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Abandoning animals in the town can be punished with fines of up to 15,000 euros.

So has reminded the councilor in charge of Municipal Animal Shelter, Almudena Martinez, who reported dropout figures are recorded in Jumilla, with a case as of abandoned pets, ie, more than 200 so far year.

"The collaboration of citizenship It is essential to eradicate the problem of awareness and responsibility to have a pet" has clarified the Councillor, who underlined that Jumilla has a Municipal Ordinance Tenure and Protection of Pets and Potentially Dangerous, in which various sanctions were contemplated.

Thus, abandoning animals is a very serious offense that could reach 15025.36 euros, in the case of potentially dangerous dogs to 3,005.06 euros for the rest.

In addition, he qualified that "we are working from the national and regional governments to amend the law governing their tenure in favor of protecting the rights of animals, reinforcing the obligations of its owners."

Last year more than 400 animals were abandoned and picked up by the Animal Protective Jumilla 4 feet, plus many other animals that are temporarily taken in by people who find them until they are adopted.

However, during the last weeks are also producing numerous dropouts of entire litters of unwanted puppies, something "regrettable, as there are plenty of ways to prevent unwanted litters, neutering and pet" has qualified Almudena Martinez.

In Spain, every 3 minutes a pet, or what is the same, 150,000 Pets are expelled from their homes at the end of the year, reaching the highest number of dropouts across the European Union is abandoned.

These massive dropouts produce the shelters where animals are collected overflow, so when it comes to Jumilla, the councilor has called on citizens' responsibility to take care of pet, so to avoid such situations. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla