Instructions for use of the drug Adilin-super for bloodless killing of animals
(Developer organization: Federal State Budgetary Institution "Federal Center for Toxicological, Radiation and Biological Safety", Kazan)
I. General information
Trade name Adilinum-super.
International nonproprietary name: bisdimethyl sulfate of bisdimethylaminoethyl succinic acid.
Dosage form: powder for the preparation of a solution for injection, containing at least 95% of the active substance - succinic acid bisdimethylaminoethyl ester bisdimethyl sulfate.
In appearance, Adilin-super is a white or light cream powder, highly soluble in water.
Adilin-super is released in packages of 2; 50; 100, 500 and 1000 g in glass and polymer bottles of appropriate capacity, sealed with screw caps with rubber or polyethylene gaskets with additional waxing. Each package is supplied with instructions for use.
Adilin-super is stored in the manufacturer's sealed packaging, in a dry place, protected from light, inaccessible to unauthorized persons, separately from food and feed, at a temperature of 5°C to 25°C.
The shelf life of Adilina-super, subject to storage conditions, is 1 year from the date of production. Do not use Adilyn-super after the expiration date. Ready-to-use solutions of Adilina-super are stored for 1 day.
Adilin-super should be stored out of the reach of children.
Disposal (inactivation) of a working solution, an expired drug and its residues after use, as well as a series of the drug that did not pass control tests, is carried out by dissolving in a 1% aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide or a 5% aqueous solution of soda, followed by boiling for 10 minutes.
To inactivate containers containing remnants of the drug and instruments (syringes, injectors), use boiling in a 1% solution of sodium hydroxide or 5% soda for 10 minutes, after which they are rinsed with water. Then they are disposed of in accordance with legal requirements.
II. Pharmacological properties
Bisdimethylaminoethyl ester of succinic acid, which is part of Adilina-super bisdimethyl sulfate, is a depolarizing muscle relaxant by its mechanism of action on the animal body.
In animal organs and tissues, succinic acid bisdimethylaminoethyl ester bisdimethyl sulfate is metabolized to choline and succinic acid.
In terms of the degree of impact on the body, Adilin-super belongs to highly hazardous substances (hazard class 2 according to GOST 12.1.007).
III. Application procedure
Adilin-super is intended for forced bloodless killing of animals in order to prevent the spread of infections and eliminate foci of infections, including especially dangerous diseases such as rabies, anthrax, African swine fever, avian influenza and others, when it is necessary to limit the supply of blood and others biological fluids into the environment.
There are no contraindications for the use of Adilina-super.
Working solutions of the drug are prepared by dissolving the powder in bottles with distilled water. Add 2 ml of solvent to glass bottles containing 2 g of the drug; add 2 ml of solvent to glass or polymer bottles containing 50, 100 and 500 g of the drug.
respectively, 50, 100 and 500 ml of solvent. The bottles are shaken until Adilin-super is completely dissolved.
When working at ambient temperatures below 0°C, 20% aqueous solutions of ethyl alcohol or glycerin are used as a drug solvent.
The drug solution is administered to animals once, intramuscularly.
The ready-made solution of Adilina-super for bloodless slaughter of animals is administered in the following doses:
Symptoms of an overdose of Adilina-super have not been established.
The drug is used once.
The peculiarities of the action of Adilina-super upon first administration are not taken into account.
When using Adilina-super, side effects are not taken into account.
There is no interaction with other medications and (or) food products or feed.
After using Adilina-super, animal corpses must be destroyed or disposed of in accordance with legal requirements.
IV. Personal prevention measures
When working with Adilin-super, you should follow the rules of personal hygiene and safety precautions provided for when working with medications. All persons involved in the bloodless killing of animals must wear special clothing (rubber boots, a robe, trousers, a hat, rubber gloves) and be provided with personal protective equipment - closed-type goggles. Eating, drinking and smoking are prohibited during work. After finishing work, wash your face and hands with warm water and soap.
18. In case of accidental contact of the medicinal product with the skin or mucous membranes of the eye, immediately rinse them with plenty of water. People with hypersensitivity to the components of the drug should avoid direct contact with the drug Adilin-super.
