Abstract
The objective of this paper is to investigate, on the one hand, if it is possible to act in self-defense of animals, and on the other hand, what would be the limits of defensive action. To this end, the paper was divided into two main parts. In the first part, the attempts to ground the crime of maltreatment of animals were analyzed in order to, from them, identify the status that animals occupy in the legal order, concluding that they can be holders of legal goods. Still in the first part, the possibility of self-defense of third parties was investigated, understood as the defense of a right/legal good, in favor of animals, with the caveat that it is a limited defense right compared to the defense of another human being. Finally, in the second part, taking this limitation into account, the boundaries within which self-defense in favor of animals can be admitted were drawn.
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