The 15 animals were “welcomed in the municipal facilities for proper medical assistance”, having been “different types of animals”, from company, such as dogs and cats, and livestock, such as “horses, dumb, donkeys, poones and pigs” .
The City Council of Sintra announced on Monday that it will rescue two hundred animals welcomed in conditions of “negligence and mistreatment” by an association of the county, following a denunciation of an animal rescue organization.
According to Comraça – Animal Rescue team, following a complaint, the organization of Matosinhos, District of Porto, moved to São João das Lampas, municipality of Sintra, warning to “the existence of a space, managed by a Animal Protection Association, where there are several animals in conditions of apparent negligence and abuse. “
“Animals have no conditions to be here”, the owner “has no conditions to take care of the animals, has a clandestine veterinary clinic indoors where he performs the medical-veterinary procedures in animals,” Ana Pinto da Costa told Lusa Ana Pinto da Costa , from Comraça.
The Salvation Association, created “in 2012 in order to protect abandoned animals” and “find owners who deserve your company”, as performed, was visited in the morning by elements of Comraça, the Municipal Veterinary Medical Office, of the Institute of Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF), the Nature and Environment Protection Service (sepna) of the GNR and the Directorate-General Food and Veterinary (DGAV).
“The authorities are helping, but at the same time there is no court order, and then either do things with the opinion of the owner or the animals are all in the same,” said Ana Pinto da Costa, saying that in the house of Health professional were found “about 30 animals”, elderly, sick, wounded, in a “situation that has everything for the authorities to work.”
On a trip to the shelter on Sunday, Comraça volunteers reported on their page on a social network that “the smell is unbearable” and saw the “corpse of a feline on the ground”, being “notorious the lack of conditions and in the level of infrastructure and or at the level of health “.
“Animals although they are fat and some even obese, they are deprived of regular veterinary care” and dogs “confined to small, dirty spaces, where there are attacks” between them, and the “equides apparently are scabies and live in the middle From mud, with excessive hooves growth that causes pain and difficulty in locomotion, “they added.
According to Ana Pinto da Costa, last week, the owner’s daughter euthanized a dug that “was agonizing” with at least one paw for three years, because “I could no longer see the suffering of the animal.”
The association, according to Ana Pinto da Costa, is “legally constituted”, but “the space itself is not legalized for the number of animals and livestock animals”, and with race, before the intervention, tried with several people adopting Animals, but the owner did not leave.
“That is, I really think it is a case of accumulation, because it does not want any animals to be removed to him,” he said, considering that “if it was effectively a matter of lack of support, it is one thing, because that, unfortunately, can maybe anyone “.
15 rescued animals
The Sintra City Council, in response to Lusa, confirmed that it was only known on Friday of the situation and that municipal services, with GNR sepna, DGAV and ICNF proceeded “to the immediate survey and verification of the complaint, having identified a total of 15 animals of company with signs of negligence “and abuse.
The 15 animals were “welcomed in the municipal facilities for proper medical assistance”, having been “different types of animals”, from company, such as dogs and cats, and livestock, such as “horses, dumb, donkeys, poones and pigs” .
“Of the facts, a joint report will result in a joint report, prepared by the present entities, which will make it possible to request a court order for the coercive withdrawal of all existing animals in space,” the municipality concluded.
For her part, Ana Pinto da Costa revealed that Comraça got “six canids and three cats from the owner’s house”, which were “in worse conditions and needs more care.”
