An unusual case occurred this Tuesday, September 29, at the facilities of the El Dorado International Airport, in Bogotá. Apparently, two citizens from Miami and bound for Cali had abandoned their two dogs after presenting false documentation and after they were not allowed to board the plane with the pets.
Laura Idrobo, deputy director of Fauna of the District Institute for Animal Protection and Welfare, gave an interview to the media Blu Radioin which He assured that the authorities have been asked to withdraw their visas and punish them exemplarily for the crime of animal abuse.
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‘They weren’t going to return to the animals anyway’
A problem would have been identified with the documentation so that the dogs could travel. Photo:Social Networks of Antonio Hernández
According to Idrobo, this case would represent animal abuse because they are dogs that were undergoing a migration process from the United States to the country and, Due to “obvious failures” in the entry regulations on the part of their caregivers, they are abandoned at the airport.
From the Institute they assured that what worries them most is that they gave the citizens the opportunity to return to the United States to resolve the papers and they responded with a negative.
“The information that citizens gave was that, if necessary, they should be taken away and euthanized, since they were not going to return with the animals anyway.which is why it is very important for us to safeguard these lives,” added Idrobo.
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The two dogs are in quarantine due to a clinical issue in the transfer process, the same reason why the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) did not allow their entry into the country.
From the Institute they do not understand why the animals could be transported from another country to Colombia without adequate documentation, without the necessary vaccines and without being dewormed.
“Here the call above all is to this cruel act towards these animals, to totally objectify them and ignore that they are sentient beings, leaving them abandoned in an airport without being clear about what was going to happen to them,” Idrobo said.
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According to the first investigations, The two people could not be denied entry into the country. for having Colombian nationality.
Reviews of animals at the airport
El Dorado Airport Photo:El Dorado Airport
Apparently, the information held by the ICA and the veterinarian who made the first assessments indicates that the vaccination and deworming of animals, necessary to enter the country, did not match with the documents that the couple provided at the airport.
“So, due to that finding, the veterinary doctor quickly identified that “It is a false document and it tells them that without that document it is not possible to enter the animals into the country.”he assured.
After that, the couple stated that they did not want to return to the United States to solve the problem. and took his connecting flight to Cali, leaving the animals at the ICA checkpoint.
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It is at that moment, The District Protection Institute began to carry out the process for abandonment and abuse.
The animals involved are two canines that are also puppies. One is a Pomeranian breed and the other is a mix, “like an American pitbull.”
Regarding cases similar to this abandonment, the deputy director assured that “unfortunately we have already had some cases. The last was a puppy with which a citizen went to leave the country and, in the process of verification, they told him that he had to have a rigid crate and the citizen, instead of looking for the crate, decided to go into a bathroom and leave the puppy there.
The two people are fully identified and, apparently, They will face legal proceedings for leaving their pets abandoned at the airport.
Raúl Andrés García Suárez
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