A dog owner in Fontaine-l’Évêque says she is particularly saddened. This lady, who takes in mistreated dogs, got rid of 14 animals out of the 20 she owned. She explains that a policewoman threatened to seize her animals on the order of the mayor. Problem? The mayor did not give any orders and there is no limit to the number of dogs in her commune.
Véronique takes in mistreated dogs. She introduced one of them to our journalists who had come to meet her. “Kim is a Romanian street bitch, tortured in Romania, where you pay 50 euros each person who kills a dog. She arrived home very traumatized “, describes Véronique, who feels a lot of love for her animals.
A week ago, Véronique still had twenty. But today, he only has six left. In fact, following a complaint from a neighbor disturbed by the barking, the police came to her home last Tuesday. “I am told verbatim, ‘Next time I come, I come with a van and I take everything that is in your name on board’, affirms Véronique. I was not given any time limit for the seizure. No police procedure was observed “.
The officer reportedly told her that legally she could only own six dogs. Véronique then acted quickly to protect her animals. She did not want them to be seized and taken to the SPA. “I put them in good places. I deposited them myself. They are in families that have a garden and other dogs, so they are treated well there, but they are traumatized by the abandonment. I’ll never forget their gaze when I’m gone. Besides, I don’t sleep anymore“.
No regulation obliged Véronique to separate from her dogs
However, nothing forced him to separate from his animals. “From the point of view of the general police regulations, the number of dogs is not specified. So we turn to the animal welfare code, explains Barbara Osselaer, mayor of Fontaine-l’Évêque. There, we do not specify the number of dogs either, but the quality of reception that the citizen provides them “.
And associations that know Véronique agree that she takes care of her dogs. “She adopted a very old dog with us over 14 years old, with whom everything is going very well, emphasizes Marie-Rose Bruffaerts, president of the association “Les Amis des Animaux”. We took him back under the circumstances, but he was in great shape. We have nothing to reproach this lady “.
Véronique decided to file a complaint against the neighborhood agent. For her part, the acting mayor is waiting for an investigation to be opened to understand what may have happened.
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