The LDK candidate for Prishtina, Përparim Rama, has indicated that if he wins, he plans to address the problem of stray dogs by creating a Dog Park similar to the Bear Park.

“The mayor of Prishtina represents the citizen of Prishtina and if the citizen of Prishtina has a big problem that they are stray dogs that I am hearing more and more that children and adults are being bitten, then we must take immediate measures because yes human health and safety are violated. I was at Bear Park just to see how they solved the bear issue. There is a park where, in addition to the area for bears, there are other areas that use different businesses in terms of meetings and recreation, as well as the education of children.

“If our city is developing as a tourist city in different ways, we also need points of different attractions. We can create a Dog Park, because the municipality owns a large number of lands. We must first insist on licensing dogs. People who own a dog today are not licensed to own it and there is no report of who owns that dog. We must first insist that if a family wants to get a dog, then that dog is known to be licensed, whose it is and who is responsible for that dog. If after two or three months the children become stale, then the dog is not left on the street. “If we license the dogs and we have created the Dog Park, then this is the place where you can send the dog if you do not want to keep it anymore.”

Rama, in “Ju flet Prishtina” said that stray dogs are a very big problem and super emergency.

It turns out that people who are infected with coronavirus have a specific smell that well-trained dogs can detect with very high precision, it is known that people have about five million receptors in the nose, and dogs up to 300 million.

Dr. Clara Guest has always been fascinated by dogs and their relationship with humans. After completing her studies in psychology, she worked on training dogs that were helpers for deaf people, where she met a woman who claimed that her Dalmatian had discovered that she had malignant melanoma.

In 2002, Gest teamed up with orthopedist John Church to investigate whether it was possible to train dogs to distinguish the urine of healthy people from those with bladder cancer. A study whose results were published in the British Medical Journal showed that they can.

The dog unit for medical diagnostics was established in 2008. This charity trains dogs who can detect changes in people with type one diabetes and other disorders that occur just before the condition worsens, and thus warn in time that medical treatment is necessary.

The organization also researches the ability of dogs to detect cancer and other diseases, including Parkinson’s disease. When the coronavirus pandemic started, they were nearing the end of a study they conducted in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which showed that dogs can detect malaria.

The results of the just-published study show that dogs detect kovid 19 on clothing worn by infected people with an accuracy of 94.3 percent, as opposed to rapid antigen tests that have 58 to 77 percent accuracy and compared to the p-si-ar test that has 97.2 percent.

However, dogs beat p-si-ar speed tests because they make a diagnosis in less than a second. “This also applies to asymptomatic cases, as well as to people who are mildly infected,” said Professor James Logan of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who was one of the leaders in this study.

The golden retriever Tala was the most accurate and in 94.5 percent of cases she managed to detect a covid infection.

Birds, such as spaniels, retrievers and labradors, are especially good breeds of dogs for detecting coronavirus. “These are dogs that absolutely love to sniff and explore,” claims Gestova. “They are also very tame and love working with people in public places.”

It takes eight to 10 weeks to train a dog to detect kovida 19. In this study, dogs were trained to sniff out T-shirts, socks and masks donated to them by the National Health Service, some of which had a positive test for kovid.

Dogs will not be able to replace p-si-ar tests, but they could be of great use at airports where they could inspect arriving passengers much faster and determine when to undergo a psi-si test or quarantine while waiting for results. , which would significantly reduce the need to provide quarantine accommodation and the cost of PR testing.

The biggest challenge is training because it requires time and clothes worn by infected and uninfected people. A study is underway to identify odor molecules that dogs are able to smell, which would enable the production of “pseudo odors” that would be used in the training of a large number of dogs.

Given that similar projects performed in many countries, including Finland, France and Lebanon, it seems that it is not impossible for dogs to be permanent “employees” at airports in the future.

Animal rape is a worrying phenomenon in Albania, as such denunciations have been made by citizens often on social networks and in other cities in districts such as Pogradec, Bulqiza, Gjirokastra where photos and videos of ten dogs died from poisoning have been circulated.

This topic was commented today on the show “Albania Live” on Top Channel, where in a live connection from Kosovo, was a 20-year-old who has 28 dogs.

She is Artina Selimi from Prishtina, whose family has turned into a family tradition of 39 years the cultivation of animals, mainly dogs. They take care of different animals like dogs, cats, birds.

Animals are sold by carefully selecting families so that they are families that are able to care for them. Recently they have sheltered a stray dog ​​from Albania, Tirana (Skubi) which if it had not been sheltered by the family would have been killed by the Municipality.

“I have 28 dogs that I took from the streets of Kosovo, and one was brought to me from Albania. An activist, I do not remember my mother taking it.

The Municipality of Tirana wanted to kill the dog and the activists took him on the run, it was also a time of pandemic. They found the transport and brought it to us.

Mom and I are cultivators. Mom has been doing this job for 39 years. “With the opportunities we have, we save the dogs from falling into the wrong hands”, said Artina Selimi.

According to her, the expenses do not go much, as they make the food themselves, they do not get it all ready in the store.

“It does not go well. 100-200 euros in one me “, said the young woman, who added:” It is better to stay with a dog than with a man. “The stress that people bring, animals never bring.”