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A man who is a veterinarian has been charged with aggravated animal abuse hanging a small dog after paying its owners for euthanasia.
After the events that happened in the city of Ibagué, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation Carlos Ferney Zabala Portela was appointed. “perhaps the heavy and unfair work responsible for the cause of the dog named “Lulú”.
According to the investigation, the owners of the pet were interviewed by a veterinarian on August 31, 2022, and Lulu was admitted for humanitarian euthanasia due to her deteriorating health status.
After they left the place “Zabala Portela He entered the dog and apparently applied a tranquilizer and strangled it with a tourniquet. He later kept the body in a black plastic bag and handed it over.
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On the way to the place where he was buried, the owners of their pet felt that he was still alive; but he died in a few minutes. There they suspected the veterinarian’s reason and asked about the abuse Lulu had suffered in that office.
So the family denounced Carlos Ferney Zabala Portela who also did not have a professional title to practice veterinary medicine.
“The record indicates that the account was made out of proportion and was not disclosed. In addition, they pointed out that the supposed veterinarian did not have a professional title and was not certified to carry out this type of intervention “closed by the accusing body”.
For the same crime of animal abuse, the Attorney General’s office also charged another person who attacked a pet.
As described by judicial authority, on December 15, 2019, in a residential complex in Bogotá, Andrés Fernando Concha cruelly tortured his dog Sahory.
In that investigation, “it was discovered that this man took the animal to the common area and, without justification, it was said to be hard against the area and pulled it by the leash, causing a fracture of the thigh.”
After the prosecution of the Prosecutor’s Office, Andrés Fernando Concha received charges for animal abuse.