If allergic reactions occur or if the drug accidentally enters the human body, you should immediately contact a medical facility (bring with you the instructions for use of the drug and the label).
Empty bottles of Adilin-super are prohibited from being used for household purposes; they must be disposed of after inactivation of the drug.
Organization - manufacturer: Federal State Budgetary Institution "Federal Center for Toxicological, Radiation and Biological Safety", 420075, Kazan, Scientific Town-2. Address of the place of production: 420075, Kazan, Scientific Town-2.
N.A. Danilov, L.L. Matsevich, S.A. Arestov, E.N. Anashkina, V.A. Rybalko
1. General view of the situation
The most common way to regulate the number of stray animals in Russia over the past 20 years is their remote killing (“shooting”) using “flying syringes” or darts containing curare-like muscle relaxants (ditylin, listenone; in recent years - adilin).
At the same time, as a rule, there is no practice of temporary holding of captured animals: killing is carried out right on the spot. This method is subject to severe criticism from the animal protection community, and in a number of regions has already come under a formal ban - either by court decisions citing its contradiction with certain federal legislative acts (for example, the Civil Code), or during the adoption of regional legislation that directly prohibits killing animals at the capture site. The effectiveness of this method is also limited - because it is not accompanied by additional measures to prevent homelessness, and also has low popularity among the population: people are often in no hurry to call catchers when in contact with stray dogs, feeling sorry for animals that are destined only for guaranteed death.
The reasons for the widespread practice of such shooting in Russia are as follows:
*lack of consistent federal legislation regulating the issues of catching, keeping and euthanasia of stray animals;
*reluctance of municipalities to organize catching in a truly civilized manner; * saving effort and money by the direct executors, including due to the scarcity of funds allocated (received) for catching, which is expressed, among other things, in the lack of equipped premises (temporary detention centers, shelters) to accommodate captured animals;
*absence in Russia of institutions for professional training of catchers and, accordingly, requirements from municipal authorities (as customers) for the mandatory availability of such training;
*the vicious practice of assessing the results of work and calculating the salaries of employees of catching services based on the number of heads not caught, but destroyed.
In this paper, we focus on one of the negative aspects of the use of curare-like muscle relaxants - the suffering of animals during killing.
2. General characteristics of muscle relaxants with curare-like action and their mechanisms of action
To clearly understand the mechanism of action of muscle relaxants, let us turn to brief information on neuromuscular physiology.
The neuromuscular junction is the connection between a nerve fiber and a skeletal muscle fiber. The transmission of a signal from a nerve to a muscle is carried out through the release of molecules of a special intermediary substance, acetylcholine, from the side of the nerve fiber. Acetylcholine then binds to the n-cholinergic receptor on the muscle cell membrane (“post-synaptic receptor”), causing a change in its state. The distribution of electrical charges outside and inside the muscle cell membrane changes (depolarization), generating a short-term drop in electrical potential that triggers the process of muscle contraction. For the next start of the muscle fiber contraction process, the charge state of the muscle membrane must be reset to its original state (repolarization). After contraction is activated, acetylcholine is very quickly (~0.001 s) destroyed by the enzyme cholinesterase, and the membrane is repolarized and becomes capable of receiving a new signal from the nerve fiber.
Muscle relaxants with curare-like action affect the process of signal transmission at the neuromuscular synapse. They are divided into depolarizing and non-depolarizing.
Non-depolarizing muscle relaxants (for example, tubocurarine) block the effect of acetylcholine on the n-cholinergic receptors of the muscle membrane, thereby preventing the passage of the signal that activates muscle contraction, but do not change the state of the receptor itself. Depolarizing muscle relaxants (ditylin, listenone) are similar in molecular structure to acetylcholine and act on receptors like acetylcholine, but are not broken down by the enzyme cholinesterase in the synaptic cleft, and therefore cause persistent depolarization of the muscle membrane, making it insensitive to the receipt of control signals. (The blood enzyme pseudocholinesterase gradually breaks down depolarizing muscle relaxants, neutralizing their effects, but this is a slow process.)
