And the podencos on Tenerife, Canary Islands, continue to suffer. Below is a Spanish dictionary translation of this newspaper article published on 7th March 2017.
The difficult relationship between hunters and animal rights lived this weekend a new episode, this time in the District of Valleseco. Several members of the first group have denounced in the national police that some unknown, supposed defenders of animals, on Saturday broke the padlock of a few kennels located at the entrance of the neighborhood – in a Court of the mountain – and released several hunting dogs, which could not be recovered by their owners until Sunday noon.
According to these hunters, it is not the first time that the collective advocacy carried out an Act, then in 2014 already they were forced to report similar facts. On that occasion, the kennels were even inspected by the service of protection of the nature of the Guardia Civil (Seprona) and by Municipal Health, without that found nothing outside the law.
About what happened this weekend, Inma Évora, Member of the alternative Canaria Animalist platform, acknowledged that on Saturday, along with other members of the collective, was inspecting the “caches” these Valleseco hunters with their dogs on – port area are-, but denied the allegations about the release of animals. “No one would we put them at risk”, he said.
Evora said they moved to the place after having knowledge that had 15 podencos “in State of abandonment” after its owner deceased several days earlier. This end was denied yesterday by the President of the Federation of associations of hunting management of Tenerife, Antonio Porras.
“When we only had five dogs, which we clean water and something to eat, and a rabbit,” said alternative Canaria Animalista member. That was the Saturday.
On Sunday, and according to the provided version yesterday by Evora, they returned again to the place “but the encadenadores had already put a padlock on the cage of the podencas so that we could not access where they were”.
“When we walked down from the hideout, a good man approached us to demand that no us over there, because already attended animals”, summarized.
Inma Évora announced that they will bring to the attention of the Prosecutor’s Office the “overall situation” of many enclaves of these features that there are on the island, and also moved to create the “map of shame” on the internet which will include the location of each “hideout” which is found in any point of Tenerife.
“It is visible a reality that want to keep hidden to dignify the life of animals and to protect, in particular, to the most punishing race of our islands: the podencos”, said Inma Évora, who also remarked that this formula is can denounce “anonymously” situations of mistreatment of animals.
Yesterday, (6/3/2017) the Civil Guard and the Local police of Santa Cruz returned to travel to Valleseco, while showing interventions. Meanwhile, Antonio Porras advanced that no discards the call for a demonstration of hunters to fight against the bad image of the Group and to demonstrate how to care for their hunting dogs.