The animal protector identified on social media as Miriela Ramos López warned that in some areas of Havana, cats have disappeared.
I want to raise an alert, two days ago in Playa, in the area near La Puntilla store, there isn't a cat left, neither stray nor from a family," emphasized in the Facebook group "Sociedad Protectora de Animales en Cuba".
He claims to have the names and addresses of several people on Street 0, between 1st and 3rd Street, who say their pets have gone missing.
Two days ago their cats have not been seen, there are a few of them, this needs to be made public for pets and we do not know what the end of this is," highlighted Ramos López, in a desperate call to the Cuban animal rights community, to whom he called to come to that place to verify that "not even one has been left".
In the context of the current Cuban crisis, where inflation and food scarcity make feeding the population difficult, there have been reports of people consuming dogs, cats, and even ticks.
In March, it emerged that the extreme shortage of food in Cuba is leading to an increase in the illegal hunting and commercialization of cat meat in territories such as Guantanamo.
The denunciation of this unpleasant and dangerous practice was documented in an article by the Food Monitor Program, which reflects how food shortages in the eastern region of the country drive its inhabitants to consume cat meat, putting public health at risk and violating animal welfare laws.
Recently, the case of several Cubans in Mayabeque who were selling dog meat made headlines. To do so, they sacrificed several pets and stray animals that were being taken care of by local animal protectors, causing great outrage.