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Murcia City Council, through the Department of Social Welfare and Health, will launch the awareness campaign 'Do not wanna be illegal', in order to ensure coexistence between the owners of pets and other citizens.
This initiative, among other objectives, to report on the Municipal Ordinance on Protection and Animal Holding Company, through dissemination of materials, with emphasis on the care a pet requires, as the various vaccinations, and all those aspects to ensure identification, to allow, at a loss, can be recovered by the owner, as the microchip.
Thus, 15,000 brochures have been published which will be distributed in veterinary clinics, neighborhood associations and community centers of neighborhoods and districts.
Likewise, this campaign aims to provide information about potentially dangerous animal legislation and the obligation of the owners to obtain the required license and the conditions of their tenure.
Moreover, and to ensure coexistence between pet owners and other citizens, the City has an ordinance regulating the keeping of animals condition and offenses and penalties involving noncompliance.
Last year 2013, after complaints about the same imposed the Local Police and Civil Guard, in addition to information about the animals that come for various reasons at the Civic Center for Zoonosis Control, have led to the beginning of 541 disciplinary proceedings, which are processed through the Municipal Health Services.
Prominent among them, all 266 records for animals on the street and 91 penalties for non-removal of excreta, as well as 5 sanctioning by the offense of abandonment of animals and is classified as very serious.
Violations have caused the opening of such disciplinary proceedings in 2013, are:
Animal By-lost in the road: 266
-Not mandatory rabies vaccination: 37
-For dogs without identification (microchip): 77
-Not removing excreta of the road: 91
-Abandonment of animals: 5
-Other causes (inadequate facilities, solar or animals unattended places ...): 32
Special mention penalties for breaches of the Ordinance in regards to Potentially Dangerous Animals.
In this case, the infringements sanctioned in 2013 are:
Potentially dangerous loose-Dogs: 34
Potentially dangerous-dogs not identified (microchip): 9
Potentially dangerous-dogs without muzzles: 27
-Lack of administrative leave for his tenure: 68
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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