Responsible Dog Ownership

O odgovornem lastništvu psa
Handling animal carcasses
Carcass removal: every veterinary dispensary or clinic has in place an agreement with the
VHS,,which provides for the removal of animal carcasses. If a dog has died or been put to
death in a veterinary clinic, its owner needs to leave the body there, unless the conditions for
burial or cremation of the body have been complied with. If a dog has died at home, its owner
shall report the death as soon as possible to the Veterinary Hygiene Service of the National
Veterinary Institute, which shall remove the body. Body removal is not payable as a fee to this
end is included in every dog’s anti-rabies vaccination payment. Death of the dog needs to be
reported to the veterinary clinic with concession, and data on death entered into CRD.
Burying of carcasses: according to provisions of the Decree laying down the implementation
of the Regulation (EC) about health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human
consumption, and of the Community implementing regulations issued on its basis and laying
down penalties for violations of its provisions (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia,
No. 100/2006), individual burial of dead pet animals shall be possible in case of absence of
suspicion of animal disease. The Decree further provides that dead animals shall be buried
deep enough as not to be excavated by carnivores. The covering layer of soil shall be at least 50
cm high. Burial shall be performed so as to avoid groundwater pollution and environmental
nuisance.
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Dog carcass burial shall therefore be allowed in the case only that the dog in question has not
died of disease, and the carcass shall be buried in an appropriate method.
Carcass cremation: in Slovenia, there are no crematoria for pet animals as yet. Some dog
owners decide to cremate their dogs in Austrian crematoria. Three such crematoria have been
registered:
• Wiener Tierkrematorium GesmbH, Simmeringer Lände 208, Wien;
• Doris Jarolin vertr. durch Herrn Helmut Jarolin, G. Grinningerstrasse 21, Traun;
• Tierkrematorium Renate und Eduard Reininger, Landscha 8, Ehrenhausen.
Procedure applicable to transporting dead pet animals for cremation into the other EU
Member States is as follows:
a) pet owner shall submit an application in writing to VARS Main Office;
b) VARS shall ask the competent authority of relevant Member State to grant authorisation
for transport of that dead animal carcass;
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c) on granting the authorisation by the competent authority of the relevant Member State, the
pet owner shall report to relevant VARS Regional Office, where the official veterinarian shall
prepare and submit to the other Member State a TRACES message, giving the pet owner the
advice as to the method of transportation and required identification of such a consignment
(transport may be carried out by personal means of transport, and the packaging shall be such
as to prevent any leakage, and packaging identification shall be provided in accordance with
Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002,…);
d) Authorisation granting procedure by competent authorities normally takes some days, and