The Councilor for Animal Welfare of Cross port, Alberto Castilla (PSOE), announces that the tourist city “already has three times as many dogs as boys and girls”, a fact that, in his opinion, “gives to think about many aspects and it gives clues regarding the needs that may exist around these figures within our society, limited in space, but very active at the population level ». According to the data of the Canary Institute of Statistics (Istac), in Cross port a total of 2,652 boys and girls between 0 and 12 years of age had been registered in 2020, which means, in the words of Castilla, that in the tourist town the number of dogs now exceeds 7,956.
Castile made this surprising announcement in the press release about the signing of a collaboration agreement with the College of Veterinarians of Tenerife to improve animal care in the city. This agreement also allows the municipality to equip itself with a royal census of pets. “A very important step, especially when there is currently no general registry of pets as the laws themselves indicate that it must exist in each of the municipalities,” says Castilla, who stresses that these data will serve to “land on the reality of the municipality in this matter and that, suddenly, already leave a first conclusion: there are three times as many dogs registered in the municipality as there are boys and girls».
For Castile, «This agreement, which will serve not only as a reference at a consultative level, but also as an advisor to the campaigns that will be undertaken, some jointly for the general public, but also others aimed at schoolchildren and also professionals from different sectors involved ».
The mayor of Porto, Marco González (PSOE)He added that this agreement “is a great step on this road that remains to be traveled. A path that is not without difficulties but we all hope that with the new law that came into force last week, a new impulse can be given with the collaboration of all the administrations to continue fulfilling the commitments that our animals deserve. town”.
This agreement is part of the municipal commitment to advance in terms of animal welfare and responsible pet ownership. «An essential step on the path traced by the Department of Animal Welfare, which serves as a solid pillar of the announced animal protection policies in the municipality, ”according to the local government.
This agreement, which commits both parties, was endorsed by the mayor of the city, Marco Gonzalez; the Councilor for Community Welfare, Flora Perera; the president of the Canary Islands Veterinary Council and president of the Tenerife Veterinary College, Maria Luisa Fernandez, and own Alberto Castilla.
Maria Luisa Fernandez highlighted the importance of the step he has taken Cross port and he clarified, regarding the immediate future of everything related to animals, that “without a doubt it goes through the professionalization of all the parties involved and making a necessary effort to adapt the sector to the times in which we live. And more at a crucial moment like this, in which the new state policies for the protection of animals are beginning to see the light, which pose a horizon quite different from the one we have known.
“One more part of the family”
The manager of the College of Veterinarians of Tenerife, Sara capelli, considers that “the vulnerability of animals, now included in the law, changes the way in which everything related to pets is treated. That they are from now on another part of the family, with their rights, indicates that we must prepare the staff of the town halls and the police, and instill in them that sensitivity that is no longer a choice, but appears in the law.
