The Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda has presented the draft bill for the Protection and Rights of Animals 20/2021. This document includes all the measures that will be necessary to protect the concept of “animal welfare”, responsible coexistence and their possession, as is the case of the free online course that people who want to have a pet should take. .
The document, in addition, will be submitted to public information with the aim of reaching the Council of Ministers before the month of December 2021. We must not forget that this is a draft and as such may be modified, but even so, this will be the course. What will people do for pet ownership
Compulsory, free and online
This is one of the great novelties of the bill that aims to protect, raise awareness and provide knowledge about pets.The government intends that people develop a series of adequate knowledge to avoid future sanctions, such as abandonment.
Thus, the course will be mandatory for everyone, free and will be carried out online. Its content is yet to be determined, but as reported by the general director of Animal Rights Sergio Garcia Torres, the matter will talk about things such as collecting excrement from the street , since in the case of not collecting it, it can lead to fines of up to €600 .
New draft measures
The draft bill will entail numerous novelties. Thus, animals will no longer be considered as things or real estate and will become sentient beings, so they will have rights like humans and cannot be seized in cases of eviction or a judge can decide on their custody in cases of separation or divorce.
In addition, another of the changes of this new law would be that animals will not be sold in stores, animals that usually live in open spaces must be neutered and if they want to breed animals they must be registered in the National Registry of Breeders .
Some of these measures have been rejected by different sectors, such as the circus, who consider that they have not taken into account that many families live from it. This is how the spokesman for Circos Reunidos, Nacho Pedrera, comments: “This fantastic government aims to destroy jobs, as it shows every day” and warns that more than 2,500 families live in Spain from the circus alone . “Thousands of people work in circuses, fairs, with animals, in parades and nativity scenes that they want to carry and they have not even contacted us,” he warns.
