Minsk Housing Service offers 400 thousand dollars for "for capture and destruction of rabid and stray dogs and cats."
This application is found on the public procurement website. This is money allocated for homeless animals each year.
"One hour of the trapping crew costs 590,000 rubles," said representative of the Minsk Housing Service. Two people work in each crew.
But what is more expensive capture and destruction or upkeep, asked the "City Fauna", the company, which is engaged directly in catching and keeping the animals.
"First of all - it's catching. The crews work on schedule: twice a month in each HMS. Plus, they work on call. In addition, we accept animals from the population and keep them," said the "City Fauna" representative.
They said the largest expenditure was fuel for transportation and feed for animals. Each day we spend 41 thousand roubles on a dog and 7 thousand on a cat. They do not shoot the animals in Minsk. They can get "immobilized" when being caught, and they are put to sleep before being euthanized.
107 dogs and 22 cats were euthanized. People saved the rest.