It is planned to spend ₴36.4 million on the regulation of stray animals in Mykolaiv in 2025

During 2025, Mykolaiv plans to sterilize 1,500 homeless cats and dogs as part of a program to humanely regulate their population.

The corresponding draft decision on the continuation of the program for treating stray animals has been published on the website of the Mykolaiv City Council.

67.3 million hryvnias will be allocated from the city budget for the implementation of this program, part of which will be directed to the sterilization and identification of animals.

The total amount of funds provided for the program in 2025 also includes major repairs to the sterilization point at 36 Vodopiina Street, as well as ongoing repairs to other animal facilities:

• Major renovation of the sterilization and animal housing facility at 36 Vodopiina Street — 9.4 million hryvnias.
• Update of the isolation ward and animal enclosures — 1.2 million hryvnias
• Current repairs to the sterilization station fence — 1 million hryvnias
  

In particular, in 2025, it is planned to update 45 aviaries, each of which will cost about 28 thousand hryvnias.

According to the plan, next year, 1,200 homeless animals will be sterilized, identified, and returned to their previous places of residence, and another 300 will be rehomed.

It is expected that by the end of the year, the percentage of homeless animals on the city's streets will decrease to 30% compared to the beginning of the program.

The program will also provide preferential biosterilization for 500 pets that do not have breeding value, costing 1.5 million hryvnias. Free identification and registration of dogs will be provided for socially vulnerable segments of the population.

We would like to remind you that the Municipal Enterprise «Animal Protection Center» of the city council plans to repair the enclosures for keeping animals in Mykolaiv by February 28, 2025.

In total, 59.8 million hryvnias are needed to reconstruct the infrastructure of the municipal enterprise «Animal Protection Center» in Mykolaiv. The city council is looking for a donor to finance these works. So far, 1 million hryvnias have been spent on repairing the Center's animal enclosures.

It was the employees of the Mykolaiv «Animal Protection Center» who were among those who rescued animals that found themselves in the disaster zone after the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. They managed to save over 100 dogs and 30 cats.

Read also the articles NikVesti about how stray dogs are being rescued in Mykolaiv and how animal rights activists have been helping to reduce the number of stray dogs in Mykolaiv for 10 years.