About Illatos Street

Illatos Street Dog Control Facility is not a joyful place, a leisurely weekend program to visit despite that the conditions in which dogs are being kept there have improved a lot in recent years.

Still you must find it in your heart to come and visit it to see which dogs are the ones who need help/rescue the most. Bring your family, benevolent friends with you so that they can experience what a tragedy is for an animal to be left completely abandoned.
Not many know that 2/3 of all animals at Illatos Street have been brought in by their owners, because they had got bored of them, or did not want to bear the costs of the necessary veterinary care for their them.

Come inside, take a look around, talk to us and share what you have seen with your friends: help alter their attitude towards these animals and towards responsible animal keeping!

 Below you can read more about the tasks and functioning of the Dog Control Facility:

The Municipality of Budapest Public Administration’s Dog Control Facility

Address of Facility: Illatos Street 23/A, Budapest, 1097, HUNGARY

Worktime: 07.00-19.00

Opening hours: 10.00-14.00 (weekdays), 10.00-13.00 (Sunday, holidays)

Illatos Street Dog Control Facility is the affiliate institution of the Municipality of Budapest. It is not an animal shelter, but a budgetary institution, an organisational unit of the local government’s Public Administration. In its current form it’s been operating since 01/07/95.

Dog control related tasks of the Facility

• To capture run off dogs within the municipal boundaries of Budapest (for 14 days they can only be picked up by their owners, after 14 days anybody can adopt them)
• To take in dogs confiscated by a parish of a local government
• To take in and observe dogs which bit people

The dog control related services of the Facility

• To take in dogs which their owners are not willing to take care of in the future (these dogs can be adopted immediately from the Facility)
• Putting incurable/old dogs to sleep to the request of their owners

The Facility is capable of accommodating a maximum of 94 dogs.

Every dog which is at least 3 months old is vaccinated at the Facility for parvoviral enteritis, dog-distemper, viral hepatitis, leptospirosis and rabies. Younger dogs get vaccinated for parvoviral enteritis. All dogs get dewormed by the Facility.

Dogs captured by the Facility for 14 days can only be taken out by their owners. Ownership must be proved by certificate of vaccinations. After 14 days anybody may adopt these dogs.

Dogs turned in by their owners can be adopted from their day of arrival.

Adoptive parents must be at least 18 year old adults capable of producing a valid document of home address. Intoxicated persons, also ones not being able to produce a valid document of home address will not be allowed to adopt a dog from the Facility.

Children under the age of 12 cannot be left unattended near the dog kennels and dogs, but they may meet their chosen dog before adopting outside the Facility offices.

Prospective adoptive parents must bring their own dog-collar, dog-leash and if necessary a muzzle or transport cage. When adopting they will be given their dog’s certificate of vaccinations which reveals the vaccinations their dog has been given, also its chip number.

We suggest that adopted cubs should be taken to a vet in 1-2 days after adoption, since they usually do not spend enough time at the Facility for their possible diseases to show.

In the last few years big changes have taken place at Illatos Street. As a result of the vaccination and disinfecting program the Facility is now successful in preventing dog-distemper amongst its dogs which can therefore be adopted safely.
All dogs are given to adoption vaccinated for viral diseases and supplied with microchips. In the last two years more dogs were adopted from the Facility than from all of the country’s shelters altogether. Unfortunately the number of dogs arriving to the Facility has also been the highest.