Özet:

Although today's society has become animal lovers, the number of people who complain about animals or unattended animals is at a considerable level. Stray animals should be kept under control for the comfort of society, together with their health. Such situations can be realized with rehabilitation centres, nursing homes and treatment centres designed for unattended animals. The importance of metropolitan municipalities in the active operation of the mentioned centres locally cannot be denied. Metropolitan municipalities continue their activities towards unattended animals both to protect people from animals and to protect animals from people. The purpose of this study is to discuss the adequacy of the activities carried out in addition to informing about the activities carried out by the metropolitan municipalities towards unattended animals. IIn this context, Van municipality which has become a metropolitan municipality with the Law No. 6360, adopted in 2012, and located in the far east of Turkey, was taken as a sample. In the study, suggestions will be made by evaluating the activities of Van Metropolitan Municipality for dogs and cats, which are the most prominent among the unattended animals.

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