the shelter is one of 13 such institutions belonging to the city. It is located on the outskirts of Zelenograd behind the grey fence with a sign “GBU “dorinvest” animal Shelter”. Morning. Next to the gate marking from foot to foot a few people. Still, as expected, in masks, gloves and small bags, someone to hand a toy. Checking each passport, the guard passes the audience inside. On one wall box with quarantine dogs, on another wall a few houses – cages for cats. These mewing friends at the shelter just 224, the main inhabitants of the dog – their 850. Houses for them are located behind a private gate. In normal times the dogs are sitting in cages, but twice a day they are released to inner gate for a walk.
When the first volunteers stepped into the shelter, walking dogs shrieked, barking, the most active was pulling the muzzle to the guests through the lattice. Volunteer Anastasiya Schetinina, brushing away a tear, said: “I’m Afraid my ward suddenly the dog Abel doesn’t know me. I’m in the mask, and two months of quarantine have not been here.” All these days she still brought food and Goodies not only to Abel but also to other animals, but inside, volunteers were not allowed. “Abel and the bus knows how to behave, I would have taken it home, but the parents do not give, I’m a student, so my volunteering is a compensation unrealized dreams,” says the girl. Natalya Zavyalova, a volunteer with the experience, usually comes with her daughter, 11-year-old Masha. “Today, one is self – isolation, – explained the woman. Their ward dog Socrates for the third dog, the previous two they had set up in the family: “to have a pet at Home can’t, and my son has asthma. And my Socrates back hurts, feel sorry for him, during the quarantine of medicines passed him. Now it was the only caress, and on Thursday signed up to walk the visit.”
Ten-month-old white with red spots, a puppy named OPIE rushes to meet another woman. “Recognize me, dear – crying and petting the dog volunteer Larisa Grigorieva. The dog happily jumps, turns, falls back, and whimpering, jumping up. A woman wears a harness on him and leash: “Well, I went for a walk, lost somehow, now twice a week we meet, all as before”, – calms the dog Larisa.
According to the Director of the orphanage Alexei Ignatov, volunteers take the dogs out for a walk to work out the surrounding areas. “Nearby there is a dog Playground, you can train Pets, – says Ignatov. During isolation the animals we produce only on its territory, but the diet and the regime has not changed.” Veterinarian of the shelter Dilnara nasibulina noted that dogs are very bored without people. “Eat, walk, and the sadness in the eyes, no matter how you keep time, all of us is not enough, she says. – Well, the volunteers came back.”
As explained”RG” the Chairman��ü public relations Committee and youth policy of Moscow, Yekaterina Dragunova to become a volunteer, you need to pass four steps. The first is to register on the portal “Mosvolonter” and get personal ID number – ID. Then call the shelter to set a time and visiting hours. After all, more than 15 people a day to visit the dog shelters while for security reasons I can’t. Then through the portal mayor to pass on a certain day. And the last step is to come. “We have registered on the portal 86 thousand volunteers, of which 20.5 thousand take part in the project “We are together,” she said. – I think that with the opening of shelters assistants will increase. In this shelter, for example, 61 permanent assistant, but only for yesterday and today, came dozens of calls from those who want also to become volunteers”.
After lunch, not attracting attention, came a few people and immediately went with the Pets for a walk. Life is slowly returning to normal.
