The Mijas Town Hall, through a collaboration agreement signed on Wednesday with the Malaga Veterinary Association, will have an Identification Register of Pets, mandatory in all municipalities in Andalusia. With this database, the Town Hall will have a record of the number of cats, dogs and ferrets with microchip in the town, as well as their health condition, “a figure close to 35,000 animals, of which almost 27,000 are dogs”, said the mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), who on Wednesday received at the Town Hall the president of the Veterinary Association of Malaga, Juan Antonio de Luque, to formalize this agreement, also accompanied by the councilor of Animal Welfare, Marco Cortés (PP).
About the registration, the mayoress of Mijas stressed the importance of “having this control to avoid possible diseases, especially considering that many of them frequent common public spaces where there are other people and children”. For his part, De Luque stressed that “this municipal database also allows to control the number of potentially dangerous animals in Mijas and the town hall to carry out actions to improve the welfare of pets”.
- Momento de la firma de este acuerdo entre Ayuntamiento y Colegio de Veterinarios.
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The agreement has a duration of four years and may be extended for a period of four additional years. It determines, among other aspects, that the Veterinary Association will be responsible for creating and managing the Municipal Pet Register, under the terms regulated by Law 11/2003 and Decree 92/2005, which will perform the computer processing of all data incorporated into it, will guard the documentation generated, will issue the Andalusian Document of Identification and Animal Registration (DAIRA), will create the census of potentially dangerous dogs and other animals that are classified as such regulations (Law 50/1999 of 23 December) and will assume the training of municipal public servants.
As a result of this collaboration, the Mijas Town Hall will also have from now on six microchip readers “which can be very useful for the Local Police and the technicians of the Mijas Town Hall, when they find any abandoned animal, because they will be able to use the reader to identify the animal and its owner”, highlighted the president of the Veterinary Association.
- Mijas contará desde ahora con seis lectores de chip de animales.
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Other obligations
It is worth remembering that since 2005, it is mandatory to identify dogs, cats and ferrets with microchips. Since 2010, pet owners are also required to deworm and vaccinate them against rabies “because we must not forget that rabies is a deadly disease and unfortunately just a week ago there was a case in Melilla”, said De Luque. In this sense, the mayoress insisted that “all those people who have animals must also be responsible to get through these health checks, not only for the animal, but also as a matter of public health”.
Currently there are 26 municipalities in the province of Malaga that have the Municipal Pet Register with this association, including Antequera, Benalmádena, Nerja, Fuengirola, Marbella, Rincón de la Victoria, Ronda and Torremolinos. “It is a much needed database that joins the one that has the Andalusian Council of Veterinary Associations, so there will be a real census of animals in Mijas, the province of Malaga and throughout Andalusia”, concluded the mayoress.
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