Article 27. Specific prohibitions regarding companion animals

Without prejudice to the provisions of article 25, the following activities involving pets are expressly prohibited:

a) Their slaughter, except for reasons of safety of people or animals or the existence of a risk to public health duly justified by the competent authority.

Slaughtering is expressly prohibited in animal protection centres, whether public or private, veterinary clinics and zoos in general for economic reasons, overcrowding, lack of places, impossibility of finding an adopter within a certain period, abandonment of the legal guardian, old age, illness or injury with the possibility of treatment, whether palliative or curative, for behavioural problems that can be remedied, as well as for any other cause comparable to the aforementioned.

Euthanasia will only be justified under veterinary criteria and control with the sole purpose of avoiding suffering due to non-recoverable causes that seriously compromise the quality of life of the animal and as such must be accredited and certified by a collegiate veterinary professional. The euthanasia procedure will be carried out by collegiate veterinary personnel or belonging to a Public Administration with methods that guarantee the humanitarian condition, admitted by the applicable legal provisions.

b) Practice all kinds of mutilation or permanent body modifications; Excepted from this prohibition are identification systems by marking the ear of community cats and those necessary for therapeutic reasons to guarantee their health or to limit or cancel their reproductive capacity, without a functional or aesthetic reason of any kind serving as a justification. , and that must be accredited by means of a report from a collegiate veterinary professional or belonging to a public administration, which will be recorded in the corresponding identification record.

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

d) Keep them tied up or wandering through public spaces without face-to-face supervision by the person responsible for their care and behaviour.

e) Regularly keep dogs and cats on terraces, balconies, rooftops, storage rooms, basements, patios and similar or vehicles.

f) Carrying animals tied to moving motor vehicles.

g) The release or introduction into the natural environment of animals of any kind of companion animal that is developed in this law except those included in reintroduction programs.

h) Elimination of pet carcasses without checking their identification, when this is mandatory.

i) Leaving any pet animal unsupervised for more than three consecutive days; in the case of the canine species, this period may not exceed twenty-four consecutive hours.

j) Carry out actions or practices of genetic selection that entail problems or serious alterations in the health of the animal.

k) The commercial breeding of any species of companion animal, as well as any type of breeding of animals whose individual identification is mandatory by current regulations, by breeders not registered in the Registry of Companion Animal Breeders.

l) The commercialisation of dogs, cats and ferrets in pet shops, as well as their display and exposure to the public for commercial purposes. Dogs, cats and ferrets may only be sold from registered breeders.

m) The commercialisation, donation or delivery for adoption of animals not identified and previously registered in the name of the transferor in accordance with the applicable identification methods according to current regulations.

n) Use pets for human consumption.

ñ) The use of any handling tool that may cause injury to the animal is prohibited, in particular electric, impulse, punishment or drowning collars.

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