APPEAL FOR HELP!
The mayor and the Environment Commission intend to ban keeping more than two pets in flats, private property of Sofioters.
Accompanied by police wardens the Municipality will confiscate animals above two in number and will put them in the killing station for stray dogs in village of Seslavtsi nearby Sofia.
Alex has grown with her pets, saved from the streets. She has promised them never to abandon them, unaware that one day the Municipality will ask her to do that - to make such a heartless choice - who to pardon and who to send to death to your killing station.
For fifteen years Sofia has witnessed overpopulation of stray dogs, and for the last three or four years the numbers of stray cats has grown significantly. Between 1999 and 2006 the Municipality has slaughtered over 140,000 dogs by statistical numbers. Sofia residents neuter stray animals either paying from their own pockets or using the free service of a Germany-sponsored neutering facility, as a result of which there are more than 10,000 treated stray animals. The majority of them have been adopted by people who try to help resolve the issue of stray dogs.
Sofia Mayor, Boyko Borisov in his electoral campaign definitely opposed the slaughter of stray animals and made an appeal for neutering and housing these animals. In flat contradiction to those appeals NOW, SIX MONTHS LATER, the Municipality, represented by the Mayor insists on this preposterous restriction on the number of home pets which will lead to their mass abandoning to the streets of Sofia, for no one will take voluntarily their healthy and well looked-after animal home pet to be killed. This will entail a huge wave of abandoned animals which will drastically increase the number of stray animals.
Instead of raising the bar on observing the requirements on humane keeping of animals, as well as applying good international practices on the ratio of living area to pet size, the Municipality is trying to restrict the right of the tax-payers to keep as many animals as they can afford without disturbing other people.
If an owner does not take due care of his, even a single, animal, and disturb his neighbors for this reason, he shall be liable to sanctions provided for. So, the outcome of applying restrictions in the number of home pets will not be an act of concern for the people, but rather an increase of stray animals used as a free resource for illegal production.
PLEASE HELP US PREVENT THIS INSANITY FROM HAPPENING!
Please send the PETITION to the Mayor, the City Ombudsman, the Chair of the Sofia Municipal Council and the Environment Commission at the Sofia Municipal Council to relinquish this monstrous idea at the following contacts: b.borisov@sofia.bg, ombudsman@sofia.bg, vkisiov@sofia.bg, estambolova@sofia.bg
For your facility attached is a sample text of the petition.
Thank you in advance for your support!
TO
GENERAL BOYKO BORISOV
MAYOR OF SOFIA
MR. ANGEL STEFANOV
SOFIA CITY OMBUDSMAN
MR. VLADIMIR KISYOV
CHAIR OF SOFIA MUNICIPALITY COUNCIL
COMMISSION FOR ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT AND LAND REFORM AT THE CITY COUNCIL
DEAR GENERAL BORISOV,
DEAR MR. STEFANOV,
DEAR MR. KISYOV,
DEAR MADAM NELI MANOVA (SSD) AND GENTLEMENS: EVTIM
EVTIMOV (BSP), NIKOLAJ ZHELEV (SDS), PETYR KOLEV (BSP), LIUBOMIR
STOICHKOV (BSP), HRISTO KOZHUHAROV (DSB), STEFAN ASENOV (SSD),
BORISLAV ALEKSIEV (SDS), ATANAS TASEV (NDSV),
Please do not deprive Bulgarian citizens of their right to keep pets in their own homes!
Do not provoke hostilities between pet owners and their neighbors!
Introduce the requisite control to protect people and animals, but do not coerce thousands of conscientious owners of more than two animals to abandon their four-legged companions to the street or, worse, to kill them.
Do not cut down campaigns for adoption of stray dogs, to which we owe a second chance! Do not bereave them from this chance!
Do not allow such impetuous and ill-considered ideas to make the Regulation on acquisition, keeping and breeding pets on the territory of Sofia a preposterous and inapplicable document!
Respectfully yours:
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