Animal rights associations have called for a demonstration this Sunday throughout the Canary Islands "against the extermination of cats." In Lanzarote, it will take place at 11 in the morning in front of the Government Delegation in Arrecife.
This gathering is due, according to Ademal, as "a rejection of the murder of the cat taken from the colony of La Graciosa and named Chinijo, euthanized by order of the Department of the Environment, through the General Directorate of Biodiversity of the Government of the Canary Islands, which occurred last week and contravening the Animal Welfare Law 7/2023, and against the opinion of those responsible for the Teguise town hall shelter, and of the Lanzarote Island Animal Welfare Office itself."
"From the different platforms and animal rights associations throughout the Canary Islands, we are sure that the fact that for the first time in the history of our islands, a unique office in its specialty has been created from the Cabildo of Lanzarote throughout Spain, specializing in Animal Welfare, has lit the fuse of environmentalists, since by nature, they are more likely to be advised by the only and exclusive one, theirs," they explain.
They add that "the TNR method is the only method approved by the veterinary colleges of Spain, has stirred many bad consciences in other departments, which, if it were agreed that this method was a success, or it was concluded that cats are not the ones that cause all these deaths, they would have to change all that argument, which they have been proclaiming for more than 30 years."
"They also want from the Environment, through the Biodiversity office of the Government of the Canary Islands, to classify the cat (felis catus) as an invasive exotic species, when we all know that the cat was domesticated more than 10,000 years ago and was already living among us Canarians, for more than 2,500 years, as remains have been found in dozens of aboriginal caves," they defend from the NGO.
Finally, they state that this Sunday at 11 o'clock, on all the islands, "all our voices and those of society will come together, irritated and deceived by their politicians and half-baked environmentalists to stop one of the greatest injustices, which our Canarians have to go through again and again, to defend our animals from claws, longer and sharper than their own, which are those of human beings, very little human."