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More than one-thousand trapped and abandoned farm animals die in Spanish floods

According to the Animalist Party Against Mistreatment (PACMA), more than 10,000 animals drowned in the same farms back in 2015.


CRISTINA ABELLAN MATAMOROS:
‘Abandoned animals drowned after a nearby river burst its banks in Zaragoza, a province in the northeast of Spain. Animal rights activists filmed pugs and cows trapped in their pens trying to escape the flooding. In the video, pigs can be seen trying to desperately stay afloat. According to the regional government, at least a thousand pigs were trapped “with water up to their necks,” Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.

The government allegedly warned farmers about the floods and said: “it was up to the owners to evacuate the animals.” The Animalist Party Against Mistreatment (PACMA) has filed complaints against two farm owners for “animal mistreatment”… According to the group, more than 10,000 animals drowned in the same farms back in 2015′. SOURCE…

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