SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Components of the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) of the Civil Guard of the Tenerife Command have investigated a 37-year-old man for crimes of animal abuse and abandonment in Santa Cruz de La Palma after rescuing a Belgian Shepherd dog from a hole about thirty feet high.
The rescue took place on July 28 when a citizen requested help for these events from the Civil Guard, who in collaboration with the Local Police, firefighters and the animal protection AANIPAL, was able to rescue the animal from a hole about nine meters wide. height that was inside a canalization tunnel in the Santa Cruz de La Palma ravine.
Once the bitch was rescued, she was transferred to a veterinary clinic where she was treated and the corresponding veterinary expert report was carried out to determine the status of the animal, resulting in the canid showing a state of extreme thinness, deterioration of the skin with hyperkeratosis due to prolonged exposure to the sun without protection, inadequate and poor nutrition, as reported by the Civil Guard in a press release.
In addition, the dog was traumatized, scared and in a continuous state of alert, distrustful and very fearful, a typical state of abused animal that is always alert for fear of punishment.
Given these facts, the Seprona agents began an investigation in which it was possible to find out, identify and proceed to impute the owner of the dog as being investigated, instructing proceedings, which were delivered in the Guard Court of Santa Cruz de La Palma, by two alleged crimes related to the protection of flora, fauna and domestic animals (mistreatment and animal abandonment), provided for in articles 337 and 337 bis, of the Penal Code, punishable by three months and one day to one year in prison and fine of one to six months.
