Abandoned dogs (II)

The dog has returned home five days after being lost. He is thin, breathing heavily but the veterinarian injected Tramadol, which is what Boko Haram uses to anesthetize before his savages, and now, little by little, he returns to eat and drink. He is still very nervous and still does not bark. It is normal, considering that he has spent five days with the deer roaring, the foxes lurking and those lynx of fat claws that, yes, are clumsy, but they try. My parents cannot be happier with the return of their prodigal dog.

Last week, I was writing about the Totana couple whose guard had stolen their dogs and who, despite being claimed, refused to hand them the chip reader. The article referred to a report denouncing the kidnapping of dogs by some animal protectors to raise funds.

Of course, it is very difficult to make qualifications in 400 words and it is clear that not all associations are equal. On the same day, the one that leads the National Association of Friends of Animals (ANAA) wrote indignantly (rightly) about how these types of generalizations can harm those who selflessly (and spending a lot of money of their own) help a good cause. He gave me figures: they receive 2,000 abandoned animals a year and in 25 years they have helped 30,000 find an owner that loves them.

In any case, the criticisms of the animalists article were wild, which shows that animalism has become another type of identitarianism, such as nationalism or racism. Or radical environmentalism.

It is nothing new. Remember the barbarities that were written after the death of the child suffering from leukemia who wanted to be a bullfighter or when Iván Fandiño and Víctor Barrio lost their lives in the coso.

Radical animalism does not admit nuances and, much less, opposition to its cause. Nor do you amend. Of course there are protectors who take advantage of the goodwill of many citizens in the same way that there are hunters and ranchers who lack any respect for the countryside or animals. Hence, self-criticism exercises are important to avoid that, so to speak in a very simplistic way, the bad ones harm the good ones.

That must be the lesson. But beware, bullfighters don't admit it either.

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