06-12-2018, 07:11 PM
From the first article:
“We could sit here sniffling all day, but I am working within the framework of our constitution,” Alexei Sorokin, the owner of Basya Service, told the Moscow Times. “Why are we worrying about dogs when we should be worried about people?”
That sums up the attitude of the Russian local authorities, who are more worried about the visitors to the World Cup finding some stray dogs in the street than about animal welfare issues. Unfortunately, the decisions are being taken at a local level, not by central government, so petitions are not so easy to target as when central government is responsible. This is the same as in the USA, where a person ill-treating an animal can be prosecuted in one state, but cannot be prosecuted in another, because state laws vary.
“We could sit here sniffling all day, but I am working within the framework of our constitution,” Alexei Sorokin, the owner of Basya Service, told the Moscow Times. “Why are we worrying about dogs when we should be worried about people?”
That sums up the attitude of the Russian local authorities, who are more worried about the visitors to the World Cup finding some stray dogs in the street than about animal welfare issues. Unfortunately, the decisions are being taken at a local level, not by central government, so petitions are not so easy to target as when central government is responsible. This is the same as in the USA, where a person ill-treating an animal can be prosecuted in one state, but cannot be prosecuted in another, because state laws vary.
