2023-06-24 18:30:00
Hours for emergency care range from 8:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon.
The District of Barranquilla put into service a safe and adequate space for vulnerable animals in the city and thanks to the inauguration of the Animal Welfare Center they will be able to receive the best care from trained personnel and high-quality equipment.
It is located on road 11 #4 – 413 in the township of Juan Mina, where this 3,100-square-meter building was set up, which will provide health care and shelters to care for up to 700 animals simultaneously, including felines and canines, together with 3 mangers for horses.
Similarly, this CBA will have different services such as veterinary offices, waiting areas, basic health care, sterilization, clinical laboratory tests to support diagnoses, spaces for surgeries, maternity, hospitalization, deworming, and vaccination.
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OPERATION DETAILS
The Animal Welfare Center will function as a place of transit that will allow the attention and recovery required by the animals that enter, while promoting adoption, so it will not operate as a temporary home, permanent hospital or shelter.
In this sense, the reception of the cases that are attended will be those that are reported and directed to the emergency unit that will go to the point to provide the medical service and, as appropriate, will be transferred to the CBA.
Once the recovery of the animal is complete, it will enter the adoption program (if it does not previously have an owner and/or caretaker), within the framework of the district campaign ‘Adopt is Save’. For this, a web platform will be implemented so that those citizens interested in adopting a recovered animal can apply and carry out the process in a simple way and, if approved, offer a second chance at life to these sentient beings within a home.
DISTRICT PATROLS
This Animal Welfare Center joins the District’s strategies to ensure the care and protection of animals and the environment. In this sense, the Administration also has the service of four animal patrols, of which two are available for veterinary emergency service and two for sterilization days for canines and felines of mixed breed and/or Creole.
The hours for emergency care range from 8:00 in the morning to 5:00 in the afternoon, being previously reported. On the other hand, the sterilization days are carried out by summoning the users from 7:30 in the morning at the point previously informed in the schedule.
In the case of sterilizations, only mixed breed and/or Creole canines and cats are between 4 months and 8 years old, in optimal health conditions, without being overweight. For the procedure you must have a minimum fast of 8 hours of food and 4 hours of liquid. In the case of females, they may not be in heat or in a state of pregnancy.
In the same way, the environmental patrol of EPA Barranquilla Verde responds to complaints and/or reports from citizens that require immediate or rapid attention regarding practices that put natural resources at risk.
The reports handled by the environmental patrol are: felling and pruning of trees presumably without permission, improper use of permission granted, trees with imminent risk of falling, trade or possession of wildlife, mistreatment of wildlife, presence of wildlife, active discharges wastewater or liquids to streets, driveways, from vehicle washes, facades, areas, etc., flagrant disposal of waste on roads, lots, streams, etc., active emissions of black smoke from industries, ovens, etc., annoying active noise emission generated by temporary events, etc.
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