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17 of August, 12:59

In Moscow will set baby boxes for animals In Moscow offer to install baby boxes for animals. Animal rights activists advocate the installation of containers, where owners will be able to leave became worthless pet.

Animal welfare activists who advocate for animal rights, concerned about the problem of homeless children. In this regard, they proposed to establish in Moscow baby boxes for dogs and cats in the municipal shelters and services for the control of stray animals.

According to their idea in Moscow should appear specialized containers where owners will be able to leave became unfit favorite. The President of the Center for legal animal protection Svetlana Ilyinskaya assures that similar measures will help to save animals that are dumped on the street.

"We are constantly faced with the fact that the owners throw their own students literally in the trash. As a rule, people in the street are kittens, but occasionally in other animals. In fact, the owners condemn them to a slow death. It would be better if these animals leave in specialized containers, where they will find the specialists will decide their fate" - quoted by Elias "M24".

Animal rights activist stresses that baby boxes for pupils are required is within particular institutions that the experts could have time to find and pick up "the foundling". With all that Elias told that the problem of homeless animals is complex and requires a comprehensive approach.

In addition, a similar interested in deputies of the city Duma. Member of the Commission on environmental policy, Irina Ilyichev announced that parliamentarians can consider and support the project installation of containers for abandoned animals, and to consider issues of funding. "It is an idea that is worth to analyze. These containers will simplify the work of urban service on catching of vagrant animals. But first we need to understand how all this will look and carefully to work out organizational and technical factors," she said.

My opinion on this issue expressed and main engineer of the veterinary Department of the Moscow zoo Tatjana Razumovsky. She expresses the opinion that the containers for abandoned animals need to do multiple to foundlings had not begun to fight. "Cells must be the size of a large kennel for dogs: approximately m by m or slightly more. They should be arranged ventilation and soft lighting so that the animal was not sitting in the dark, but that light didn't hit the eyes," she explained.

According to the expert, the containers must be equipped with a warning system, so that workers specialized services could pick up the animal within a few hours. It may be a button that presses the master or control, responsive to a closing of the cover.

Remember that baby-box or "Window of life" is intentionally equipped place for anonymous abandonment of the child and transfer him into the custody of state agencies. Can be placed in medical institutions (public and private), religious organizations. In several regions of the Russian Federation similar systems are already in place. With all this recent years, the cases when human baby throw boxes of kittens.
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