👉 La exmodelo Nora Portela, conocida por su carrera en la industria de la moda, ahora dedica su vida a proteger y cuidar a los animales. En una entrevista Portela cuenta su compromiso con el bienestar animal y cómo se enfrenta a las irregularidades en este campo. A pesar de las dificultades legales y jurisdiccionales, ella insiste en la importancia de recopilar pruebas y movilizar a los vecinos para salvar vidas animales.
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00:00She is a person that we love a lot, she is an ex-model, she has belonged to this industry, and now she is dedicated to helping others.
00:07What is more important than that?
00:09This is the dear Nora Portela, who is with Leo Godoy.
00:11Hello, good morning.
00:14How are you, Guille? Good morning.
00:16We thank Nora, who received us here in her house.
00:21A house that when we arrived, well, they received us, the animals that she loves so much, that she takes care of so much.
00:28As you said, Guille, a long time ago, that she left the lights of the catwalk, she is dedicated to taking care of the animals, and many of them she has here in her house.
00:38Nora, well, yesterday you were moved first, when you saw the image of Draco, and you ran over there.
00:44Hello, Guille, how are you?
00:46Hello, Nora, nice to meet you.
00:48A pleasure.
00:50Look, the day before, I received a notification from a closed group that we have with Luis Pavecio, asking for help if we could act on this case.
01:00The truth is that I was not aware of what was happening, and well, I sent a notice to the prosecution with the number of causes, they told me that they were going to take care of it,
01:09but I spoke with the people who were reporting, they told me that they had been reporting for several months, and this was there as archived.
01:18So, unfortunately, sometimes you have to give a push, and well, I told them that I was going to present myself there, I was not going to move until the dog was released,
01:29and well, I went there, I told the prosecution that I was going to go, that I already did it in other encounters, because sometimes it seems that there is no priority,
01:39but looking at the case, which is very common, this little animal was several months ago, his mother and brother had already passed away due to bad conditions,
01:51they took him down, and as the neighbors heard the cries, they raised the dog, they gave him water, they gave him food, chicken,
02:00thanks to the fact that the neighbors denounced, and they did not lower their arms, and that they were the means, this was moved, if not, it would have been another cause.
02:12Yes, if he had not died, how good that highlight is that, because, first I want to ask you, were you there when they knocked on the door, and how did Draco react? Tell us that.
02:22Yes, yes, I was there, no, well, the dog was kind of dazed, poor thing, imagine the months that the dog was there, without having contact with people, sleeping on his own feces,
02:38the smell was nauseating, I personally entered with dizziness, because I could not breathe, the house was totally abandoned,
02:46and this one, without shame, left, he never responded to the calls of the neighbors, and he left him there, for God's sake,
02:54unfortunately, it is not a shame to censor and punish these people, these miserable people.
03:00No, sure, and Draco immediately showed himself receptive, half arid, tell us.
03:07No, he was very anxious, they put a pretal on him, he was super anxious, he turned around, jumped, imagine that no one touched him a long time ago,
03:17it was only the contact through the window, through a fence, but the dog is now being judged, each dog that intervenes in the prosecution has to be judged to see,
03:30first the state of the animal, a veterinarian intervenes, sometimes firefighters come, it depends on the subject, and well, and an NGO also has to participate as a witness,
03:43and someone is looking for someone to give him transit, that dog cannot be given in adoption until the judge decides whether to go to adoption or if it has to be returned to the owner.
03:54Of course, they said, well, the return to the owner would be outrageous, but at first, yesterday it was rumored, now I want to ask you about that,
04:03but it was rumored that there was already a family in Lobos that was going to take him to a field so that he was happy, so that he had the family he deserves,
04:11that is not yet determined, you tell us Nora.
04:15No, I asked them not to do it, because it seemed to me that it was not good for the animal, an animal that was locked up for a long time without contact with people,
04:24that it goes to a field that can be lost, in truth the Siberians do not have a good sense of smell, they leave and do not know how to return,
04:32more than this dog was in extreme conditions, this dog has to be under the care of a veterinarian, it has to be unparasitized,
04:41it has to be fed with its own feces, we do not know what else it ingested, it has to be vaccinated, in the future when the stress goes down, it has to be castrated,
04:50it is a young dog, it was fine, I tell you it was fine, but only because of the care of the neighbors, I do not think it is more than 3 or 4 years old.
