Trifter

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Moscow attracts many western tourists every year and sites like The Kremlin, Red Square, St. Basil’s Cathedral and Gorky Park are the first points of interest.

Beautiful City

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City is still trying to encourage tourism in spite of the breakdown of society that is currently very evident there. Crowds of people pack the thriving areas of the City while the run-down, dilapidated suburbs, house derelictsThe, drunks, drug addicts and down and outs. There is little fresh air, or open space that has not been destroyed, or built upon. As old buildings are ripped down another serious problem has arisen.

Dogs which were once family pets have now reverted to the wild and live in packs in the city. They sleep, eat, walk and breed alongside humans in the City.

Wild Dog Attacks

Why? The simple answer is that they have no other choice. The derelict warehouses, apartment blocks and other places where they used to live have been torn down. If they are to eat, they must live alongside men.

These creatures walk among people and even use the metro to travel from one place to another. Most are well fed because they know just how to get a feed by begging and many Muscovites feed them regularly. With more than 30,000 dogs roaming the streets the problem is a huge one.

The big problem is that literally thousands of people are being bitten, some severely. There have also been deaths brought about by attacks by packs of dogs. A sonic device designed to deter dogs is one of the ‘must have’ gadgets in Moscow and the manufacturers cannot make enough to keep up with demand.

There was a programme of shooting these strays that are breeding rapidly and spreading disease, including rabies, but authorities now have an ongoing project set up to dart and anaesthetise the dogs. The animals are then put into pounds and sterilised to try to cut down the population.