The recent damage in Valencia has caused serious damage, affecting both people and animals. Heavy rain and flooding have left many animals in desperate situations, especially in shelters that have been destroyed. Since the flood last Tuesday, hundreds of people have been organizing between the shelters and the neighborhood community to be able to rescue as many animals as possible. Numerous animal shelters have launched an urgent call for help as food, water, blankets and safe places are needed to move the affected animals.
“Several footballers from the women’s Sporting Club Benimaclet are volunteers in shelters like the one in Burjassot, and seeing that the shelters were overwhelmed, it was decided to create this space to speed up temporary shelters.”
In Benimaclet, a logistics point has been created to centralize both human and animal aid. This center has been created “because several colleagues from the Benimaclet women’s Sporting Club are volunteers in shelters like the one in Burjassot, and seeing that the shelters were overflowing and the animals were full of mud, it was decided to create this space to be able to speed up the temporary shelters until the shelters and sanctuaries were rebuilt, and to be able to coordinate the material and movement of large animals to specialized sanctuaries that have not been affected,” says Carolina Ugarte, communications spokesperson for the Sporting Club. According to their data, as of November 4, they have already cared for more than 250 dogs, 110 cats and various farm animals such as donkeys, pigs, ostriches and ducks.
Host contracts table, to carry out the bureaucratic procedures required for foster care.
Miguel Ángel Bauset
On the other hand, the CEU Clinical Hospital has coordinated with both Sporting and the shelters and shelters to provide free care to the animals affected in the shelters but also to pets of families who have suffered the effects of the flood, displacing to the places where it is needed, to small and large animal veterinarians.
Here they receive and manage the material that people deliver to distribute in shelters and affected areas.
Miguel Ángel Bauset
“More than 100 animals have been cared for between the small animal and large animal teams and more than 50 have been fostered. We have distributed supplies to multiple affected points such as Cheste, Chiva, Loriguilla, Catarroja, and La Torre in coordination with Bioparc, and veterinary medical care points have also been coordinated in different parts of Valencia, collaborating with the ICOVV,” they say from the CEU Veterinary Clinical Hospital.
In addition, temporary shelters are also being managed from Modeprano Valencia for the animals that were in the shelters they have in Carlet, and that are currently safe in Benimamet. Added to this is the work of dozens of rescuers who are autonomously saving many animals in the affected areas and are even coming from territories such as Euskal Herria or Catalonia, also coordinating with Sporting de Benimaclet and protectors such as the SVPAP are publishing all daily updated needs lists for affected shelters.
Among the many needs that have arisen after the damage, both shelters and shelters have seen with gratitude many people dedicated to helping both the animals and the affected people and encourage them to continue participating to save as many lives as possible.