04:59And there was also a family from the neighboring area who had said that they wanted to take the dog.
05:04Everyone wants to know if it is a dulce de leche, did Nora see how she changed her face?
05:10Do you want to be happy Draco?
05:13Yes, totally.
05:16Now you say it is more normal, it happens much more than one believes, why do people do that?
05:26And also knowing that sooner or later they will discover it, this little dog howled, the smells were nauseating,
05:33I say there are many questions that they will discover this evil that you did.
05:39Look, I participated in many raids in these conditions and I tell you that it is quite common, quite frequent,
05:46that people have closed dogs, they leave them there, what happens is that we do not find out,
05:52or there are people who do not want to get involved, or they have clandestine breeders and do not want to get involved,
05:59because out there people are supposedly heavy, or they are on drugs, and people do not want to get into trouble,
06:06but it happens more often than one thinks, but you have to teach people that they have to get involved,
06:13that they get together among neighbors, that they make it visible, and once you make it visible, there is no going back.
06:21The issue is that you have to have the resources so that if you make it visible,
06:25that they do not put that dog in another place, do not make it disappear, or do not take responsibility for the animal, which also happens.
06:32Last year we were, I think it was on Juan B. Avenue, just a place where the objective was reproduction and sale,
06:40they were breed dogs, this also happens, right?
06:43The chihuahuas.
06:44Exactly, do you remember? They were chained.
06:47Yes, I remember.
06:48133.
06:50133?
06:51Yes, it was crazy.
06:53Yes, in fact, I received a complaint from a girl who had bought there, the dog was sick, they had mistreated it,
06:59well, she told me that the complaint had been a long time ago, 8 years ago, of this shamelessness,
07:05and nothing, when it came to me, I made the complaint, I got involved with the prosecution, with Luis Paveseo,
07:12and nothing, I went as NGO, we introduced ourselves, they were there, they did not open the door, of course,
07:21they were looking at us through cameras, they threw the door down, we entered, me thinking, Heidi, that there were 10 dogs, 20 dogs.
07:28Yes.
07:29So when the police came in, I came in, the woman wanted to hit me, they said, Nora, what are you going to do?
07:37Because there are 10, they have to write down each animal that comes out, in the conditions it is in, everything.
07:42So there were 10, there were 20, there were 30, and I said, God, I had called Sergio Moraguez, who is the director of El Campito,
07:50who is a friend of mine, I told him, make me the shrimp, take some dogs, but I didn't think there were 133.
07:59Of course.
08:00And El Campito, loving, told me, look, I can't tell you no, but I want to kill you.
08:05Of course.
08:06But they are so loving, so human, and they took 100, 99, I think.
08:12Yes, yes.
08:13Dogs that were pregnant, in deplorable conditions.
08:16Yes, no, no, no.
08:17But the issue is that later, they appeal, they appeal, they want them to be returned, and then the trouble begins.
08:24You said, there are other issues that we also address, where there are dangers.
08:28We have been in houses of accumulating people, who accumulate garbage, who accumulate animals,
08:35and it is much more difficult to enter those private homes.
08:38Do you know why? Because they deny it to you.
08:40And yet, the neighbors from the terraces see how those dogs are living.
08:45I say, what is the tutorial, Nora, that you are so involved in this, so that the community acts well without running any danger?
08:54Because there is something, many would have entered this house, and there they eat a claw, right?
08:59Because you are intruding a place.
09:01I say, where does it start when you see an irregularity of these characteristics?
09:06Look, first you have to grab and to find out that this exists, because you have to make a police report,
09:13but especially in prosecution.
09:15The issue is that in the province it happens much more than here, in the capital, and there is no jurisdiction,
09:22there is no one who supports you or helps you.
09:24There it is, to the good of God, how you can save those lives.
09:27Unfortunately, there is no law that helps you.
