"We are alarmed because there are some dogs that are killing a lot of cats." This is the complaint made by a resident of the Los Noruegos de Famara urbanization, who claims that he has been waiting for months for "the City Council to react." "Do they need to keep killing?" he asks.
According to him, the neighbors have already had to bury "about eleven cats" and "eight more have disappeared." "They are also attacking dogs that are with their owners," says this man, who claims that "there have already been two attacks." "Three months ago the first time and now it happened again at the end of the year," he adds.
Specifically, this neighbor explains that there are two dogs that are sowing fear in the urbanization, a German shepherd and a hunting dog, which their owner sometimes "releases." "The one that kills is a German shepherd but the hunter is the one that picks up the tracks, which is also wreaking havoc with the hunting animals, the rabbits, the partridges and all that," says this man, who claims that the German shepherd "gets inside the houses and takes your cat away."
"He killed a cat inside my house and that's how it happened in several, or he starts barking at two in the morning and wakes up everyone," adds this neighbor, who claims that, despite having reported the events to the City Council, the situation "remains the same."
"The Animal Protection people from the City Council told me the first day that they were going to catch the dog, that they didn't need to see it loose, and the other day I went and nothing, always with excuses, this neighbor asks himself.
The City Council affirms that it will put "all the means" to capture them
After learning of these events, La Voz contacted the Councilor for Animal Welfare of the Teguise City Council, Sara Bermúdez, who assured that "the Local Police went several times" to the house of the owner of the animals and that "he warned him that he had to have the dogs tied up."
"They went on two or three occasions and for a few days the dogs were not seen around there, but last night they reappeared," said the councilor, who pointed out that, given this, the Local Police returned to the house, which is also allegedly occupied, but that "now another man lives" in it.
Faced with this, the councilor has assured that the kennel staff is "going to start going" through the area "to try to locate the dogs and catch them." "All the means will be put in place from the department," she stated.
