Overview

• After an August 8 meeting, owner Margarita Flores agreed that Juan will not return to Mendoza’s pedestrian avenida San Martín.
• The municipality will fund construction of a dedicated corral at Flores’s Maipú home and administer vaccinations for Juan and the family’s other pets.
• An administrative appeal filed by animal defense lawyer Alfredo Mellado remains pending as the case shifts from public-space regulation to private animal-welfare oversight.
• More than 7,000 signatures and endorsements from Vice-Governor Hebe Casado and councilor Ricardo García boosted the #FreePatoJuan campaign.
• City ordinances ban free-roaming livestock in urban pedestrian zones and hold owners liable, forming the basis for the original removal order.