With Plovdiv's new website, it is now possible to browse options and choose a pet online. The city announced on February 24 2009 that the local pound, at the fifth km on Pazardjishko Chaussee, has been outfitted with a special webpage that shows all the available dogs of the moment.

Students from the European College for Economics and Management in Plovdiv prepared the photographs of and information about each of the dogs. The project came as part of their internship with the municipality's environmental protection directorate.

People desiring to adopt one of the animals are to pay six leva for a certificate of well being from the veterinarian (called a "passport" in Bulgarian) and an identification tag in its ear. Animals can be viewed Monday to Friday from 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 4pm. For more information, please contact Yordanka Daskalova, head expert of the environmental protection directorate, at 032/ 656 875.

In addition, Plovdiv city hall has announced that owners of pets are to pay their annual pet registration fee by the end of March. For the first year of registration, 20 leva tax is incremented – one-twelfth of the annual amount for each month until the end of the year, including the month that the dog was acquired.

Owners of seeing-eye dogs and other assistance dogs, dogs registered to firms, Red Cross dogs and hunting dogs are freed from the 20 leva fee. In addition, owners of neutered dogs are not required to pay the tax, and dogs with an identification microchip are non-taxed for the first year.

City hall said that just because a person's dog fell into one of the non-fee-paying categories did not mean that the owner was not required to register the animal.