Pristina filled with wandering dogs, when will the municipality do something? (Photo)

The large presence of wandering dogs on the streets of Pristina continues to bother citizens who are daily endangered by the bite that can carry disease.

The feeding of wandering dogs, often even with epidemic diseases, is seen as common, even running free by no one even in Zahir Pajaziti Square.

A few days ago, a citizen reported the bite by a wandering dog between Pristina.

She said that around 7:00 p.m., while she was on her way to work, at Bayaziti “Square was attacked by a wandering dog who then bit her on foot causing her injuries. She had to take medical treatment to sew the wound.

Such cases are frequent, but even more frequent is the concern they see in the streets, without any care.

Periscope has contacted Pristina's municipality regarding plans that it has to avert this permanent problem, not only in the capital, but throughout Kosovo.

The official from the Directorate for Public Services in the Pristina municipality, Habib Qorri for Periscope, has said that this problem is available throughout Kosovo, including the capital. According to him, the municipality is consistently contracting to address them under the law.

The problem with wandering dogs is a big problem not only for the Pristina municipality but at the local level, because they migrate from one place to another, and then there can be an exit from the suburbs because here the city is big and has better food opportunities. We as municipalities are constantly contracting to treat them according to the law on animals and human norms, Qorri said.

According to him, elimination is not allowed except for specific cases specified in the law.

He has shown that in co-operation with Kosovo Veterinary Agency - The AVK is working a plan to treat stray dogs in order to increase the level of security.

Seeing their large number, in co-operation with the Veterinary Agency of Kosovo we're making a plan because the government has shared a fund, adding to the tools we have planned, we will try to treat them in order to increase the security scale, the Communist official has declared.

According to the Pristina municipality, this way the issue of wandering dogs will be addressed, until a broader project is launched at the level of the country.

Otherwise we have even now contracts and every day the company operates in different neighborhoods of the city and the suburbs. We will thus continue in legal treatment until the country begins to have even wider projects at the level and to start becoming permanent and sustainable solutions.

The law on animal care in Kosovo envisions sterilisation of animals as a method for reducing the number of stray dogs.

With the aim of reducing the population of wanderers, dangerous and unsuitable animals, the mandatory sterility of the animal must be determined at Article 6 of this law.

Meanwhile, the elimination of animals in necessary cases is described as having to be done only with the process of painless murder with medical preparates, a procedure called euthanasia.

A draft regulation worked by the Kosovo Food and Veterinary Agency (AUVK) envisions that dogs without owners can stay up to 30 days in shelters before being eliminated with euthanasia procedure unless no one is offered for adoption within this period.

The Kosovo government has also approved the Veterinary and Food Agency's decision on management and control of wandering dogs in October 2017.

Under this decision, all municipalities of the Republic of Kosovo in their territory must declare the emergency situation and mobilise the defence system's structures, rescue, assistance and other emergency services, which will deal with treatment of stray dogs to reduce the risk of citizens, including, occupied, occupied, quarantine, sterilisation, vaccine, detoxification, identification and issue.