Pet Charge To Benefit From Tiny
The decision on the pets’ charge of the Council of Elders of the Yerevan Municipality in 2010 caused complaints, and the incomplete wordings of the decision became a subject of discourse for all those residents who keep any kind of bird or a four-footed pet in their apartments or in the yard of their private houses.
According to that decision from now on residents of Yerevan who have pets are to pay a 5,000 dram annual charge per pet. Neither the apartment, nor the private house residents agreed with the decision.
In the beginning the wave of protest was much bigger because there was a need to clarify what kind of pets were concerned. The thing is that there are districts in Yerevan, for example, Kond, Sari Tagh or the Silikyan district in the suburb (known as Third village) where many of the private house residents keep small and/or large corneous pets in the yard of their houses.
In order tо reduce the wave of protest the municipality issued a press release clarifying that the charges concern only the dog and the cat keepers. The press release satisfied the cow and the sheep keepers making angrier the dog and the cat owners. Even the residents, who don’t save money and time for their beloved four-footed pet’s tail flaps often, have no intention to pay the charge.