The head of the Animal Welfare Area of Podemos Canarias, Mila Hormiga, registered this Tuesday before the Arrecife Prosecutor's Office a 14-page document detailing "one by one all the irregularities verified that have occurred in the dog pound of this conejero municipality since 2015", according to the party's statement.
After numerous initiatives in defense of the Seprona sergeant, Gloria Moreno, investigated in the eyes of Podemos "for fulfilling her functions and denouncing the absurdities that have occurred in matters of animal abuse and neglect in the municipal dog pound, and having analyzed the numerous complaints from animal rights groups", the purple formation denounces the Health Area of the Arrecife City Council.
The reasons why Mila Hormiga has decided to appear against the municipal dog pound lie "in the irregularities of the management", specifically, "the non-permanence of the animals for the period established by law", the "failure to attend to those who were injured" or "leaving them permanently caged". "Several people claim that there have been disappearances of puppies or lack of surveillance of the enclosure, serious incidents have also been confirmed in the records of the animal entry and exit books, which simply did not exist", says the head of the Animal Welfare Area of Podemos Canarias.
"Indiscriminate sacrifices without reports or justifications"
Podemos recalls that "the Civil Guard, specifically the Seprona, initiated the investigation of these cases in August 2015 in response to complaints that appeared with terrible images on social networks of animal sacrifices without the completion of the legally established time for it". And from the investigation, according to the purple formation, "it is clear that the registration of the animals was not carried out correctly, nor did they find the proper documentation on the management of the corpses of the animals sacrificed in authorized places in accordance with the laws of health, public health and organic waste management".
"We are talking about very serious irregularities that have been proven, there is also a business that no one understands of sacrifice service to individuals, who take their sick or elderly dogs", says Hormiga.
Podemos denounces "the possible administrative negligence, the massive delivery of animals whose whereabouts are totally unknown to the same couple and the indiscriminate sacrifices without reports or justifications". Thus, Animal Welfare of Podemos Canarias requests the Arrecife Prosecutor's Office to proceed to open the appropriate investigation procedures that lead to the clarification of the facts brought to its attention and to take the appropriate criminal measures against all those responsible.
