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UPyD Councilman Murcia, José Antonio Sotomayor, will present an initiative at the next full council to "replace the current law to protect pets, dating back to 1990" and that it includes "a tightening of sanctions and penalties neglect and abuse "

Councilman Union Progress and Democracy in the city of Murcia, José Antonio Sotomayor, claiming "that speed up the work and to be provided with all the means necessary to urgently pass a new law that protects and defends the pets ".

The mayor, who will present an initiative at the next full council in this regard, states that "urges replace current law, which dates from 1990 and is clearly out of date" and "we need tougher sanctions and penalties for neglect and animal abuse. "

As Sotomayor explains, "for almost a year and a half that was presented at the Regional Assembly an initiative to update the law on Protection and Defense of Animals Company, without which so far have been informed of his approval."

This standard, which is used by the Consistory Murcia as a basis for its municipal ordinance must be changed "since they have changed the habits of society".

Furthermore, "the summer season has already started and is the time when an alarming increasing abandonment of pets."

In this sense, the mayor said that, according to FAPAM (Federation of Animal Protection Associations), more than 300,000 pets are abandoned each year, which means that every two minutes you leave a pet in Spain, " quite a sad record at European level ".

On the other hand, after the summer season begins coursing greyhounds, "which almost inevitably will carry back certain owners of these animals to dispose of them by the method of hanging villainous tree without food or lock them up his death. "

"To all this we must add," says Sotomayor, "the focus of anger that has been detected in Toledo, so from Murcia UPyD consider urgent approval of the new law that answers these questions, and so I will claim in the House ".

Source: UPyD Murcia