Nineteen dogs were removed from a family’s residence in Rianxo, surrounded by feces and skeletons, that belonged to a family of Rianxo, from which 140 animals had already been removed

Seprona ( Service Of Nature Protection), the police and animal protection society cooperated in the raid.

On April 12th, the agents of Seprona Local Police and members of animal protection societies went into a house in Rianxo (a port town and municipality in Galicia, an autonomous community northwestern Spain) to remove nineteen dogs which were living, surrounded by their own feces. One hundred dogs had already been removed from this family in 2008.

It was 9 o’clock when a group of different police forces and two volunteers from the protective animal society landed in the village of Villanuestre in Rianxo. This time, to avoid the same tense scenes of 2008 when the authorities had taken one hundred dogs from the family, they tried to negotiate with the owner.

They succeeded. The owner agreed to let the authorities come into the house and take the dogs, which lived in a sort of vegetable garden and courtyard. The group tried not to feel dizzy because of the horrible smell which surrounded the entire house, caused by the feces and skeletons of dogs that covered where the inhabitants lived.

 

The family who owned animals was a couple in their seventies and an elderly woman who was bedridden. Social services paid her a visit to check her state. The couple’s daughter, who also supported them having the dogs, regularly went to the house but wasn’t there that day. The mother and daughter are well known in Barbanza.

Their story began as charity. Both built a dog shelter but it quickly got out of hand. They began to accumulate massive amounts of dogs and, in 2008, a complaint was made that then uncovered a horrible situation: they had over a hundred dogs living among feces and dead bodies of other dogs. The authorities moved ahead at that time and removed all animals.

However, five years later the situation was similar, and in some ways, more serious. The number of animals this time made it less crowded. However, before, the dogs were in sheds and in the shelter, now, perhaps to lift less suspicion, they had them in their own home where there was dog feces through the premises, including bedrooms and the kitchen. At the entrance to the property, there were tubs filled with excrements that dismissed an unbearable stench. And, still, inside the house lived a couple, a woman who could not move from her bed and, according to neighbors, the daughter and a young minor visited daily as well.

Source: http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/barbanza/2013/04/12/retiran-19-perros-vivian-hacinados-heces-rianxo/0003_2013041365762629361932.htm#_ver_siguiente

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