2024-01-27 04:00:00
Then, when Blesk published the story of Alvin from Františkové Lázně, it was revealed that he was not a homeless dog. Yet he lived for months, maybe years, as a lump of smelly, hardened dreadlocks. His master died, and the animal was stolen from the family. Why didn’t the shelter call the police on her?
The veterinary administration must first decide that the animal was abused, and only then can the municipal authorities or the police act. But…”I have not reported any cases to the state veterinarian for a long time. It’s a waste of time for me and I’m just a jerk“shelter operator Marie Lokingová complained to Bleska.
He has been working with abused animals since 1996.Even though there are laws for that, during the entire time, in not a single case, when we submitted a request for an investigation to the Regional Veterinary Administration in Cheb, did it not turn out in favor of the animal,” explains.
He sees the problem mainly in the inspectors. “How many times I am surprised by the efforts of the police, even representatives of cities and municipalities often struggle a lot and try to provide care for the animals. But it all usually ends with cooperation with the veterinarian,Lokingová adds.
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Abuse of an animal can also be reported to the police or the municipal office, but veterinarians must decide whether it is really suffering.
Dogsy Shelter, Jestřebí: Waste of time
Veronika Slavíková from the Dogsy shelter in Jestřeb in Českolipsk has a similar experience as in Horní Hraničná. “Cases of visibly abused dogs are reported to the police and the regional veterinary administration. It costs us a lot of time, paperwork, but nothing ever came of it. That’s why we don’t try so hard anymore” says Slavíková. They prefer to invest time and energy directly in the animal. As an example, he cites Jessie (Blesk reported), who was left to almost starve to death by her owners. “We literally begged her from them, otherwise she wouldn’t have survived. The police dealt with it, but the owners were unable to prove anything,” adds Slavíková.
Shelter U Šmudliny, Tachov: Unnecessary struggle
„Today, we don’t report most cases to the police or veterinarians. It’s just a struggle with no resultGabriela Jägerová from the Tachov Dog Shelter U Šmudlina also says. It recalls the female Simi with her throat cut (Blesk also reported). “We knew who it belonged to, but we couldn’t prove that the owner did it to her,” he adds. The owner of the puppy, which landed in their shelter with a broken paw and parvovirus over the fence and eventually died, also went unpunished.
Paws in hope, Horšovský Týn: An animal prefers to beg
Elsewhere, they prefer good things to bullies. “If an animal comes to us in bad condition and we know the owner, we file a criminal complaint with the police. Mostly they deal with it as misdemeanors. In such a case, we try to come to an agreement with the owners to donate the dog to us, and we were able to get him into care as soon as possible, heal him and quickly find him a new home,” explains Martina Gilchová from the Paws in Hope association, which runs the shelter in Horšovský Týné on Domažlicka.
What about the veterinary administration?
According to spokesman Peter Majer, the State Veterinary Administration carries out thousands of inspections in the field of animal welfare every year, mostly on the basis of an initiative. Last year there were 6,992 of them, of which 2,514 were for pets, in which they found a defect in 716 cases (28.5%). “To municipal authorities underwent 488 initiatives. In 14 cases, it could have been a criminal actand so she submitted a request for further investigation to the Police of the Czech Republic,” he added.
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