Law 19.25 and animal return policies

The article addresses the issue of the regulation of Law 19.25 concerning the care of stray animals in Morocco, focusing on the paradox between allowing the return of sterilized and vaccinated animals to the environment and the lack of an effective system to ensure their ongoing care after such reintroduction. It explains that the law permits returning animals to a suitable environment after procedures such as sterilization, vaccination, and tagging, but emphasizes that responsibility falls on society and associations to provide food, water, and health follow-up — a responsibility that is not clearly defined. The article underscores that organized and effective care requires the existence of fixed feeding and watering points connected to the sterilized and vaccinated animals. This is necessary to ensure continuous care, reduce health and geographical risks, and avoid consequences of hunger or neglect that could lead to deteriorating animal health or death. It also highlights the importance of regulating feeding operations, maintaining transparency, and involving civil society in caregiving responsibilities instead of relying on individual initiatives that may cease or cause pollution or animal congregation. The report clarifies that halting care without providing organized alternatives could lead to disastrous outcomes, such as a rise in poor health conditions or the spread of diseases. It underscores the necessity of an integrated veterinary system that ensures continuous vaccination, sterilization, and medical follow-up. This is essential to achieve the law’s goal of protecting animals and gradually reducing their numbers over time through humane and effective means, not merely through return and relocation practices.

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