets....

The objective of this petition: to support the creation of the legislation (currently non-existent in Bielorussia) concerning the protection of the stray pets. To create refuges whose three principal activities are: taking care of the abandoned animals, their sterilization and or...

Belarussian public associations for the protection of animals are hereby seeking support from the European Parliament. For many years have we been trying to make Belarus' officials understand that the current conditions for keeping pet cats and dogs, their breeding, catching, and...

By pet animal is meant any animal kept or intended to be kept by man in particular in his household for private enjoyment and companionship." European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals Chapter I - General provisions Geographically, Belarus is located in the heart of Eu...

The vast majority of Belarusian citizens put up with the existing system of stray animal management and non-stop killings of homeless animals. This is particularly true with the dwellers of small Belarusian towns and settlements. In the meantime, the catching and killing of stray...

On September 16, 2010 Public Association for Animal Protection «EGIDA» sent an open letter to the Chairman of Minsk City Executive Committee N.A. Ladutko with a reminder, that the Head of Presidential Administration V.V. Makey gave clear instructions to the mayor of Minsk “to wor...

This is a story telling why we (i.e. volunteers taking care of dogs) decided to leave… Or, to be more exact, how we were made to leave. Little by little, bit by bit… It should be mentioned straight away that we did realize what our municipal temporary shelter for animals was like...

In January 2009 a top-level decision was made to change the policy and, consequently, to replace the leaders of Fauna Goroda. The Director, Oleg Harkevich, was the first to be dismissed. Vladimir Reentovich appointed his friend, the notorious Alexandr Tamashevsky, to fill in this...

The changes introduced by the new administration of the organization which deals with capturing and keeping stray animals are becoming more and more frightening. «Е» has already written about the threat which was looming over the inmates of «Fauna Goroda» last week. As it transpi...

There is no shelter for animals in any town of Belarus. There are only few drop-off stations for dogs and cats caught or brought by owners in our country. These institutions are obliged to keep the animals for at least 5 days in order to find new owners. If no new owner is found ...

When you are sick, when you have pain somewhere, you take a pill or other kind of medicine and the pain leaves you. But does the pain leave the dogs that this medicine was tested on? Did you ever think of this? I will answer for all of us: "No, we didn't!" Why? In Belarus there a...

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