Posted on 09/08/2023 9:52:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway
ON September 29, the new Animal Welfare Law will enter into force in Spain.
It will be implemented six months after its publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and as provided in said legal text. Officially called Law 7/2023, of March 28, it is designed to protect the rights and welfare of animals.
After this date, pet owners will have to adapt to the new stringent measures that this law entails or they could face some very expensive fines.
Explainer: What To Do If You Find A Lost Or Abandoned Dog In Spain
Many dog owners will have probably already faced the stressful situation of their canine or feline friends suddenly going missing.
They are treated as an extra member of the family and as a result, that creates a certain amount of anxiety in people in their efforts to find a missing animal as quickly as possible.
Owners can be fined up to €50,000 for not reporting a missing dog
Some of the rules are clearer and easier to understand than others. The government insists that these rules are being put in place to protect those most vulnerable and that the new law is a step in the right direction.
One part of the new law establishes the need to contract civil liability insurance for dogs. However, in the event of a pet going missing after September 29, owners must be fully aware of the enormous fines they face for not following the new guidelines.
Starting September 29, owners whose dogs go missing can be fined up to €50,000. The pet must be reported to the authorities within 48 hours of their disappearance. Failure to do so could result in a massive fine according to okdiario.com on Thursday, September 2.
Most owners instinctively resort to sticking ‘missing’ posters everywhere in the area and posting information and images of the missing animal on social media asking people to look out for it. Others sometimes get friends together to go looking for their pets.
The authorities have a responsibility to help you find your pet From now on, this should not be done at the beginning. To avoid those hefty fines it is essential to first contact the authorities. They must also follow the guidelines laid out and have a responsibility to help the owner locate their pet, either by joining them on the streets to search for it, or by looking online.
Of course, we all know that dogs, especially young pups, can easily slip out of a home without anyone being able to catch them or sometimes we don’t even realise that they have gone until it’s too late.
Dog owners will have to be very attentive in the future if they wish to prevent accumulating huge fines. Of course, if they contact the authorities immediately then at least the stress about a possible fine for that will go away and they can then concentrate on finding their missing pet.
Does this only apply to dogs and cats? Have budgies, or, say, people, already been addressed?
Is this an indirect way of addressing abandon foreign animals?
The Regime wants to destroy anything that is healthy and normal and that ordinary people enjoy.
Its good Spain has solved all it’s critical issues to focus on this. Good for them.
There are going to be a lot of euthanized dogs in the coming months, and a lot of homes without the protection of a dog.
Maybe I am just not as much of an animal lover as some but that seems like an excessive fine.
I also question why is this a national law? Why would the national government need to impose this law?
This is more in the purview of a provincial of local government's sphere of power.
Do we really ever own another living being. I mean the dog hangs around, I feed them, but the dog has free will and self determination. Who am I to tell another living being what they can or cannot do, that’s being judgmental. If they imply “ownership”, isn’t that like slavery. Well I personally will not allow slavery? Good day sir!
“…seems like an excessive fine.”
No not really, when you consider the context that dog nutter culture has gotten completely out of control in western countries.
Just consider the language used in the article:
“They are treated as an extra member of the family and as a result, that creates a certain amount of anxiety in people” and “The government insists that these rules are being put in place to protect those most vulnerable”
Our society has become so sick and degraded that dogs (aka “our furry friends”) are now widely accepted as “members of the family” and have become de facto replacements for human children in many cases. The birth rate in the USA has plunged to 1.6, far below replacement rate. Meanwhile 20 million + dogs were added to the population during the covid period. We have all seen craziness such as people pushing their dogs around in baby carriages, treating their dogs to “puppy-chinos” at Starbucks, taking their dogs on elaborate vacations including mis-representing themselves as disabled so they can sneak their dogs into cruise ships etc.
Yes it’s sick but that’s the world we live in now, and this new law in Spain makes perfect sense in the context of the current dog worship.
Some countries would be bankrupt if they had to pay a fine for each of their citizens that stray away from their country and into ours.
Authorities “must also follow the guidelines laid out and have a responsibility to help the owner locate their pet, either by joining them on the streets to search for it, or by looking online.”
The latter approach is doomed to fail. Authorities will never find your dog online, because, as we all know, the best thing about the internet is that “nobody knows you’re a dog”.
<>It could be a way of addressing stray dogs attacking people or other animals.
All valid points
I had given some thoughts to your conjecture that the law is taking seriously that dogs are family members.
It also is reflecting the entry in to a post Christian Era.
This kind of law is definitely anti-Christian in the aspect that is treating an animal as equivalent in value to a human being.
It is appalling in that aspect.
When I was in Spain, restaurant staff would kick stray dogs away from patrons’ tables. (Including outdoor diners).
I found that practice appalling.
Just put a tile on them so you can track them on your phone.
Next they’ll demand getting a license for your pet fish.
Look for smiling Chinese National wiping dog grease off his face.
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