The Municipal Administration of Tijuana, supported by the state government of Baja California, carried out a rescue and sheltering operation of around 400 dogs located in overcrowded conditions inside a local business, without the adequate hygiene and without any veterinary care.

Thanks to a report and by orders of mayor Montserrat Caballero Ramírez, staff of the Agency of Inspection and Verification of Animal Control of Tijuana, alongside the Secretariat of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Baja California, went to a commercial establishment located at Fraccionamiento El Florido Primera Sección, where animals were sold illegally.

When they arrived at this place, they detected hundreds of dogs overcrowded in cages, most of them sick and a lifeless puppy which had been dead for three days still inside its cage, with more dogs around him. There were some dogs that were sick inside a warehouse where they were storing vegetables and close to a cold room, which was closed by agents of the Municipal Agency of Inspection and Verification due to bad hygiene and irregularities.

After touring the property, they also found a veterinary office without municipal permits, without any proper security or hygiene measures, with needles stored in plastic bottles, controlled medication without authorization, and exposed blood samples.

In another area of this property, there was a dog salon, also without any municipal permits that had more than a hundred dogs kept in overcrowded conditions and without any hygiene, as well as a room with a sign that read “quarantine” where there were around 80 sick dogs.

The Agency of Municipal Inspection and Verification placed closing labels in this shop, the cold room, the canine salon, the veterinary office, and the spaces where the dogs were located, all inside the same property owned by the same owner. Regarding the dogs, 400 of them were moved to Municipal Animal Control facilities and the municipal agency will be in charge of safeguarding the hundreds of dogs located here.

The 24th Municipal Administration has an animal rights policy approach, with zero tolerance for animal abuse, and will keep working in coordination with the state government and people to address these cases, as was the case here. The Municipal Government encourages people in the community to make reports to Tijuana’s Animal Control at (664) 973-7006 or the WhatsApp line of the Inspection and Verification Agency at (664) 616-3339, if it has something do with the illegal sales of animals.

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