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STRAY DOGS IN A MEGAPOLIS

Brief report on videomonitoring of stray dogs in Moscow

Topic 1.
Stray dogs in areas intended for transportation.
Section 1.2
Stray dogs and homeless cats often get run over by city transport.

In Yasnogorskaya and Tarusskaya Streets, they used to discover, as a matter of routine, corpses of cats run over by vehicles, sometimes two corpses a day. Such locations were inhabited by large hordes of dogs that were chasing cats every day. It was when cats tried to save themselves by fleeing from the dogs that they were, more often than not, run over by vehicles. If we apply a method of extrapolation, such a sample, made over a short length of the carriage-way, makes it possible to imagine the huge scale of cats’ death-rate on Moscow roads.

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