MOSCOW (AP) — It might sound like a great way to escape the mean streets of Moscow, hang out with buddies and get free food. But animal protection activists are aghast at a proposal to send the Russian capital's stray dogs to an isolation facility outside the city.
City authorities on Tuesday will discuss the proposal to round up Moscow's estimated 26,000 stray dogs and move them to a camp in the Yaroslavl region about 250 kilometers (150 miles) to the northeast.
Prominent actors and musicians have petitioned city hall to abandon the idea. Speaking at news conference on Monday, actor Yevgeny Mironov compared the planned facility to a "concentration camp."
Moscow's strays …
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