PEOPLE's Quick Guide: How to protect your pet from dog hunters
The founders of the "Hayot" and "Gavcheg" shelters shared their advice on protecting animals and your home pets from dog hunters (persons who, on their own initiative, are engaged in shooting or poisoning stray dogs in settlements).
Over the past few years, more and more news about cruelty toward animals has been appearing in Uzbekistan. Killing, trapping, and poisoning defenseless animals with rat poison are all the work of dog hunters and animal control services. Some sadists get sophisticated enough to hide small stabbing and cutting objects in pieces of food.
Dog-hunters are people who willingly poison stray animals in populated areas. Their desire to get rid of street stray animals can also affect domestic pets. It is impossible to explain the reasons why dog-hunters are so cruel to animals. We can assume that people are afraid of stray animals and their attacks. This is how people want to protect and secure themselves. But even the fear of being bitten by a stray dog does not justify such inhuman cruelty.
There are also animal control services. For example, in Khiva, an animal control service kills dogs and leaves their corpses at the site of the killings. This case is reported by "OJJ Mehr va Oqibat".
On October 20, 2020, five dogs poisoned by the animal control services escaped and scattered in different directions. Then they ran into the entryway and threw themselves from the third floor. The service did not pick up their bodies, but left them in the same place, after which city residents had to bury all the dead animals themselves.
Together with the founders of the Hayot and Gavcheg shelters, PEOPLE prepared a brief guide on how to keep animals safe from cruel people.
If you see a homeless animal on the street, you can call any shelter to find out how the animal can be picked up, or you can take it yourself to a veterinary clinic.
Make an effort to reduce the number of stray dogs that walk freely on the street. In this way, the chance of dog-hunters will be lower.
Be sure to walk your pet with a leash and a muzzle. Do not let your dog go for a walk, as it is much more likely to get caught.
The dog may get frightened and get lost. Train your dog not to pick up food from the ground or the hands of strangers. Check the walking area for suspicious objects (pieces of sausage, meat, lard, etc.). Watch your dog's behavior, if he starts sniffing something or wants to eat it, yank him away from it. Also, when the dog is muzzled, the people around him feel safer.
Attach a nameplate with your phone number and name to the collar of the dog or mark these details directly on the the collar.
However, these two items can be removed to sell or take for yourself, and the risk of sending the dog back to the street is very high. To avoid all of this, you can get a tattoo on the inside of your dog's ear. There is also such a way as chipping, which costs about 30,000 sums, and it is done at any veterinary clinic.
And most importantly, the dog must be spayed or neutered, because once in the wild, once lost, they begin to breed.
Get to know the differences between these surgeries, and you should have these procedures done at a proven clinic. This is important because it gets rid not only of offspring, but also of many diseases, as well as sexual behavior and difficulties in training. Such interventions create the ideal conditions for the dog to live longer.
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Source: https://peoplenews.uz/kratkij-gajd-people-kak-uberech-zhivotnyh-ot-zhestokogo-obrashheniya