As detailed in a press release from the Ministry of the Interior, the agents of the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of Ciudad Rodrigo, belonging to the Salamanca command, learned last August of the existence of a farm with several heads of equine cattle that appeared to be malnourished.
For this reason, the aforementioned agents began an investigation that allowed the owner of the property to be located and identified, in order to proceed with the subsequent inspection of the property in his presence, in collaboration with the Veterinary Services of the Junta de Castilla y León de Ciudad. Rodrigo (Salamanca). It was there that six carcasses of equines of various ages were found, several of them in a state of putrefaction.
Within the farm, they were also able to observe 28 other horses living in “semi-freedom”, in an “unsuitable” state and excreting parasites with “a clear risk to their lives” and with clear symptoms of malnutrition due to their “extreme thinness”. “Due to the lack of grass, the agents did not find traces of additional food supplies (hay, straw, animal feed …), as well as “the lack of tanks with water for the animals, because during the summer season when we are in the streams and rivers that cross the plot are dry”, details the same press release.
For all these reasons, an investigation was opened against the owner of the animals as the alleged perpetrator of an offence related to the protection of flora, fauna and domestic animals, due to the mistreatment and abandonment of the animals.
