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Ideas include significantly increasing fines for offenders and legalizing the automatic confiscation of animals when cruel behavior occurs. Mandatory animal tagging is returning to the agenda, and the Seimas expects that all puppies of dogs, cats and ferrets will have to be “chipped” in Lithuania as early as May.
Vaida, who has hosted a French Bulldog cross from an illegal kennel in the Jonava district, is glad that Neila spent only the first seven months of her life there. However, it was enough for the dog that only saw the cage to become unsocial.
“For the first time, even when I put it on the grass, she didn’t understand what to do. The feeling that you don’t understand what running means. And for a long time he was afraid of hard surfaces: asphalt, cobblestones, ”he says.
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Vaida claims to have cared for several dogs in the past, but was the first to see the animal react so greedily to water.
“For a couple of days, it seemed crazy, it seemed that you did not drink or drink. As if it was the last time I could have a drink,” the woman continues.
Still, Neil had flaky fur on one side, inflamed eyes, and an allergy, and an X-ray showed narrowing of the spinal vertebrae. Volunteer Vaida says she can’t even imagine breeders being able to return their own cured, socialized and loving dog. And this is exactly the decision of the Kaunas District Court, it is true that the Food and Veterinary Service is appealing against it. The court relied on the stories of multiplier Alos Perederij that she would provide larger cages.
There are now more than 30 rescued dogs in shelters and handlers. And after the scandals, politicians also trembled. They are already offering ideas on how to save animals from cruel people. The ruling conservatives, after consulting with representatives from the Ministries of Environment, Agriculture and Justice, propose to allow dogs or cats to be confiscated immediately if their owners have not cared for them or treated them cruelly. And – to prevent them from raising animals in the future.
“We discussed the possibility by law of preventing people who have been recognized as having cruelly treated animals from engaging in economic activities: raising animals and then selling them,” says conservative Aistė Gedvilienė.
Representatives of at least some parties are also calling for increased fines. Animal torturers now face penalties ranging from € 50 to € 1,200.
“If you sell puppies for a considerable amount, 1000 euros each, and the fine is 350 euros, we probably understand that it does not protect in any way against such behavior”, Ieva Pakarklytė, a member of the Freedom Party, is convinced.
Aistė Gedvilienė offers to double the fines. And the representative of the opposition, the Social Democrat Linas Jonauskas, calls for the protection of animals in a similar way to that of children.
“My initiative is to establish a new service, the Ombudsman’s Office for Animal Welfare, which would guarantee the supervision and surveillance of all competent specialists responsible for animal welfare,” says Social Democrat Linas Jonauskas.
According to L. Jonauskas, the inspectors of the Veterinary and Food Service are now simply not interested in animal welfare, as they have many other responsibilities.
“When Veterinary and Food Service professionals have some options in front of them: go see a restaurant when they are working, or a deli shop, or an animal tied to a road and kept cold, I think they will choose the first two options . They don’t care much about animal welfare, “he says.
The new service is said to employ 15 inspectors, which would cost the budget of 350,000 a year. euros. And the rulers have returned to the idea of mandatory labeling of all animals. This idea does not find place for several terms: tagging is introduced, it is canceled. Conservatives hope that from May 1 all puppies of dogs, cats and ferrets in Lithuania will be “shucked” compulsorily.
“We must, first of all, know how many animals we have in general and how to control them afterwards”, is convinced A. Gedvilienė.
And within a year, you may have to “cut” your four-legged adult friends. For those who cannot, the government promises to find ways to recoup the costs. The Sejmans also propose to ban the sale of animals in the open air and in markets.
“They are in cages all day, without food, sometimes without water, regardless of the weather, whether in winter or summer. Another thing is that we also encourage breeding, because it is easier to sell an animal in the market without any document ”, says I. Pakarklytė.
At that time, animal welfare organizations themselves are looking for more animal rights. It is their staff who see the real state of health of the quadrupeds deprived of multipliers and treat them, but they do not have the right to intervene in the process.
“Until non-governmental organizations are given the authority to act on state institutions, the situation will not change. It will simply never change,” explains Indrė Pileckienė, director of Dogspoto.
Representatives of animal welfare organizations support the proposals and revoke the licenses of veterinarians who see cruelty to the animal but do not turn to the police.
“According to the latest numbers, veterinarians must understand that the public interest is not the representation or defense of breeders in court, but the representation of animal welfare,” continues I. Pileckienė.
The rulers promise that the largest of the animal welfare laws will take effect as soon as the plenary sessions begin, that is, in mid-March.
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