One year after the approval of Animal Welfare Actmany groups and professionals question its usefulness or its effects on animals, some even qualify it as “crap”.
The latest reaction is that of an animal protector what was done an aggressive and eschatological attitude campaign in which you can read expressions such as “this law is shit” or “what a waste”.
It is the SOS Galgos campaign “We shit on law 7/2023” which mobilized the owners of these pets in which they ask them to upload them to social networks.a photo of your dog ready to shit on this unjust law with the hashtag #NosCagamosEnLaLey.
The aim of the campaign is to attract attention because the new law does not provide “the rights of hunting dogs“, saying this recalling that “today, a year after its application, we protest against the Animal Protection Law 7/2023, a law which denies the right to hunt greyhounds and condemns them to a life of suffering. Come on, it’s a shitty law.
Thousands of greyhounds affected
The protector points out that every year in Spain, “tens of thousands of greyhounds are hanged, thrown into wells and ditches as hunting waste”, emphasizing that their organization, with its “rescue, recovery and adoption efforts, we have given new lives to over 3,000 greyhounds“.
The organization emphasizes that “we cannot allow them to be thrown away as waste after having lived only 17% of their lives. At SOS Galgos we work tirelessly so that these animals have the best life they deserve after going through the trauma of hunting“.
Currently, the lifespan of a hunting greyhound is 2 to 3 years. It is estimated that each year, tens of thousands of greyhounds are abandonedtortured and murdered at the end of the hunting season.
Abandoned to their fate
The organization puts on the table the date of February 1 (International Greyhound Day), ensuring that in regions of Spain such as Andalusia, Extremadura, Castilla y León or Castilla-La Manchahundreds of greyhounds They appear, at best, abandoned to their fate.
It’s been almost a year since the Animal Welfare Act came into force and news that affects pet owners or pet store traders is only trickling out.
These developments are determined because the standard had to be developed with a regulation, a decision that the Government decided to transform into a Royal Decreewhose project was shared with everyone involved.
Preventing abandonments
This law, still in the definition and development phase in many aspects of the regulation that seeks well-being and “aims to implement legal mechanisms in order to promote animal protection and prevent the high level of animal abandonment in our countryinvolving public authorities and citizens with respect for all animals”, as specified in the approved text.
Among the consequences of the animal welfare law are the appearance of dogs with cuts on their necks and the increase in dog abandonments, as OKGREEN published on September 5.
Situations never seen before
The entry into force of this animal welfare law provokes scenes never before seen from those responsible for shelters and animal shelters who are overwhelmed by the continuous arrival of pets, especially dogs, in no longer be surprised by the conditions in which they arrive. after abandonments.
The standard, promoted by the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 20230, has a significant impact on animal rights and welfare according to the information and testimonies collected by OKGREEN, this has caused the abandonment of more than twice as many dogs as before, according to what Andrés León, president of the Association for the Protection of Animals and Plants of Vigo.
Concretely, shelters and those responsible for collecting abandoned animals have observed cuts in the necks of dogs to extract the chipso that duels are neither identified nor sanctioned.
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The SOS Galgos campaign seeks the support of the owners of this breed of dog, requesting their involvement in making visible a situation for which “legislative means are necessary to fight animal cruelty more effectively: there are already some cases of manifest cruelty provided for in the penal code, but there is a greater lack of material and human resources and greater involvement of different administrations and institutions.
The protector says he doesn’t do anything about it because he makes excuses like “Iviolence against people and the saturation of the judicial and penal system “These are common arguments to deny greater involvement in the fight against violence against animals.”
