The problem of stray animals in Chisinau municipality can be solved by launching the process of neutering pets so as to reduce their breeding and by compiling a register of pets and animals without a master so as to monitor these permanently and to formulate solutions based on these data, Vasile Efros, head of the Territorial Development and Cleanup Section of the General Public Amentias Division, was quoted by IPN as saying.

According to Vasile Efros, it is very important to approve a new decision on the management of pets and stray animals. The last such decision approved by the Chisinau Municipal Council dates from 2001.

The Section’s head said that owing to the allocations from the municipal budget since 2016, they managed to implement the municipal pet sterilization program. Regrettably, the program involved only a veterinarian clinic and only 150 animals of the 600 planned were neutered. Ultimately, money for continuing the project hasn’t been allocated and this was stopped.

Vasile Efros noted that money for laying out areas for walking dogs in a number of zones in Chisinau was earmarked in the 2018 state budget, but it was decided not to allocate these funds in the absence of clear regulations in this regard.

Thus, over 1 million lei was used to outfit a sterilization center. Cages for temporarily keeping sterilized animals will be set up there. The other animals without a master, who are aggressive, will stay longer there.

Vasile Efros said it is the duty of the National Food Safety Agency to ascertain the violation of the rules concerning animals now.

The problems related to stray animals in urban areas was discussed in a roundtable meeting organized on the initiative of the Socialist group on the Chisinau Municipal Council on July 18.