... A group of Russian celebrities expressed their protest against the establishment of special dog shelters on the outskirts of Moscow. ...

Animal rights activists claim that it is people who are guilty of the growing number of stray dogs. Dog breeders are the primary source for increasing the army of stray dogs. Indeed, many people are not ready to handle such a responsible and complicated business as to keep a pedigree animal.

Animal rights activists believe that Russia needs a presidential decree to economically regulate dog breeders' activities. The law would introduce a special tax and oblige dog owners to sterilize their pets at the time when animals enter puberty.

However, what can one do about the animals who live in the streets already and terrorize people? Moscow officials, for instance, put forward an initiative to catch homeless animals and deliver them to shelters in other regions of the country. Ecologists responded with saying that nature would fill the gap very quickly. ... Russian celebrities stood up against the initiative too. Actor Yevgeny Mironov said, for example, that such a shelter would become a concentration camp, where dogs would be exterminated. The only way to relieve the city from the dogs and stay human is to sterilize the animals, the actor said. ...