Animal Rights Foundation: 50-euro for wandering dogs can be misused

The Pristina municipality has decided on Monday to subsidise from 50 euros a month to persons harboring a wandering dog. One person has a right to house up to five dogs.

Ramadani has praised this decision as a good initiative, but they have few dilemmas.

As an initiative, it's good in general, because it's going to help people who just deal with strays, take care of them. Many people constantly deal with homeless animals, and 50 euros per dog per capita has been helpful to them. We have few dilemmas that can be misused by many, because in Kosovo there are no legal provisions regulating responsible dog maintenance. They could end 5 off the chain without offering the minimum living conditions, where people who take those money use them not for dogs but for themselves”, she said at KTV.

Ramadani has said they have given some proposals to the municipality that this will not happen.

We've proposed that this scheme or what we call it to be with a monitoring plan and a contract where the municipality and inspectors are constantly allowed to inspect the person who takes the dogs to make sure dogs have well. And let's not just try to get the dogs off the road and get them into a more cruel life. We're not prejudiced that this could happen, but we hope that the Community answers us and tells us the details”, she added.

For comparisons of how children receive 10 euros a month, while for a 50-euro dog, Ramadani has declared that it is not a valid comparison, since it is only an emergency non-state measure.

This should be viewed as an emergency measure. It's not tou state-run mass for hi state system, and our lives paid 50 euros for people who get dogs. Just an emergency measure the Community may have thought of facilitated the situation we are in now, because there is no infrastructure and shelter. It's just an emergency measure, which if it doesn't work, can be stopped”, Ramadani has been expressed.

Ramadani sees more disturbing the notice of the municipality's action to gather stray dogs. He said this is irreplaceable and illegal.

This is irreplaceable, illegal because there is not enough infrastructure to accommodate all the dogs. Some dogs can be sheltered, but shelters in Kosovo are not licensed as such. Minister Peci has issued the administrative directive at the end of May for this”, Ramadani has ended.