The metropolitan NGO One Voice has called on the island's prefect to take effective measures to combat stray dogs and cats and put an end to the mass euthanasia of healthy animals.
The number of animals euthanized is not reduced despite sterilization campaigns which are renewed every year.
For the association One Voice, the new sterilization campaigns announced will be useless if they are not backed by other measures such as the sustainable management of pet cats and pet dogs, provided by publicized texts or public awareness.
On this occasion, One Voice deplores the fact that local associations for animal protection are not involved in this fight plan, who’s funding always benefits the same actors.
The costly study that must be carried out on the causes of strays is according to the association One Voice totally useless since such studies have already been carried out in Reunion with the GEVEC (Veterinary Study Group on stray carnivores). Studies have also been carried out in Guadeloupe and Martinique where there is a similar phenomenon or by the World Organization for Animal Health (OEH).
In 2008 the meetings "Animal and Society" had also listed the factors behind strays and identified the possibility of releasing the so-called pet dogs once they are sterilized. A measure that has not been put in place in Reunion.
One Voice does not preclude taking this matter to the Administrative Court.