Druga Prilika

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Po odluci gradskih vlasti, zagrebački šinteraj zatvoren je od 16.3.2004 za građane – udomitelje, volontere akcije Spasimo pse iz šinteraja i novinare.

Kapacitet šinteraja je 20 kaveza, svaki površine jednoga kvadratnog metra. Kavezi su metalni, sa metalnim podom koji nema rupice i peru se šmrkom hladne vode dok su psi u njima. Psi leže u kavezima u vodi, mokraći i izmetu. Psi su, iako se ne kreću, mršavi jer se nedostatno hrane.

Zakonom o dobrobiti životinja regulirano je da se napušteni psi nakon 30 dana držanja u kavezu šinteraja – usmrćuju. Volonterska udruga Druga prilika u proteklih je sedam godina spasila 2.472 psa i štenaca tako što im je putem medija našla nove vlasnike ili one koji su ostali neudomljeni (zbog neishranjenosti, osakaćenosti, nesocijaliziranosti itd.) 29-og dana preuzela na čuvanje o trošku građana – donatora. Udruga nikada nije ostavila ni jednoga psa šinterima da ga usmrte.

Na psima iz šinteraja obavljaju se pokusi. Upravo je na njima u tijeku pokus sa vađenjem krvi za titra testiranje.

On March 16th 2004 the Zagreb city authorities have decided to close the Zagreb dog pound down for viewing - no potential adopters, no volunteers from the «Save dogs from the dog pound» organisation or journalists are being allowed to see the dogs anymore.

The pound's capacity is 20 cages, each not bigger than 1 square meter. The cages are made of steal, with a steal bottom without holes, and they are washed with gushes of cold water, while the dogs are inside them. The dogs lie in their cages in pools of cold water, urine and feces. Although they hardly move at all, they are skinny due to poor nourishment.

The law about the welfare of animals demands that abandoned dogs are put down after 30 days spent in the pound. Over the past 7 years, the volontary organisaion Druga Prilika (Second Chance) has saved 2.472 dogs and puppies from the pound, by finding them new owners through the media, or taking over the care for the ones that could not be addopted (due to undernourishment, wounded/crippled bodies or antisocial behaviour). Such dogs were being taken from the shelter on their 29th day, and their needs were financed by donators. The Second Chance organisation has never left a single dog to be put down at the pound.

The dogs at the pound are being subjected to experiments. The current experiment being conducted is extraction of blood for TITRA testing.

Ova snimka zagrebačkih šintera, osim o brutalnosti, govori i o tome koliko napuštenih i izgubljenih pasa ne stigne do kaveza šinteraja jer budu zadavljeni prilikom hvatanja.

Mnogi koji prežive šinterski lov žičanom omčom ostaju doživotno traumatizirani i panično se opiru stavljanju ogrlice. Neki od njih (kratkodlaki!) imaju oko vrata kružnu krvavu ranu – raspuknutu kožu od stezanja žičane omče.

Zakonom o dobrobiti životinja (čl 26, st. 2., NN br. 19 iz 1999.) regulirano je da se napuštene i izgubljene životinje «skupljaju tako da se životinji nanose najmanje boli i patnji». Za prekršitelje te odredbe u zakonu nije predviđena kazna.

This is a video of Zagreb dog pound's dog catchers in action. Apart from brutality, it also displays how many abandoned or lost dogs never make it to the pound, because they end up being strangled to death during the process of catching.

Many of those who survive being caught with a wire around their neck remain traumatised forever, and they panic and resist ever getting a collar put on them again. Some of them (those with shorter fur) have a round bloody wound around their neck, where the skin cracked due to the strong grasp of the wire.

The law about the welfare of animals (article 26.2, NN No 19, 1999.) demands that lost animals are caught in such way that «the animals suffer as least pain and suffering as possible». There is no punishment predicted for the violation of that rule.

