The authorities of Bogotá and Chía issued an alert to citizens living or moving in surrounding areas to the Bogotá river due to the presence of the so-called feral dogs.
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The Mayor of Chía reported that a pack of dogs could represent a risk. In the village of Samaria, in the roundabout of the Bogotá river, the presence of four large feral dogs was evidenced.
For this reason, the authorities ask people who live or work in this sector to be alert and take preventive actions against the possible proximity of these feral dogs to avoid being involved in a risk situation.
According to the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cundinamarca, most feral dogs occur because some dog owners do not take good care of their pets into considerationabandoning them in places surrounding forests and natural parks where these animals would end up uniting in packs, generating a predatory behavior, similar to that of the wolf.
These dogs can be a risk to humans, since they are animals that somehow strayed from the human bond, they group together in packs to guard their territory and can be very aggressive if they feel threatened.
In addition to representing a risk to people, species of birds, rodents and reptiles They are at high risk, due to the presence of feral dogs, whose presence has also been alerted in the Jaboque wetland.
One of the main concerns of environmentalists in this area are some birds that are at risk or that reproduce slowly, as is the case of thethe blue, speckled and Bogotana tinguas; as well as the forcha and the sabanero owl.
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environmentalists ask that the authorities think about the possibility of relocating these animals to a controlled shelter, where they do not pose a risk to the local environment.
