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The important problem of urban and large rural settlements of the Russian Federation is the increase in the number of stray animals. The activities of shelters for stray animals are associated with a number of obligatory veterinary preventive measures. These measures require the development of a comprehensive system of veterinary services for animal shelters, including the procedure for the initial reception of an animal to a shelter, the procedure to identify an animal without owners showing unmotivated aggressiveness, a system of veterinary preventive measures in a shelter, a method of humane treatment of animals in a shelter, a typical staffing of veterinary shelter specialists and a typical diet for an animal in a shelter. In many constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the activities to regulate the number of stray animals are carried out by private specialized organizations in accordance with the concluded municipal contracts. The existing practice does not allow organizing a single effective system to regulate the number of stray animals. A regional system for the regulation of the number of stray animals could be organized under the leadership of the State Veterinary Service of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in cooperation with existing private shelters for stray animals. This system can not be created without an appropriate regional regulatory framework. The authors propose the development and implementation of a comprehensive system of veterinary services for animal shelters at the level of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation. This system will serve as one of the elements to maintain the epizootic and epidemic well-being of the territories of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for zooanthroponosis, among which rabies is the most relevant.

Monitoring of the incidence of cats and dogs with infectious diseases, as well as the development of recommendations to owners to prevent infection of their pets with these diseases, are important elements of ensuring the epizootic well-being of cities. It was found that cats are more susceptible to infection with infectious diseases, for 2019-2021, the Veterinarian Advisory Center annually received 111 cats and 17 dogs with infectious pathology on average. The most frequently reported pathologies are calico- and herpesvirus infections of cats. There is no clearly predominant infectious pathology in dogs. A single dynamics of the incidence of infectious diseases in animals by year has not been revealed. When analyzing treatment regimens and preventive measures for infectious diseases of cats and dogs, we come to the conclusion that if there are effective means of complex therapy, animal owners need to focus their attention on their specific prevention with the use of Russian vaccines.

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