LC is a farmer in El Peralit, a locality near Monte Patria and early afternoon Wednesday was denounced by a professor at the Colegio Guayaquil, which is adjacent to the property because the students had seen over the tambourine that a fox kept chained in the yard.
In the minutes following officials of the PDI of Ovalle arrived and could see that, indeed, was an exemplary young gray fox, which was tied with a string to a pole. The homeowner was arrested and this morning due to appear in court Ovalle Guarantee where the Public Prosecutor filed charges of animal abuse against him. However
Attorney Herbert Rohde conditionally decided to stay the proceedings, taking that the detainee has an irreproachable past conduct and released.
spoke SAG meantime intervened
Agriculture and Livestock Service, SAG, Ovalle to take charge of the animal, which reached to carry the Peralit Ovalle, despite the fierce resistance that opposed the left cage. Raul
Munita de la Fuente, manager of the wildlife unit local office, explained that this is a young fox (ie have less than a year old), male and in good health, as could Patricio Roco establish the veterinarian who examined him later. Professional latter also recommended he be released from immediately because it still retains its wild instincts intact survival, and that remaining in captivity for a prolonged period could inhibit these instincts and / or become accustomed to human presence, which is undesirable for conservation. Although it may seem a paradox for wildlife ... the more distant from man, the better.
Thus, in the morning of the SAG team took the animal to a beautiful section Chalinga sector, with lots of space and human presence for miles around, to free him.
"In this place there are many foxes and will not be long before they adjust. We did not want him loose in the same place of origin, because it is a very populated and is in danger of being hunted or captured again, "said Munita.
In regard to his capture, the SAG official said that the previous owner (according to his account) found the animal a week earlier at the bottom of an irrigation pond polyethylene cover, which would have fallen not get out and probably would have died of starvation or attack dogs have not been discovered in due course. He said the idea was to help his recovery and then re-released in a secluded place, while fed him chicken giblets.
The truth is that the story of the little fox had a happy ending, and hopefully serve to make the community aware of how are you to care for species at risk of extinction.
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