09:30This happens in prosecution, yes, they can help you.
09:34When that happens, the first thing you have to do is take evidence.
09:36You have to, however, from a balcony, from a neighbor, whatever, collect evidence, videos, photos, tears, whatever.
09:43That is going to make the complaint or go to a zoonosis, but basically you have to get together with neighbors
09:51and convince people that getting involved is saving a life, it is not that you are going to bring a problem.
09:56On the contrary, you are going to solve a problem.
09:58Sure.
10:00It has happened to me that out there, you see, you go to the crash and it turns out that people who had a dog on the terrace,
10:07under the sun, skin and bone, I made the complaint, I had to go with zoonosis, no one supported me,
10:14and this man was armed and had threatened the whole family.
10:18He hit his daughters, the women had left because he was hitting them, and when we managed to get the dogs out,
10:24a guy who mistreated them, who was a military man, this man said that the dogs were like that because they were Galgos.
10:31Sure.
10:32They were skin and bone, well, he was going to eat them, I don't know how many months ago.
10:35Nora, then there is another situation that we covered a short time ago, it was a pitbull, if I remember correctly,
10:41in the Villa del Parque area, that was loose, that it was an aggressive dog, that the owner, when he walked it,
10:48he didn't get it with a leash, that he had already attacked several people and in the last one he had hurt a girl very badly,
10:54and the owner had also reacted badly with the girl.
10:57In that case, the neighbors reported, they had talked to the owner, what are the correct paths?
11:05Look, I am convinced that the animal is not to blame.
11:11Here there is a custom, for example, where I used to go, that the dogs open the door for the dog to go for a walk and then come back.
11:18And that is a nonsense, because the dog can go after a dog in heat, it can cross the street because another dog came,
11:25it can fight and bite someone when it wants to separate it because it doesn't know how to separate.
11:29Yes.
11:30So, the animal is not that there is a dangerous race, as they say, they are murderers.
11:35The murderers are humans, that is, the dog can have a gene that is brave,
11:41which is not the same as a bite from a Chihuahua, which are screwed, than a Rottweiler or a Pitbull.
11:48But the worst part is taken by the human, which is what it transmits and teaches.
11:53Here many feel empowered with carrying a big dog, with chains,
12:00because they are really very young and they need an animal to feel more important, they say, insecure.
12:07Now, there is something that left me worried, Nora,
12:13that you said that the re-link with the one who was the owner,
12:19who is called Victor, and who apparently, according to the neighbors,
12:24he left this house, abandoning Draco, from the death of his mother.
12:29Can you claim that sadness or whatever led him to make a determination?
12:33I say, is there a minimal possibility that Draco will return with this miserable?
12:42Look, I have a case of some Chihuahuas that a raid was made and the woman appealed that she loved the Chihuahuas
12:52and they came to threaten me, they called me on the phone, the owner called me, she located where I lived
12:59and she has been making a lot of appeals that she wants me to return the dogs.
13:04And the dogs were made ball, with low weight, with tumors, without castration, full of fleas.
13:09And the woman appeals that she loves the dogs and I'm not going to give them to her.
13:14And then the courts, the judges, made me a cause for rebellion,
13:19because I don't want to say where the dogs are,
13:21that in fact now we went with veterinarians from the prosecution and the city government to review the animals,
13:29I made them see them, but I do not agree to return those animals,
13:33because also those animals that they gave me, that they gave me five,
13:37two came that were Pepe breed, that they used them, because just October is the time of Macumba,
13:44and they use black dogs for sacrifice, dogs and black cats.
13:50But let's see, in what places, specifically, in some places in the province?
13:55It surprises me.
13:56Everywhere, everywhere.
13:58Now, it's horrible, right, all this, but you said it's the time of Macumba,
14:04and that they sacrifice, they look for black dogs to sacrifice and cats too?
14:10Dogs and cats, yes.
14:12That is, the ones we rescue, always among us, in October there are no black dogs or cats,
14:18because they use them for sacrifice.
14:20And what, have you arrived at rescues where they were about to be sacrificed, Nora?
