The norm will not protect hunting dogs because the PSOE has given in “to the hunters’ lobby” and they have not moved from position
The Congress of Deputies has given the final green light this Thursday to the animal welfare law and it will approve throughout the morning, predictably, the reform of the Criminal Code aimed at aggravating the penalties for mistreatment. Both regulations have had a rough and sometimes grotesque process, and have gone ahead without the law that seeks the abandonment, mistreatment and zero sacrifice of animals to protect dogs hunting, or to employees in professional activities (police, rescue, etc.), in livestock (shepherd dogs) or falconry.
The law from the beginning left out the Bulls or experimental or production animals, because they are governed by specific rules, and with the socialist exclusion, the rule will focus on the pets or other animals of the urban environment. It was useless that Unidas Podemos and other parliamentary partners of the Government threatened to drop the norm if it did not protect game animals, nor the successive offers so that dogs used in hunting activities such as greyhounds were at least regulated by the autonomies, the socialists have not moved from position because its obligation, as a government party, is to “listen to all sectors”, as they have argued this Thursday from the rostrum.
On the contrary, his parliamentary partners have made him ugly that they have been “capable of raising taxes on the rich, the banks and the oil companies and have not been able to before the pressure of hunting lobby”. “It is worth studying,” the ERC deputy Joan Capdevila snapped at them.
Among the highlights of the law is that dog owners must take a training course, and they cannot be left alone for more than 24 hours (three days in the case of the rest of the animals). They will not be able to keep them on a regular basis on terraces, basements or patios; Cats must be sterilized and animal husbandry can only be carried out by authorized persons. Also prohibited circuses with elephants or tigers and the sacrifice of animals except for sanitary reasons.