The prosecutor’s office is asked to deal with the legalization of euthanasia of animals

The Ulyanovsk city hall has exceeded the powers given by the law “On the responsible treatment of animals”, says the founder of the “Legal Environmental Resistance” Natalia Lazareva. In the terms of reference for the municipal procurement for the performance of work on WWTS (annex to the contract with the winner of the auction – the regional fund for the protection of animals “Flora and Lavra”), in addition to the legal grounds for killing captured animals, additional grounds are provided – namely, “cases of veterinary and / or social indications” .

Ms. Lazareva sent an appeal to the prosecutor’s office of the Leninsky district of Ulyanovsk with a request to recognize the actions of the mayor’s office as illegal. In her opinion, this is an attempt to legalize cases of euthanasia. She recalled the “trapping and killing in the Flora and Lavra shelter of the pet of the microdistrict (in the Zavolzhsky district of Ulyanovsk) peaceful dog Naida, which was completely healthy and had previously undergone OSVV, which took place in December last year. “I have every reason to fear that the implementation of the contract with such terms of reference by the Flora and Lavra Foundation may lead to new cases of groundless killing of animals,” the appeal to the prosecutor’s office says.

Alexander Yermakov, head of the department for the improvement of the Ulyanovsk City Hall, did not explain what the concepts of “veterinary” and “social” indications mean and on whose initiative additions were made to the list of criteria for killing captured animals. He only stated that “a technical error has occurred, and in the near future it will be corrected by an additional agreement”, “there were no initiatives and malicious intent.”

Sergey Titov, Ulyanovsk