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In a recent press release from City Hall is said today, are 7,000 total animals registered in the municipal census while the College of Veterinary ensures that registered in the city of Cartagena animals are almost 28,000
Cartagena, Thursday 26 May-.
Citizens Cartagena moved earlier this month the City Council possible irregular situation in the operating room Reception Centre and Treatment of Domestic Animal Cartagena (CATAD), and the lack of updated data in the municipal census identification is pets, all mandatory, according to the current Law on animal Protection and Defense, the Municipal Ordinance on the Protection and animal Holding and technical specifications for the procurement of CATAD management service.
Asked by the Municipal Group, the Association of Veterinarians of the Region of Murcia sent some reports that these conclusions.
According to the Councillor for Citizen Cartagena, Ana Rama, "nearly a month we moved to the City Council our concern for the legal status of the operating room CATAD and the apparent absence of an animal census updated ago, and at City Hall nobody knows nor answers, not we choice but to go to the full council for answers that clarify us all a service if we paid more than 22,000 euros per month fulfills its obligations. "
Legality of the operating room
During subsequent meetings of the Bureau of Animal Welfare they have expressed repeatedly doubts about the legal status of the operating theater of CATAD since, according to the "Regulations for professional practice in clinical pet" approved by the General Assembly veterinary schools of Spain in 2015, states that they can only perform surgeries those veterinary establishments which have been registered in the "Official Register of veterinary Companion Animal Center" of the College of veterinarians of that territory.
According to a letter from the College of Veterinary referred to Citizens: "there is no evidence of the existence of any veterinary center in CATAD facilities, this center not being registered in the Register of Veterinary Centers".
Municipal census animals
Keep the municipal census of animals is an obligation for all municipalities of the Region of Murcia, under the current Law on Animal Protection and Defense of pets, so also includes the Municipal Ordinance of Cartagena on the Protection and Tenure Companion Animals.
Some letters sent by the College of Veterinary Citizen Cartagena also cast serious doubt that the municipal census of Cartagena not duly updated.
In fact, while on the website of the City Council stated in a press release February 2016 that "today, are 7,000 total registered in the Municipal Census Companion Animal City of Cartagena," a recent report by the College of Veterinarians of the Municipal Group Citizens ensures that "animals with electronic microchip residing in the municipality of Cartagena reflected in the database SIAMU (the animal Identification System in the Region of Murcia) are: Canidae: 26,512; Felines: 1.276 and Others: 126 ".
To access the actual census data City Council should have maintained the collaboration agreement with the College of Veterinary and thus have access to the Animal Identification System Company (SIAMU).
Having an updated census or what is the same, namely the number of pets that exist in the city of Cartagena is what makes, by regulation, the number of places to pick up abandoned in the CATAD animals.
In addition these data, along with statistics CATAD and other animal protection organizations are those that allow the current situation and prepare animal abandonment guarantees education and awareness campaigns to promote health and animal welfare.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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