In Spain There are around 30 million pets. Although it is true that the most famous dogs and cats are, these figures are also included in fish, birds, reptiles, insects, spinners and other mammals such as guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters or ferrets.
He Leaving pets remains a serious problem in SpainWith figures that remain alarmingly stable in recent years and more than 286,000 dogs and cats that have been left in the country, a figure that has hardly varied in recent years.
Thousands of abandoned animals in Spain
All this to monitor the intense awareness campaigns that are performed at the local and national level and that there is one Animal protection legislation that typifies leaving as a crime and imposes strong fines, which can even be accompanied in prison.
Rosa Martínez, State Secretary for Social Rights, announced the establishment of a uniform system on Monday At state level to identify pets in our country. This system will be launched through a Royal Decree that is now starting to prepare the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030 in collaboration with regional governments.
The goal is to have a common system that registration of Companies that must be identified in a mandatory way: dogs, cats and ferrets. “We must not forget that an identified animal is an animal,” said Rosa Martínez during a meeting on Monday with representatives of the Spanish identification network of identification of Animal Company (REIAC) and José Ramón Becerra, general director of Rights of the Animals.
It was during this meeting where the State Secretary announced the establishment of this new system, with ALS The vets will be the only professionals who are able to identify pets, And underline that having a unique identification system throughout Spain will be vital to fight against leaving some of these animal and against their illegal descendants, and to find them animal who are lost or help to control diseases.
Rosa Martínez also wanted to emphasize the work of Reiac, the entity that is currently the mutual connection of the Registration data about these animals in different bases in Spain.
Meet the regulations of animal protection
Rosa Martínez has also emphasized that the Royal Decree will complete the existing regulations with regard to the identification of the animal of company, and will promote the responsible property of this Animals. “It’s about too Effective compliance with the regulations of animal protection by citizensFrom the veterinary professionals and the competent authorities, “he said.
In this way, the Royal Decree will lay the foundation of an identification and traceability system of pets will enable autonomous governments to set up mechanisms and identification data based on criteria Basic usual for the entire national territory. “This will be essential to minimize the difficulties in many cases to find or save animal They were lost, “concluded Martínez.
For his part, José Ramón Becerra has confirmed that the general identification conditions of the animal Company will be regulated in collaboration with Reiac and the rest of veterinary associations and schools, to determine together The requirements and actions that veterinary professionals have engaged for this will have to perform.
For this reason, the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and the Agenda 2030 now opens a period of prior public consultation of fifteen days, in which it tries to collect the opinion The organizations and entities involved in the identification process of petsof protection and citizenship entities, prior to the elaboration of the future normative text.