The Cape of Good Hope SPCA has issued a warning to captive primate centre Monkey City in Somerset West close to Cape City final week. The SPCA mentioned it discovered 14 violations of the Animal Safety Act after a latest inspection.
READ: SPCA points warning to Monkey City in Somerset West
Monkey City proprietor Rene Grobler, nonetheless, instructed News24 that these findings are false and that the SPCA has made deceptive statements.
‘To insinuate that our animals don’t have water is fake. The SPCA had taken footage of an empty water pond when there may be extra freshwater meters away [that] is just not honest, in our opinion. The enclosure they took an image of has two water ponds, and the opposite was stuffed. We can be eradicating these cement ponds completely to stop the general public and the SPCA from pondering that there ought to be water in them,’ he mentioned.
Grobler additionally added that the State Veterinarian had inspected their premises final 12 months for the centre to acquire their Public Show License. ‘We handed so many of those points that the SPCA raised, but we have been issued our Public Show License, so we’re very involved as to why the SPCA has now logged these allegations towards us,’ mentioned Grobler.
The power was given seven days to make adjustments to those points or face prosecution.
Image: Derek Keats
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