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🇪🇸 Spain’s Animal Protection Law is set to receive full legislative approval on Friday,
After several months of discussions, Spain’s Ley de Protección Animal will on Friday February 18th receive approval by the Spanish Cabinet, allowing a new set of animal protection laws to finally come into force.
These are the actions which are forbidden under Spain’s new Animal Protection Law.
- Mistreating or physically abusing animals.
- Treating animals negligently or undertaking other practises that can cause them suffering, physical or psychological harm or even death.
- Abandoning animals in either indoor or outdoor spaces.
- Mutilating or carrying out cosmetic bodily modifications on animals, with the exception of operations necessary to ensure their well being or for sterilisation purposes, which must be accredited by a veterinarian’s report.
- Using an animal for fighting purposes or training them to be aggressive.
- Using animals for artistic or commercial purposes as well as other public spectacles that cause them anxiety, suffering or pain.
- Breeding for genetic selection purposes that could result in health problems for the animal, or any unauthorised breeding of pets
- Selling or exhibiting animals in shops for commercial purposes (except fish). The transfer of animals, whether at a price or free, has to be carried out directly with the breeder or shelter without any intermediaries seeking a profit. The sale of animals by unlicensed breeders or regular pet owners is not allowed.
- Donating or adopting an unidentified animal. The free transfer of ownership must be reflected in a contract, along with the animal’s identification details.
- Using animals in advertising without prior official permission.
- Using collars, leashes or spikes that strangle the animal or electric devices that can cause harm to the animal.
- Tying an animal to a moving vehicle.
- Using domestic pets for animal or human consumption.
- Euthanising an animal without prior permission from a vet and without any other purpose than avoiding its suffering.
- Using an animal for unsuitable or arduous work based on the animal’s traits.
- Using an animal for begging purposes.
- Bird trapping, especially finches.
- Feeding pets carcasses, entrails or offal from animals that haven’t undergone the correct health checks.
- Gifting animals as a reward, prize, in raffles or in sale offers.
- Permanently keeping pets on balconies, terraces, attics, storage rooms, basements, vehicles or other similar spaces.
- Permanently releasing domestic pets into the wild or other environments in nature.
- Disposing of a dead animal’s body without prior identification or notification to the relevant authorities.
- Using any device or mechanism designed to restrict their mobility unless prescribed by a vet.
- Leaving an animal unsupervised for three consecutive days. Depending on the type of dog breed, this period should not be longer than 24 consecutive hours.
- Culling feral feline colonies without prior authorisation from local governments and carried out by anyone other than a vet.