After injection, curare-like muscle relaxants cause relaxation and paralysis of muscles in the following sequence: facial muscles, muscles of the larynx (vocal cords), neck, muscles of the limbs, torso, and finally, muscles of the diaphragm responsible for breathing. When critical doses of muscle relaxants are administered, respiratory arrest is possible (in medicine, in this case, the patient is transferred to artificial ventilation) and subsequent death. Note that the direct effect of the drug entering the bloodstream on other vital organs (for example, the heart) is not a factor that can cause death.
3. Veterinary aspect of the use of muscle relaxants, the opinion of international and foreign organizations.
One of the most authoritative, accurate, and comprehensive sources describing the various methods of killing animals that are suitable and unsuitable for euthanasia of various species is the Guide to Euthanasia, developed by the American Veterinary Medical Association through an analysis and synthesis of existing scientific evidence. The last updated edition of the Guide was published in 2007; thus, these data are also the most up-to-date.
All substances that act as neuromuscular blockers (magnesium sulfate, nicotine, all curare-like muscle relaxants) are classified in this Guide as drugs, the use of which is permissible only after the animal has previously been immersed in a state of anesthesia. The use of neuromuscular blockers without prior anesthesia is absolutely unacceptable.
In scientific laboratory practice, the use of muscle relaxants for the euthanasia of animals, including dogs and cats, without prior anesthesia is also not allowed. This use of muscle relaxants is contrary to both the recommendations of the Humane Society International (HSI) and the European Convention for the Protection of Companion Animals (which prohibits the use of killing methods based on artificial cessation of respiration unless such methods cause immediate loss of consciousness or begin with immersion in deep anesthesia).
The reason for this conclusion is that these drugs lead to an excruciating feeling of suffocation, but at the same time they have neither narcotic nor sedative properties. The use of lethal doses of neuromuscular blockers causes paralysis of skeletal muscles, including the respiratory muscles. In a fully conscious animal, acute respiratory failure of neuromuscular etiology occurs.
At the same time, the use of muscle relaxants is inhumane even despite the fact that, starting from certain concentrations of carbon dioxide in the blood, the animal develops an unconscious state, and cardiac arrest occurs after the electrical activity of the brain has died down - since the increase in carbon dioxide concentration occurs too slowly. The accumulation of carbon dioxide when using muscle relaxants does not occur due to the chemical decomposition of the administered drug, but only due to the metabolic processes of the body itself (as in any other case of stopping the flow of air into the lungs). Metabolic processes do not proceed quickly enough to produce a high concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood in a period of time short enough for the animal not to have time to feel suffocated.
As a result, loss of consciousness and extinction of electrical activity of the brain when using muscle relaxants is preceded by a fairly long period (up to several minutes) when a fully conscious animal experiences painful suffocation. Thus, it can be argued that killing conscious animals with chicken-like muscle relaxants causes them suffering.
For comparison, we note: during inhalation euthanasia of animals with carbon dioxide, which is based precisely on the anesthetic effect of high concentrations of carbon dioxide, gas mixtures from cylinders with a carbon dioxide concentration of at least 70-80% are used so that the required concentration of carbon dioxide in the animal’s blood is achieved in the shortest possible time.
The statement that is sometimes found that the moment of death when using muscle relaxants occurs in the absence of sensitivity, imperceptibly for the body, in fact has nothing to do with the essence of the issue under consideration, since what is fundamentally important here is not the moment of death itself - but the processes occurring long before it, when the animal is still conscious. Paralysis of the respiratory muscles and suffocation occur until loss of consciousness and extinction of the electrical activity of the brain (and the subsequent cessation of cardiac activity).
4. "Adilin" as one of the muscle relaxants
We have at our disposal a number of documents that contain statements about the supposedly very rapid death of an animal after the administration of one of their muscle relaxants - namely, “Adilina” (which is produced by the Kazan association Vetbioservice LLC). Thus, in the conclusion on the use of the drug “Adilin”, provided by the employees of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Don State Agrarian University” V.Kh. Fedorov, V.S. Stepanenko and N.V. Sumin in 2012, it is noted that the period of death is 15-60 s after administration of the drug. However, such information is not confirmed by scientific sources; this period is attributed only to the stage of the beginning of relaxation of skeletal muscles. Moreover, the manufacturers of the drug themselves indicate the time of death to be about 1-3 minutes.
