32 dogs found dead due to lack of food and water on a farm in Spain

Mérida (Spain).- The Civil Guard has found 32 dead dogs due to starvation on a farm in Badajoz, west, which had been abandoned since last June without water or food, some of which had tried to feed on the decomposing carcasses of the animals that had already died. The investigation focuses on the property owner for a crime of animal abandonment due to the omission of basic care resulting in the death of all the dogs.

The animals had been abandoned since last June, some of them loose and others tied with chains or inside boxes.

Everyone was in deplorable sanitary conditions, without water and food, which led to their death by starvation. Even, according to what the Civil Guard reported this Friday, some of them would have tried to feed on the decaying carcasses of the animals that had already died.

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The action took place last week when a patrol of the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) found evidence that in a warehouse there could be dogs in poor condition and unattended by their owner, so steps were taken to locate the person responsible and owner of the property. During the inspection, agents found a total of 32 dog carcasses scattered throughout the facilities, which showed extreme thinness and signs of neglect and were in different states of decomposition. In a statement issued today, the Animalist Party PACMA has requested that preventive prison without bail be imposed on the person responsible for a "heinous crime, with a very high degree of cruelty and abandonment".