The work unit of the Asylum of the Kotor Communal Enterprise, which carries out the work of catching and taking care of stray dogs in the municipalities of Kotor and Tivat, plans to catch and take care of between 150 and 180 individuals from public areas in those two cities this year. The estimated operating costs of the asylum are 127.300 euros, of which the local governments of Kotor and Tivat will provide 50.000 euros from the budget, and the rest will be provided by the Municipal Company and numerous donors.
This is stated in the Work Plan and Program of RJ Asylum Communal Enterprise Kotor, which will be presented to the councilors in the Assembly of the Municipality of Tivat at today's session.
The program also mentions the intriguing information that in the earlier period it was planned to expand the capacity of the existing asylum in Kavč, "for which a part of the funds was paid in April 2019 by the Municipality of Tivat", which has not been realized to date.
"With the arrival of this management of DOO Komunalno Kotor in May 2021, it was established that these funds no longer exist in the dedicated account," the Program signed by Executive Director Miljana Đurišić says.
In 2019, the municipality of Tivat set aside an amount of 40.000 euros for expanding the capacity of the asylum in Kavč and paid it into the dedicated account of Komunal Kotor, which, according to the current management of that company, has since disappeared.
The Program states that all dogs will be treated by a veterinarian, cleaned of parasites, sterilized and castrated, and it is planned that 30 percent of captured dogs will be adopted after veterinary treatment. 35 percent of the caught dogs will be returned to their owners, that is, kept in an asylum. All dogs that are adopted will be microchipped beforehand.
The Asylum employs eight executors, three of whom are dog catchers. The asylum has adequate vehicles for transporting captured animals, as well as a space with a total area of 348 square meters. In addition to 16 boxes for dogs, with a total area of 228 square meters, the Asylum also has a special quarantine section with 20 reception houses for dogs, as well as an adequate yard for running animals that are provided with veterinary care, supervision and adequate nutrition.
Euthanasia, as stated, is done only according to the expert opinion of a veterinarian and only for terminally ill old dogs, as well as for animals that belong to the category of dangerous dogs with several months of maladjustment.
The shelter collects abandoned dogs from a total of 14 regions into which the municipalities of Tivat and Kotor are divided. The management estimates that there are currently at least 400 stray dogs in the area of those two municipalities and that their growing number is the result of the abandonment of pets by unscrupulous owners, that is, the uncontrolled reproduction of animals over a long period of time.
"There is constant non-compliance with valid regulations related to the keeping and protection of domestic animals - especially pets, i.e. non-fulfillment of the obligations of the animal owner, as well as inadequate practice of controlling the implementation of regulations. In all 14 zones that are planned for operation in 2024, there are locations where animals are grouped together and their uncontrolled feeding, which is already a danger, especially in areas around hotel facilities, companies engaged in trade, sales and food production , as well as around school premises and hospitals... The basic problem we have in the territory of the municipalities of Kotor and Tivat is defined by the absence of a systematic and organized animal sterilization procedure, the lack of a single database on the total number of dogs and the lack of by-laws that would regulate programs with acceptable at the price of veterinary services", the Program says, noting that the Tivat Municipality adopted the Local Dog Population Control Plan, while the local parliament in Kotor has not yet done so.
The management of the Asylum plans to continue this year with the acquisition of new equipment for work, among which is new equipment for catching dogs, and a crusher for bones that butchers donate to the Asylum for feeding the dogs. It is also planned to continue the work on the reconstruction of dog boxes and further arrangement of the space and surroundings of the Asylum in Kavč with the installation of video surveillance.
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