At the same time, we do not have access to any information confirming beyond any doubt that the mechanism of action of the drug “Adilin” is in any way different from the mechanism of action of other muscle relaxants. Moreover, the drug "Adilin" (bis-dimethyl sulfate of bis-dimethylaminoethyl ester of succinic acid) is a close chemical analogue of the drugs "Ditilin" (diiodomethylate of bis-dimethylaminoethyl ester of succinic acid) and "Listenon" (dichloromethylate of bis-dimethylaminoethyl ester of succinic acid), having curare-like properties, and inapplicable for humane euthanasia without first placing the animal under anesthesia.
Thus, there is every reason to classify the drug “Adilin” as a group of substances, the use of which for euthanasia is permissible only after the animal has been put into a state of anesthesia using certified veterinary drugs intended for this purpose - but in no case as the only means used.
On the other hand, we recognize the forced need to use euthanasia in the course of measures to regulate the number of stray animals. Russia is one of the countries with a “European style” of dog keeping (most dogs are owned, and stray dogs are their descendants). For such countries, the optimal basic method of working with existing stray dogs is irretrievable capture and subsequent placement in a municipal shelter.
From such a shelter, captured animals can be transferred for further maintenance to the previous owners, or to citizens and public organizations who have expressed a desire to become the new owners of the animal, and keep it in accordance with the current Rules for keeping pets. However, the period of keeping captured animals in a municipal shelter should be limited to a reasonable period, since the municipal shelter must be able to accept all stray animals subject to capture. Otherwise, the irrevocable capture of stray animals in the city will be paralyzed, and measures to regulate the number of stray animals will become ineffective.
According to the current legislation of the Russian Federation, for owned animals this period must be at least 6 months, since the acquisition of ownership of this type of property occurs precisely after the passage of such a period - however, for ownerless animals, the period of mandatory maintenance can be reduced, since the capture of such animals is carried out in order to regulate their numbers, and not to acquire ownership of them.
Therefore, if the number of animals returned to the previous owners and transferred to the new owners is less than the number of animals captured; or animals received from capture, due to behavioral characteristics or health conditions, cannot be transferred to new owners - there is a need to euthanize unclaimed animals. To eliminate the need for euthanasia of healthy animals, long-term work is required to prevent homelessness and neglect within the framework of an integrated approach, including the fight against excessive reproduction of domestic animals.
Although in Russia there are no certified veterinary drugs that can be used for humane euthanasia, carried out in one step, it remains possible to use euthanasia schemes that involve two stages:
a) putting the animal into a state of anesthesia using veterinary drugs certified for such use (for example, intramuscular injection of the drug “Zoletil” or its mixture with the drug “Xylazine”, or intravenous administration of the drug “Propofol”);
b) after this, administering to the anesthetized animal one of the drugs certified for use for the purpose of killing animals (for example, the drug “Adilin”);
6. Temporary immobilization during capture.
The use of the drug “Adilin” not for killing, but for temporary immobilization of animals also raises questions, since there are no official instructions regarding dosages for temporary immobilization of animals with this drug. Therefore, first of all, we propose to consider the possibility of using the drugs “Xylazine” (“Rometar”, “Xila” and other xylazine-containing drugs) and “Zoletil” (its mixtures with the drug “Xylazine”) for this purpose. This method of temporarily immobilizing dogs during capture is already used in a number of Russian cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl).
As for the use of muscle relaxants for temporary immobilization, in this case it is necessary to turn to the use not of Adilina, but of another drug - Ditilina, for which there are officially approved instructions for its use specifically for temporary immobilization. As for the use of the drug “Adilin” for this purpose, it seems to us that such a possibility can only be considered after the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation or other authorized executive body has developed and approved official instructions indicating the exact dosages of the drug, obviously not causing death.
In any case, the use of rapid-acting muscle relaxants should only be a last resort used to capture highly feral animals that cannot be captured by less dangerous means; In addition, teams of catchers using such muscle relaxants must carry injectable drugs that weaken the effect of the muscle relaxant (vitamin B1 - thiamine, as well as 0.1% solution of epinephrine in hypertonic sodium chloride solution), and be able to use them under appropriate circumstances.
