Story from the Protectora in Avila
‘Hope is never lost.
Once again impotence, indignation and anger fills the hearts of members of animals in distress and of all animal defenders. On 16th January a notice from a village of ávila (SAN VICENTE DE ARÉVALO) warns us that they have found a galgo hanging and dying in a pine forest, what person can do such a savagery? Leave a living being hanging to die in slow agony.
We urgently contacted the town hall and spoke with the seprona to try to locate it; the area patrol at all times tried to help us.
Apparently, it had already come to the notice and been brought to the attention of the mayor of the area, who took as a solution(the next day!!!!) the next day to call the vet to proceed to eutanasia. So the poor galgo spent the night where he was found.
At 11 p. M in full field and without exact location, as the councilman of that town, was warned and did not want to leave his home so he could get the animal out of there to a safe place; it was not a job Simple, but it was urgent to try to locate him and see how he was. A person of our protectoar moved quickly to that town and with the indications received by the mayor and the help of the civil guard managed to find the galgo. Yeah, “for a change” was a galgo again.
We found the poor animal almost dead, with an eye burst from drowning and neck bleeding. Although the image that we show you is a little harsh, we want to record the cruelty of this act. The poor animal couldn’t stand.
The emergency veterinarian told us when we moved him to ávila and after being treated and made the first emergency cures, we believe the vet saved his life, even though his eye will have to be removed. About 1 in the morning we left him with sadness under observation. We’ll have to wait a couple of days to see how he reacts.
Some seem to be unaware that there is an animal protection act that severely punishes acts such as those considered very serious: article 28 drawn up by article 6. (3) of law [Castile and león] 2/2017 of 4 In July, tax and administrative measures (” B.O.C.L.” 6 July). Validity: Since 7 July 2017.
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Comments
3 responses to “Spanish galgueros – the curse of Spain”
This is so upsetting, look what this evil hunter has done to her beautiful face! Hope he rots in hell, the monster. I have been on the website, she is called Angel and there is a video of her and she is eating which is good. I will donate, thank you for saving her life.
Completely agree with you Kathryn. Apart from donating I would like to help with raising awareness in U.K. as anything which might affect tourism (which this might) could make Spanish government sit up and take some notice…possibly?
Hopefully in the future these Spanish old boys and their rabbit hunting habits may die out (same as fox hunting in U.K.) and along with it the need to breed these dogs??
In the meantime the charities here (Gran Canaria) are doing fantastic job rescuing and also leaving food for the wild dogs, a damage limitation exercise until legislation and sensible breeding programmes established.
Thanks for your comment, Catherine. I’ve been publicising the plight of the Podencos in the Canary Islands since I first
started my galgo and podenco blogs 10 years ago. It’s good to see that there are now some associations helping home the Gran Canaria and Lanzarote podencos…need to find ones to help the Fuerteventura podencos….see an earlier post a couple of weeks ago. So hard for you all, living with the problem of over-breeding and then dumping of these wonderful hounds by the vile hunters. As for the galgueros on mainland Spain who claim to care for their hounds….well, we all know they don;t. Maybe a few do, but they are as guilty as the bad ones for doing nothing to improve the situation. Doesn’t bear thinking of…what this poor galga went through till she was cut down. Thanks for caring.