video from Yo Galgo.
This is Yeray Lopez Portillo and extended family – he is the director/producer of the damning new documentary on the plight of the Galgos in Spain:
“Galgos, also called Spanish sighthounds, have been praised in tales and myths for centuries, they were respected figures and cared for, almost gods for some cultures, but today they suffer what might be considered a genocide. Yes, it is a big word, I know. But what can you say when between 50.000 and 100.000 galgos are killed or abandoned every year after the hunting season? Every year healthy galgos are killed, beaten to death, drowned or abandoned when they no longer live up to their owners’ expectations. The breeders, the so called galgueros, breed hoping to end up with the fastest dog to compete and hunt the hare, but overbreeding leads to the “throwing out” of thousands and thousands of galgos every year.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KF_HXXgb5E
https://www.facebook.com/yogalgo/
‘All the information I get from the shelters I talk to are the same. This year, they seem to be getting more abandoned galgos than ever before. It might be due to the fact that myxomatosis is killing thousands of hares and there is no much left to hunt, I don’t know. The best thing we can do is to spread the word about this issue through our film, build international pressure and inform people about the issue. Please share our film if you can, so more people know why we’re fighting for (link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/yogalgo)’