Mayor Jaime Pumarejo Heins announced that the construction works of the Animal Welfare Center are in their final phase and that it should be in operation before the end of the first semester.
“We are very close to opening the doors of the Animal Welfare Center, a request from our animal friends for many years and we are very happy that it will be built with the best specifications if the city’s animal service will soon be there,” he said. the district manager.
He indicated that progress is being made in the staffing process and that the process for choosing the operator of this center will begin in the coming weeks.
“We will begin the process to define the operator after having made an effort to understand how they are in the rest of the country and learn from the best examples. The idea is to learn the good and learn from the mistakes so as not to fall into them, ”he explained.
Likewise, Pumarejo recalled that the Animal Welfare Center has been conceptualized as a space to deal with emergencies and not as a shelter.
“It is not a place to abandon animals. This is a space where we will provide emergency medical treatment, it will be a transitional home to help with the adoption or if there is no adoption, they will return to the place where they were found after overcoming the emergency, ”she stressed.
The burgomaster was emphatic in stressing that “here we are not going to free ourselves from the responsibilities that we acquired when we decided to bring a cat, a dog or any other pet into our home.”
The building, projected at 3,100 square meters and an investment of 3,284 million pesos, will have a kennel area with capacity for 84 dogs, 30 spaces for cats, an area for 3 horses, as well as administrative and hospitalization areas. Within health care, spaces are contemplated for surgeries, maternity, deworming, sterilization, vaccination, among other services.
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