The following email arrived in my Inbox this morning. Please read and take the action requested. The suffering of this poor dog does not bear thinking about.
On Oct.2nd a dog that was supposedly a family member was cruelly killed in Guimar on one of Canary Islands Tenerife by a 16 years old boy by being stoned and beaten so long until the dog died.
The poor dog was a Podenco ( Spanish hunting dog ), people thought he was stray, he was so malnourished and looking absolutely neglected, but it was later found out that he was a family member( had a microchip ) and killed allegedly by the owner itself( the boy).
It was a cruel death – blood all over the body, eyes popped out, skull broken and crushed, the whole body wounded – the boy with bloody hands was just laughing and said the dog just killed a rabbit.
This case has been reported, police got involved and charges pressed against the juvenile already, but still many actions need to be taken, we cannot accept such cruelties, we should never visit countries where animal welfare issues are rather ignored by the authorities than being taken into consideration.
This is the link on www.gobiernodecanarias.org
City mayor of Guimar: alcaldia@guimar.es
Media: RNE : areanacional.rne@rtve.es
ABC : cartas@abc.es
canariasdirecto@tvcanarias.tv
Canarias 7 : administracion@canarias7.es
Prensa eldia : eldia@eldia.es
La Gaceta de Canarias : redaccion@lagacetadecanarias.com
abc tenerife : abctenerife@gmail.com
To: alcaldia@guimar.es
Cc: areanacional.rne@rtve.es; cartas@abc.es; canariasdirecto@tvcanarias.tv; administracion@canarias7.es;
eldia@eldia.es; redaccion@lagacetadecanarias.com; abctenerife@gmail.com
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Estimados Sres.:
me dirigo a usted con esta carta para referirme al siguiente suceso:
El pasado 2 de Octubre, en el municipio de Guimar, Tenerife, se maltrató a un perro hasta su muerte. Según el Sr. Alcalde, Don Rafael Yanes, la Policia Local hizo las diligencias y está imputado un menor. El expediente ha sido enviado a la Fiscalia para Menores.
Yo he sido informada de todo esto por una Señora que vive en Tenerife y le agradeceria a Usted que hiciera todo que estuviera en su poder para publicarlo en la prensa con el claro mensaje que actuaciones como estas por supuesto deben ser perseguidas y castigadas por la ley e informar tambien sobre la penalizacion que va a tener este delito.
Desgraciademente a menudo nos llegan fotos y reportajes de este tipo. España es un pais maravilloso, tanta la peninsula como las islas canarias, pero yo no quisiera pasar unas vacaciones en un pais en el cual sucesos como estos no tuvieran un grito público como consecuencia. Esto daña su imagen como nación.
Por supuesto estaré atenta al transcurso del asunto.
Atentamente
Your name
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Please write, get as many people as possible to write, this is just such a sickening story. What wouldn’t I like to do to the boy who did this!!!
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13 responses to “Podenco stoned to death in Tenerife, Canary Islands – Please Take Action”
Just sent the letter to the contacts above. Poor little dog. People are horrible.
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Thank you for sending the letter. Please get
as many people as possible to do so. The boy who did this needs arresting
and charging with animal cruelty, and severe punishment. Otherwise it is
likely he will repeat it.
Beryl
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Letter sent,Beryl – what a hideous little scum – and a definite risk to his community! Who’d want THAT as a neighbour.
ps you’ll be heartened to know that lots of emails are being sent – see
http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/1276144
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Bonjour
Thanks for updating on this story, great it is now
on Care2, Facebook etc. Tenerife should know that the world is watching
what goes on there!
Thanks for reading Galgo News too.
Tell all your friends about it.
Amities
Beryl
http://www.galgonews.comHelping to make
a difference
A person who has never known a dog’s love has
missed a wonderful part of life. Bob Barker
The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no
desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.
Count of Buffon
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disgusting!!! I can say no more, through my tears!!!!!
Through my tears!! disgusting!!! Can say no more!!!
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Bonjour
Yes, it is horrendous, isn’t it. I don’t
usually post such pictures, I don’t want people to feel afraid of reading my
stories because of horrific pictures, but I just felt I had to show these, to
persuade people to send the letter.
Thank you for reading Galgo News, tell everyone
about it, and get everyone sending the letter.
Amities
Beryl
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my god what is the matter with people is it that bad in this worold that this kind of sick thing has to be done.
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Bonjour
Agree with you, what is wrong with society too that
it produces children who do this? And so many Spanish children grow up
thinking that hanging dogs from trees, burning them alive – killing them as this
boy did – is acceptable behaviour. How do we change this?
Thanks for reading Galgo News, please tell all your
friends to join the campaigns – and thanks for the good work Care2 does running
the petitions.
Beryl
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Oh my God. They should learn this children what is good for animals and should not learn them that hunting with galgos and podencos in Spain is tradicional sport …And even small children can go and learn the theoretical and practical side of the hunting …Is this right way for Spain? I think not …
I will not visit Spain on my hollidays NEVER …Because their guverment just do nothing to save this beautiful creauters and learn people how to treat them.
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Bonjour
I agree, the Spanish children have to be taught to
respect animals, especially galgos and podencos – bulls and horses comes on the
list too – and be sure the only reason go to Spain is to help bring galgos
out to new homes in France. It is the regional governments we have to
petition to change the law to protect galgos, and the problem is that many of
the members of the regional government are galguerros.
All suggestion as to how we tackle this problem
will be carefully considered.
Thanks for reading about the poor podenco, please
send the email letter and ask all your friends to do the same.
B
Amities
Beryl
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Beryl – just received this – hopefully it means that MANY people are sending the emails!
Unable to deliver message to the following recipients, due to being unable to connect successfully to the destination mail server. redaccion@lagacetadecanarias.com
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Bonjour
I had the same response from one of the TV
stations. So, yes, I think they have blocked messages re the podenco, so
hopefully the onslaught of protests has been taken note. I really must try
and sort out some postal addresses too, trouble is that, with being on holiday
for 10 days, I have a lot of articles to write which earn me money!! But I
promise I really will try! I have asked my informant to keep me posted on
any developments with regard to the police and this vile boy.
Thanks for reading, taking action and
posting.
B
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