The city dog refuge in Dumovac

The city dog refuge in Dumovac

The dog refuge in Dumovac was started near the end of year 2000, without a licence, which it still does not have. The building where it is situated is a badly adapted ex-cattle farm. It is 500 meters away from the crematorium in Sesvetski Kraljevac, and about 30 km outside the city, so hardly any potential adopters are visiting it. The capacity of the refuge is 150 dogs, which is intolerably little considering the amount of stray dogs in Zagreb, and in comparison to Europeian standards. (there is one slot in the refuge per 800 people, therefore Zagreb should have a refuge with 1200 slots).

Until recently, that is, for 4 years, the refuge had no water supply.

The dog refuge in Dumovac still has no heating. The water in dogs plates freezes in winter, so they remain thirsty. There is no sanitary system, no shade in the summer, no separation option for placing newcomming dogs in a quarantene, no special section for ill and old dogs, no surgery hall, no puppy accomodation, and no adequate cage placement for grown up dogs.

New dogs are constantly added into cages with as much as 10 dogs already. Those new dogs, if weaker or smaller, have no chance of survival in such cages. They either get ripped to death in a fight, or they die of starvation, as the more dominant dogs take all their food, (which there is an obvious lack of anyway, considering how thin the dogs are).

When people want to place a stray dog into the refuge, the answer they always get is that the refuge is full, and can not accept any more dogs. The dogs from the refuge are almost never given for addoption. But they do die of illness, or their numbers are reduced in ways captured on this footage.

During the first 6 months of the Dumovac refuge activity, the refuge guards have noted 93 dog deaths. Most of those deaths were filed as «night damage», whatever that means! Since then, the guards in the refuge can keep no track of actions and causes of death of dogs in their refuge. They are misinforming the city authorities by tellng the media that the dogs in the Dumovac refuge are living like in a 4 star hotel!


Gradski azil za napuštene pse u Dumovcu

Otvoren je krajem 2000. godine bez uporabe dozvole koju još uvijek nema. Zgrada azila u kojoj se drže psi neuspješno je adaptirana građevina u kojoj je držana stoka bivše stočarske farme. Azil je 500 m udaljen od spalionice leševa u Sesvetskom Kraljevcu i 30-tak kilometara udaljen od grada tako da ga gotovo nitko od udomitelja ne posjećuje! Kapacitet azila je 150 pasa što je nedopustivo malo u odnosu na broj napuštenih pasa u Zagrebu i europski normativ (jedno mjesto u azilu ima 800 stanovnika, po čemu bi Zagreb trebao imati azil sa 1.200 mjesta).

Do nedavno tj. u četiri godine postojanja, azil nije imao vodovod.

Azil još uvijek nema grijanja (voda se zimi zaleđuje u zdjelicama pa su psi žedni!), kanalizacije, hlad ljeti, izdvojeni prostor za provođenje karantene novozaprimljenih pasa, stacionar za ranjene i bolesne, operacijski prostor, posebni prostor za držanje štenaca, ni adekvatne kaveze za držanje odraslih pasa.

U kaveze sa 10-tak pasa -- starosjedilaca ubacuju se novi psi. Novi i manji-slabiji psi nemaju šanse za preživljavanje u kavezu. Ili budu rastrgani ili polaku umiru od gladi jer im starosjedioci ne dopuštaju prilaz hrani koje je malo, što se može zaključiti po mršavosti pasa.

Kad građani žele smjestiti pronađenog psa lutalicu u azil, uvijek dobivaju odgovor da je azil pun i ne može uzeti ni jednoga psa.

Psi iz azila gotovo da se uopće ne udomljavaju. Ali zato umiru od bolesti ili se smanjuje njihov broj na način koji se vidi na dokumentarnoj snimci.

U prvih šest mjeseci rada azila zaštitari životinja (prema dokumentaciji azila) utvrdili a je uginulo 93 psa. Večinski uzrok smrti bio je evidentiran pod nazivom «noćna šteta», što god da to značilo! Nakon toga, zaštitari više ne mogu kontrolirati rad i uzroke smrtosti pasa u azilu. Gradske vlasti dezinformiraju u medijima kako je psima u azilu u Dumovcu kao u hotelu sa četiri zvjezdice!

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