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“The world bleeds without ceasing of the crimes that
have been committed against the nature”, Jose Marti
DANGER
Art Faculty for Audiovisual Communication Media
Present
NATURAL SELECTION
Song: Know Cuba first and then abroad.
Go to visit the beauties that are here first.
See the Valley of Yumuri, Varadero beach.
Know Cuba first and then abroad.
Article 27 of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba: “the State
protects the environment and the natural resources of the country.
It corresponds to the competent bodies implement this policy.
It is the duty of citizens contribute to the protection of water,
the atmosphere, soil, flora and fauna conservation and all
the rich potential of the nature”.
Welfare is a science of science,
is a very comprehensive science because
it has to do with all the related aspect
not only physical health but also with mental health
and behavior of the animal according to its species.
We advise different institutions in the field of animal welfare,
work with veterinary scientific societies and with other societies,
such as the Society of Zoos and Aquariums, and also
have worked with the National Association for the Protection
of Animals and Plants, with the Spanky Project.
So we have a broad work with other institutions,  societies
and federations which sometimes have needed to exchange with us.
Don´t throw garbage. Look at the tank
The term zoonosis is given to a series of common animal diseases to man,
or animal transmitted to man
and lately, in recent years, it has gained much importance
because there is a term that they are emerging and reemerging
diseases in the world and the zoonoses occupy 70
percent of these diseases.
-If you want, pick him up
-No, that one is from there, I am sure he is from there
-That dog, where is he from? From inside?
-He is from inside
Health Control Zoonosis
-Look, look, take that little dog out.  What do you mean no?
-Look there, another one, another one!
-Wait, let me explain
Really, it is an activity...
let´s say...It´s complicated...It´s an activity
which the population rejects
We have discussed at several meetings
that if those animals that are in the streets
are sterilized on a timely manner
there would not be any unwanted animals
That would be the right idea but how?
Zoonosis Animal Observation Center
After those animals are collected they are taken to a
reception center, improperly called “canine asylum”,
because it is a center of animal observation which it is really called,
but it is located in a place where in the past,
before the triumph of the revolution, was a canine
asylum.
Unfortunately its social objective changed.
There, in that place, if after seventy-two hours the animal is
not picked up by its owner, the animal are slaughtered.
Every day we receive many calls. For example,
yesterday there were twenty-two calls
from people complaining about the nuisance caused by animals,
cats and dogs.
To have an animal, the first thing that you must have is culture
which is what we don't have in this country.
According to statistics of hygiene and epidemiology in
the year 2015 a total of 2600 dogs were slaughtered, of
which 2539 were captured and 127 delivered by their
owner to be slaughtered. Only 58 dogs throughout the
year were claimed by their owners.
The guard, in the first place, is a very sensitive person,
is a person who practices goodness,
compassion and love
Those are the main characteristics that a protector should have
and, of course, the willingness to help
I have been a protector for nine years and keep
hearing about a Protection Act, see,
but I also know
that they have been fighting for almost twenty or thirty 
years to pass a bill of protection in our country.
I am founder of the National Committee of Animal
Welfare and we have proposed three projects,
if my memory is not bad, but they still have not 
given us an answer. When that is carried out
it will change the situation and dogs will
diminish considerably in the streets.
I believe in a society where you have
respect, humanity, and sensibility
like it should be there should be a law protecting animals.
That way, stand up there let´s go!
Let´s go pinto, shake it!
Hide the leg, hide the leg!
“A civilization, a country, can be judged by the way it treats its animals” Mahatma Gandhi
