FDK: Without supervision and transparency, 12 people receive over 500,000 euros from Pristina municipality for dog adoption

According to the FDK, only 12 individuals receive over half a million euros annually to accommodate over 850 dogs.

Instead of a regular process of adopting and maintaining standards for animal welfare, this scheme has become a massive housing financed by citizens' taxes, without effective institutional control.”, the FDK's response to their Facebook page says.

The Pristina municipality does not own any monitoring report for these subsidised individuals, the FDK says.

Moreover, according to them, the Commission for Monitoring Addotors was formed only in 2025, and that following the foundation's request to have access to visiting processes.

Following the Foundation's request, the Food and Veterinary Agency (AUV) has conducted inspections in some of these massive housing centres, which resulted in serious finds.

Among other things, AUV's findings reveal that hygiene is under minimal standards, dogs feed only on bread or remains of slaughter, lack of health documentation, shelters are improvised in cruel conditions, including old jars and no investment

Even the city's public accommodation veterinarian, according to the FDK's, during the two inspections shared by AUV, has acknowledged that I don't know whether the adoption process is in line with legal guidelines, because according to him “for this put the municipal interior commission”.

The chart published by the Foundation shows that only a very small number of individuals benefit most of the funds to adopt hundreds of dogs without any verification mechanisms whether these funds are used for the welfare of animals or for personal gain.

The foundation describes this as a distorted system, where mass pet shelter is practiced on behalf of adoption under miserable conditions. /Periscope/