The SPA calls on the government for “an animal rights defender”

The president of the SPA appealed to the French government in the program

, this Monday on

.

Jacques-Charles Fombonne has sounded the alarm against the abandonment of pets, which are picking up again with the summer vacation period.

🚨 Jacques-Charles Fombonne, president of the @SPA_Officiel facing the GG!

💥 More than 12,000 #animals abandoned since the beginning of summer!

💬 "We are currently at a record figure of 8607 animals for a nominal capacity of our 65 shelters of 6500!" #GGRMC pic.twitter.com/Ci8hixO7Gf

– The Big Mouths (@GG_RMC) August 15, 2022

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“We are currently at a record number, which is 8,607 animals for a nominal capacity of our 65 shelters with 6,500 places,” he said.

The SPA had experienced a period of respite in 2020 and 2021, following the health crisis.

In these times of confinement and teleworking, many people were more inclined to adopt a pet.

But since then, the situation has changed.

An idea already debated in the Assembly

For Jacques-Charles Fombonne, it is possible to act: "We need a defender of animal rights, someone who is able to collect statistics, the reasons for abandonment and to go around the issue. with all stakeholders, he says.

We campaign for real state responsibility in the field of animal protection.

“An idea that does not date from yesterday, when the National Assembly debated the creation of a position of animal rights defender in 2021. In the end, the project was not voted on…

The Plaisir refuge (Yvelines), where

went for a report published on Tuesday, shares this sad observation.

“For two years, we have been a little bit protected because of the Covid, that is to say that adoptions did not drop suddenly in the summer, contrary to what usually happened”, testifies the person in charge of the refuge.

Unfortunately, the situation has deteriorated with the wave of holiday departures this summer, a sign of the tourist recovery.

Each year, more than 100,000 animals are abandoned in France, especially in summer.

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