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Nos Amis Les Animaux 85480

2, Place de la Mairie

85480 Bournezeau Le Bon Coin

Mail. nala85480@hotmail.com M Olivier Aizac

www.nosamislesanimaux.com Director General

8 r Lavoisier
75008 PARIS

Bournezeau, 7th of August 2013

Dear Sir,

We are an animal welfare organisation located in the Vendée, France and our attention has been drawn to the fact that Le Bon Coin allows the placing of a large number of ads for animals that do not comply with French law (Code Ru...

Article L211-23 of the Code rural et de la pêche maritime defines strays.

For a dog the definition is pretty much common sense, roughly translated, if it's out of earshot of the person responsible for it, no longer under their effective supervision or more than one hundred metres away from them, then it's a stray. Seems reasonable to me.

For a cat the definition raises some practical difficulties. Any cat that is not identified found more than 200 metres from habitation or more than 1000m from...

Jacqueline and one of her cats that she could keep. 

A few years ago a mummy cat had a litter of kittens in someone's barn in a small hamlet. She and the kittens were “adopted” by the owner of the grange and his neighbours. Some of the kittens became house cats whilst the mother and some others enjoyed the freedom of the barn, whilst still permitting their human subjects to bring them food.

Unfortunately over the years the population expanded until one day the people decided that something...

 The French system for dealing with stray cats and dogs requires that they stay in a fourrière, an officially recognised kennel/pound for 8 working days. After that period, if they haven't been returned to their owner they can be given to an association for the protection of animals, provided that the association has access to an officially recognised shelter. If they can't be adopted and a vet agrees, they may be put down. When the legislation was discussed in the Senate, it was assumed tha...

Either you've got it or you haven't. I reckon we've got it...

We planned to get away in July:just a mid-week in a holiday park. The Friday afternoon before our departure we had to deliver a cat that had been adopted. On the way we saw a rather unkempt hen pecking by the side of the road. She was obviously in poor condition, but we couldn't stop because of the traffic.

After delivering the cat we returned by the same route and sure enough the hen was still there. We picked a safe place t...