Here is a story of loyalty and love between dogs. Totally the opposite of the bastard hunter, who left his bloodied shoes behind! For those of you who have not travelled into the Spanish heartlands and hell on earth for galgos, this also gives you an insight into some of the terrain in which they have to survive. Thank you to Valarie Woolf for sending in the translation. So touching.

Fidelidad: A Story of horror, fidelity and hope. Only 50 km from Madrid a galgo (one of many) is abandoned. Someone crosses her path, follows her and wants to help. He sees that she is guarding, that she doesn’t want to leave and she doesn’t want anyone to come near. The dead galga was her friend. A few meters away are the blood smeared shoes and the rest of the rope. (baler twine, impossible to break!)

Fidelidad constantly looks for her friend in the distance. She won’t come near, she doesn’t know we’re trying to help her. Her last experience with people cost her girlfriend her life through the most brutal means of beating and strangulation. but we wouldn’t give up and we saved her from the fate of thousands of other galgos in Spain.

The Rescue: All Animal Protection Organizations struggle every day because of the brutal deaths of thousands of animals at the hands of miserable cowards. this negates the animals’ lives. Fidelidad was supposed to die–beaten and horribly mishandled like her dead friend but she fought and overcame death. the following day Fidelidad was still there next to the dead body of her friend. Everything was the same as the day before and everything was in the same place.

Everything is prepared—(crate) we need to leave the area and wait. So ends the horrible story and begins Fidelidad’s new life. Despite her unspeakable experience with people she doesn’t try to defend herself, and only howls our of sheer fear. And when she didn’t receive the expected blows, and instead received tender caresses she relaxed a little bit.

Fideledad is like most of the Spanish Galgos, unchipped which allows her ‘owner’ to easily dispose of her.

In contrast to her friend, she has been saved, never facing violence and cold again. The killer of her friend showed us once again how grim, gruesome and morally bankrupt many people are.

Fidelidad has shown us empathy, fidelity and nobility. Thousands of animals die in Spain in the most brutal way. Besides the killers, also guilty are those who do nothing and look away–those who want to stay comfortable on their sofas and remain inactive.

Don’t be complicit!
Don’t look away!

The difference between life and death is in your hands.