The ADEMAL association has made hundreds of complaints about animal abuse and abandonment, and this time, it denounces the "lack of control of hunting dogs" by the Cabildo of Lanzarote. One of the main factors that causes "the massive abandonment of podencos and animals used for hunting every year in Lanzarote" specifically "around 400 each year".
As well as "the mistreatment of an undetermined number of animals", which, since there is no list of all hunting dogs and other auxiliary animals such as ferrets, means that "the number of complaints of animal abuse and abandonment increases every year", the association states.
“If the Cabildo complied with the hunting law in the registration and control of dogs, forcing the approximately 1,300 current hunters to have all their animals used for hunting in a registry, both informing of the registrations and deregistrations, with the contribution of veterinary justifications for the cause of death of the animal, the number of dogs that, in the best of cases, arrive at municipal shelters and shelters would be greatly reduced,” says the president of the association, Birgit Wening.
Let us remember that "the control and monitoring" of that registry is "the power of the environmental agents of the Cabildo", which currently has a staff of "eight agents" who work seven days a week. Therefore, it is understood that having this registry will be "a turning point in the fight against animal abuse on the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa", they argue.
ADEMAL comments that this complaint "represents the greatest act of courage carried out by the association", since denouncing the highest island administration for allegedly failing to comply with the hunting law "could cause unpredictable consequences", they confess.
"The affinity of Dolores Corujo with the hunting sector is well known," they specify. "Whenever she has the opportunity, she carries out acts of recognition to praise this activity," they make clear.
Last November, the president of the Cabildo "held an act of recognition for hunters, at the farmer's monument paid for with the money of all citizens, an absolute full house in which the respect for the environment and animal welfare that hunting has on the island was presumed", they recall.
Likewise, already in the pre-election campaign, on April 27 we learned the news that the socialist party “reiterates its support for sustainable hunting”, in which they once again talk about animal welfare.
It is totally "incomprehensible and incoherent" to talk about animal welfare while "they refuse to control a sector" that they obviously want to keep happy, they argue.
"It is regrettable to see how the president of the Cabildo, who has always boasted of being so sensitive to animal welfare, puts so much effort into pleasing the hunting sector but has not taken a single measure to protect those animals that supposedly worry her so much," they recall.
Therefore, we understand that "applying the registration and control of hunting dogs and auxiliary animals will clean up the sector of "bad hunters", who want to continue keeping their dogs hidden and in terrible conditions", they make clear. "Both the animal rights sector and the good hunters sector would win", so we make a "call to the hunting sector" and join "this not only social, but legal demand", concludes the president of ADEMAL.
"Could be incurring in an alleged crime of prevarication"
“The Cabildo of Lanzarote could be incurring in an alleged crime of prevarication and for omission of its obligation to comply with the laws according to the current penal code, on crimes against public administrations, since it has had 25 years to activate the registration and control service for hunting dogs and other auxiliary animals and has not done so, therefore it may have to explain it before the judicial authority”, comments the legal representative of ADEMAL, Emilio Cabrera Lopez.
