Taking it to the Streets!
pocketed while the freezer was full.
While the urgent care of animals in peril is an obvious priority,
equally important is an understanding of the causes of animal
abuse, and to address the measures necessary for its
prevention. In the latter case, the laws are on the books so all
that is needed is to keep beating on the town halls’ doors
demanding their implementation.
Toad Warning and Other Pests
With the arrival of spring CAS would like to remind you that
this is the mating season for frogs and toads and if you live
near a water source you can probably hear them in the
evening. These creatures breed in water so they are attracted
to ponds, stagnant pools, creeks and river beds. Toads live on
land and tend come out at night under damp conditions such
as heavy dew or rain. They may even venture into your garden
when it has just been watered. If you find a toad in your
garden, first secure your dog to a safe place. Then prepare
yourself with rubber gloves and some tools such as a bucket or
shovel. Next remove the toad safely yet humanely back to its
natural habitat like a field or river.
An example of this occurred in a march in Málaga on February
4, protesting the horrific abuse of dogs at the hands and hooks
of hunters. The Coast Animal Society (CAS) was present in
solidarity with over ten different animal rescue organizations.
The beginning of February means the end of the hunting
season with grotesque consequences for thousands of these
noble, lovely, timid Galgos, Spanish Greyhounds. This is not
the place to describe the horrors visited on them, but if you
are interested in understanding this travesty, Google up “Galgo
abuse in Spain” or visit our comrades at
www.galgofreedom.com.
Several species of toads in Andalucia are poisonous and can be
fatal to your pets if they bite or lick these amphibians. The
symptoms of poisoning are drooling or foaming from the
mouth, head shaking, vomiting, sneezing, difficulty breathing
and convulsions. If you think your pet has been poisoned flush
its mouth out with copious amounts of water and contact your
vet immediately.
“Perreras matan/Protectoras salvan” (Pounds kill/Shelters save) -
Rincón de la Victoria, 20 January 2018. CAS members also
took part in a
demonstration
protesting the
barbaric atrocities
committed at the
perreras. The
perreras are not,
as they would like
you to believe,
animal shelters
but killing
stations run for
profit. Animals brought to the perreras, generally by the
police, have to be destroyed after ten days if no one claims
them. (The perreras generally do nothing to facilitate this.)
Unfortunately, the Pine
Processionary caterpillars
are still on the march so
the above applies to these
pests as well. Additionally,
as the weather gets
warmer there will be an
increase in mosquitoes,
sand flies, fleas and ticks.
You can prevent your
pets’ exposure with spot-on treatments and repellent collars.
Happy Tails
Punky is a very sweet girl who lived with a young Spanish
couple as a foster dog for over two years and she really loves
her cuddles. Unfortunately, the young
couple broke up and both of them
moved back in with their parents for
financial reasons so Punky was placed in
kennels over six months ago.
Things are looking on the bright side for
Punky as she has had a couple of
positive viewings and a mature lady has
reserved her for adoption here on the
Costa del Sol in the middle of the
Punky
month.
If this is your business, it’s not hard to imagine that expenses
such as decent food, medical treatment, clean, comfortable
kennels, etc are cut down to the bare minimum to maximise
profits. If it’s money you’re after, this leads to a riot of the
imagination. Here is but one example of a shrewd cost-cutting
measure:
When it comes time to destroy the animal, why waste money
on anaesthetics, needles, medicine, a veterinarian, when you
could just put the animal in a deep freezer to slowly freeze to
death at virtually no expense? The woman who perpetrated
this “procedure” was actually charged and jailed. However the
charge of animal cruelty was a small part of her sentence. The
much more important crime according to the judge was that
the public money she received to carry out some sort of
reasonable destruction of the animals, she had simply
Gorgeous Rosie is a sweetheart of a young pup who was left at
the CAS Shop before Christmas. She was reserved for adoption
by a lovely Norwegian family in January and began the
stringent preparation for travel to Norway.
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