Hunting in Spain has only just begun and already the slow and sick galgos are being dumped and abandoned. Here’s an urgent appeal for help for a 2-month old galgo puppy in Seville, abandoned tied by a rope to a fence.
Sara found it, she has already two galgos at home, abandoned in the streets, and her partner won’t have another one. Please can any associations help? Thank you.
Contact: (Spain) 650098639 saradivertida@hotmail.com
Greyhounds Rescue Holland have sent the following information.
‘Just after 12 o’clock on 13/10/2011, GRH received a call from the Liotard team that the Written Declaration on Dog Population Management has been supported by more than half of the Members of the European Parliament. Many volunteers across Europe, amongst whom GRH, have lobbied with their MEP’s to get their support.
This Written Declaration asks for Members States to adopt comprehensive dog population management strategies and anti-cruelty laws, with the aim to harmonise animal welfare standards across the European Union. This marks a significant shift to developing EU legislation in this matter.’
Read more here.
This is beautiful Greta, a galga rescued from the killing station, scarred in both body and mind. 112carlotagalgos has healed her and now she is ready for a forever family to continue her care, and with whom she can share her life. Here’s her story, contact Charl if you can offer her forever. UPDATE – Greta has now found her forever home in the UK and will travel there in January.
On the same page, you can also read about the incredible Clara and how she nurtures and helps traumatised galgas like Greta.
One of the most important tools to use in the fight against animal cruelty in Spain – and everywhere else, of course – is educating the younger generations. Many individual associations have their own programmes for doing this – talks in schools and youth centres, visits to refuges, hands-on caring for dogs in ‘out-of-school’ time. Greyhounds In Need have been working on an Education Programme which will shortly be available to associations. Read about it here – wait till the scroll box reaches the heading ‘Our Work In Spain’.
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Latest appeal – Podenco Maneto abandoned and abused on the streets near Seville
It’s been a never-ending struggle for all the rescue associations in Spain, coping with thousands of galgos and podencos, as well as the thousands of other abandoned and maltreated dogs of Spain. And now, before last season’s detritus has been coped with, the bloody hunters are already abandoning this year’s rejects. Loose on the roads of Andalucia, Murcia….how can the bastards deny what we all know – the majority of them don’t give a bloody damn about the dogs they don’t want to keep.
Be strong, Spanish volunteers, we are all with you as much as we can be.
Do you remember this photo? An abandoned galga, surviving life with puppies beneath a Cordoba motorway. She and two puppies were rescued; the bitch has been adopted, but Taz and Wolf, her babies, are still looking for forever homes. The problem of xbred dogs of any race is that not so many people want to adopt one. So realistically, they can suffer more than pedigrees who might eventually get adopted.
Charl del Rio of 112carlotgalgos discusses the problem, and re-introduces Gandalf, Henrietta, Taz and Wolf. Contact her if you can offer one of them forever in your home.
The Hunting season in Spain is about to begin – for ‘hunting’ read also ‘coursing’. The poor rejected galgos and podencos from the 2010 season are still arriving in perreras across Spain for killing, or being abandoned and injured in road accidents.
The Hunting Federations deny there is any cruelty connected with their members’ treatment of their galgos. They claim that all the scaremongering is because of ‘animal rights’ people lying. They continue to stick their heads up their a…s and ignore the fact that photos and videos abound on the Internet to prove a lie to their claims.
Lovely video to watch about saving an injured galga. Well done, Galgos del Sol.
The association have just taken in this 4 month old podenca puppy – this is what she brought on her back. Contact Galgos del Sol if you can offer her – or any of their other podencos/galgos, a forever home.
