Melikgazi Municipality is implementing the "Melikgazi Municipality Animal Shelter Project" to meet the care, shelter and natural life needs of homeless street animals.

The project, which includes administrative buildings, animal care and observation areas, triage area, open and closed shelter areas, feed depot, quarantine unit in a 25 thousand square meter area, has the capacity to accommodate approximately 4000 street animals.

Three important procedures will be applied in the care home: neutering, rehabilitating and ear-tagging of stray animals.

Melikgazi Mayor Assoc. Prof. Dr. stated that they have implemented a special project to meet the care and needs of stray animals in need of love and care and to ensure the safety of citizens. Mustafa Palancıoğlu said, “We are preparing to implement an important project for our street animals, our mute friends. Our project, which was designed with every detail considered to improve the living conditions of street animals, consists of administration buildings, animal care and observation areas, triage area, open and closed shelter areas, feed warehouse, quarantine unit. With this beautiful project, both the care and needs of street animals will be met and the safety of our citizens against street dogs will be ensured.”

3 IMPORTANT PROCEDURES WILL BE APPLIED IN THE CARE HOME

Street animals Mayor Palancıoğlu, who stated that stray animals will be subjected to three stages in the shelter, continued his words as follows:

“There are 3 important stages for stray animals here. The first of these is neutering, the second is rehabilitation and finally ear tags. With the neutering process, we aim to prevent the disproportionate increase in the population of stray animals. With veterinary services, stray animals will be rehabilitated and adopted and ear tags will be put to indicate that they benefit from our municipality’s care service. I wish it to be auspicious for Melikgazi in advance.” he said.