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Money's wasted, animals are mutilated (part 1.)
Orca is the most well-known organization that takes “care” about animals in Serbia.
The president of Orca, Elvir Burazerović, unfinished veterinary student is also a director
of Info Center project intentionally formed in order to receive a donation to the Orca.
Elvir receives a monthly income of 900 € to remain silent about massive slaughter of
innocent animals, which defines himself as a man who took an oportunity to make his
living and secure his existence throughout dead animals.
Orca was a member of Alliance of Belgrade's animal protection societies with two
other organizations: “SOS Animals”, whose president is famous movie director Goran
Paskaljević and “Help Animals”, with Zlata Korjenić from “Riska” shelter as a president.
“SOS Animals” and “Help Animals” have recently left that alliance (http://www.glasjavnosti.
co.yu/clanak/glas-javnosti-05-01-2008/goran-paskaljevic-burazerovic-krijeistinu).
Orca collaborates with famous worldwide organizations like WSPA and RSPCA, which
have donated funds, professional help and supported Orca. In June 2007 a manager of
RSPCA visited Orca and supported their program – a humane solution to problem of
abandoned animals (http://www.beograd.org.yu/cms/view.php?id=1280190).
Do these worldwide animal protection organizations know what they actually
support? Is the thruth that this solution is anything but not humane hidden from them,
or is it the very same program that they support?
Ovča dog-pound – behind the scene
Orca collaborates with local Belgrade's authorities also, as well as with Veterinary
station “Beograd”1 whose director Đordje Đokić (also known as “The Butcher” or
“Kasapin”, in Serbian language) is, alongside Burazerovic, directly responsible for
horrible condition in dog-pound Ovča.
Animals are brutally handled with before, during and after sterilization, as they are
not provided neither with food or water nor with secure and warm place. Most recently
(approximately 3 weeks ago), during the extremely cold weather (temperatures reaching
below -5 degrees Celsius), an supply of electrical energy has been cut off from dog-pund
for unknown reasons. The surgery is however still performed in cold and dark places
and the animals are released to streets after a very short post operational care, which
does not even include a necessary set of medications.
Puppies younger than 4 months are given 3-7 days grace period (usually 3 days). If
they are not adopted by anyone, they are brutally murdered with T61 without even
beeing put into general anesthesia. If given by a veterinarians who does not care (which
is a case of most veterinarians working in Ovča dog-pund) or is a rookie in his job, T61
causes an agonizing death2.
1 Veterinary station “Beograd” is undergoing into process of privatization.
2 T61 is a lethal injection. It is injected straight into the veins or the heart after the dog is under
general anaesthesia. T61 can cause internal bleeding when injected into the veins; the animal
will start bleeding from the nose aand sometimes epileptic behaviour occurs. When injected
straight into the heart it is imperative that the needle will go really into the heart, and not just
graze the heart. If this injection is given imperfectly, the dog can suffer epileptic attacks and
enormous cramps, will bite its tongue and lips between his teeth and scream terribly.
Another very annoying fact is that aside from inhumane sterilization, Ovča dog-pound
places microchips implants into sterilized animals. Chipped animals are returned to the
other parts of town, and not to the ones that they originate from, thus making an
additional unnecessary problem of animals feeling endangered, which leads to possible
attacks and territorial fights. It remains unclear why are these dogs receiving microchip
implats if they are going to be put back onto the street. Also, it remains unclear why are
some of these chipped animals recollected from the streets again. It leads to a
conclusion that Orca performs these activities without a central database of chipped
animals which is absolutely necessary in order to achieve successful abandoned animal
control. They have no excuses of type "we had no money to do that database" as they
received a lot o financial support from the city authorities, as described before and later
in this text.
During the last couple of decades over one and a half million dogs and cats have been
brutally murdered in Ovča. Having that said, Ovča can be described as an mass-murder
facility for abandoned animals.
Legal ascpects
Local authorities are obliged by law to build non-killing shelters (shelters in which no
animals shall be killed unless really necessary due to incurable illness), but,
unfortunately, that did not happen yet. Criminal law of Republic of Serbia (from January
1st, 2006) provides sanctions for individuals that cause harm and murder animals. Orca's
purpose is to protect animals, and not to provide them with T61 lethal injections and
inhumane care. Many individuals and animal right activists have pointed to what is
happening in Ovča dog-pound3 to authorities responsible for that matter, but no one has
managed to raise legal accusations and successfully pursue Orca in the court of law.
Why?
Where did the money go?
The city of Belgrade finances Orca's Info Center project (currently over 225.000 € has
been invested), and provides them with exclusive business office space (Terazije 3/IX).
Orca has used that money to buy high-end computers, technical equipment and arrange
the office space in fancy manners. That shows how much they care about animals, for
that money would served it's purpose much better if being involved in Ovča dog-pound.
Animals need no fancy furniture, they need food, water, medical care and warm and
secure place.
As an addition to this paradox, money that is assigned to solving a problem of
abandoned animals is used for everything except for true help and protection of these
animals. For example, the city of Belgrade has invested 1.155.000 € last year to support
sterilization and vaccination, but only 131.000 € has been spent on those. What
happened with the rest of the money?
What happened to the evidence?
Doctor of veterinarian medicine, Tamara Popić has, witnessed the crime that
happened behind the closed door in Ovča dog-pound on a daily basis during 2006, while
she was a volounter member of Belgrade's Alliance. She has recorded that with the
3 Similar situation of inhumane animal care can be found in many dog-pounds and grace-period
killing shelters in many other towns in Serbia.
