Reply #4: on the american mainland, yes, animal control has the right to enter your property and seize animals [View All]

[pitohui]

so i don't see why the law would be any different in puerto rico

if an animal is reported to be in distress by someone who doesn't like you, no different than if a child is reported to be in distress, they don't have to talk nicely about it with you, they can go right in there, in fact it may be easier when it's a pet rather than a child

i was involved in some protest against this in the 1980s, but it passed, as it was a highly popular measure and supported by the humane society

(no offense to the humane society but they don't know beans about care of exotic pets like birds and they turned me off by the heavy duty tactics in that era, which is how i came to be involved, i didn't want them coming into a situation where they didn't know how to care for the animal and taking it out of a good situation to gas it in a shelter)

but you do realize that if you have a pet and someone makes a complaint, you DON'T have a right to refuse the search from animal control? it was ruined for everyone by the type of fuckwit who will keep a pit bull or even a cougar (!) or a wolf hybrid or an alligator (yes i knew a fuckwit who actually had a pet ALLIGATOR, don't ask)

as for the treatment of the seized animals in this case, this is simply disgraceful