Catching

Search and capture of pets in Moscow

Veterinary hospital "Panvet": search for lost cats

When hormones are raging in an animal’s body, it becomes very inventive. The desire for an individual of the opposite sex forces cats and cats to leave their comfortable and familiar habitat, taking advantage of the inattention of the owners. Sometimes a pet goes for a walk out of curiosity - often even those animals that have been castrated want to expand the usual boundaries of the world and go off to explore new spaces. If your pet has gone in search of adventure, then do not waste time, involve specialists in his search. In this case, you can return it home much faster than searching for it yourself. The city veterinary clinic "Panvet" uses different methods to find cats. Our specialists use surveys of residents of nearby houses, advertise in the media, and conduct searches on the Internet. Shelters for homeless animals are checked, and it is advisable to have a photograph of the fugitive. We offer inexpensive cat search The price for this service can be clarified by the administrator by phone. If your pet is lost, then you cannot sit idly by. There are various dangers awaiting him on the street, so the sooner you contact us for help, the higher the likelihood of success in carrying out search activities.

Help in solving problems of homeless animals

Unfortunately, you can find stray cats on the streets of the city. Today, the solution to the problem of increasing the number of stray animals is to catch cats in Moscow and then sterilize them. Cats that are caught are placed in shelters; if the owner is not present for a certain time, the animals are euthanized or sterilized and returned to the place where they were caught. Euthanasia is often practiced because sterilization is not free. In most cases, euthanizing an animal is an alternative to keeping it in a shelter cage for life, or starving to death on the street. The 24-hour veterinary clinic in the South-Eastern Administrative District “Panvet” provides an inexpensive cat catching service. We help in capturing sick and aggressive individuals that pose a potential danger to people and healthy animals. By contacting our clinic, you can always find out how much it costs to search for cats, as well as get answers to questions about animal care and maintenance.

After such a “grand” victory of the hunters of the Khoteichi shelter over other competitors, it’s time to turn to the continuation of our project: ...let's get acquainted... and this time it will be...

...catching service.

At the moment, the task of catching wild and lost animals includes two full-fledged teams of catchers consisting of two people each. In especially difficult cases, the staff of the team is increased by the addition of a seconded veterinarian and (or) an additional catcher.

“...the crew of a combat vehicle...” Fig. 8.10.5

At one time, there was a third brigade, formed and stationed at the Degunino shelter. This unit of ours worked exclusively in the Northern Degunino district of Moscow. A formal agreement was concluded with the District Administration for the provision of this type of service. For more than six years (absolutely free of charge, although quite a bit of money was allocated by the state and is still allocated to this day), we dare to hope that we have well fulfilled our obligations to catch wild and stray animals in the controlled territory. All requests for the capture of animals issued by the Administration were carried out immediately and in full. We were ready to continue to work for free, “turning a blind eye” to the money floating away, if our only condition was met - no third-party catchers in the territory of our responsibility. And in this small, but fundamentally important issue for us, the district officials did not meet us.

And therefore, as mentioned above, our service includes only two teams of professional specialists in catching and transporting various types of wild, lost and stray animals. This division is financed exclusively from the own funds of the BIM Charitable Foundation.

This year we were quite often invited to catch foxes, both individual adults and entire broods with grown-up fox cubs. Below is a photo report about a multi-day expedition of a united team of our “capture masters”, equipped to capture two young foxes. Initially, there were more “red-haired cunning” people. By the time we became aware of them, the bulk of the brood, through the efforts of local farm animal lovers, had been poisoned.

The remaining two foxes turned out to be amazingly smart and careful. They categorically refused to enter such a huge, beautifully made cage - a trap. (I would live myself), completely ignoring the freshest chicken fillet laid out in it.

“If we don’t wash it, we’ll roll it,” we decided and prepared a fishing net, treating it according to all the canons of real hunting. The fishing gear was boiled for hours in a bucket with various secret additives and herbs. The result of the efforts is still “zero”!

The last sentence put into practice is “fishing with live bait.” There were many doubts about the legality of using this fishing method. Four chickens bought from local villagers served as live bait. The safety of the birds was ensured by the second inner cage, in which the chickens were located.

And as they used to say some thirty years ago: “There are no peaks that the Bolsheviks could not take!” The foxes have been caught. No animals were harmed during the capture process..

