Sochi hires exterminators to wipe out stray dogs before Olympics

[Aldurin]

The city of Sochi is going to get a lot of shit over this.

The city of Sochi has hired a private company to kill as many stray dogs as possible before the Winter Olympics, it has been claimed.
Describing the animals as ‘biological trash’, the owner of the company has reportedly admitted being tasked with using poison and traps to rid the city of stray dogs before thousands of tourists and competitors arrive for the Games’ opening ceremony next Friday.
The news will anger animal rights campaigners who thought Sochi officials had abandoned plans to exterminate the stray dogs following widespread protests last year.

I hate this kind of stuff. It is understandable that stray dogs are a concern in cities, but having the solution being to exterminate them like vermin is awful. Not only is this a health concern for other wildlife around the city, but this is also a threat to domesticated dogs who happen to wander too far from their owner's care (or not that far at all depending on how this is handled, though it sounds like it's not that concerning for the extermination company). I really do hope that this gives the city government negative attention and affects reception to having the Winter Olympics there, since that sort of blunt and heartless handling of the problem disgusts me.