The State Duma of the Russian Federation was asked to check a shelter in the Leningrad region with mass deaths of animals

The Prosecutor General's Office is being asked to check the Islet of Hope shelter in the Leningrad region, where animals were dying en masse. Leonid Slutsky, the leader of the LDPR faction, made such a request to the department on January 6, Izvestia found out. The document is available to the editorial staff.

It is noted that several dozen dead animals were found in the shelter. For months, the bodies of cats and dogs were left lying in the same cramped, dirty, boarded-up cabins in which animals had previously been kept. The owner of the shelter has not transmitted information about the deaths of the wards to the vet service for the last six months, grossly violating current legislation.

The surviving pets were found by volunteers who descended on the Island, along with representatives of the Leningrad Region veterinary Department, in extremely serious condition.

Eleonora Kavshar, Deputy head of the Central Committee of the Liberal Democratic Party for Information Policy, stressed that the shelter had already come to the attention of the supervisory authorities. The owner was given a year to eliminate all the comments, but even these measures did not help prevent this triumph of cruelty. She added that according to preliminary data, several hundred private shelters are currently operating in Russia. In the absence of uniform standards, one can only guess at the conditions in which animals are kept there, how care is organized and what donations are spent on.

"Today we will send a request to the Prosecutor General's Office demanding not only to thoroughly investigate the activities of the shelter in the Leningrad region, but also to initiate a large-scale unscheduled inspection of all private animal shelters throughout Russia. One cannot remain indifferent to cruelty," concluded Kavshar.

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As Sofya Lukinova, head of the legal department of VMT Consult, told Izvestia on January 30, the Civil Code formally classifies animals as objects of property rights, however, with an important caveat: cruelty contrary to the principles of humanity is not allowed when treating them. At the same time, the legal status of pets in Russia remains ambiguous, which creates a significant legal conflict when trying to collect debts from their owners.

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