14:26No, no, later in the backyards, we are going to find out, they use them for that,
14:30that is already common, that is already normal among us, we are all warned.
14:36That is, there are very morbid people, there are very sick people,
14:41that is, there are people who rape dogs, who tie their snouts, tie their legs and rape them,
14:48that is, there is everything.
14:50I can't believe it.
14:51People don't want to see that.
14:52I can't believe what you're saying.
14:54No, let's see, I believe you, but I say, nothing, one does not stop being impressed with many things.
15:01That is not talked about, Guillermo.
15:02No, no, no, but it's good that we talk about it.
15:04How nice, yes.
15:06I say, it's not a nice topic.
15:08But it happens.
15:09No, no, no, surely, surely, surely it does.
15:12And there are things that if the neighbors don't act, because there may be much more isolated places
15:17where dogs are abandoned and end up dying of drowning or whatever.
15:23Look, I, every week, you know that I help in different foundations,
15:28blind guys, down, grandparents, etc.
15:31And I always work with a company dog, with assistance, to visit people with disabilities.
15:37And I work a lot, I help and assist a lot in the villages.
15:43The things you see in there, recently I took out a dog and changed it for six bottles of beer.
15:49A dog was chained, the ray of the sun, without water, without food, a puppy.
15:54Last year, for example, they were fighting here in La Cava, they were fighting in the village
15:59and the shots began, they were totally drunk or high.
16:03And as the dog barked at them, because he was nervous, because everyone was fighting,
16:07they shot him six times.
16:08And they left him on the curb, bleeding.
16:11I mean, all those things are, unfortunately, common to me.
16:16Yes, yes.
16:17Nora, I want to show you something.
16:18We are in the house where Draco was rescued, in a house in Indera, with a neighbor.
16:24I understand that he is in transit there.
16:26Was he rescued from here?
16:27Yes.
16:28This is Mercedes Mora.
16:29Hello, Mechi, how are you?
16:30Good morning.
16:32Guille, how are you?
16:33Very good morning, exactly.
16:34We are in the house where they had Draco, where he was abandoned.
16:38Notice that today it is dawn with a clause after the police operation that was done
16:42to be able to rescue him.
16:44One of the neighbors, finally, who is in charge these days of Draco,
16:49because the truth is that after the complaint and the rescue,
16:52he did not have a fixed home where they could leave him.
16:56The possibility of him going to a transit home or a pet home had been discussed,
17:01but it was a field area and also the idea was to contain him in a place
17:05that was a little more like a home, right?
17:08Someone who gives him containment, who is every day.
17:10Notice that he was alone in this house for a long time.
17:12So someone who had a daily contact.
17:14That is why one of the neighbors is currently in charge of Draco.
17:20The truth is that he is doing it from the heart.
17:22We do not know if he will stay with him forever, but at least these days
17:27he will stay in his house and is giving him this first attention
17:30with the help of the rest of the neighbors too.
17:32Because it is true that it is a puppy that needs a veterinary check-up,
17:37that has to be fed again in the correct way,
17:40to see how his health is today.
17:42So he can't do this alone.
17:44He has the collaboration of the rest of the neighbors,
17:46but he would be in his house the next few days.
17:49Sure, sure.
17:50Which is about four houses from where he was.
17:52Do you want to talk to him?
17:53Let's see, where is Draco?
17:55Let's see, no one gets angry if they don't want to.
17:57We show ourselves.
17:58But I say, it was so nice what the neighbors did,
18:01that it is good to know that today he is in a house with a family.
18:05He is in transit, right? That's what he's called, Mechi?
18:08He is in transit.
18:09Yes, he is in transit.
18:11The neighbor does not want to talk for now,
18:14but he did say that Draco was fine and that, of course,
18:17these days he will do it with the help of the rest of the neighbors.
18:20Sure.
18:21Nora, did you talk to this neighbor?
18:25Yes, she is the one who asked me for help.
18:27Because at first, when they contacted me,
18:30I told them, I collaborate with you,
18:32I make myself present, but I do not stay with the animal
18:35because I do not have more capacity to be with dogs.
18:38Because if not, every plow, every place I go,
18:40this is a mess in my house.
