Dogs and cats are also more likely to be abandoned over the summer months, as well as after Christmas. “People are supportive and aware of their needs.”ĭespite this, the shelter does have more work in the summer, when more litters are born and when cats are more likely to fall off balconies and out of open windows. “Very few people abandon animals in Barcelona,” Ortonaves said. The number of cats and dogs that enter the shelter has dropped steadily over the past few years - by around 30% between 20 alone - while far fewer than usual were abandoned during the pandemic. “Now we have the opportunity to contribute to Spain’s animal protection bill.” “ We are very happy that a lot of legislation that was developed in Barcelona has served as a precedent for other towns,” Anna Ortonaves, the head of the city council’s animal protection department, told Catalan News. Īlthough bullfighting is, for now, here to stay in other parts of Spain, it could soon be taking steps in the same direction when it comes to no-kill shelters. In late 2002 it became the first city in Spain to stop putting healthy shelter animals, as well as those with treatable illnesses, to sleep two years later the council famously declared the city to be against bullfighting.Ĭatalonia followed suit on both fronts: in 2008 all of its shelters became no-kill, while in 2010 it outlawed bullfighting. The Catalan capital has long been at the forefront of the animal rights movement.
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There they are looked after by a team of around 20 vets, professional carers, animal behaviorists, and administrative staff.
Tucked away in the Collserola mountain range off a winding road that leads to neighboring Sant Cugat, the city council-run CAACB is home to mainly cats and dogs who have been lost, abandoned, or given up by people who can no longer care for them. Every year, an average of around 2,000 dogs, cats, and sometimes even ferrets end up at the Centre d’Acollida d’Animals de Companyia (CAACB), Barcelona’s municipal animal shelter.
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