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10. Official written response from the staff of the Federal State Institution FCTRB, prof. Yu.A. Zimakova, prof. R.D. Gareev No. 678 dated December 17, 2006 on a request about the humaneness of using muscle relaxants for the euthanasia of domestic animals. A scan of the written response is available at the link:
Animal extremists have been misleading citizens for several years now, declaring that drugs like “Adilin”, used to kill stray animals during capture, are allegedly not humane. In fact, their theory about the inhumaneness of euthanasia when catching stray dogs in general is based on this lie.
ADILIN IS USED FOR THE SLAUGHTER OF STANDARD ANIMALS ON A LEGAL BASIS AND DOES NOT CAUSE TORMENT TO ANIMALS
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MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE OF THE RF
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL POLICY AND EDUCATION
FSBEI HPE DON STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
About the use of the drug "Adilin"
Adilin belongs to the “muscle relaxants” group of drugs, the mechanism of action of which in small doses is a reversible short-term immobilization of the body due to a depolarization disorder in the transmission of excitation from the motor nerves to the muscle fibers of skeletal muscles. Muscle relaxants are widely used both in veterinary practice (Rompun, Rometar, etc.) and in medical practice (Ditilin, Listenone, etc.) - for controlled immobilization of patients in depth and duration during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that cause a defensive reaction (introduction probes, reduction of dislocations; restoration of the relative position of bone fragments and other surgical operations). Unlike narcotic drugs, depolarizing muscle relaxants do not cause side effects, since in the process of their metabolism non-toxic products are formed, which are already constantly present in the body - choline and succinic acid. The drug has an effect only when administered parenterally (not through the digestive tract).
When high doses of the drug are used, it causes the death of the body, and it has been established that bioelectrical activity of the brain fades before cardiac activity stops, which is the direct cause of death of the body, occurring 15...60 seconds after the administration of the lethal dose of the drug recommended by the regulatory framework of the Russian Federation. Paralysis of the respiratory muscles against the background of cardiac arrest practically no longer plays any pathogenetic role. Thus, we can confidently say that the moment of death comes unnoticed by the brain.
The above was the basis for recommending Adilin as a humane means for the bloodless slaughter of animals. However, with such slaughter, the carcass is not bled and the sanitary standards in force in Russia do not allow the use of the drug for slaughtering animals for meat used for human consumption, therefore, according to the regulatory framework of the Russian Federation, the drug is intended for the slaughter of only fur-bearing animals, dogs and cats ("Temporary Instruction" on the use of Adilin-super for the slaughter of fur-bearing animals, cats and dogs" approved by the Main Directorate of Veterinary Medicine with the State Veterinary Inspectorate on April 24, 1991 - copy attached), as well as for forced slaughter, with subsequent destruction or disposal of corpses, cattle, pigs, sheep , rabbits, deer and poultry ("Instructions for the use of Adilin for bloodless slaughter of animals"; approved by the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance in 2008; registration No. PVR-2-7.7/02169 - copy attached).
The above gives us grounds to respond to the essence of your request: the use of pharmacological agents “Adilin”, “Adilin-super” and other xylazine-containing drugs for slaughter of animals is not inhumane, since it does not cause suffering to the animal. Their use for the capture and euthanasia of stray animals does not contradict the legal framework of the Russian Federation, since it is prescribed by the above-mentioned legal acts.
Head Department of Anatomy, Physiology of Domestic Animals, Biology and Histology, Professor V.Kh. Fedorov
Associate Professor of Animal Physiology Course V.S. Stepanenko
Associate Professor of the course of pharmacology and toxicology N.V. Sumin
The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg considered the claim of the prosecutor of the Verkh-Isetsky district to recognize the illegal activities of the EMUP "Spetsavtobaza" in the use of the drug "Adilin-super" and its analogues for the capture of stray animals.
