Over 14 cities and thousands of people marched in peaceful protest against hunting with galgos, podencos, pointers etc in Spain. And also against the cruelty the cazadores and galgueros inflict on their hounds. Here’s a video of the protest in Madrid where over 2,000 people marched. And remember, this is the Spanish protesting against the Spanish hunters.
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Levriers sans Frontiers and Fondacion Benjamin Mehnert – helping the hounds in Seville
Another victim of the galgueros, abandoned and badly injured on a Seville road. Rescued by Fondacion Benjamin Mehnert volunteers and taken to their vet at Ejica. Sadly Villa had contracted pneumonia and was unable to be saved.
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Galgueros and Cazadores – Karma will seek you out!
This is a google translation of a piece on facebook. I haven’t published a link to the video…it is simply tooooooo distressing. The cruelty of the Spanish hunters continues to be unbelievable! Whoever did this to the galga is totally inhuman!
February 9, 2015
The video is of yesterday, Sunday at 19:30 PM. We went to rescue that galguita, of a publication made on Channel 9. Arrived at the place we find ourselves with a table that left us paralyzed, the animal was tied up, no water, no food, famished, full of flies, larvae in her ears, tick-infested. That person did to let her die without a doubt, it was a very particular corner because if this had not been published, nobody was going to find her in any way. Not even this coward helped her die faster than that of a more dignified way. We cut that leash and immediately took her to the vet but it was too late. The Vets nothing they could do to that table so ominous to that led to that animal.
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Marching for Spain’s hunting dogs 7 2 2016
300+ marchers in Santander to add to the hundreds who marched in cities all over Spain on Sunday 7th February 2016 to protest about the Spanish galgueros and cazadores and hunting with dogs. Here’s a comment from one marcher.
Santander…
300 people gathered to show the city its rejection of the hunt.
Every time they look more greyhounds and hounds in the north living happily in a home, despite the fact that we still have a long way to go, there’s still a lot of animals suffering, and that they expect us to help them. That’s the reason for these demonstrations, to show everyone what are the consequences of the hunt and that there are other options that involve a happy ending for all. It’s not worth the “I didn’t know”, Now the whole world knows that it is animal abuse, and that’s why we march – for an act of animal protection, by the end of the hunt, for an education based on respect for the living beings. -
Peaceful Protest, London, 1st May 2016 – support with your rescued Spanish hounds
Here’s the current information, more details will be posted when available. Please support them if you can…remember, it’s for all Spanish dogs.
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Galgos del Sol rescuing more hounds
On Wednesday 10/2/2016 Galgos del Sol and Tina Solera rescued several galgos and pregnant podencas. Here is the video
‘Yesterday we got a call to say that a galguero locally (Murcia) had been closed down and fined by Seprona and could we help take the dogs. This was an emotional case for us because it’s on our doorstep and we had been waiting for some time for this news. We had approached before to help to no avail and we had reached out to the authorities but nothing happened. There are a lot of ghosts around this place. I don’t want to write about them but I’ve seen them and I’ve cried and I’ve waited this moment.
It’s not over yet tho, with one galgo very ill, the stress of the move threw him into extreme panic… Usually I stay calm but emotions & memories from the past here just took over and now I’m utterly drained instead of happy, the pressure got too much as the collapse of one of the galgos.’
Update – the galgo was kept at the vet clinic and is now slowly recovering.
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Bullfighting banned in the Balearic Islands
Bullfighting has now been banned in the Balearic Islands – a small part of Spain but it is a start!
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Hunting in Spain with the Spanish Galgo
Video of the reality of hunting in Spain with the galgo. Hunting has now officially closed and galgos in their thousands are being dumped in perreras, abandoned on the campo….over 2,000 people marched in Madrid on Sunday 7th February 2016 to protest about the galgueros and their cruel practices, over 500 in Barcelona (photo at The Ramblas) over 150 in Alicante, over 100 in Castelleon…figures for the other 10 cities still coming in.
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Hunting in Spain – Brigitte Bardot protests to King Felipe VI of Spain!
Brigitte Bardot has written to King Felipe and the government of Spain protesting about the plight of the galgos and podencos at the end of the hunting season, to end urgently hunting with Galgos because it´s cruel, torture, not necessary and it does not belong anymore in the 21st. century…