The SPA closed this Sunday to the public its shelters, SPA houses and dispensaries, like all animal protection associations, in accordance with the government's Covid-19 action plan, and fears a wave of abandonments.
"All scientific sources, the World Health Organization in mind, agree: Covid-19 does not reach pets like dogs and cats, and they are not involved in the spread of this epidemic" , she recalls in a press release.
Saturated headlands and refuges
The SPA alerts the French "to a catastrophic situation concerning our pets" and "calls on the responsibility of pet owners not to believe rumors about it which could have catastrophic consequences in terms of abandonments "
Public poundages, as well as the shelters of animal protection associations which collect animals from these poundlands to have them re-adopted, are already almost all saturated in terms of reception capacity.
Owners' call for responsibility
“Closing shelters to the public will drastically slow down adoptions. If a massive wave of abandonment of pets occurs, it will lead to a massive wave of euthanasia in the pound, as provided for by French law, "she worries. “We call on all pet owners, all French people who are sensitive to the animal cause to massively relay that it would be devoid of common sense and humanity to abandon your pet for false rumors (…) Let's be fair, all together, humans! "Implores Jacques-Charles Fombonne, the president of the SPA.
Making an individual appointment, animal already spotted beforehand on the website or even first interview by phone in advance of a potential visitor: in a few days, the SPA will put the conditions “d” on its site and its social networks 'responsible adoption' which will be put in place to try to relieve congestion in shelters
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