Family pet killed by hunters dogs
The News/views Magazine A ABOUT and FFOR Jávea - you can hold in your hand Nº 8 December November 2013 2013
A local resident living on Covatelles urbanisation (Taraula) in Jávea awoke from a Sunday afternoon nap to be told hunting dogs had entered her garden and seized FAFU her loveable pet cat.
She told Jávea Jeard “I am heartbroken. I do not have children and that little cat was like a child to me. I loved him with all my heart and he in turn worshiped the ground I walked on. I am in shock.” The death of her cat generated a huge amount of interest on Facebook from where she received more than 150 messages, many from people who had endured a similar experience. She was quick to explain she was a lover of all animals and the dogs are not to blame, even though she has been told many are kept in atrocious conditions, tortured, beaten and often abandoned or killed if they do not kill or are not good hunters. She does not
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want the dogs to suffer for the death that resulted from their ‘exuberance’ but believes the hunters need reminding that they must not come too close to urbanisations.” She added “Sometimes we feel we have to duck the bullets..... and the death of my loving, trusting little animal is horrific and so, so wrong.” “We did not see the hunters. I was having a nap before dinner when my mum heard dogs barking outside and went to see what was going on, to make sure they were not in our garden. “The dogs had come into my garden taken my cat down the road and killed him horrifically.... then ran off down the lane.” There are others w Annoyance from hunters is not unusual. “Usually we take cats in when we hear the hunters close, but this Sunday we only heard one bullet so did not think they were close, so the cats lay out in the sun as they like to be. Many people who saw the message on Facebook contacted Jávea mayor José Chulvi, who that he is going to remind the Hunting Club of the Generalitat rules and will have them translated into English so that the bereaved owner will know their rights and limitacions.”
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