The basis for the prosecutor's filing of this claim with the court was the results of an inspection carried out at the request of the management of the Charitable Fund for Helping Homeless Animals. During the inspection, it was established that the killing of stray animals (in particular, dogs) is carried out by specially created teams (catchers) using the drug “Adilin-super”, as a result of which the animal dies a painful death from suffocation, which is extremely inhumane.
In addition, when carrying out activities to catch stray dogs, the enterprise EMUP "Spetsavtobaza" does not comply with the established rules for catching stray animals, since before destruction the dogs are not placed in a shelter, through which they could subsequently be returned to their lost owners.
Based on the results of the inspection, the prosecutor filed a lawsuit to recognize the illegal activities of EMUP "Spetsavtobaza" in the use of the drug "Adilin-super" and its analogues and to oblige the enterprise to create a shelter for captured stray and stray animals. The prosecutor's claims were satisfied by the court.
Help from the Animal Rights Protection Center “VITA”
Adilin-super and its analogues: ditilin, listenone:
- curare-like substances (curare poison is used by aboriginal Indian tribes of Latin America to brutally kill animals during hunting - arrows poisoned with poison are used);
- are widely and universally used by local city authorities in Russia to catch and kill stray animals (catchers use blowpipe or guns that shoot syringes);
- also used on fur farms as a supposedly humane killing of animals doomed to die for fur;
- It is also widely used in veterinary practice (both public clinics and private ones) for supposedly humane killing;
- causes a slow, painful death as a result of gradual paralysis of the respiratory muscles. those. the animal, being fully conscious, dies for a long time and extremely painfully, but outwardly it looks like falling asleep, which misleads inexperienced eyewitnesses, for example, animal owners who naively believe that they are easing the suffering of their terminally ill pet - a dog or cat;
- used in medicine and veterinary medicine for a number of diseases, but with mandatory ventilation
- in civilized countries, the use of curare-like drugs for killing animals is prohibited and criminalized;
- being potent drugs, they are used by catchers of stray animals - people of an openly marginal, carnivorous type, which poses a mortal danger not only for animals (catchers do not know who to shoot), but also for the health and lives of people around them (tragic cases are known) . By a strange logic, they were ignored by the Drug Control Service (FSKN of Russia), which from the beginning was engaged in a fruitless hunt for ketamine “witches”, depriving Russian animals of pain relief during surgical operations, i.e. doomed animals to torture, and also subjected veterinarians who honestly performed their medical duty to absurd repressions
- All over the world, barbiturates are used to euthanize animals for veterinary indications, which turn off the animal’s consciousness and put it into deep sleep.
Sadistic Obninsk utility workers kill animals in front of children and do not distinguish sleeping pills from poison!
Townspeople are accustomed to the sad news that someone in the city has brutally killed a cat or maimed a dog. But what happened in Obninsk just the other day goes beyond all conceivable boundaries of morality and humanity!
Obninsk mongrels die painfully and for a long time,
BUT ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS
Dmitry, an accidental witness to the murder of a stray dog, contacted our editorial office. It happened last Wednesday at half past five in the evening. Driving past the Khrushchev apartment buildings near the station, he saw a dog on the side of the road in convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and a woman and a child were crying near her, and a young guy was fussing.
My first thought was that the dog was hit by a car,” says Dmitry. “I decided to drive up to them and try to help them with something.” I myself train dogs at the Sphinx club and I have friends who are veterinarians. It turned out that no one hit the dog. A woman with a child saw a man come up, poke the animal with a stick and leave. The second guy and I decided to catch up with that man; fortunately, he didn’t go far. We grabbed him by the arms and asked what he did with the dog? It turned out that it was a utility service employee, he showed us his ID and explained that he was engaged in catching stray animals, and he gave an injection to the dog.
And while the unfortunate animal was struggling in its death throes, the man decided to take a walk, and after 10-15 minutes, when the dog died, return it, throw the body into the car and take it away. It's a common thing.
We will stop at this point and tell you what kind of injection it was and how, in general, issues with homeless animals are resolved in the science city.
The sanitary cleaning department at the MPKH is responsible for catching stray cats and dogs. They receive applications from city residents and organizations who complain about homeless animals. An MPKH employee receives the drug “Adeline Super” from the city veterinary station, finds an animal that matches the description and “immobilizes” it with an aluminum stick with an attached syringe. In theory, this event should be attended by a police officer who will keep order, as well as a representative of the organization that submitted the application, in order to, so to speak, identify the dog. But this time the “hunter” was completely alone.
