Muscovites took home 3,000 animals from shelters in 2020

Sergey Baimukhametov

The world's first shelter for dogs appeared in Japan in 1695, and the first law to protect animals from cruelty was passed in Great Britain in 1822.

Dogs are angels. They endow featherless bipeds (Platonic definition of man) with reckless love and affection. Although canine fates are often dramatic and tragic. But today we will not talk about sad things, about heartbreaking stories, but only about cheerful, pleasant ones.

I am familiar with many dogs in the area along the Yauza from Rostokin to Mytishchi. I've heard a lot of stories. For example, about a nobleman named Bam. Our rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations found a puppy under the ruins of a house in the Iranian city of Bam, destroyed by an earthquake. They hid them on the plane from veterinarians at customs control, brought them to Russia, and the Iranian Bam became a resident of the Moscow district of Yuzhnoye Medvedkovo.

He also knew Chuck, who knew how to find money. As a puppy, he saw how the owner was delighted to pick up a bill on the ground. And I realized how to make him feel good... Chuck somehow managed to smell the money wherever he went. Once I found a hundred ruble under the ice in a puddle.

Dogs treat me well. Although there are offenses, because they are decent creatures in every sense, including in the exacting observance of order. Once, when I was stroking the spaniel Julia, the poodle Garik ran up, turned over on his back and waved his paws to scratch his belly. After scratching Garik, persuading him not to collect dust from the grass, to stand on his paws, I turned to Julia. She defiantly turned away and bypassed me, glancing sideways, however, with one eye and with all her appearance saying: "Traitor!"

Most of all I got from my housemate, a tiny Chihuahua Leli. I was late for a meeting at the metro - and therefore flew past her like a bullet, only nodding, greeting loudly. On the way back, as usual, I came up to talk. And then Lyolya told me everything she thought about.

A big mongrel, Chernushka, lived in the underpass of our metro station. Not that big, but overweight, overfed. All the nearby stalls (there were still stalls on the streets at that time) brought her what was tastier. Nigella was reclining in her corner on the laid out cardboard boxes, in front of plastic plates, and wondered where to start the meal: with whitewash, bone or chicken leg.

Once, when we were talking to her, a collie walked by with the mistress on a leash. Nigella, always calm, suddenly began to swear at her! Her bass echoed through the transition. She did not rush into a fight, a respectable dog after all. But the fire was on what the light was, until the collie went upstairs and disappeared. The background to the scandal was heartbreaking. Once, for a long time, Chernushka, walking along the stalls, saw with her own eyes how this collie, passing by her rookery, grabbed her sausage from a plate, as if it was nobody's. Knowing perfectly well that there are no homeless sausages, especially in chernushka's possessions. Since then, Chernushka has been barking at her mercilessly at every meeting: “Thief! Thief! And also in a collar!"

By the way about the metro. More than once I saw a dog entering a half-empty carriage and settling down among rare passengers with dignity. Most often he sits at the door and leaves at the station he needs. It is necessary to see how he calmly trots around the lobby with a businesslike, slightly anxious look.

Moscow dogs settled quietly in the subway. Animal psychologists say they distinguish stations by smell and even by ear - by stop announcements. Some people think that dogs go to other stations "for reconnaissance". In my opinion, it is not excluded that simply travel for entertainment purposes. Moreover, observers note that dogs in the subway do not shit. Sometimes grates are used for certain purposes, where water is drained after cleaning. More often, when necessary, they go out into the street. Therefore, they choose shallow stations, without escalators. Although the most sophisticated people use the escalator.

Of course, dogs shouldn't live in the subway. Moreover, on the street.

There are 22 shelters in Moscow, founded by private individuals, on charitable and volunteer basis. We catch them - 13 municipal ones. Last year, Muscovites took 3,000 animals from shelters.

Comparing dogs, animals in general, and people is always interesting, instructive and just ridiculous. A certain scientist conducted many experiments, rewarded some dogs with sausage if they gave him a paw, and treated others just like that. And I came to the conclusion that dogs are not envious, their behavior in this case shows how much more primitive their emotional organization is.

If they do not envy, then they are primitive! Here is the logic of the individual bipeds.

The video on the Internet is also instructive. I don’t know just whether it’s real or staged. A certain man in a white coat was giving tasks to chimpanzees. The one who did it was awarded with a banana. That's what they think of themselves, these people are pathetic, stupid, self-righteous creatures! You see, they can welcome someone with a banana, but not give someone! And at the same time, I suppose, they feel like kings of nature, rulers! Ugh, how disgusting and disgusting!

Before I had time to denounce humanity, the monkeys did it millions of times better and stronger. The chimpanzee, who received the banana, broke it in half and treated a friend to whom the man did not give a banana for not completing some of his assignments. And they, embracing, began to eat, not paying attention to the creature in the white coat, which has money to buy bananas in the store.

This is how the monkeys splendidly put the human race in place.

Man to man is a friend, comrade, brother, enemy or envious person. Dog angels are sent to us for testing and consolation. True, although they are angels, they are in bodily form. Sometimes they have disturbing dreams because they whine in their dreams. At such moments they need to be woken up, cuddled and given something tasty.

May everyone have many sausages and many pleasant dreams.