Is it forbidden to have animals in the apartment?
All animals have the right to protection and shelter according to the Law on the Protection of Animals, which was drawn up in accordance with the European Union's Compliance Laws and adopted in 2004 at the TBMM. Pets kept in homes can be fed in the home environment, provided that all responsibilities are taken over by the owners and their obligations are fulfilled.
What Pets Can Be Hosted At Home?
In detached houses, apartments and on the site, domestic and ornamental animals can be fed. The definition of domestic and ornamental animals includes all dog breeds, domestic cats, all cage birds, aquarium fish, small rodents and reptiles, except for prohibited species.
Paragraph (i) of Article 3 of Law No. 5199, Definitions section, states that;
i) Domestic and ornamental animal: refers to any animal whose care and responsibility is assumed by its owners, especially at home, in workplaces or in their land, for the purpose of special pleasure and companionship, or intended to be undertaken by their owners.
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the article of the law, domestic and ornamental animals are defined as living beings to be protected. That is why domestic animals have all the rights in the Law on the Protection of Animals. Therefore, the most basic right of these animals, the right to housing, can be provided within the home by the owner.
Is it forbidden to feed animals in apartments?
Each apartment and site has a regulation. The regulation is drawn up at the first meeting after the completion of the construction of the apartment building, and these regulations may often include statements such as “Pets cannot be fed” or “Livestock cannot be fed”. Before deciding to feed animals in the apartment, it is worthwhile to look at the apartment regulations. This decision, taken earlier, can again be replaced by a plurality of votes.
Pets can be fed if there is no decision to the contrary by the apartment management, if all responsibilities are taken over by the owners and their obligations are fulfilled.
Important: The apartment management has no decision to the contrary, and let's say you took a cat or dog to feed in your house. At the request or complaint of the apartment owners, the apartment management can make a decision “Pets can not be fed” by a plurality of votes. However, this decision does not bind the people who have pets in the house, that is, you. This connects people who will just move into the apartment after the decision is made.
After the decision of the apartment management “Pets Can not be fed”, people who have recently moved often continue to feed animals, ignoring any news of the regulation or the regulation. But if any of the residents of the apartment or site complains, either the pet needs to be removed from the house, or the owner needs to change his home.
In the case of complaints;
For example, you are feeding a dog in the apartment and someone from the apartment has complained about you. In this case, first of all, it is checked whether other residents of apartments in the apartment are disturbed. If the problem is noise, the expert comes and measures the decibels of the noise. An important detail here is the measurement of noise decibels from the apartment of the complaining person. For the complaint to be valid, the noise must be continuous and above a certain decibel. If the complaint is justified, an enforcement order is issued for the eviction of the animal, and usually the animal, which has been attached to it for many years, leaves the home of the owner.
Important Note: What complainant apartment resident complains about the dog owner with the excuse that his dog barks a lot with the excuse that his dog barks a lot. A warning comes to the dog owner to take the dog away. If the dog is not removed, a fine will come. However, if the sound measurement has not been performed, this penalty has no validity, DO NOT PAY.
Rules Pet Owners Must Follow
Article 5 of the Animal Protection Act on the adoption and maintenance of animals begins with the following paragraph;
Ownership and care of animals
ARTICLE 5. — The person who owns or takes care of an animal by participating in the widespread educational program required by its maintenance is obliged to house the animal, to provide for its ethological needs appropriate to the type and method of reproduction of the animal, to take care of its health, to take all necessary measures in terms of human, animal and environmental health.
According to this article, pet owners fulfill their responsibilities as long as they provide for or control the ethological needs of the animal for which they assume responsibility, and take all measures in terms of human and environmental health.
To comply with the definition stated at the very beginning, “the person who owns or cares for an animal by participating in the widespread training program required by its maintenance,” it is enough to take your pet from any shelter or from a person with a manufacturer, seller certificate.
Summarizing the matter collectively, here are the rules and qualities that every pet owner must adhere to so that he can fully defend himself and his little friend;
Obtaining the adopted animal from an officially approved shelter, rehabilitation center or manufacturer, which has undergone all inspections.
Carrying out and registering all health checks of the animal being cared for.
Compliance with all applicable local rules of the environment in which they live.
WARNING: These rules and qualifications apply to people who have pets in their homes. About people who produce pets, trade or employ animals in various jobs, other articles of the law need to be investigated. In addition, this article is for informational purposes and has no official obligations. It cannot be shown as an official source of information.
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