HOW “ADELINE SUPER” KILLS
Now let’s make a “lyrical digression” and talk about the drug itself in order to understand the essence of the problem.
In many civilized cities of Russia, the use of “Adeline Super” was declared illegal, since as a result of its influence the animal dies a painful death from suffocation. But in the country’s first science city they have been using it for quite a long time; they consider its use humane and are not going to abandon it.
“Adeline” is used on fur farms as euthanasia for the supposedly humane killing of animals. The drug causes a slow, painful death by gradually paralyzing the peripheral and respiratory muscles. The animal tries to take a breath, but it fails because the muscles atrophy. Being fully conscious, the animal experiences panic and dies for a long time and is extremely painful. But outwardly it may look like falling asleep, which misleads inexperienced eyewitnesses.
"Adeline Super" belongs to group A drugs - poisons. They or its analogues are actually used when euthanizing animals in veterinary clinics. But in veterinarians this is done differently: first, the animal receives anesthesia. And only when consciousness turns off, a drug is administered that slows down the heartbeat, and the animal dies without suffering.
But in Obninsk, homeless “our little brothers” are injected with poison right away, without anesthesia or painkillers! And what’s even worse is that the perpetrators of the “death sentence” are sure that it is humane!
UTILITIES ARE CONFIDENT THAT THEY ACT HUMANELY
For comments, we turned to the head of the sanitary cleaning service of MPKH Lyudmila SAUTINA. Lyudmila Petrovna confirmed the information that, indeed, last week there was an application from the management of the station market, which complained about a whelping bitch and a cable. And either out of ignorance, or out of naivety, Lyudmila Petrovna began to assure us that “Adeline Super” “acts like anesthesia,” they say, the dog simply falls asleep.
That is, when a dog is in agony, is it anesthesia? - just in case, we asked again.
Of course, everything stops working for her, but then she wakes up,” said Lyudmila Sautina with complete confidence. - You see, every dog requires a certain amount of sedative. Just like people, some dogs’ hearts can’t stand it and they don’t wake up. But basically in the veterinary clinic they give us a dose not for defeat, but for euthanasia.
We asked the same question several times: what percentage of dogs do not wake up after an injection, and each time the boss avoided answering, saying that, in theory, all dogs should wake up. But, in the end, the switches were transferred to the veterinary station, they say, whatever drug they are prescribed there, that’s what they administer.
In general, all these assurances that dogs do not die, but fall asleep, look rather implausible if we remember the story from three years ago about the massacre at the station market. Then all the four-legged pets that the traders fed were mercilessly exterminated in the same way. And witnesses to this terrible picture can say with one hundred percent certainty that the dogs died on the spot.
Apparently, Lyudmila Petrovna does not use the Internet and even for the sake of simple curiosity she did not try to look for information about the drug she is dealing with. Although, on the other hand, this may be completely voluntary ignorance and in this way the compassionate boss wants to convince herself that animals do not suffer when they are killed.
“HUNTERS” FROM MPKH WORK “WITH DESIRE”
By the way, at MPKH we met the “performer” himself - Yuri KUZMIN. He’s new to this business, but he can already tell you how to properly hit an animal so that it doesn’t run away and quickly passes out.
Before Yuri, another comrade who recently had a heart attack worked in this difficult position for more than twenty years (and, as we were assured, with dedication and desire). But Yuri is already addicted to his occupation and quite comically tells stories about how he refused to go into the basement with the cats because there were a lot of fleas there, or how he once shot, and the dog ran away from him - the dose turned out to be too small .
And regarding the incident with the child and the mother, his version goes like this: when he “immobilized” the dog, there was no one nearby, the mother accidentally saw it and for some reason brought the child to see it.
Finally, we asked one more question to the head of the unit: does Lyudmila Petrovna think that even such a procedure should be made more humane?
“What strange questions you are asking me,” said the boss. - Well, please suggest how this can be done more humanely? We go to Kaluga to exchange experiences, and they do the same thing there!
