Cabra de Mora opens its feline colony management program to public information

The Cabra de Mora City Council has opened the public information process for the municipality’s Feline Colony Management Program, initially approved by agreement of the Plenary on November 3, 2026. The announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel no. 216, dated November 11, 2026, under reference 2026-3351. The file will be available for a period of twenty days for the submission of allegations and claims.

The processing is supported by Article 83 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, a provision that regulates the hearing process for interested parties before the resolution of administrative procedures. The plenary agreement is therefore adopted as an initial approval, subject to the allegations formulated during the exhibition period.

It is a small municipality: Cabra de Mora is listed with 66 inhabitants in the population data as of January 1, 2025, collected in the Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel of October 29, 2026. The announcement published now does not include the text of the program nor figures on colonies or censused specimens, so its concrete content can only be consulted in the municipal file.

Twenty days to examine the file and object

The public information period is twenty days and is counted from the day following the publication of the announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel, that is, from November 12, 2026. During this period, any interested person may formulate the allegations and claims they deem appropriate.

The announcement details two ways to consult the file:

• In person, at the municipal offices of the Cabra de Mora City Council.
• Electronically, at the municipal electronic office, accessible at the address http://cabrademora.sedelectronica.es.

The announcement itself further specifies that it will serve as notification to interested parties in the event that personal notification of the granting of the hearing process cannot be carried out, which reinforces the nature of this publication as a general call to the procedure.

What is being submitted for exhibition

The object of the process is the municipality’s Feline Colony Management Program, initially approved by the Plenary in its session on November 3, 2026. The announcement in the gazette does not break down the objectives, the animal census, nor the obligations that the program may impose on those who feed or care for stray cat colonies: that content is part of the file now open for consultation.

The official reference of the announcement is 2026-3351, and its text is inserted in the Local Administration section of the provincial gazette, within the section dedicated to the Cabra de Mora City Council.

Background: the TNR method already applied in the province

The regulation of feline colonies through municipal programs has recent precedents in the province of Teruel. The Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel no. 155, dated August 17, 2026, published the final approval of the Villastar program (2026-2442), processed under the same article 83 of Law 39/2015 following a public information period with no objections.

The approved text in Villastar, called the ethical control and management plan, allows for the anticipation of the types of measures that usually integrate these programs:

• Sterilization of specimens using the TNR method (trap, neuter, and return), with the goal of ensuring all colonies reach at least 75% sterilized individuals.
• Creation and periodic updating of a census of stray cats in the municipality.
• Prophylactic actions, such as parasite control and vaccination, to reduce the risk of disease spread.
• Improvement of the living and feeding conditions of the animals in the colonies.
• Registration and monitoring of the colonies, with periodic inspections.
• Measures to minimize nuisances to citizens and adoption programs for sociable cats.

Impact for residents and caregivers

The opening of the procedure directly affects the residents of Cabra de Mora and, in particular, people who feed or supervise stray cat colonies, as well as animal shelters operating in the area, who now have a limited period to review the document and present objections before the program is definitively approved. The file can be consulted at the Town Hall and on the municipal electronic office starting November 12, 2026.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Teruel, no. 216, dated November 11, 2026, Local Administration, page 23 (official reference: 2026-3351).