According to the New animal welfare lawwill match the municipal councils the collection of animals that have been lost and abandoned to house them in an animal protection center that must be subsidized by the municipalities.
The idea is protect animals from abuse and abandonmentprovide them with the necessary care so that they can recover physically and emotionally and find them a new home where they will be cared for like another member of the family.
Help for abandoned animals
Las local entities that take in abandoned animals or manage cat colonies in their respective territories and legally established and registered protective entities can now request assistance from the Xunta to support them in the development of this work.
He Official Gazette of Galicia This recently published the decisions regulating the bases and calling for both subsidy lines for 2025, with a total budget of 1.33 million euros, a figure that practically triples the 450,000 euros of the calls for 2024.
The deadline for the municipal councils and entities appearing in the Galician Register of Associations for the protection and defense of pets You can request it, it will remain open until September 12th.
In the specific case of aid to local entities, with a budget of EUR 850,000 for this year, the eligible expenditure related to the esurgical sterilization, microchip identification, health passport and registration of the samples responsible for the Galician Pet Identification Register (Regiac), but also for the costs of their feeding, preventive vaccination and deworming, among other prophylactic measures.
As regards the line of support for the protectors who own or manage a recognized collection center in Galicia, “endowed with 480,000 euros”, they can request support to cover the above-mentioned expenses and also for the purchase of equipment and means that they must guarantee the management and handling of the animals in their care -e.g. transport trailers, softwareinclude electronic devices to improve center management or non-consumable veterinary equipment.
Likewise, all protective entities duly registered in the community will also have access to the incentives of the Xunta when they awareness campaigns, promotion of responsible ownership and promotion of adoptionalthough they do not operate or own a dedicated facility for this purpose.
It is necessary to remember that with this new call for the assistance to local entities and protective associations dealing with the care of pets Continuity is given to the efforts made by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in this area over the past nine years.
In addition, they are part of the package of 13 stimulus lines, with a global budget of almost 7.5 million euros, that Xunta plans to convene this year with the common aim of supporting different types of actions and investments that contribute to preserving Galicia’s biodiversity and natural heritage.