“Setting up” the trap cage. Fig.8.10.6

Tedious boiling of the fishing net. Fig.8.10.7-8

The boiled network did not work; Let's use live bait. Fig.8.10.9

Captured fox cubs. Fig.8.10.10

Unharmed chickens. Fig.8.10.11

This year alone, our service went out three times to catch moose that either appeared within urban areas, wandered into summer cottages, or were injured. In the latter case, the planned operation to remove the animal... smoothly turned into an operation to save his life (see diary dated 08/17/14). Below is a photo report of the moose capture carried out by our specialists in June 2013.

A shot with a tranquilizer dart is fired (arrow with red feathering on the inside of the thigh). Fig. 8.10.12

The moose “fell asleep”; transportation of the animal to vehicles; loading. Fig.8.10.13-15

Having loaded the peacefully sleeping “client”, we with all possible speed and caution (the high art of combining incompatible things) We transport him to his place of permanent residence, that is, to the territory of “Losiny Ostrov”.

"Elk Island" We remove the bonds from the legs and the blindfold. We feel the pulse. Fig.8.10.16-17

In order for the “sleeping” elk to recover faster from anesthesia, we put it on an IV (for such cases, the “hunting” team includes a certified veterinarian). Fig.8.10.18

The "patient" woke up. Twenty minutes later the elk went into the forest. Fig.8.10.19-20

Catching wolves, as it turns out, is also our specialty. Although such an operation, which we carried out this year in the city of Zhukovsky, took the most effort and time from us (see diary dated 08.08.14). Almost three months passed from the moment of our first departure in response to a call from “concerned” citizens until the capture of the she-wolf. The animal categorically did not want to let us within the flight distance of a “charged” dart. Let's be honest, we're lucky (although... those who are lucky are lucky). The “happy accident” was that the she-wolf ran into the sports ground, that is, into the territory, although large, but still limited by a mesh fence. Further action was only a matter of technique: on the one hand, we needed to deprive the animal of the opportunity to make a quick dig under the fence, on the other, to try to drive it out towards the shooter with a tranquilizer. All this was done with appropriate (let’s not be afraid of this word) “brilliance” in a fairly short time.

She-wolf inside the sports field. The animal “fell asleep.” Fig. 8.10.22

We tie the limbs of the immobilized wolf and bandage the mouth. Such an operation is performed solely for the benefit of the animal, since once in a small cage (even temporarily), a wild animal can cause significant harm to itself. The veterinarian accompanying the team of catchers monitors the correctness of all manipulations. The main requirement is the safety of the animal; the “client” must be able to breathe freely.

Preparation for transportation: the she-wolf is tied up; check for breathing ability. Fig.8.10.23-24

A she-wolf in a shelter next to the enclosure where her future “friend,” a wolf named “Max,” lives. Fig.8.10.25

Catching wolves and moose, catching foxes - all this is exotic, albeit interesting and exclusive, but not the main part of the profession. The “lion's share” of our time is occupied by the completely routine capture of dogs and cats in large numbers living in the capital of our Motherland next to humans. Such close communication for our “neighbors” often turns out to be very dangerous. Who would count how many animals get into transport accidents (from banal car injuries to cases in subway tunnels)? How many fall into construction pits and wells, get tangled in barbed wire and get stuck in mesh fences? What about the notorious “dog hunters” (we believe that these are, for the most part, low-level workers of city public utilities, following the instructions of their immediate superiors)? We also have to play “catch-up” with them, who will be the first to reach the animals scheduled for destruction: we will take them out and hide them, or they will poison them or shoot them.

One of the most acute epizootic and social problems of residents of modern megacities is the huge number of stray animals that, for one reason or another, find themselves on the streets of the city. Despite the numerous efforts of social services and charitable organizations, the number of street four-legged animals is growing rapidly, amounting, according to various estimates, from 20 to 100 thousand dogs and up to 300 thousand cats in the capital alone.

Most often, stray dogs live in markets, industrial zones, courtyards or entrances of residential buildings, and less often in landfills, parks, on the street, in subway lobbies or locomotive depots. Cats live in heated basements, heating mains, food and industrial facilities. Left without owners, four-legged animals run wild, can form flocks, and also change their habitat.

What are the main reasons for the appearance of homeless animals?

The vast majority of homeless animals were already born on the street. According to the Moscow Government, only 1-5% of the total number of stray dogs and cats were abandoned or lost by their owners. The rest are not first-generation homeless.

The three main reasons for the increase in the population of such animals are:
- the presence of the necessary food supply, formed by leftover food in garbage containers and waste from food enterprises, as well as intentional complementary feeding by caregivers from among local residents;
- uncontrolled reproduction occurring in geometric progression;
- low level of demand for outbred animals taken from the street or from a shelter.

What is the essence of the problem?

Dogs and cats who find themselves on the street, unable to obtain their own food, are forced to beg from passers-by, destroy garbage dumps, and attack domestic and wild animals. In addition, following the instinct of self-preservation, stray animals gather in flocks, choose a unique habitat and jealously guard it from any uninvited guests.

Every year, about 30 thousand city residents who have suffered from attacks by stray animals turn to the capital's hospitals for medical help. In 2004, 2005 and 2008, accidents involving the death of people as a result of attacks by packs of dogs were recorded.

The first cases of dog infection with rabies in the last 50 years were recorded in Moscow in 2006 and are regularly recorded both in the city itself and in the adjacent Moscow region to this day.

In addition, stray four-legged animals are one of the main sources of infection of humans and domestic animals by pathogens of such dangerous infectious and invasive diseases as: leptospirosis, listeriosis, brucellosis, salmonellosis, tularemia, plague, rickettsiosis, toxoplasmosis, chlamydia, mycoplasmosis, trichinosis, helminthiasis and many others .

The free presence of packs of stray dogs on city streets causes manifestations of cruelty on the part of citizens who resort to illegal methods, in particular, poisoning dogs using poisonous baits.

According to the Commission on rare, endangered animals and plants in Moscow, since the early 1980s, facts have been established of attacks by packs of stray dogs on wild animals - hares, squirrels, hedgehogs, wild boars, moose, roe deer, sika deer and surface-nesting birds. In 2000, stray dogs destroyed the last population of badgers in Moscow.

What are the main solutions?

Of course, the first priority is to solve the problem of regulating the number of stray animals through catching, sterilization, socialization, vaccination and subsequent placement in new families or shelters, as one of the most important components of any social projects.

How is stray animals caught?

There are several methods for capturing animals. If the animal is socially adapted, it is caught with a net or simply carried into the car. If the animal has low social adaptation or is aggressive, use a remote injector with sleeping pills and special restraints.

What are the rules governing the capture of stray animals?

On January 16, 2001, the Moscow Government approved regulations on the capture, transportation, sterilization, maintenance, registration and registration of stray dogs and cats in the city of Moscow, establishing that stray and stray animals are an integral part of the urban ecological environment and are protected by government authorities.

Regulation of numbers should be carried out using methods that exclude killing and cruelty to four-legged animals. The main method is sterilization and castration of males and females, preventive deworming and immunization, microchipping, inclusion in the register of stray animals with their subsequent return to their former habitat, shelters or transfer to new owners.

Only aggressive and socially unadapted animals that pose a threat to the population are subject to euthanasia. In such cases, the capture order must be accompanied by certificates of bites of citizens received at the district clinic no later than the next day after the attack.

The catching of stray dogs and cats must be carried out from 22.00 to 07.00 hours. In cases of a real threat to the life and health of citizens, round-the-clock trapping may be temporarily permitted for up to 15 days. The population must be informed about the beginning and period of validity of such a permit through the media in advance.

Specialists of the capture team must observe the principles of humanity when catching and transporting animals and are obliged to deliver them to temporary detention centers strictly on the day of removal from their places of permanent or temporary habitat.

Immediately before carrying out the capture procedure, specialists must make sure that there is no person accompanying the dog or cat.

When catching using the immobilization method, the shot should be fired only at a clearly visible target, perpendicular to the plane of the animal’s body, to prevent the projectile from ricocheting from sliding contact with the target.

Caught hunting, service and other purebred dogs, as well as other dogs that have a collar or signs of belonging to the owner, purebred cats and cats that have a collar or signs of belonging to the owner, must be kept in a temporary holding facility separately from other animals for six months.

Catchers are strictly prohibited from:

• catch stray dogs and cats in the presence of minors;
• appropriate captured dogs and cats, sell and transfer them to individuals and organizations;
• exceed the dosage of the special drug recommended for temporary immobilization;
• use baits, means and methods of catching without the recommendation and approval of veterinary authorities;
• when catching stray dogs and cats using the immobilization method, shoot at an unclearly visible target (in the bushes, in poor lighting, etc.), shoot along narrow spaces, shoot at a distance of more than 10 meters from the target, shoot from vehicles, and also shoot in the direction in which there are people;
• keep captured animals in a vehicle for more than 4 hours;