The canadian Agency of food inspection has announced the opening of an investigation “into the circumstances surrounding this incident”.
An investigation has been opened after the discovery at the Toronto airport about 500 puppies to board a plane Ukrainian, of which 38 were dead and others in poor health, announced on Saturday that the canadian food inspection agency (CFIA).
young dogs, bulldog French very popular in Canada, were on board of a unit of the company Ukraine International Airlines (UAI), which landed on 13 June at the Toronto Pearson international airport. Thirty-eight animals were dead on arrival and several others were suffering from dehydration, weakness and/or vomiting, said the agency.
“the officials of the CFIA to investigate and document currently available on the circumstances surrounding this incident and will determine next steps once the investigation is completed,” says in a press release the canadian agency, in particular, responsible for regulating the import of animals.
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A dog who had just recover from another pet in the cargo area of the airport where the puppies were discovered last Saturday, has described a “scene of horror”. “It was a nightmare,” she testified to the public broadcaster CBC. “Canada and the federal government should change the laws on the importation of these puppies”.
A lucrative market
In a message posted Friday on Facebook, the company’s Ukrainian UIA has presented its “condolences for the tragic loss of animal life” aboard one of its aircraft. The company works in cooperation with the local authorities to determine what happened and to make the necessary changes in order to avoid that such a situation does not occur again”, she promised.
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For its part, the CFIA ensures that “the Canada applies strict standards to the import of animals in order to protect canadian animals against the introduction of serious animal diseases”. “All import requirements must be met before an animal is imported,” the agency says.
According to an academic quoted by the CBC, the sale of puppies is a lucrative market in Canada, where most buyers believe that animals have been bred in this country. This market is sometimes the object of trafficking involving organized crime, according to him.
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“You speak of 500, bulldog French. If they are sold between 2000 and 2600 euros each, it made a lot of money,” commented professor Scott Weese, university of Guelph (Ontario).
