Pets are part of our home, They are one more. Society has been sensitized around animals care, Therefore, laws and regulations are beginning to be born to protect our pets.

One of the aspects that has been more directly attacked to eradicate it is the illegal traffic of pets. The European Union claims measures to end this practice that they denounce as a public health problem.

One of the first measures that have been taken is to expand the records and databases of dogs and cats to fight with illegal trade. Además, of the European Parliament emphasizes that in addition to being a public health problem, The illicit trade of domestic animals, And also exotic is intimately linked to organized crime.

Today, most EU countries have mandatory identification and registration systems of pets but not all countries include the same data, and therefore, The information is not uniform. For good coordination between states, These records should be compatible and thus it would be much easier to reduce the falsification of documents, fight against illegal animal trade and detect the origin of certain diseases.

It is estimated that the 70% of the ailments that appeared in recent years in humans are of animal origin, since animals that are a victim of illegal trade in most cases, They are mistreated and raised without any guarantee. The main objective of this type of hatcheries is the economic purpose and their own benefits instead of the animal's well -being.

A conflict zone in this regard are the Eastern countries, since it is suspected that many of the puppies from this area come with the counterfeit documentation and very deplorable hygienic-sanitary conditions. Many of the puppies that arrive have consanguinity problems, contagious diseases, others of hereditary, puppies that are separated from the mother ahead of time, etc.

Now the challenge is the European Community to be able to legislate on this issue and end the illegal hatcheries who sell with animals without taking into account their health or their care.