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Date Published: 19/08/2022

ARCHIVED - Andalucia animal shelter horror: 120 starving dogs discovered covered in parasites

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The animals removed from the Andalucia shelter were suffering from scabies, skin diseases and severe malnutrition

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Andalucia animal shelter horror: 120 starving dogs discovered covered in parasites

What should have been a safe haven turned into a real life nightmare for more than 100 dogs living at an animal shelter in Almanzora who were discovered by police officers devoured by ticks, desperately ill and surrounded by filth.

That was only the tip of the iceberg, however, as when animal rescue workers opened the freezer at the facility they discovered the corpses of several more dogs, many in a state of advanced decomposition. The images which emerged from the shelter, located in the municipality of Zurgena in Almeria, are truly horrific: starving dogs little more than bags of bones, others covered in life-threatening tumours and sores. Many of the animals were hardly even recognisable as dogs, so pitiful was their state.

The extent of the neglect and abuse only came to light when the owner of the shelter approached the Nueva Vida de Huércal-Overa protective association for donations. To help him out, they agreed to remove some of the animals and re-home them.

“When they came to remove some animals, what they saw there was a real horror. because they were in a state of neglect and total abandonment”, so the first thing they did was remove “the animals whose lives were in danger”, the head of the association, Elisa Martín, explained.

Once a vet was called in to assess the 120 or so dogs that were rescued, the situation became crystal clear: “All the animals that have been removed from there are sick. It's not just that they were infested with ticks, it's that these parasites transmit diseases, so they come home very sick, with scabies, malnourished, skin diseases... Terrible.”

With the complaint already in the hands of Seprona and the Guardia Civil, the association expects "that justice this time will take it seriously, because these alleged crimes of animal abuse are usually punished very lightly, but we hope they take it seriously.”

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