Colombian Law Causes Owners To Slaughter Dogs

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A law that was supposed to protect the population in Colombia from dangerous dogs is having terrible consequences: some dogs are being abandoned and even slaughtered in that country.

As reported by BBC Mundo, a chapter of the new Police Code that entered into force on January 30 requires that dogs involved in some type of assault on people - or that cause death to other dogs - have to wear a muzzle. The rule also requires its owners to buy third party liability and damage insurance.

This appears to have caused some owners to abandon or slaughter their dogs.

The president of the Colombian Canine Club Association, Luis Martín, told that news network: "I go to Bogotá three times a week, passing through three towns, and this week in one day I got to see four pit bulls wandering the streets, v i a pit bull hanging from the branch of a tree."

For his part, Jonathan Barreto, from the Fundación Huellas, Perros a la Servicio de la Comunidad, which is dedicated to rescuing abandoned and vulnerable dogs, said that since the end of January some dogs have been burned, drowned or left tied to poles.

He also indicated that the calls, emails and messages by WhatsApp to his foundation of people who find abandoned animals or want to deliver theirs since they can not have them anymore have more than doubled. If before they received between 30 and 50, now they receive up to 100 every day, he assured. Of these, he added, more than half are in relation to "potentially dangerous" dogs, almost all of the pit bull breed.

The Colombian Canine Club warns that the situation may worsen, so it sent a letter to the relevant authorities to prevent animal cruelty from increasing. " There will be more dogs slaughtered plus dogs in the streets", says that entity.

The Code establishes fines for certain breeds ranging from the equivalent of $ 75 for carrying potentially dangerous muzzleless dogs up to $ 275 for not having the insurance policy stipulated by law.

Among the breeds included in the regulations are: American Staffordshire Terrier, Bullmastiff, Doberman, Dogo Argentino, Dogo de Bordeaux, Fila Brasileiro, Neapolitan Mastiff, Bull Terrier, Pit Bull Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier, Presa Canario, Rottweiler, Staffordshire Terrier and Tosa. Japanese.