Adopted at first reading by 111 votes to five, the bill must now be sent to the Senate. The only votes against came from the National Rally, which was also divided with 19 for and six abstentions.
The National Assembly voted almost unanimously on Monday evening for a Macronist bill to ban so-called “dressage” collars, electric, stranglers and spiked collars on dogs and cats, because of the suffering they cause. .
The bill was brought by Renaissance MP Corinne Vignon, in conjunction with the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. “Burns”, “loss of hair”, behaviors of “terror”, “paralysis”, the elected representative of Haute-Garonne denounced at the podium the “physical and psychological lesions” caused to animals by these coercive “training collars”. , “not effective and counter-productive”.
The Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau welcomed “a step forward in the fight against animal abuse”, at a time when “societal expectations are increasingly strong” in this area.
Fine of up to 3750 euros
The text aims to prohibit “the use on dogs and cats of any electric shock device, strangler without a stopper or whose points are turned towards the body of the animal”.
Any offender is liable to an administrative fine of 750 euros, or even 3750 euros in the event of a repeat offense or for dressage professionals.
Added in committee, a derogation is provided for the services of the armies that use dogs and for operations to capture dangerous and stray animals. The exception granted to the military was criticized by LFI Anne Stambach-Terrenoir.
The bill also prohibits the sale, expensive or free transfer and advertising of these “training collars”, punishable by an administrative fine of 3,000 euros for a natural person and 15,000 euros for a legal person.
The Brigitte Bardot Foundation was delighted that this text participates in “putting an end to the mistreatment trivialized by the violent education of animals, whose physical sequelae and traumatic consequences increase the risk of dangerousness and lead to numerous cases of abandonment and euthanasia”, according to she.
