Following many inquiries from residents of the Carmelia neighborhood in Haifa
The Municipality of Haifa is launching, in cooperation with the residents of the Carmelia neighborhood, a program to free the sidewalks from dogs.
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The program that will be launched next week combines several units in the municipality, the education system and especially the residents of the neighborhood and will actually be managed in direct and ongoing contact with the community.
Carmelia was chosen to implement the program following many requests from the residents of the neighborhood on the subject and based on its success it will be decided to expand it in the future to all the neighborhoods of the city.
This is another step in the enforcement activity carried out by the municipality during the last few months, in the framework of which dozens of fines totaling NIS 475 were registered against dog owners who acted in violation of the law.
Partners for the program are the Veterinary Service, the General Inspection Department, the Education Department and the Public Inquiries Department, the Herzl School, the scout movement and the residents.
The program will include educational and informational activities among the school students and residents, increased enforcement activity, overt and covert, the establishment of a dog park, community activities of the Herzl school students and the scout movement, and a direct link between the municipal center and the residents of the neighborhood.
The veterinary service doctors will conduct classes on the relationship between residents and animals in the urban environment. The right way to raise and properly care for animals. The danger and nuisance caused by dogs wandering around without supervision and the nuisance caused by leaving dog excrement in the public space.
In addition to the lessons that will be given to the students of the Herzl School, which is a full partner of the program, the students will participate together with the Scouts movement in outreach activities in the kindergartens and among the residents of the neighborhood. The students will talk to the residents and hand out eagles that they will prepare based on the material they will learn about the subject.
In addition, activity to locate stray dogs and enforcement of the collection of dog excrement by their owners will be increased in the neighborhood.
The activity will be carried out openly and covertly by the inspectors of the General Inspection Division who will patrol the neighborhood at all hours of the day. At the same time, a dog park will be established in the neighborhood and bag facilities will be scattered for the convenience of dog owners.
The municipal hotline 106 will follow up on inquiries from residents of the neighborhood and regulate the activity. Based on the analysis of references, conclusions will be drawn for the continuation and expansion of the program to other neighborhoods in the city.
The director of the Public Inquiries Unit in the Haifa Municipality emphasized that the activity in the Carmelia neighborhood is being carried out following many inquiries from residents on the subject.
But without public awareness and the residents' willingness to cooperate, it is not possible to eradicate the phenomenon that disturbs many of the city's residents.
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