“I didn’t have rage. They killed me for nothing.” On the black poster, his little “20-month-old angel” face. This Saturday, a white march was organized in Hyères (Var) to pay tribute to Toki, the bichon euthanized last February, and to denounce an “abusive procedure without proof or corroborating evidence”.
Suspected of having contracted rabies after coming across a sick dog, the small animal was taken from its owners by the services of the departmental population protection department.
“Awaken awareness”
A petition then gathered more than 18,000 signatures. His masters had appealed to the Council of State to stop the procedure. In vain, reminds France 3. The puppy was killed on the spot. The problem: analyzes carried out after the death of the bichon revealed that it had not been contaminated.
At the origin of the gathering, the Natachat association indicated on its Facebook account wanting to “raise awareness” so that “other animals no longer suffer such injustice”.