100,000 animals abandoned each year in France, more than half of them during the summer. “During the previous two years, there was hardly any because of the pandemic, but last year from July, it started again with a vengeancelaments Michel Clairembault, president of the SPA of Indre. We had up to 220 cats in the shelter in August and September”.
“These are mostly abandoned dogshe continues. Because the masters adopt a dog and when they want to be away or go on vacation, what to do with the animal?. He then recounts that some call the refuge or abandon them in the wild. “They explain to us that they no longer want it and that if we don’t take it, they leave it in the wild”adds Michel Clairembault.
These stray animals are brought by the police, the gendarmes or the municipal agents. “For the dogs, we have enough placesexplains the president of the SPA of Indre. We are authorized by the prefecture to have 200, even 250. For cats, it is more problematic, because most of the time, they are not identified and often carriers of diseases”.