Faced with the risk that the bill for the Protection, Rights and Welfare of Animals, whose processing is stuck in Congress, will not go ahead, the Ministry of Social Rights, chaired by Ione Belarra, has ended up giving in part to the demands of the socialist group, which after the summer presented a controversial amendment to exclude hunting dogs from the norm.
Finally, Social Rights has proposed excluding hunting dogs from animal law while they practice hunting activity and, in this regard, Minister Belarra admitted that this is not the best protection model but justified the change in that it is "urgent that the law can be approved" in Congress and not definitively knocked down.
"We have decided to propose to the parliamentary groups that we adopt the animal protection model of the Castilla-La Mancha law on this issue," explained the minister behind this initiative in a video on Twitter. He was alluding to a regulation approved in 2020 under the Government of Emiliano García-Page that excludes hunting dogs only during the hunting activity itself.
Similarly, no one may abandon, mistreat or discard hunting dogs, Belarra recalled. “It is evident that it is not our ideal model, but it is urgent that the law can be approved in Congress by a majority of the groups, to begin to end the impunity of abusers, such as those who drown a wild boar calf or burn an animal alive. fox," he said.
Despite the initial agreement within the Government on the text, the socialist group later submitted an amendment to this effect, something that, according to Belarra, "threatens to overthrow the law definitively."
The Government of Castilla-La Mancha, one of the most critical of the bill due to the consequences for the hunting sector, appreciated that the ministry has finally "moved a file when it flatly rejected this possibility."
