The fifteen deer of Longueuil are not about to leave the Michel-Chartrand park.
An ethics committee from the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Montreal refuses Sauvetage Animal Rescue’s relocation request. The organization had been mandated by the city of Longueuil to develop a relocation protocol.
However, after analysis, the committee of experts raised around forty points that the organization will have to improve. This refusal means that Sauvetage Animal Rescue will not obtain, for the moment, the Certificate of good care necessary for the transfer of cervids.
In the four-page document, the committee points out, among other things, that the trailer used by the body is too large and the sedation drugs inappropriate.
According to Éric Dussault, director of operations at Sauvetage Animal Rescue, a dialogue with the experts beforehand would have been more effective.
“If there is a dialogue that is done from the start with the experts, it allows us to get in tune and say we’re going to do this together, but right now it’s working a little backwards. They make us a list of reasons for which they refuse, it is as if they gave us the answers of the exam and we have to redo the exam, it is an endless administrative burden. This administrative burden will ensure, even after months of work, the deer will be slaughtered. ”
-Éric Dussault, Director of Operations, Sauvetage Animal Rescue
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The Animal Rescue Rescue team gives itself a few weeks to establish a second protocol and return to the charge with the committee of experts.
The city of Longueuil for its part indicated in an email to Boom FM that it offers her support as owner of the Michel-Chartrand park and relies on the directives of the Ministère de la Faune et des Parcs. ”
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