In Ukraine, earned a service to find pets. On the online platform, you can post photos and information about the animal that is looking for a house, said in a commentary Radio NV founder of the platform Glad pet Love Zhdan.

Prior to entering the all-Ukrainian level, the project worked for a year and a half in Odessa and the region. Houses have already found more than 400 animals. Another 700 expect their masters.

"Information on the animal, its vaccinations, sterilization is indicated in the questionnaire. We do not go to private individuals and do not check their animals, because we are not such a big team. On our online resource everyone is responsible for his pet. If you want to pick up the animal, then contact directly with the person who posted the ad. In occasion of shelters and other organizations, we check them, of course, "- says zoozaschitnitsa.

A new online service was funded with crowdsfunding, says the project manager. Brought 74 thousand. hryvna. The aim of the project is to encourage animal owners to take responsibility, Zhdan stressed.. The desire to shelter a pet is a manifestation of concern for the weak, explained in the comments of the NV psychologist Sabina Sadikhova. People who are ready to take the animal from the shelter, rather than buy, receive psychological compensation, she stressed..

"From animals there is a return. This is not the person to whom you did something, and then disillusioned with it. Animals are always grateful, weak and defenseless. A person in communication with an animal gets a lot and evaluates himself better afterwards, "Sadikhova notes..

And those who keep at home 20-30 animals, probably have a psychological pathology, emphasizes Sabina Sadikhova.

Zooprotection in Ukraine is rapidly developing. This was told in the NV commentary by an expert on the protection of animal rights Natalia Vishnevskaya. She noted that Ukraine is considerably behind the European level of development of the zoosecurity movement. Zooists do not have enough knowledge and skills. Ukrainian shelters for animals in most cases do not comply with the norms, but there are also positive examples, says the expert..

"The shelter must be registered. We do not yet have this standard at the national level, but some cities have already adopted such laws. All shelters must be registered with registration numbers. All animals must be available electronically. This requirement of certain sanitary and hygienic standards. All shelters should be open.

There is a criticism from zoosecretists against closed shelters that are engaged in incomprehensible activities, and animals are kept in poor conditions, "says Vishnevskaya.

Zooprotnik has shown examples of partial financing of animal shelters from local budgets. Thus, in Lviv, local authorities allocated 170 thousand. hryvnia for a shelter for dogs. But this amount is enough only for six months, said the expert. Funds can be collected through charitable contributions and fund-raising. According to Vishnevskaya, the maintenance of an animal shelter requires several million hryvnias a year.