Otvoren je krajem 2000. godine bez uporabe dozvole koju još uvijek nema. Zgrada azila u kojoj se drže psi neuspješno je adaptirana građevina u kojoj je držana stoka bivše stočarske farme. Azil je 500 m udaljen od spalionice leševa u Sesvetskom Kraljevcu i 30-tak kilometara udaljen od grada tako da ga gotovo nitko od udomitelja ne posjećuje! Kapacitet azila je 150 pasa što je nedopustivo malo u odnosu na broj napuštenih pasa u Zagrebu i europski normativ (jedno mjesto u azilu ima 800 stanovnika, po čemu bi Zagreb trebao imati azil sa 1.200 mjesta).

Azil još uvijek nema grijanja (voda se zimi zaleđuje u zdjelicama pa su psi žedni!), kanalizacije, hlad ljeti, izdvojeni prostor za provođenje karantene novozaprimljenih pasa, stacionar za ranjene i bolesne, operacijski prostor, posebni prostor za držanje štenaca, ni adekvatne kaveze za držanje odraslih pasa.

U kaveze sa 10-tak pasa – starosjedilaca ubacuju se novi psi. Novi i manji-slabiji psi nemaju šanse za preživljavanje u kavezu. Ili budu rastrgani ili polaku umiru od gladi jer im starosjedioci ne dopuštaju prilaz hrani koje je malo, što se može zaključiti po mršavosti pasa.

Kad građani žele smjestiti pronađenog psa lutalicu u azil, uvijek dobivaju odgovor da je azil pun i ne može uzeti ni jednoga psa.

Psi iz azila gotovo da se uopće ne udomljavaju. Ali zato umiru od bolesti ili se smanjuje njihov broj na način koji se vidi na dokumentarnoj snimci.

U prvih šest mjeseci rada azila zaštitari životinja (prema dokumentaciji azila) utvrdili a je uginulo 93 psa. Večinski uzrok smrti bio je evidentiran pod nazivom «noćna šteta», što god da to značilo! Nakon toga, zaštitari više ne mogu kontrolirati rad i uzroke smrtosti pasa u azilu. Gradske vlasti dezinformiraju u medijima kako je psima u azilu u Dumovcu kao u hotelu sa četiri zvjezdice!

The dog refuge in Dumovac was started near the end of year 2000, without a licence, which it still does not have. The building where it is situated is a badly adapted ex-cattle farm. It is 500 meters away from the crematorium in Sesvetski Kraljevac, and about 30 km outside the city, so hardly any potential adopters are visiting it. The capacity of the refuge is 150 dogs, which is intolerably little considering the amount of stray dogs in Zagreb, and in comparison to Europeian standards. (there is one slot in the refuge per 800 people, therefore Zagreb should have a refuge with 1200 slots).

Until recently, that is, for 4 years, the refuge had no water supply.

The dog refuge in Dumovac still has no heating. The water in dogs plates freezes in winter, so they remain thirsty. There is no sanitary system, no shade in the summer, no separation option for placing newcomming dogs in a quarantene, no special section for ill and old dogs, no surgery hall, no puppy accomodation, and no adequate cage placement for grown up dogs.

New dogs are constantly added into cages with as much as 10 dogs already. Those new dogs, if weaker or smaller, have no chance of survival in such cages. They either get ripped to death in a fight, or they die of starvation, as the more dominant dogs take all their food, (which there is an obvious lack of anyway, considering how thin the dogs are).

When people want to place a stray dog into the refuge, the answer they always get is that the refuge is full, and can not accept any more dogs. The dogs from the refuge are almost never given for addoption. But they do die of illness, or their numbers are reduced in ways captured on this footage.

During the first 6 months of the Dumovac refuge activity, the refuge guards have noted 93 dog deaths. Most of those deaths were filed as «night damage», whatever that means! Since then, the guards in the refuge can keep no track of actions and causes of death of dogs in their refuge. They are misinforming the city authorities by tellng the media that the dogs in the Dumovac refuge are living like in a 4 star hotel!