The abandonment of pets in Venezuela is exacerbated.
The abandonment of pets in Venezuela is exacerbated, and that’s because in December 2019, an outbreak appeared throughout China and was initially confused with pneumonia until studies clarified that it was a new virus from the coronavirus family, the disease was named COVID-19. Sometime later, the World Health Organization declared it a global pandemic.
Still is unknown if it was caused by bats or pangolins (the most trafficked mammal in the world), the truth is that the responsibility for this virus is the abuse that we do as humans on animals.
Six months later we still don’t learn. The abandonment of pets has increased exponentially the world; But if we focus on Venezuela, the reports that come to us daily are alarming, all exposing cases of animals on the streets scared, hurt, some with leashes, all of these clear indications that they once belonged to a house, and no one is looking for them.
Before the pandemic, many excuses for abandonment were people moving out of the country, nowadays, with the cancellation of international flights and border closings, there is no longer the possibility of emigrating, but abandonments continue and have increased. What is the new excuse?
What can we do? Understand that our pets do not transmit the coronavirus; take responsibility for the life we decide to take home, whose well-being depends on us.
Abandonment is abuse!