One hundred bags of feed for the cat colonies of San Bartolomé de Tirajana

 

The Department of Health of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council has delivered nearly 100 20 kilo bags of feed to the people responsible for the management of the 70 feline colonies that are registered in this municipality. In total, the City Council has acquired 400 kilos of food, which will be distributed over the next four months to the managers of the cat colonies. 

 

The delivery ceremony for this special food for cats was carried out within the framework of the informative sessions on the new Animal Welfare Law (7/2023) that came into force on September 29, held this Thursday at the Maspalomas Cultural Center.

 

The sessions were organized by the Department of Health headed by councilor Araceli Armas Cruz, and were divided into two sessions. During the morning, two specific training talks were given to Local Police officers, on animal abuse and the application of the new Law for the protection of animal rights and welfare, which came into force on September 29. . In the afternoon session, open to the general public, four presentations were offered on the trade, breeding and euthanasia of companion animals, the positive list of exotic animals, the management of feline colonies and on the latest developments in the new law.

 

At the opening of these sessions, Araceli Armas highlighted “the firm decision” that the Department of Health has had since the beginning of the current legislature “to work and collaborate with the entire animal rights group of the municipality in compliance with the new Law, which imposes to the city councils the fulfillment of a series of obligations”, such as health, nutritional, reproductive and chipping control of feline colonies.

 

In that sense, Armas Cruz recalled that the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council already began this task a month ago, putting into practice in this municipality the veterinary castration campaign promoted by the Cabildo. 

 

 

The Health Councilor thanked the managers of the feline colonies for the responsibility that they have assumed in this same task. “You are necessary collaborators so that social coexistence is carried out in optimal conditions,” she told the participants in the conference.

 

He also reported that the informative talks on the new Animal Welfare Law will be extended to the entire population with information events in the municipality's cultural centers: Carmelo Pérez Rodríguez, in El Tablero; Pancho Guerra, in Tunte, this Friday at 18:00 p.m.; in Castillo del Romeral on Monday the 4th at 19:00 p.m. and at the same time at the El Pajar House of Culture on Tuesday, December 5.

 

dog adoptions

 

In addition to the talks and informative presentations, and the distribution of feed for the cat colonies, the City Council also carried out during these days an adoption campaign for the dogs housed in the Temporary Animal Stay Center (CETA) of Lomo Gordo .

 

Carolina del Valle, coordinator of these adoptions, reported that in total four fosterings were carried out, of a much older hound with more than two years in the CETA; of a young two-year-old retriever with a month of stay in the same shelter; of a small Yorkshire mix dog, who had been in the center for a week, so it was a priority for him to find an adoption family, and of a large three-year-old German Shepherd type shepherd dog.