Galgo & Podenco rescue associations – where were you on 11 October 2014?

The way animal rescue associations criticise each other really gets me angry! Here’s a post I wrote on my Save the Galgo facebook page.

On Saturday, 11th October 2014, I was pleased to be a part of the demonstration and publicity in the Trocadero, Paris, organised by Galgos Ethique Europe, illustrating to the general public the beautiful galgos who were there as ambassadors for their breed, and telling of the dreadful maltreatment they suffer in Spain at the hands of the galgueros and gitanos.

I was surprised that there were not more galgo and podenco rescue and rehoming associations attending the rassemblement – where were they? Now I read that the president of C.R.E.L. in the Vosges, Jerome, has published defamatory accusations against GEE on his website. I know Jerome, he joined the EDL team I worked with to travel to Spain to bring back galgos and some podencos to France. He stayed the night in my home, along with the team and a couple of dozen of the dogs. I supported him when he organised the first Manifestation in Strasbourg in 2012 outside the EU.

Over the years of working with galgo and podenco rescue associations, I have been disappointed that so many of them squabble between themselves, bad mouth each other…how does this help the dogs, it is pathetic!

I’d like to know why there were no representatives at the Trocadero on 11th October from the many rescue associations in Europe – C.R.E.L., L’Europe des Levriers, Levriers en Companie for starters, they all live within easy travelling distance? Where were you, you should have been there, taking advantage of the opportunity to publicise the work you do and the suffering of the dogs. There were hundreds of tourists there – most coming to meet the dogs and find out what the event was all about.

Shame on you! Here’s the piece by GEE. If you can’t see it on fb, it’s because of privacy settings.

Jerome Guillot, hang your head in shame for your attack on GEE!

En English translation of the piece (Translation by Bing)

LIES AND MANIPULATIONS. STOP!

It is sad from the CREL website to see a president of association lie to get our work back and attempt to orbit all associations telling them that should IMPERATIVELY unite, especially for aoir’s worldwide to its market from next June.

No, we do were PAS 100 but between 200 and 300.

No, we refused to peopoliser the drama of Galgos by encouraging people to come if their greyhounds were traumatized. We have not exposed as in 2012 an amputee Greyhound who had stayed home a week at president eventually “puer death”, “be auto-mutiler” and finish in emergency amputations. And do not even receive treatments that corresponded to the gifts that had been made for him.

No, we don’t have not sabotaged for months a written DECLARATION to start by sending a few emails at the time where everything was already “done” while our team C.E.P.L. and G.E.E. fought for several months. We write a truth book where I say the truth.
No, it is not in our ways of make believe QU ‘ ON was A a demonstration while it has not lifted a finger and it don’t even have the courtesy to cite the name of the organizers, the artist name of participants, who work with all his heart to present volunteers a wonderful happening. It is easy to crawl the night on internet to say BRAVO BRAVO!

THIS IS SUFFICIENT. STOP with this little gentleman unable to link of reciprocity by simple politeness.

No, we have not used to threaten bat and mass because a small man is unhappy… and allows to register the same day our ASSOCIATION on one SITE porn with the phone of our ASSOCIATION. SHAME ON THE PRESIDENT OF THE CREL! IF THOSE WHO SUPPORT IT ARE PROUD, IT IS THEIR PROBLEM. THEY know things more serious and silent, maintains it in its derivatives. And they are surprised that nobody has mentioned them at the Trocadero!

It is sad to see our team, mobilized for 3 months, to organize the demonstration in Paris, be “transferred” from pages where they have ventured to say that GALGOS ethics EUROPE was the organiser of the rally of the TROCADERO. NOT we do are steps in the line MANIPULATIVE DU PRESIDENT DU CREL and we will participate surely not in his fantasies of jettisoning of all associations!

I’ll do a focus in the day and all the evidence that was sent to me for several months have been recorded. BECAUSE THE WORST OF ALL IN ALL THIS IS THE FAILURE OF THE DECLARATION WRITTEN THAT WE HAVE PROPOSED AND WE HAVE SUPPORTED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. Already when expected 9 months to start, it just proves one thing, is that great battle that we want to carry out n ‘ a not much of importance in our eyes, is not too rushed, everything for a procedure with the European Parliament, at the Parliament coincides with a market which is an infringement of the principle of sovereignty in full statement… everything to please a cockerel!

I still have the email of the parliamentary Attaché of a certain former euro MP. He thanked me for the main artisan of the European collective campaign. I have thanked citing 2 associations which had participated alongside us and gave all the links to associations that had come on the collective blog to disseminate information in their turn. THE PANTOMIMES PRE electoral THEREUNDER we have assisted, Galgos in shelters after, beautiful photos of adoption, the SILENCE on the trip which continues on the Germany for “old and sick and those who do not have the rabies vaccine because the Germans less looking than the French sonty” is the worst of the suffering which today leads me to say STOP it is enough!

Joëlle P. OLDENBOURG,
co-founder President GALGOS ethics EUROPE.

(Translated by Bing)