Animal abuse in Spain
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Animals, especially in Spain , do not enjoy any kind of respect. There are so many dogs living on the street, who are starving to death or die because of terrible injuries. They are put out by their owners just because they were too old, too ill or they just became too boring over the time. On the street they breed totally uncontrolled.
In order to come to grips with this problem, they created the so called “perreras”. They are supposed to work like a normal dog pound. But they don’t!!! Perreras are mostly owned by private investors who earn money on the sorrow of the dogs, because the community pays a ”premium (Kopfprämie)” for each dog.
In those “perreras” the homeless dogs live together in narrow cages, there is barely anyone who removes their excrements and they can be lucky if they get anything to drink or eat. The dogs are given 21 days to be picked up by their former owner or by a new one. If not, they get killed ( in case they aren’t already dead ).
How can this happen within the EU?? There is a law in Spain which says, that animal abuse is just handled like a “criminal property damage”. Therefore they merely get a monetary penalty. Can you believe this? Thousands of pictures on the web show the worst dog abuses, from burnt dogs to sexual abused dogs.
Unfortunately all this is not solely happening in Spain, but also in Italy (you really should take a look at this video,it is awful, but that’s what is happening in our well-liked holiday spots), Portugal and Greece it is very common.
I can’t believe such a crime is being accepted within the EU! Why is it so difficult to strive against these problems properly??
- SO SAD!
Hey,
this really is one of the saddest things in our “modern” society. I cannot believe why people treat their dogs/ all pets like this. I had a dog, and he was with me for 15 years, I can proudly say that he really had a great life and we all loved him from the bottom of our hearts. The day he died was terrible and to me it felt like a little brother had passed away. It really wasn’t easy.
If I now hear about people who abuse their dogs, i really get mad and I feel like hitting them at least twice as hard as they have hit their dogs. Some animals, especially dogs (the human’s best friend), should be seen as and treated like every other little civilian. Since we are paying taxes for them and since we share our lifes with them, they should be treated equal to us (by the way I think the same about cats, guinnepigs and co., even though I personally don’t really like them!!!).
It really is time for the EU to finally react. Do they always have to wait for further actions? Pass laws to stop the abuse of animals!
Laters,
M