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Animal abuse in Cuba: A dog is decapitated in a religious ritual in Havana

"Monsters without a drop of feelings, capable of harming a living being for thinking that this cruel sacrifice brings benefits to their life," said animal activist Yenney Caballero.

Perro decapitado en Cuba © Yenney Caballero / Facebook
Dog decapitated in Cuba Photo © Yenney Caballero / Facebook

A new case of animal abuse that occurred in Cuba was reported this Thursday by animal activist Yenney Caballero, who shared on her networks photos of a dog that was decapitated in a religious ritual.

"I do not have exact words to express what I feel for people who commit acts like these. May God have mercy on monsters without a drop of feelings, capable of harming a living being for thinking that this cruel sacrifice brings benefits to their life "Murderers, sadists, if they do this to an animal, they still have the cold blood to kill a human being," he said.

Facebook Capture / Yenney Caballero

One of the photographs, in which the dog's head is seen as part of a religious offering, is a capture of a publication by the Facebook user identified as Klin Power Up, who resides in Havana.

"I feel disgusted at living here. I feel ashamed of this society that is so empty, so ignorant. I would rather die a thousand times before supporting something so unpleasant. If my life, my health, my well-being depend on this, let me die instantly," stated in hisFacebook.

"How horrible to see these images. Then you hear people say what is happening in Cuba. Do you think we can live well? Do you think that misery will end, that we will have prosperity, food, well-being? I don't think so, honestly. More than economic misery there is tremendous soul misery. Abusers of shit... Enough already," he concluded.

Last April, Yenney denounced themalnutrition and abandonment in which animals live at a fairground in Mayabeque.

The young woman revealed that at the El rodeo fair, in San José de las Lajas, the animals are starving, some of them injured and lying on the floor without being able to move.

"Two hungry monkeys put out their hands asking for something to eat. Three horses in terrible conditions, malnourished, full of infested wounds, are struggling between life and death," he described.

Additionally, a crocodile was in a pond so small it could barely move and "smelling rotten," and there were two birds and a rabbit without food or water.

Some animals had "wounds full of flies, infested in their flesh," he stressed.

In the last two years, since the Animal Welfare Decree-Law was approved, at least35 complaints of animal abuse, the majority about pet abuse, improper pet ownership, and murders of dogs and cats.

Esteban Fortune Nápoles, head of the Animal Health Department of the Provincial Delegation of Agriculture, reported that in some cases prophylactic work was carried out and in others fines of between 1,500 and 4,000 pesos were imposed.

Despite himAnimal Welfare Decree-Law has been in force for two years, Cuban animal rights activists complain that animals continue to be victims of abandonment, physical abuse and mistreatment.

Recently, activists launched a petition tomodify said law and increase penalties for abusers.

The petition, distributed by the organization Animal Welfare (BAC) Cuba and addressed to the Ministry of Agriculture, alleges that "the sanctions are not commensurate with the acts of animal cruelty committed by its perpetrators."

"They must be more severe to create true justice and proportionality between the act and the sanction, and prevent acts of animal abuse from continuing to occur in our country," the proposal adds.

"Animals continue to be mistreated with impunity, every day the cases are more critical and more serious," underlines the document, which denounces that both pets and street animals are in danger, and "cases of bestiality, abandonment, of cruelty."

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