2023-10-01 19:04:05
Last Friday the Animal Welfare Law came into force, after the mountains roared and shook and ended up giving birth to a mouse. You already know, six months after its final approval, the law has been left half-finished, like almost everything in this country; and after the dust of the first debates, neither the pet owners will have to take the mandatory course, nor will the liability insurance established by the legal text be necessary, for the moment, because these issues require a regulatory development that cannot be be carried out with a Government in office. So this law will be ‘dura lex’, but fewer wolves, really.
What has come into force since Friday is the explicit prohibition of selling dogs, cats or ferrets—yes, ferrets—in stores, as well as the expansion of the list of illegal pets in the home, which now includes rabbits, hamsters – no matter how much Sergio García Torres, general director of Animal Rights, says that this is a hoax – lovebirds or hedgehogs. Although well, the Law says that, if you already had them before, nothing happens either; I don’t think they are going to send the guards to his house to check if the turtle has eaten and passed the gas.
They are the things of this country. That we always start the house with the roof and what should have been a law to guarantee the well-being of animals, establishing conditions in accordance with their dignity, avoiding situations of humiliation and mistreatment and prohibiting their unjustified exhibition in parades, carousels and fairground attractions , as well as the uncontrolled growth of breeders and hatcheries, has ended up being a lukewarm law that makes water in many places. Because it establishes, in detail, the times that pets can be alone at home, prohibits forgetting them inside vehicles exposed to thermal conditions that put their lives in danger and also prohibits them from waiting at the doors of businesses. But it says nothing about the mistreatment involved in walking animals through shopping centers with polished and polished floors – you just have to see how hard it is for them to walk, or skate, on those surfaces – with the chunda-chunda and the shouting of people.
In short, from those muds, these sludges. Because it was going to be one of the cool laws of Pedro Sánchez, the animalist president, and it has ended up being I want to and I can’t. Whoever wants to have a dog, a cat or a ferret in his house, must have it in good condition, must know what his responsibilities and duties are. His duties towards animals and towards citizens who do not have animals or desire to have them. That the law is complied with, but that municipal ordinances are also complied with regarding the cleaning of canine excrement, regarding dogs loose on the streets and regarding putting dogs in stores, centers and public transport.
Because not everything is about rights, there are obligations, of course, and these are also for animal well-being.
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