What to do if you suddenly lost a friend?

Do not sigh in disappointment, but it goes not about people but about domestic animals. As they say in medicine: prevention is better than cure it. It is quite appropriate this wisdom. Therefore, for a walk better show dogs with leash and collar, is attached to the plate with the nickname of an animal, your address and phone number.

Cats to walk, too, will not prevent hoist on his neck just such a medallion, of course, if you really care about the welfare of your pet. In my experience, that it is not easy (especially if the cat is not accustomed from childhood to the collar). But after some time it will cease to be angry at you. Yes, and you can praise himself for caution when delivered to the address of your entangled revelers.

So, we go further. Do not tie a dog in offices, shops and other places that you need to visit. Try not to combine walking the dog, and business interests. But if not do without it, try not to let the dog out of sight.

Do not flatter yourself, believing that your dog - fierce guard. For the experienced hunter (if I se the kindergarten your dog) to divert even a vigilant dog - matter of a few minutes. In addition, many pets, especially in large cities, distrust of outsiders are not different.

But if precautions have not helped, and the animal is lost? Logically without losing a minute to begin the search, give a notice in newspapers, since it is permissible - stuck them in place of the alleged loss, seek to support the station caught animals. If you have a solid reason to believe the theft happened, please a written application to the nearest police station, demanding that a criminal proceeding.

In the language of our law, no matter how blasphemous it sounds, the dog (and cat, of course!) Is a private property owner. And the Act declares the protection of the state personal property of citizens. For theft, "that is the secret theft of another's property, the perpetrators are liable under Article 158 of the Criminal Code.

There have been cases where dogs were kidnapped, snatching from the hands of young and elderly owners leashes. And it is - robbery (Article 161 of the Criminal Code), or robbery (Article 162), when the abduction is connected with violence, dangerous to the health and lives of victims. Penalty on these items is deprivation of liberty.

Thus, the theft was not just strangers find lost animals and require you to pay? Then comes into force the Civil Code of Russia, under which the finder is not entitled to claim compensation from the owner, "if the finder of the animal is not announced his discovery, or tried to conceal it." In this case, it will only reimbursement for the maintenance of a pet and the search for its owner, if they were difficult (Article 232 Civil Code).

How much in monetary terms? Please: "A person detained neglected animals, is entitled to a reward of up to twenty percent of the value of the animal. If you found the animal is of value only to the former owner, the amount of remuneration determined by agreement of the parties." The cost of the animal can be determined based on the size of the market price, it rocks.

It also happens that you have found a missing friend, but he lives with other people. Do you have the right to take him back? The Civil Code says that if you have found no attempt to find you (and it must be recorded by the police or the mayor's office statement of the detention neglected animals) and that had not yet been six months since the discovery of your friend (the starting point - the time of filing of the same statement ), then you may pick up your dog (or cat).

So it turns out that six months after receipt of the police or the municipality a statement about the discovery of an animal, it will become the property of others, and you will be very difficult to take him back. True, you can try to prove in court that your friend still loves you or the new owners are not good enough.

In legal terms it sounds like: "the previous owner has the right under the circumstances, evidence of the preservation in it by ... (the animal) ... affection or ill or mistreatment of his new owner, to demand their return to the conditions determined by agreement with the new owner, and if it is impossible to reach an agreement - the court. "

And what happened? This song is good, start again. Returned to where to start. The conclusion seems perfectly logical: not to part with loved ones!

Tatiana Shuvaeva
http://animaldin.blogspot.com/

Why were lost dogs found more often than cats?

Household pets - dogs and cats - in most cases have become almost the center of the world for their owners. Possessed "dog kennels" and "cat-lover" can be hours to discuss the best food for their pets, shampoos, some clothes and even jewelry. Care for them, love them, but there are three worst things that anyone with a fear cats or dogs: is the death of an animal that has become completely native, and his illness or disappearance without a trace.

With the first, none of us can not do anything, but with the second and third desperately struggling. And if the animal is ill, then the path is simple enough - called the veterinarian, who must make every effort to help the animal.

In the case of the disappearance of all much more complicated. And troubling. For the terrible uncertainty of what you're standing face to face. Desperate owners are thousands of ways to get out on the trail "losters" and, fortunately, in many cases their quest crowned with success. And, as it turned out, much more often returned home lost a dog, but the percentage of cats that returned home after it slipped through the slightly open door and jumped out the window, much lower.

American scientists are interested in why "dog kennels" are often happier "cat-lover" (average number of dogs returned to owners is around 70% of the total number of missing, but the cat is - just over 50%), and identified several factors that make search dogs more productive.

What they found, analyzing statistics and individual cases of missing pet and its detection, good luck in your search for escaped puppy partly predetermined by the fact that dog owners more responsible attitude to the identification of their pet.

The dogs wear collars, written their names and coordinates of the master of monikers medallions or subcutaneous chips with full information about the animal (such practice was already introduced in our country, and we should not ignore it). "Cat-lover" is the belief that their quadruped will never fall into the street, ignoring such things, moreover, the "dog kennels" energetic start to search for the animal, while many of the "cat-lover" rely on the known capacity of their own pets to find their way home .

However, the success of the search affects the objective factor. Purebred dogs, to run without supervision, in most cases, sooner or later attract the attention of one of the passers-by, and he or shelter, animal, or will deposit it in one of the nurseries. Females same as walking, as we know, by themselves, lose chance. To attract attention, they can only in case of misbehavior, which becomes evident that the animal is in an atypical environment for themselves.

The traditional way, resorted to by the owners "losters" in America is the same as ours - is ad pasting stickers on the area of loss, as well as published in the newspapers and the Internet. However, in a sense, the American owners of dogs and our cats are happier, in the U.S. there is a developed system of shelters for homeless animals, which gets most of idly wandering around the streets of animals. It is through these many shelters can not return the animal on the sofa in his native home.

We can do is hope for a good soul, who will pick up our animal, and that he will not eat stray dogs protecting their territory.

Source: Marina Sipyagin
Material Preparation: Julia Belich
http://animaldin.blogspot.com/