Pardis Animal Shelter ( fa, پناهگاه حیوانات پردیس) is a no-kill

animal shelter An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in the animal pounds of agricultural communities, where stray livestock would ...

, a spay/neuter clinic, and a public

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located near

Tabriz Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quri Chay, Quru River valley in Iran's historic Aze ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. It is affiliated with "Tabriz Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" which is a volunteer

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based in

, devoted to

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and

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. Pardis Shelter was founded by Jila Pourirani in 2012, after a massive cull that nearly 400

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s were shot dead in Tabriz. Pardis Shelter has a clinic, 11 shelters, three niches and shaded areas. 1300 animals of different kinds including dogs,

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s, foxes,

horse The horse (''Equus ferus caballus'') is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equidae and is one of two extant subspecies of ''Equus ferus''. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million yea ...

s and

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s such as

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and

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s are being treated and sheltered in this center.

Combating animal cruelty

Killing stray animals was outlawed by a ratification of a

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through the Governor's office and Public Attorney's office of Tabriz in July 2014. Any stray dogs or cats encountered by city officials must now be transferred to this shelter. Dogs are quarantined for a while upon entering the shelter, washed, removed

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and sterilized. An average of 700 stray animals per year are sterilized in this shelter. Services such as surgery, transportation of animals and

are also provided by this center.

Current crisis

Some people have legally complained about the unpleasant odor of the animal shelter while it is not close to

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s. Therefore, the animal shelter has to be moved to a new location and a new shelter has to be built, while they already had financial difficulties with their day-to-day costs. The freezing winter season of Tabriz region is starting soon and most of those animals can only make it through this winter if they are sheltered in an indoor place.

References

External links

Pardis Animal Shelter

Paws and Nose organization

Pictorial report

Veterinary hospitals Animal welfare organisations based in Iran Veterinary medicine in Iran {{Veterinary-med-stub