This Friday, January 24, the Montpellier SPA is sounding the alarm. The shelter is saturated, like all French shelters, even though we are only in January. A particularly worrying situation. In such circumstances, Annie Benezech has no doubt that it will be impossible to overcome the upcoming summer wave.
Dog abandonment has never been so numerous. Shelters are saturated. In Montpellier, the SPA has even had to place dogs in the pound, which are waiting for a place to become available. For Annie Benezech, the president of the Montpellier SPA, the situation is alarming.
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Concern before the summer wave of abandonments
To show us how critical the context is, while we are only in January, a usually “quiet” period, she opened the doors of the shelter to us. For her, if this continues, it will be impossible to cope with the summer peak of abandonments. “The law must be enforced,” insists Annie Benezech, who points out that abandonment is a crime, but that sanctions are still too rare today.
In order to make herself heard, she received Sabine Fghoul, the president of the national confederation of animal protection societies in France, of which the Montpellier shelter is a member, on Friday, January 24.