The Provincial Council of Córdoba subsidizes feline colonies and pigeons in sixteen municipalities

The Provincial Council of Córdoba published this Wednesday, November 11, 2026, in the Official Gazette of the Province of Córdoba (BOP) number 218, the summaries of twenty-two agreements with city councils to finance the control of feline colonies and pigeon populations. The agreements are signed by the president of the provincial institution, Salvador Fuentes Lopera, and affect sixteen municipalities, from large towns such as Lucena, Puente Genil, or Priego de Córdoba to small villages in the north of the province such as Zuheros, Torrecampo, or Villaralto.

Twenty-two summaries in a single edition

The announcements occupy pages 16056 to 16077 of the gazette, within section VI, Local Administration, and are published in accordance with the provisions of articles 17.3.b and 20.8.a of the General Subsidies Law 38/2003, of November 17. Ten of the summaries correspond to feline colony agreements and twelve to pigeon control; the full text of each call refers to the National Subsidies Database (BDNS) via its identifier.

The published feline colony agreements are as follows:

• La Carlota — BDNS 940301 (BOP-A-2026-3804)
• Priego de Córdoba — BDNS 940291 (BOP-A-2026-3806)
• Pozoblanco — BDNS 940280 (BOP-A-2026-3807)
• Puente Genil — BDNS 940311 (BOP-A-2026-3809)
• Villaralto — BDNS 940333 (BOP-A-2026-3810)
• Belalcázar — BDNS 940381 (BOP-A-2026-3823)
• Añora — BDNS 940387 (BOP-A-2026-3824)
• Lucena — BDNS 940409 (BOP-A-2026-3831)
• Torrecampo — BDNS 940417 (BOP-A-2026-3832)
• Villafranca — BDNS 940394 (BOP-A-2026-3833)

Twelve summaries for pigeon control

The block dedicated to pigeons consists of twelve announcements corresponding to eleven municipalities, as Puente Genil appears twice with the same BDNS identifier 940345 in documents BOP-A-2026-3811 and BOP-A-2026-3812. The remaining locations are Dos Torres (BDNS 940384, BOP-A-2026-3818), Villaralto (940370, BOP-A-2026-3819), Zuheros (940377, BOP-A-2026-3820), La Carlota (940349, BOP-A-2026-3825), Obejo (940415, BOP-A-2026-3826), Guadalcázar (940430, BOP-A-2026-3827), Añora (940410, BOP-A-2026-3828), La Victoria (940407, BOP-A-2026-3829), Castro del Río (940396, BOP-A-2026-3830), and Pozoblanco (940461, BOP-A-2026-3834).

Five city councils appear in both programs and therefore receive two agreements: La Carlota, Pozoblanco, Puente Genil, Villaralto, and Añora. All summaries are dated in Córdoba on November 6, 2026, except for that of Priego de Córdoba, which is dated November 26, 2026, a date subsequent to the publication of the gazette itself.

The TNR method and the Animal Welfare Law

Feline colony agreements are based on the TNR (trap, neuter, and return) method, the procedure that Law 7/2023, of March 28, on the protection of animal rights and welfare defines as feline colony management. Article 39 assigns the management of community cats to local entities through specific programs, and Article 38 mandates the surgical sterilization of these animals.

The province already has experience in this field: the Montoro City Council approved an agreement on September 29, 2026, with the Official College of Veterinarians of the Province of Córdoba to create the Municipal Registry of Companion Animals and apply the TNR method, published in BOP number 209 of October 28, 2026 (BOP-A-2026-3521, p. 15603). That text details that the RAIA application incorporates a feline colony management module, available even for city councils without a specific agreement.

Impact on municipalities and animal shelters

The agreements affect public health and neighborhood coexistence in sixteen municipalities, and commit the city councils to the animal protection associations that tend to the colonies and the controlled releases of pigeons. The simultaneous publication of the twenty-two extracts allows the councils to justify the expenditure and access provincial funding before the end of the fiscal year, and provides residents and collectives with the official reference to consult the full text of each agreement in the BDNS.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Córdoba, no. 218, November 11, 2026, section VI – Local Administration, pp. 16056-16077 (official reference: BOP-A-2026-3804 to BOP-A-2026-3834).