Article 25. General prohibitions regarding companion and wild animals in captivity

The following behaviours or actions related to companion or wild animals in captivity are totally prohibited:

a) Mistreating or physically assaulting them, as well as subjecting them to negligent treatment or any practice that may cause them suffering, physical or psychological harm, or cause their death.

b) Using invasive methods and tools that cause damage and suffering to animals, without prejudice to veterinary treatments carried out by registered veterinary professionals and other exceptions established by law.

c) Intentionally leaving them in closed or open spaces, especially in the natural environment where they can cause subsequent damage due to feral status or their condition as potentially invasive exotic species.

d) Leaving animals loose or in a position to cause damage in public or private places with public access, especially in national parks, ravines where flocks or animals graze, or other protected natural spaces where they can cause damage to people, livestock, or the natural environment.

e) Use them in public shows or tourist or advertising artistic activities, which cause them anguish, pain or suffering, without prejudice to the provisions of Title IV, and, in any case, in mechanical attractions or fairground carousels, as well as the use of animals belonging to species of wild fauna in circus shows.

f) Use them on an itinerant basis as a claim. Without this precept questioning the right of homeless people to be accompanied by their companion animals.

g) Subjecting them to inappropriate or excessive work in time or intensity with respect to the characteristics and health status of the animals.

h) The possession, breeding and trade of finches captured from the natural environment as long as the requirements of the first section, letter f), of article 61 and 4 of Law 42/2007, of December 13, are infringed.

i) Feed them with viscera, carcasses and other offal from animals that have not passed the appropriate sanitary controls, in accordance with the applicable sectoral regulations.

j) Use animals as a reward claim, prize, raffle or promotion.

k) The use of animals as an advertising claim, except for the exercise of activities related to them.

l) Use any gadget, mechanism or utensil intended to limit or prevent their mobility at a fixed point except by veterinary prescription, taking care of their well-being.

m) Use them in fights or their training in the development of this practice and other similar ones, as well as instigating aggression against other animals or other people outside the scope of regulated activities.

n) Use any gadget, mechanism or utensil intended to limit or prevent their mobility except by veterinary prescription, taking care of their well-being.

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