18:42So, the condition was that they were going to take care of the transit.
18:46When they mentioned the issue of taking him to a field,
18:50I suggested that I did not agree,
18:52especially if I was going to sign, which I did not sign later.
18:55As an NGO, it did not seem good to me that the animal had to be there.
18:59So, I gave them a couple of tips,
19:01that among all, make a chain,
19:04and that each neighbor is offered a day or a certain hour
19:11to take him for a walk,
19:13that they put a double collar on him,
19:16a collar in case the dog gets scared later,
19:19escapes because they do not know him.
19:21That they put a badge on him,
19:23that they solidarize with the person who is transiting him.
19:27A dog takes a lot of money, time,
19:30but above all, this animal needs love.
19:33But that among all, make a collection,
19:36buy him food,
19:38solidarize with the veterinarian,
19:40because you have to de-parasite him, mainly.
19:43And in the future, yes, you have to vaccinate him,
19:45which is also expensive,
19:47and you have to castrate him.
19:49Where is the dog going?
19:51The information from the justice is that the neighbor is a depository,
19:55that an act was made to keep him safe,
19:59and the information that the veterinarians provided
20:03is that Draco would be approximately 5 years old,
20:06a male without castration,
20:08that in certain conditions he was dehydrated,
20:11with low weight, loss of fur due to poor nutrition,
20:14and they recommend his urgent relocation.
20:17But at the same time, there is the judicial question
20:19that they try to give to the owner, Victor Bueti,
20:23who has photos of the dogs in his social networks,
20:26even in a terrible state.
20:28Who are the guys, Victor or Bueti?
20:302015 onwards, there are dogs of the same breed,
20:35living in situations very similar to those seen there.
20:40No, no, evidently he likes to have this type of dog.
20:44They are trying to give with the owner of the property,
20:48who is understood to be Victor's man,
20:51and what I ask the prosecutor, who still does not answer me,
20:54is if he is the first in the possibilities
20:58that the dog will be returned to him.
21:00I understand that in the face of an incipient and current cause
21:03that he has against him,
21:04which is not a cause that would take him to jail,
21:07but let's say that there would be a situation of the common sense
21:11that will prevail and that this man will not be given,
21:13but the dog will be given when he is in better condition
21:16to an adoptive family.
21:18That's what I'm waiting for you to answer me.
21:20For now, they don't give with the subject
21:22who is easily identifiable on social networks.
21:27Yes, of course.
21:28That's the information there is.
21:29Yes, but I don't rule out, you see?
21:30Sometimes they appeal and, look, the justice...
21:33I tell you, I have several cases that have appealed
21:36and I tell you, and they are there.
21:39So, the prosecution has had to return dogs.
21:43Of course.
21:44Yes, it's crazy, it's crazy,
21:46but that's why it was also created.
21:48It's crazy, in our heads.
21:49And what is taken into account for that?
21:51Of course.
21:55What is taken into account? The judge.
21:57Of course.
21:58It depends on the will of the judge.
21:59But on the owner's side, what was this?
22:01Can we call this a mistake?
22:03Can we call this a negligence?
22:05No.
22:06The state of abandonment for several weeks
22:07of a dog that was dying?
22:09No.
22:10What can this guy say?
22:11No, because realize when we enter the house.
22:13Sorry.
22:14No, no.
22:15Realize a person who leaves an abandoned animal like this.
22:18Of course.
22:19And in the conditions that the house was in.
22:20Well, if you leave it in a park, in a place that is sanitized.
22:24Look, last year there was a raid too.
22:27They had asked me for help.
22:29And the neighbors had gotten involved.
22:32There was a dog crying inside a building.
22:34He cried, he cried.
22:35He was a barking puppy.
22:37Yes.
22:38Nothing.
22:39And you know what the neighbors did?
22:41They threw water under the crack in the door.
22:45That sucked the dog.
22:47Four months, I think.
22:48I don't remember anymore.
22:49And Anita Martinez had told me.
22:54And they passed ground food.
22:57They crushed the grains and passed it around.
23:00Last moment in this case.
