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On August, 20th
The world day of homeless animals

It is possible to measure moral progress of the nation by that,
As this nation concerns animals.
Махатма Ганди

On the third Saturday of August the World day of homeless animals (International Homeless Animals Day) is celebrated. Date has appeared in a calendar at the initiative of the International society of the rights of animals. The organisation has proposed it in 1992; undertaking was supported by the zooprotective organisations of the different countries.

This date is considered not a holiday, and an occasion to address to a problem of homeless animals, to tell to a maximum quantity of people about their tragical destiny.

Worldwide this day there pass educational and charitable actions. Volunteers hold concerts, competitions and the auctions, helping to collect means which go to the aid of homeless animal – first of all, of course, to dogs and cats. Also this day – good chance to find the owner for a homeless dog or a cat.

One of pressing issues of homeless animals – to clear the conscious relation to the role at owners of animals to prevent replenishment of numbers of homeless cats and dogs at the expense of uncontrollable reproduction of house pupils. With the same purpose some veterinary clinics this day spend sterilisation of cats and dogs on a free basis.

The problem to which the attention Day of homeless animals draws, costs really sharply. In one only to Moscow the quantity of street dogs is estimated in some tens thousand individuals. Shelters catastrophically does not suffice – not only in capital, but also on all country.

By the way, the private shelter first in Russia for homeless animals has been created in the Moscow area in 1990. And the first of known shelters in the world for dogs has appeared in Japan in 1695; in it contained 50 thousand animals.

The first law directed on protection of animals from cruelty, has been accepted in the Great Britain. It has occurred in 1822. And the conditions most favorable for animals exist in Austria where the legislation forbids to cut off, for example, to dogs a tail and ears, to use wild animals in circuses, to sell puppies and kittens in show-windows of pet-shops and so on.