Animal rights activists are intended to continue demanding the introduction of a moratorium on the killing of stray dogs and cats, one of the organizers of the Fair Play movement, Viktoria Svitlova, has said.
"The presidential administration hasn’t responded yet. If there is no response, and the killings continue, we will hold new events, and they will be even more numerous," she said at the press conference on Tuesday, April 03.
According to her, on March 31 Fair Play events took place the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Simferopol and Sevastopol. Moreover, the activists also protested in Moscow.
The participants of the events demanded that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych introduce a moratorium on the killing of stray animals by the municipal services until the adoption of the corresponding law controlling their numbers using humane methods, such as sterilization.
President of SOS International Animal Protection Society Tamara Tarnawska reported that according to the findings of Kyiv City State Administration, 4,000 dogs had been sterilized in Kyiv in 2011. At the same time, she said she was sure that over 2,000 of them were poisoned afterwards.
As Tarnawska noted, the local authorities are not interested in a humane resolution to the problem, as they do not want stray animals on the streets. She said it would take decades to settle the problem of stray animals in Ukraine because "society is sick and doesn’t have a humane upbringing."
