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Objet: Bulgary : Stop the Illegal Farming of Stray Animals in Sofia!

To:

The Municipality of Sofia

The Public Ombudsman of Sofia

The Prosecutor General of Republic of Bulgaria

Dear Officials,

I FULLY ENDORSE THIS LETTER

PLEASE STOP THE FARMING AND CRIMINAL TRADE OF UNWANTED, STRAY AND KIDNAPPED ANIMALS

Vos coordonnées

An Open Letter to the Mayor of Sofia

by Emil Kuzmanov

Concerning: Stop the illegal farming of stray animals in Sofia

Dear Sir,

After the 1989, a huge number of unregistered dogs of unknown origin (fertile and sterilized) started to appear constantly in the streets of Sofia. Most of them lived outside for some time, receiving food and water from the people. Some of them disappeared without a trace; other fallen for a short period of time in the Municipal Shelter, where very often they disappeared too. In their place new dogs appeared in the streets and their destiny was the same.

Obviously the inadequate policy of the Municipality of Sofia in the area of animal control served to the interest of the criminal industry, using pet animals. Sofia was turned into a farm for stray animals. More over - most of the owners of lost dogs did not find their pets in the Municipal Shelter.

You are an ambitious politician with a very high popularity on a national level. Since your election for a Mayor of Sofia in 2005, your intentions for saving the life of the stray/neighbourhood dogs are loudly proclaimed.

Unfortunately, you haven't taken any effective measures for the restriction of this process. Even you avoid to discuss the World's accepted basic no-kill/low-kill solutions i.e. registration, early-aged sterilization, re-homing, licensing of breeders and dealers.

Meanwhile, after accession of Bulgaria in EU Sofia became one of the largest cities in the EU. But Sofia continued to look more like a decaying Oriental city rather than a modern European capital. The stray problem is similar to that under the rule of your predecessor Mr Stefan Sofianski (1995-2005) - the appearance and disappearance of unwanted dogs continued, there is no statistic information about them, the disappearance of the lost dogs also continued.

Because of the listed above reasons, a review and change in the current policy of the Municipality of Sofia in animal control is needed. You must make an effort to restrict the illegal farming of unwanted animals and kidnapping of owned animals.

Please remember that the legal control needs transparency and strict accounting. You must order permanent inspections of the situation with stray and lost animals, including the activities of the doubtful non-government organizations in Sofia. You must order establishing a register of the neighbourhoods. The exact amount of stray animals in every district must be verified and also the number of animals, collected in the shelters. The movement of the animals - newly appearing and disappearing - must be calculated. The data from these inspections must be freely accessible for the public.

Emil Kuzmanov

The Animal Programs Foundation of Bulgaria animalprograms@abv.bg