The Center for Canine Attention is now working at full speed to end the obsolete and painful method used to euthanize stray dogs, with the Municipal Health Coordination Office seeking to implement new attention procedures with help from qualified personnel.

Oscar Eduardo Castro Castro, Puerto Peñasco’s Municipal Health Coordinator, said that within the short-term there is a proposal to implement a lethal injection method to euthanize stray dogs that represent a health hazard, especially to children.

As soon as the City Council approves the project, a veteranarian with the necessary experience will be contacted to take care of the animals concentrated at the Center for Canine Attention, and also they will proceed to acquire the necessary equipment and medications for this purpose, said the doctor.

Castro Castro said that in the last few months the problem caused by stray dogs has decreased significantly – it was once necessary to remove from the streets up to 50 dogs a day, but now they are seeing between 6 to 8 dogs brought to the anti-rabies center.

The Health Coordinator asked for the support and understanding from the citizens to attend to this problem, saying it is necessary that people who own dogs to take care of them and to keep them within their own yards to avoid them wandering the streets or entering other people’s houses and annoying the neighbors.

Asked about the ecological latrines program, the public servant explained that up to the moment they have installed close to 150 latrines in places that do not connect with the sewage system – like Nuevo Penasco and the San Rafael Colonies – and that this is a first stage. For the 2nd stage they aim to install between 500 to 600 ecological latrines to avoid problems and the potential for infections and contamination.

He added that recently they made visits on the homes in the colonies and that they detected that some people made improper use of the latrines, a situation that was corrected by the city workers.

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