Article to read about the latest DEFRA regulations for transporting dogs and cats between Spain and the UK.
Author: Beryl Brennan
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National Federation of Galgos – working with Scooby Medina?
Scooby Medina visited by the President of the National Federation of Galgos. Read about it here.
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Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville – help feed a galgo, take a holiday and help
Susan Dawson does wonderful work raising funds for small greyhound and galgo rescue associations. There’s still time to get your photo to her for her 2014 calendar raising funds for Pepis Refuge. She’s also appealing for people to sponsor food for the galgos and podencos at Pepis Refuge – Jane and Alan have a large number of dogs to feed and rely solely on donations. You can see the dogs and details of sponsorship on this link
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Flying Madrid & New York or Madrid & Boston 2013 – Scooby need help for dogs
Are you traveling between Madrid and New York or Madrid and Boston this year, even if it is just a layover in those cities as you continue on to somewhere else? If so, you can help save dogs! All you would need to do is let us attach a dog to your airline ticket! We’ll have volunteers on hand to do all of the work at both ends. We fly American from October to May and Iberia June to September. Drop us a line here or via email at diane@scoobymedina.com or info@scoobymedina.com for more information.
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Update on Polar – galgo puppy with Pepis Refuge
We have decided to adopt Polar. My French vet is marvellous at putting dogs back together; she did a superb job on my little Podenca Andaluz Bebe, who arrived from Seville with a bad back leg injury. Jane and Alan at Pepis have dozens of dogs to care for. This winter has been particularly hard for them with mudslides through the kennels on two occasions, loss of Internet for many weeks, and Alan ill. Add to this the number of dogs and puppies still being dumped at their gates – even though the sign says in Spanish ‘no dogs, we are full’, and the last thing they need is a puppy in convalescence.
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Costa Blanca – judge against animal cruelty – so why not against the galgueros and gitanos?!
Shame that Seprona won’t take similar action against the bastard galgueros and gitanos who keep their animals in worse condition than this lady. Why? Because many of them are bloody hunters too!
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ACTIN – a message to animal welfare associations, charities and rescuers
Please read and digest. ACTIN need the support of everyone to move forward in the ways suggested.
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Support the small associations – they need help too
All animal rescue associations in Spain do an amazing job, some of them are lucky enough to have hundreds of supporters to raise funds for their work. Which sadly often pushes out the small associations who lurch from month to month trying to pay feed and vet bills. You’ll know from previous posts on Galgo News that Charl and 112carlotagalgos has worked tirelessly for many years – longer than many larger associations – to raise awareness of the plight of the galgos and podencos. You can read more about the dogs here.
She now has some seriously ill galgos in her care, and the vet bills are mounting up as we speak.
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England 2013 – unbelievable! Please join the campaign to help these animals
Whilst my main work is helping the refuges and associations involved with podencos and galgos, occasionally I feel driven to expose wrongs in the UK, from where I hail originally. This is one such occasion. First of all, please watch this video. Remember, this is 2013 in England – not 2013 in Asia! Afterwards, if you feel you want to take action against the perpetrators of these atrocities, please copy and paste the following letter into an email and send to the address given. (email to: animal.health@staffordshire.gov.uk) Thank you.
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Galgo pup Polar needs leg operations – Pepis Refuge, Seville, needs your help for him
Just look at these two little friends, comforting each other at Pepis refuge, Seville. Jane tells their stories.
‘This is Polar, he is 4 months old. He was left at the refuge three weeks ago and has a deformed back leg. He saw the bone specialist and we were told that his leg was broken when he was a tiny baby and as he has grown the leg has become twisted above and below his knee. He will need to have several operations to correct the deformity. We were told that if the leg is not tended too soon, as he grows the leg will not. Who will want to home him as he is….