And another protest – this time Royal Canin dog food. PLEASE SHARE! FOUR PAWS has evidence that ROYAL CANIN has sponsored several of these gruesome spectacles (see poster below) over recent months. FOUR PAWS calls on ROYAL CANIN not only to stop sponsoring these cruel contests, but also to take on the responsibility for the future of the tortured bears. Call on Royal Canin to take responsibility and send a protest mail now
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Decathlon, Valencia, Spain – pony rides for the visitors
Besides dogs, my other lifelong passion has been horses. This is a ‘living’ pony ride outside Decathlon, Valencia, Spain. This is what the ponies do all day, every day – can’t even move their heads!
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Protest about the dog meat trade in the Philippines
Please sign this petition to protest about the dog meat trade in the Philippines.
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David jumped – pix here, story to follow
Here are some of the pix of David’s fabulous jump today, including the plane with the hole in the side out of which they jumped – and NOT the parachute they used! He’ll write his feelings about it all later. Please keep donating, we’re not quite there yet..
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The Spanish nightmare continues – 180,000 dogs killed in the past year…
There’s been no let up in the number of galgos abandoned and dumped in the perreras. So many that I simply can’t post them all – 19 in one just one perrera recently, multiply that by the hundreds of perreras in Spain…and that’s just galgos. The figure quoted for dogs killed in perreras in the last year is 180,000! That’s 493 dogs every day, 206 dogs every hour, or 1 dog per minute.
The pressure on the refuges, the volunteers, the fosterers is tremendous – and the national and provincial governments STILL do nothing to implement a mass sterilization programme and educate people not to let their dogs mate.
One example of the pressure on the refuges is an appeal this week from Cristina of Arca de Noe of Albacete.
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A worldwide epidemic – we must continue to fight it!
Does he bite?
No, he lies, fights, destroys, contaminates, kills….
Is he on his way to the perrera?!
How I wish!
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D-day – David’s jumping today – don’t forget to sponsor him!
David’s parachute jump today – here’s what it’s for and how to sponsor him.
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The hung galgos of Fuensilada, Toledo – update on the court case
You may remember the case of the two galgos in Toledo who had been hung by their owner. Their microchips had not been removed and he was traced. Associacion Baas Galgo took him to court. Here is the update from Sandra Baas.
‘On October 9th, a court trial will take place at Juzgado n1 de lo Penal de Toledo for the man who murdered his two galgos by ways of hanging. Two years ago, the corpses of the two young dogs (one was 22 months old, the other was 5 years old) were found in the Fuensalida, Toledo location. The dogs had been hung and killed. One of the dogs, had a microchip which identified their owner, who confessed to the massacre and told the judge that he was not aware that hanging his dogs was considered illegal and that he did so because they were deemed “ineffective” since they were not successful hunting dogs.
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3 days to go – Why David’s jumping out of an aeroplane!
WHY am I jumping out of an aeroplane over the sea? I’ll tell you why………
I’ve loved dogs for as long as I can remember. My love of Greyhounds, and subsequently Levriers and Galgos started in England when an abandoned greyhound turned up at our home early one morning, and never left.
I’m passionate about anything to do with dogs and their welfare, and when my wife Beryl started “Galgo News” in November 2007, and later “Podenco Post” I was happy to support her work any way I could. Inevitably my support was largely passive as she built a vast network of global contacts trying to make a difference to the plight of the poor dogs of Spain.
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Spanish Galgo puppy Silencio – Galgos del Sur, Cordoba, to the rescue
This poor little soul is with Galgos del Sur. Here is his story.
‘We were given notice that a galguito was under a car in a marginal area of Cordoba. When we got there, the galguito was losing fluids from many parts of his body and we carried him to our car and went directly to the vet hospital.
His diagnosis is not serious, but the care and hospitalization he needs will be expensive.His body is full of all kinds of parasites, has anaplasma, low hematocrit, has almost no power to move and is malnourished and dehydrated. We’ve called him Silence, because he crawled under the car to die in silence. The photos say it all.