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If you want to own a pet, you better make sure it’s not just wandering around without your supervision.
“Navotas City is putting more bite into efforts to rid the streets of stray dogs and cats as the Navotas City Animal Pound was recently reopened after undergoing a PHP2.2-million renovation,” reports Rima Granali in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The report noted: “The refurbished 80-square meter facility on Tioco Street, Barangay Bagumbayan South, has space for at least 80 cages, a veterinary office, an isolation room for sick animals, and a euthanasia room.”
Memo to careless pet owners: If your wandering animals are caught and end up in the pound, you have to pay PHP250 to get them back in addition to the PHP50 for each day they spend in the pound.
The report explained: “The PHP250 payment is their penalty for letting their pets go astray in violation of a city ordinance; the PHP50 per day fee covers the cost of food and other provisions that went into their care.”
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