Pets Suffer From Lack Of Food In Venezuela

Venezuela is a country that in recent years has been on everyone’s lips due to the terrible political, economic and social crisis that its citizens are experiencing, to the point where the purchasing power is one of the worst in the world and there are long queues that take hours to buy basic products, which sometimes are not available.

In addition to this terrible fact, the ordinary Venezuelan lives every day on the brink of tragedy due to insecurity, which has reached the point that annually there are more people killed than in countries that are at war.

However, of all the difficult realities that this oil-rich country is experiencing, there are many that are hidden behind those that can be seen day by day in the media, which despite being less exhibited are no less important.

One of these is the one related to the life of pets in Venezuela, who are also direct victims of the unbearable situation that is experienced by not being able to get many necessary products for both their food and their health.

Expensive and hard to find food

Owning a pet is a real hell in this part of the world, since the food corresponding to its characteristics, in addition to being very difficult to obtain, has an extremely expensive price.

Based on this fact, many animal owners in Venezuela have chosen to disregard the advice of specialists and give them homemade food, since many have come to comment that it is obviously preferable to serve them something to eat before they die of hunger.

Although home-made food may not cause much damage in dogs, the real danger is suffered especially by cats, since these beautiful animals can suffer from liver or kidney failure, so it is common to see owners serve them food on numerous occasions. dogs to avoid further damage.

However, it does not contain the amount of protein that cats require, so it is supplemented with meat so that the diet is as normal as possible in a country where this is difficult for its inhabitants.

Animal health in Venezuela

And it is that in addition to how difficult it is to be able to get food for pets, the most exasperating thing about having animals in Venezuela is that if these little ones suffer from a delicate disease, they will hardly have any other destination than death, since they will find the medicines needed is even more difficult and expensive than food.

According to Germán Campos, who is the director of the Association of the Animal Health Industry in the Caribbean country, which produces and imports both food and medicines, the inventory of products for pets is at such low levels that the quality of life for these animals is unfeasible.

Likewise, he revealed that the lack of medicines is so alarming that a large part of veterinarians have not only limited the products they prescribe, but also choose to use the one that corresponds to humans to treat the pet.

Surgeries and parvovirus

The most terrible situation of this hell that animals live in Venezuela occurs when a disease that requires surgery occurs.

And it is that as many specialists have come to declare, once the solution turns out to be surgical intervention, they have reached the point of expressing to their relatives that there is nothing that can be done for their pet, since there are no anesthetic agents or suture material.

Similarly, in this nation, when the dog suffers from parvovirus, it is practically condemned to death, since the vaccine to combat this common disease is almost impossible to obtain.

As you can see, having a pet in this country will only be a real suffering unless you have a lot of money to travel abroad and buy the necessary products for its food and health.