¿How many are dogs abandoned in Bogota? ¿Why?

According to th Ministry Health, In the 2010 already of seventy thousand homeless dogs were in the streets of Bogota. In the 2011, Zoonosis declarated that already of forty thousand homeless dogs were in Bogotá.

The possibles causes of this situation can be:

There isn´t a code of citizenship, that punishable regulating proper punishment against pet abuse, requiring citizens to prevent such practices and to give the authorities instruments of coercion to prevent them.

There isn’t regulated regulations on adoption and pet ownership that strengthen the alternatives to educate people, to campaign for the adoption and sterilization. The sterilizations are privates.

¿What are the organizations reponsible of the adoption for homeless dogs in Bogota?

Some are: Nestle Purina, Mayor of Bogota and Zoonosis's center.

Leonor Acosta has seen the problem of street dogs and she has decided to adopt some dogs that there are in the streets because they’re abandoned. She has adopted 15 dogs and cares for them. she feeds them and she walks them in her local park every day.

Leonor Acosta was born in Manizales, in October 1956. She’s 56 years old. She lives in Puertas del Sol. She has had two sons and one daughter. She was married but now she lives alone because Leonor is divorced.  She’s tall, thin, she has clear eyes, she isn’t young. She likes animals, in special dogs, she is very kind, happy and respectful. She has lived in Bogotá for 23 years.

Leonor is an amazing person and she has real feelings of love to the animals. She doesn’t lie.

Leonor has recollected already 15 dogs in Puertas del Sol, Suba. It is where she lives. Leonor has care to the dogs because she suffers when a dog is suffering. She also believes that dogs are the best friends of man and she thinks they deserve a good treatment. She doesn’t have much money, but she has much love and intention of caring dogs and she provides home, feed and  the more important: LOVE.