Mérida, Feb 10 (EFE).- The Government of Extremadura has expressed its satisfaction this Friday that the Animal Welfare Law has finally gone ahead with the exclusion of hunting dogs, something in which the president of the Board, Guillermo Fernández Vara, “has had a lot to do with it.”
“This is magnificent news,” said the spokesman for the regional Executive, Juan Antonio González, at the press conference after the meeting of the Governing Council.
After assessing that the text, as it has been approved, is in line with European regulations, González applauded the fact that hunting dogs have been excluded from this regulation, as the Government of Extremadura and its president expressly claimed.
As he said, Fernández Vara “has had a lot to do with this amendment going ahead, with hunting dogs being outlawed, and with the fact that the hunting sector is happy today.”
Apart from this, the Executive spokesman has defended that the hunting sector is not only “economically powerful” in Extremadura and generator of employment and wealth, but also “social”.
He explained that in some more urban areas it is understood that hunting is something only for the privileged class, when in Extremadura and other territories of the country it is a “social” activity, “a passion, a hobby of many hunters and hunters who understand it. like their own life and that they are also the most conservationists in the world.