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The Health and Environment Area of ​​the Cartagena City Council launches this Saturday, May 20, a new campaign for the promotion of responsible pet ownership that will last a month and which will include posters and mupis, the distribution of Information guides and the delivery of gifts consisting of a collection of animal excrement.

At the press conference for the presentation of this campaign, which took place this Thursday, May 18, was attended by the Councilor for Health and Environment, Francisco Calderón, who was accompanied by the city laboratory chief Nuria Vergara ;

The head of Health, María Encarnación Larrosa;

And the manager of the Center for the Reception and Treatment of Domestic Animals (CATAD), David Cervantes.

The campaign seeks to promote responsible animal ownership, focused on combating abandonment and dissemination of the duties and obligations of the owners.

In order to promote this responsibility, Vergara explained, it is forced by regulations to vaccinate pets, their internal and external deworming, in addition to the removal of feces or carry the animals on a public highway.

During this campaign, two types of posters will be placed, one referring to the fight against abandonment, since in the summer this phenomenon increases, and another about the diffusion of the duties and obligations of the owners of pets.

In addition, Vergara recalled, a practical guide to municipal regulations will be distributed, explaining measures of hygiene, maintenance, education and responsibility with the animal, as well as the sanctions that may result from not complying with the rules, and Is going to present in the Area of ​​Health, in the municipal laboratory and in the CATAD some hygienic collectors for the collection of feces of the dogs.

"The owner must ensure the welfare and survival of their pets," said the laboratory chief, who reminded that "the tools should be put in order for the pet to have a well-being environment, with the necessary care, and to avoid that Is a risk to the health of those around us. "

This campaign is in addition to other activities that have been activated in the last two years, as, as the councilman of the Health and Environment Department has assured, the priorities of the City of Cartagena in relation to pets , Are compliance with the law, health surveillance, preventing the emergence of zoonosis, animal welfare and reduction of the number of animals abandoned in the municipality, which is around 1,000 annual dropouts.

Thus, Calderón stressed, is raising public awareness to sterilize pets through CATAD and more campaigns of this type, as well as the registration of animals through a census and the modernization of municipal regulations, at the same time Which encourages the implementation of recreational spaces for pets, canine parks and beaches that accept their entry.

Finally, the mayor recalled that CATAD is one of the few zoosanitary centers in Spain "where it is established by decree the absence of maximum periods of custody for the animals received" and has announced that it will undergo a reform process that Improve its facilities and expand animal shelter capacity, after which "it will continue to be a benchmark at the national level".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena