More Animals Adopted as Pets Rather Than Being Destroyed in Costa del Sol Town Spain

Councillor Javier García Lara announced the good news Credit: Ayuntamiento de Fuengirola

FOR many years, unless picked up by a voluntary charity group, stray or abandoned dogs and cats could look forward to little hope of a new home as a number of council’s had a policy of destroying them rather than keeping them alive.

Now things have changed dramatically and the Fuengirola council has announced that during 2019 not a single stray cat had been destroyed and it had instead spent time and effort in sterilising strays in an effort to ensure that they didn’t reproduce.

The highlight is the dog adoption programme which has seen a 25 per cent increase in the rehoming of animals found in the streets thanks to a policy of ensuring that the initial cost of adoption is negligible.

In order to encourage local residents to offer a forever home to dogs in its care, the council took over the financial responsibility of registering each dog, arranging for it to be chipped and paying for initial vaccinations.

Those interested in adopting a dog can visit various centres to see which animals are most suitable for them and details of where to go can be checked on www.cuidayadopta.es.

The bulk of this work has been undertaken by El Parque Zoosanitario which also undertakes veterinarian work on animals, mainly cats and dogs but also birds and other creatures that may have suffered injury at sea.

Not all pets come through adoption and the council want to remind every pet owner that animals should be registered at chipped through a veterinary surgery.

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John Smith

Married to Ophelia in Gibraltar in 1978, John has spent much of his life travelling on security print and minting business and visited every continent except Antarctica. Having retired several years ago, the couple moved to their house in Estepona and John became a regular news writer for the EWN Media Group taking particular interest in Finance, Gibraltar and Costa del Sol Social Scene. Currently he is acting as Editorial Consultant for the paper helping to shape its future development. Share your story with us by emailing newsdesk@euroweeklynews.com, by calling +34 951 38 61 61 or by messaging our Facebook page www.facebook.com/EuroWeeklyNews

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