23:01Well, also.
23:02The owner appeared.
23:03I stood there.
23:04Let's see.
23:05Nora, look.
23:06We are going to share with you a last moment
23:07with reference to the owner of this dog
23:11who apparently appeared, gave signs of life.
23:16We are going to protect his identity.
23:18But what information do you have, Germán?
23:20Well, the information is that he was located
23:22and presented personally at a police station.
23:26And he was formally charged for animal abuse.
23:31Since it was proven that the dog, Draco,
23:34was underweight, subjected to acts of cruelty,
23:38having left him without food
23:40and in hygienic conditions in a deficient place,
23:43he notified him of the rights
23:45and was invited to appear with his lawyer.
23:48He has a lawyer.
23:50Before the UFEMA, which is the specialized prosecution
23:53in crimes related to the environment
23:56and in this case related to animal abuse.
23:59They came to ask him why this boy ...
24:02Is he a young person?
24:04Yes, he must be about 30 years old.
24:08Víctor Bueti.
24:10Yes, the information is recent.
24:12He showed up and there is the fear, right?
24:15Because if this man shows up and has a lawyer,
24:18he will surely go to recover the dog.
24:22So he can go to that house where Mechie Mora is?
24:24It's his house. He can come in now, open the door.
24:26No, no, to his house, yes.
24:27Go and tell him, give me the dog.
24:28Give me Draco, the neighbor.
24:30He could not, because today there is a judicial order.
24:33It's all legalized.
24:35Anyway, the house is closed in the context of the situation,
24:39but there is no serious criminal issue
24:44that does not allow the man to lift the closure
24:46in a matter of hours and enter his house.
24:48In that sense, there will be no problem.
24:50What can somehow appeal
24:53to what has been carried out so far,
24:56is that there is nothing determined in terms of the future of the dog.
24:59Today it is under the protection of the neighbor,
25:01but it is not determined who will take care of the dog.
25:03Do you know why?
25:04If he bought the dog, if he has,
25:07which is a misery that really exists,
25:10if he has documentation, pedigree,
25:13purchase receipts, if he bought it in a place
25:16where this type of animal is sold,
25:18the guy can go directly, present it and ask for it.
25:20Incredible.
25:21Nora, thank you for letting us enter your house.
25:25How many dogs do you have?
25:29Now 30.
25:3030 dogs.
25:31And one is Jack, is Jack still with you?
25:33Sometimes there are more, sometimes less, never.
25:36Can the camera be panned or not?
25:38Can we see something?
25:40Where are they?
25:41Yes, of course.
25:42I don't think the guys want to go out
25:44because they are going to rob them and they are going to dirty them,
25:46but there is no problem.
25:47Ah, well, there it is.
25:48There is everything around the house.
25:49Look, look, look, there we see a Golden.
25:51I was wondering if Jack still has it.
25:54Who is Jack?
25:56Jack died a little while ago.
25:58The dog of Gustavo Cerati.
26:00Ah, right, you had Gustavo's.
26:03Of course, of course.
26:05Nora, tell me 10 names of the 30.
26:0810.
26:1010 names?
26:11Yes.
26:12Fat, leather, Norita,
26:15Petunia,
26:18Negro, blond,
26:21snow,
26:24tripod,
26:26shadow,
26:28pitch,
26:29and power.
26:30Excellent, bravo.
26:32What a genius.
26:33You are ready for the repechage.
26:35Of course, of course.
26:37Short, short, before closing,
26:39it can be from Draco, short to leave everyone calm,
26:41he is going to ask for the definitive custody of the neighbor
26:43and the prosecutor would go in that line,
26:45he would go to the delivery of the dog,
26:46because the mistreatment is proven.
26:48So Draco would not return with that cruel.
26:50Common sense, common sense.
26:52Nora, thank you very much for having us in your house.
26:55Thank you, Leo, also from there.
26:57And thank you, Mechi Mora, who is working in Villalobos.
27:00Mechi, if there are any news,
27:02if you want to talk, who now has Draco,
27:05who has him in transit, call us, okay?
27:07So we can talk to her.
27:08Of course.