They accompany us, they make our lives happy, they help us, they detect diseases, they look for drugs or explosives and in return they do not demand anything.

But we are not always at their height and, sometimes, the

lack of civility

makes them monopolize negative headlines and that they talk about them not for everything they give us but for what they dirty.

In Spain there are already

more than 13 million registered pets,

according to data from the Spanish Network for the Identification of Companion Animals (Reiac), of which

93% are dogs,

6%, cats, and the rest, rabbits, on everything.

In fact, it is estimated that there are already more pets than children under 15 years of age.

The increase in the number of dogs worries the municipalities, which have to face

important expenses in cleaning (by collecting depositions on sidewalks and gardens) and in urban furniture,

due to the corrosion caused by urine.

The

dissuasive fines not appear to

cause effect

from irresponsible owners.

And there are those who use products to deter dogs that are not only prohibited but are toxic like sulfur.

High costs for councils

According to

the Valencian City Council of Xirivella,

which has carried out a study on this problem, "a medium-sized dog generates 400 grams of waste per day (12 kilos after a month) and, in addition, urine causes damage to urban furniture which involve

significant costs for the City Council

To give us an idea, a wastebasket costs around 120 euros, a bank, 180 or a lamppost, 330.

Asturian

David Hevia

encountered this problem on a smaller scale

.

And after months of research, he managed to find

a formula that is harmless for the furry, but that achieves its goal:

that they do not urinate or relieve themselves where we do not want them to, such as streetlights, traffic lights, facades of shops and homes, sidewalks or on the streets. wheels of parked cars and motorcycles ...

"My wife and I bought a house in a small village in Asturias. The house had been practically abandoned and all the dogs in the town came there to relieve themselves. I did not want to have problems with the neighbors because I had just arrived and, moreover, I was coming from the city and they already saw me as a strange type, "he confesses with a laugh.

For this reason, he set to work to

think of an alternative solution,

especially, thinking that he was about to be a father and the little one would spend all his time on the floor touching everything.

Toxic products

As a good chemist, he became interested in all the products on the market so that dogs did not relieve themselves, but they

all contained toxic and carcinogenic products.

So a "Breaking Bad" lab was set up, and like Walter White he spent entire afternoons finding the perfect formula.

"I started experimenting with natural products until I came up with the recipe a year or so later," he explains.

"I tried it and saw how it worked.

The dogs smelled the area, but they weren't peeing or their needs."

But his efforts did not end there.

In the following months, he continued to improve the formula so that it would last longer on the ground.

Together with a friend, he realized that this product could be economically profitable, and in 2018 they launched a real market survey: they offered the antiorines to pet stores and asked their customers for their opinion.

"If someone told us that it had not worked, we would go to their house to see what had happened and it turned out that they were not using it well," he says.

And when verifying the good reception of its natural antiorines, a week before the state of alarm was decreed, Hevia mounted together with

Vanesa Fernández

and

Sergio Fernández

Diecolpet, a research and development laboratory specialized in the design of veterinary products for the care of pets, and in which the care of nature is very present, since only "natural and ecological ingredients" are used, he points out.

But the pandemic came and they had to stop, although someone as restless as Hevia could not quite do it.

"That time was good for us to develop other products. And by the end of the year we already had in addition to antiorines (which also works with cats), an ecological shampoo specially made for pets with atopic dermatitis, or sensitive skin, a cleanser for paws and the tail after the walk and another to disinfect textiles, toys or the dog's bed ".

Although at first their main market was specialized animal stores, they soon realized that the product could also be useful to municipalities.

Protect critical points

"We realized that local administrations had

a very big problem with urine and dog

droppings. There are many uncivil people and pee also causes corrosion and damages urban furniture. With our product, municipalities can save a lot on cleaning and furniture replacement ", he explains.

For this reason, they have gone to various Asturian city councils that have shown interest in their star product, above all, to

protect critical points such as monuments, urban furniture or playgrounds.

"Our antiorines is the only one on the market with the Ecoitel seal (totally ecological), with 100% effectiveness to prevent the urination of dogs in the places that we do not want and that, in addition,

does not affect the health of the dogs or deteriorate the environment.

The dog smells it, but does not mark in that place ", assures this chemical associate professor at the University of Oviedo.

Aware that the pet market is a growing market, in the future they would like their products to be not only in specialized channels (pet stores, veterinary centers) but also in large hypermarkets.

But always faithful to its philosophy: "Preserve the natural environment".

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