Overview
- Animal-rights groups in Morelia, which held a press briefing Thursday, detailed gun threats, poisonings, and a recent killing targeting rescuers.
- They pointed to a legal vacuum, saying 96.6% of municipalities lack animal-welfare policies and the federal General Law on Animal Welfare remains pending past its deadline.
- Shelters reported receiving animals seized by the prosecutor with no resources attached, leaving them to fund medical care, vaccines, deworming, and sterilization.
- Activists estimated that about 70% of animals in Mexico are abandoned, a rate they say drives overpopulation and strains already full refuges.
- To keep services going, organizers announced a benefit theater show on April 26 in Morelia to raise money for GHAPAD and Hermano Animal.