The abandonment of pets rebounds by 10% in Spain after confinement

The animal protectors collected 286,000 companion animals in 2020 -162,000 dogs and 124,000 cats- and, although the adoptions increased 15% In the confinement period of the pandemic, between March and May, the abandonment of pets it registered an increase of between 5 and 10% in the following months.

Even so, the drop-out rate decreased over the past year by 6% in Spain, based on the study ‘He would never do it 2021’ by the Affinity Foundation, whose data was shared this morning at the presentation, in Madrid, of ‘The Gift’, a children’s story to give a different look at the treatment of animals.

“The zero abandonment rate in one hundred percent of reception in the pandemic is not real & rdquor ;, explained the author of the story, Virgilio Martínez, who has verified that after the home isolation there was a rebound rate because many of the families who adopted at that time they were not aware of “the obligations that & rdquor; a pet.

Therefore, Martínez has warned that This Christmas it is preferable to give a book than a dog or a cat, since these beings “are not a gift & rdquor ;, but a“ long-term contract & rdquor; that not all people can assume.

Specifically, the number of dogs collected by shelters decreased by 11.5% compared to 2019, the largest decrease in recent times, while the arrival of cats in reception centers grew by 0.6% in that period; of all of them, less than half of the animals that arrive at the shelters manage to be adopted.

In the premiere of the story, which tells the cross stories of a dog and a cat that, after becoming friends in a shelter, meet years later in a veterinary clinic after being adopted, the Spanish singer has participated. Soraya Arnelas, who revealed how the two dogs he adopted years ago are now part of his family.

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“This campaign focuses on the Christmas season because we have a bad habit of giving them away & rdquor;, has commented Arnelas, who valued the reading of this work so that minors understand that people are “the gift” for their pets, not the other way around.

In its first edition, twenty thousand stories of ‘The Gift’ have been printed, which will be distributed free of charge in twelve hundred veterinary clinics throughout Spain, although a digital version will also be available on social networks.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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