You will be horrified to learn that, two months on since El Refugio.org denounced the deplorable ‘shelter’ at Avila, Asturias in northern Spain, there is absolutely no change in the sickening incarceration for over 80 dogs and cats. El Refugio reports that the Mayor Pilar Valera, has done absolutely nothing atall, has taken absolutely no action!
On 13th March 2010 Court No 3 of Avila initiated a penal procedure (denuncia) against the woman owning the shelter, citing the deplorable ‘buildings’ in which more than 80 dogs and cats existed.n which “they live” piled-up more than eighty dogs and cats. We have to help these poor animals, many of whom are ill and die in these conditions.
El Refugio says that ‘For more than ten years, the official animal collection service of the City Hall of Avila The Xelán, a business situated in Pola de Siero, which kills more than two hundred dogs and cats every year and receives 72,000 € annually for doing this. The protection associations of the zone have been demanding a municipal shelter for a decade, something that Pilar Varela, mayor of the City Hall of of Avila, has denied them all this time.’
So I think it is time we bombarded the Mayor of Avila again. Here’s the link to my previous post, and the letter. Please support Nacho Paunero, president of El Refugio and denounce the Mayor of Avila.
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13 responses to “Avila, Asturias – no change – join the campaign, write a letter to the Mayor”
That’s awful. How could he just ignore all the letters that were sent?!? Am going to send him 10 this time!
Hi Kate
Its impossible to believe, isnt it, when the world now knows we are watching them. We need as many letters as possible to be sent again, and I have also told them that their shelter is featured in my book as one of the worst examples!
It is sickening to think of the suffering of these poor innocent animals.
Thanks for supporting the campaign.
Beryl
Sent letters again. We mustn’t cease until conditions are improved.
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Thanks, Valarie, absolutely must keep the pressure
on from our side.
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Senor Ignacio Martinez
Public Affairs, Aviles, Spain
protocolo@ayto-aviles.es
Dear Senor Martinez,
There are films on Youtube showing horrific conditions in an animal shelter in Aviles. People all over the world are viewing this and people are emailing one another, and soon will be contacting you and your mayor, Pilar Varela Diaz, regarding these deplorable conditions. Animals suffering like this will deter tourists from coming to your beautiful municipality. Something needs to be done as soon as possible. A new shelter, and humane treatment of these animals is a must. Please go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh7A1B2-vg4 and see for yourself how awful it is.
Please forward this email to your mayor, Pilar Varela Diaz, and let her know that she will likely be receiving many other letters, emails and phone calls about this terrible shelter.
Please ask her to do everything in her power to see that a humane shelter, and decent treatment of animals ensues.
Also, since you are hoping many of us will come to visit Aviles, please become involved yourself in ending the horror these animals are experiencing. Please work to see that a proper shelter is built and that the animals are humanely treated. How animals are treated says a great deal about a culture.
Thank you sir for forwarding this to your mayor.
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Pilar Varela Diaz, Mayor of Aviles
Calle Jovellanos 1
Aviles
Asturias
Spain
Dear Mayor Varela,
It has recently come to my attention that there is widespread animal neglect taking place in a ‘shelter’ at Aviles, Asturia. As one ventures closer to the ‘shelter’, an overwhelming stench assaults your sense of smell, an omen of the horrid conditions where the eighty dogs and cats are forced to live.
A sign at the entrance warns that “No animals are picked up or delivered’. Dogs and cats barely survive in this hell of Avilés, sharing their space with tons of rubble and dirt, with rats, in cages consisting of pallets and mattresses.
These animals are subjected to constant confinement, living among their own faeces, with no sanitation, never leaving the dirt in which they live, condemned to share accommodation with rats and fleas that move between the garbage around them.
When one approaches, the desperate barks from these suffering animals becomes deafening, People in the neighbourhood know about these deplorable conditions, yet when they wish to investigate they are always stopped by Miluce, a ‘middle-aged woman’, who is causing the suffering.
A complaint has been lodged in the Court of Aviles by El Refugio against the woman in charge of the ‘shelter’. These charges state ‘ “The animals are housed in a massive and uncontrolled environment, with a variety of breeds and their state of health shows an abysmal lack of food, poor hygiene, lack of standard veterinary care, unsanitary conditions, surrounded by faeces and urine, among rodents and other vermin (fleas …), causing a risk not only for animals but also for public health. We believe that these facts can now be considered criminal.’
Yet the woman claims she maintains a ‘terrific’ facility which is all to often used as a cover-up and is never the case. The animals are being kept near the district of La Luz Aviles in the road that joins the A-8 in this neighbourhood. It is known that this constant state of neglect and abuse has gone on for at least ten years, allegedly resulting in death in some cases, because the facilities are inappropriate for the care of the animals housed there.
Won’t you please investigate this situation? Surely you do not wish to see this cruelty continue in the Municipality of Avilés.
It is clear that the Municipality of Avilés is in dire need of a proper shelter, where animals may live in clean, humane conditions.
Thank you very much.
CINDY COLLIER
UNITED KINGDOM
Both letters are send to Senor Ignacio Martinez
now !
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Thankyou, have posted amendments
Beryl
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GOOD ON YOU! And please ask everyone you know
to send a letter.
Beryl
i couldn’t see any email for the mayor, so i did a search and came up with this:
pvarela@ayto-aviles.es
hope it’s not old and useless.
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Hi
The email is to the Spaniard who speaks very good
English at the regional office of the Asturias. The problem is that the
(unspeakably ignorant) Mayor of Aviles does not.
So a milliong thanks for the email address of the
Mayor too, which I will post, although we will need a translation into Spanish,
and I am out all day tomorrow.
Bless you for caring and for finding this
information, which I will post.
Beryl
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Great!
Beryl
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Hi
Thanks for this. Have emailed this address as
well as the other one.
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Beryl
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Thank you, and ask everyone you know to do the
same, please.
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Beryl
http://www.thisfrenchlife.com/deuxsevres/
http://www.galgonews.com
Helping to make
a difference
A person who has never known a dogs love has
missed a wonderful part of life. Bob Barker
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no
desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.
Count of Buffon