Animals dying in agony at the SACPA pound in Vaux-le-Pénil: what are the authorities waiting for to stop the carnage?
For years we have been investigating animal pounds, those public services responsible for “cleaning” our streets of stray animals, under the municipal budget line for “waste management”, and they all have one thing in common. The final destination of cats and dogs not taken in by already overwhelmed associations is death. But before that, their path is marked by immense suffering. Alerted to the unspeakable abuse suffered by animals passing through the SACPA pound in Vaux-le-Pénil, we are filing a complaint and calling for its immediate closure.
As we have shown in several pounds where management was at fault, where responsibility was entrusted to untrained individuals, or even in so-called “high-quality” facilities, these establishments do anything but treat animals well.
While on its website the SACPA group boasts of its “long experience, giving it real expertise in the care and collective accommodation of domestic carnivores, with a constant focus on improving processes and respecting animal welfare”, and while it had promised us total transparency, look at what was happening in 2024 and 2025 at the Vaux-le-Pénil facility.
Employees and volunteers from associations have sounded the alarm, but their numerous emails and letters to the prefecture have all gone unanswered. Thanks to “MV Éducanin”, which has had the courage to document and denounce these glaring problems, we have now taken the matter into our hands.
Complaint, care for the survivors, request for a change of management: we are doing everything we can for them.
We are filing a complaint and requesting that the authorities close the establishment immediately while all the sick cats and dogs are being treated, the premises are thoroughly disinfected, and the epidemic is brought under control.
We are also requesting a change of the management which is clearly incapable of taking even minimal measures to ensure the care and survival of the animals.
If any dogs survive the massacre, we are ready to mobilise our partners to take care of them. Private pet owners also have a role to play and responsibilities to take on: vaccination, identification and sterilisation help to limit straying, suffering and the transmission of disease.
Help us change the fate of so many of our companions who are abandoned, neglected and killed every year. Sign our petition to urge France to commit to a large-scale sterilisation programme, and to ban online animal sales, the main source of abandonment and slaughter in pounds.