And yet, it’s worth the employees of the sanitation department to delve into the Internet, maybe then they would find out why Kaluga is called the “city of flayers.”
HOMELESS ANIMALS ARE SHOOTING TO KILL
We couldn’t help but contact the director of the city veterinary station, Anatoly REVVO. Anatoly Nikolaevich also does not like to directly answer the questions asked about morality and starts talking about the irresponsibility of owners who abandon animals on the street. By the way, we completely agree with him regarding the global nature of this problem. But we still have the same question - why is the Adeline Super poison used in Obninsk?
Anatoly Revvo did not lie and directly said that he personally makes the euthanasia solution. By the way, one injection costs about 200 rubles, and as the head of the veterinary station explained, the city does not pay anything for it, they say, the veterinarian finances everything itself.
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By the way, the cells were completely empty and suspiciously clean, as if no one had ever been placed in them. All this suggests that it is easier for the responsible services to immediately exterminate the animal rather than maintain it for some time.
TO PROTECT OBNINSK ANIMALS - AN ANCIENT DECISION OF THE CITY ASSEMBLY
AND NON-FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS
We will not present our entire dialogue with Anatoly Revvo and will put the issue of morality aside. Let's look at the law. Is it legal to exterminate an animal on site?
When carrying out their activities, public utilities are guided by the Instructions for catching animals signed by the head of the MPKH, as well as the “ancient” Decision of the city meeting No. 02-20 of 1997 “On strengthening work to regulate the keeping of dogs and cats.” We were not allowed to photograph the instructions, for fear of the anger of the director of the MPKh Sergei KLIMENKO, but in what we read we did not find a single word where it would be allowed to kill an animal on the spot. It also clearly states that “hunting” should be done in the morning, before people go to work.
As for the decision of the City Assembly, many of its points are simply not respected. Take, for example, the order for the sanitary and epidemiological service to participate in all joint activities to comply with these Rules - as you remember, the “hunter” was completely alone.
Or, for example, recommendations for housing offices to “equip a board at each entrance of a residential building to familiarize citizens with the materials: rules for keeping dogs and cats in the city of Obninsk, dog walking areas, addresses and telephone numbers of housing departments, catching services, veterinary and sanitary epidemiological services.” Have you seen something similar in your entrance?
WITHOUT TRIAL OR INVESTIGATION
And returning to the methods of catching. The regulatory documents clearly state that a stray animal should be immobilized and taken to the city veterinary station. Why then do the Obninsk services arbitrarily decide to destroy the unfortunate animal in the most painful way, without even giving it a chance to find its owner?
Why do organizations like “New Ark” and private clinics, which often perform operations on lost people free of charge, fight for every life, while others consider themselves entitled to destroy it without “trial and investigation”?
Surprisingly, utility workers are confident that all their actions are humane, they say, there were times when they strangled people with nooses or killed them with an electric fork. They are also confident that the murder of “Adelin” does not fall under Article 245 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Cruelty to Animals” and is not related to the violation of Article 137 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation “Animals”, which states that “cruelty to animals that is contrary to the principles of humanity is not allowed " What do you think, dear readers, is death from such a drug any easier than death at the hands of some knacker? What is humanity?
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And finally, I would like to remember the words of Mayor Alexander AVDEEV at one of the press conferences. Journalists asked how he felt about the innovation in Ukraine, when, on the eve of the European Football Championship, stray animals were burned alive in a mobile crematorium. Alexander Alexandrovich then said that “Obninsk residents will not wait for something like this to happen again.”
We also want to ask the question: isn’t it time for the authorities not only to talk about the problem of homeless animals, but also to at least make an attempt to find a solution to it? Might it be worthwhile to update the regulations and amend the Decisions and Decrees regarding this issue?
There are many examples of other cities when local courts made decisions banning the use of “Adelina Super” and its analogues. Why is Obninsk worse?
Isn’t it time for supervisory authorities to check the activities of MPKH and the city veterinary station? Do they have the right to kill an animal right away, in front of women and children?
In the end, when the life of an animal loses its value, then the turn comes for the devaluation of human life.
Diana KORSHIKOVA
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