Dogs and cats are the most common human companions in rural areas. It’s wonderful when they live like family members, bring joy, brighten up loneliness, and heal their owners with their communication and love. But we are also well aware of the problem of homeless animals. Where do they come from?

The first way is a puppy or kitten, taken into the house as a toy, then becomes unnecessary and thrown out onto the street.

The second way is <> cubs of domestic dogs and cats. They are planted in other people's doorways, or even just in vacant lots.

The third is the children of homeless parents.

Stray animals spread diseases such as scabies, ringworm, rabies and others.

They themselves often become victims of cruelty on the part of people and even sadism.

The homelessness of animals must be fought, but it is with homelessness, not with animals.

Stray animals adapt to life in the countryside better than in the city. Dogs unite in packs that have a complex organization, their own territory, and their own dens. They know where to feed. They regularly go around yards, landfills and garbage dumps. Others beg near shops, cafes and canteens. And only a few of them are truly homeless vagabonds.

Cats also have their own territories, but they are less noticeable, since they lead a rather hidden, mostly nocturnal, lifestyle.

How many domestic and stray dogs and cats live in our village? It would seem impossible to find out. Indeed, we will not be able to give an absolute exact figure, but based on our research (by studying a part and extending the results to the whole), we can get a sufficient idea of ​​the number of animals.

In the village of Starominskaya there is a Housing and Communal Services enterprise. We called there and asked if stray dogs were kept records so that we could compare them with the data received, and they told us that the company does not have such a service. If necessary, they can only shoot these dogs, and no one is involved in registration and sterilization. Sterilization is used in many developed countries of the world and has proven itself to be an effective, cost-effective and, finally, the most humane method of regulating the number of stray animals. The essence of the method is that stray animals are caught, undergo a simple operation under anesthesia, are allowed to “rest”, and then are released to their former habitats. Pets should also be sterilized if the owners do not want to have meowing and barking offspring, which they can later throw out into the street. <>

Today, in our region there is a method of “euthanization”, it consists of a simple murder: a dog is shot from a special gun filled with darts with a deadly poison. In the village of Starominskaya, according to the veterinary hospital, the method of “euthanization” was used 304 times in 2007.

This problem interests not only me. From the newspaper <> dated 10/06/2007. article <> <<...The upcoming Olympics has exposed many problems to the authorities. For example, what to do with the homeless animals that have filled the Kuban cities? You can, of course, follow the Greek path, when in 2004, on the eve of the Summer Olympic Games, the authorities of Athens “resettled” five thousand four-legged street children in the houses and apartments of local residents. You can look back at the domestic events of 27 years ago, when in Moscow before the 1980 Olympics, all stray dogs and cats were simply destroyed. But...after a while, in both capitals, the number of stray animals was restored. What should the Kuban residents do this time so as not to lose face in front of overseas guests in 2014? The answer to this question was found by Krasnodar animal defenders, proposing a sterilization program as an alternative...>> The newspaper gives a good proposal: <<...And in a number of countries a simple measure was introduced - a tax on animals, which stopped the flow of waste the street of our little brothers. Animal advocates constantly cite European countries as an example, where the number of animals reflects the standard of living: the fewer there are, the higher it is. Moreover, this problem is being solved there through the joint efforts of the authorities and ordinary citizens...>>.

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