This poor galga is in Estepona. A lady has been feeding her for 6 weeks, but cannot get near her, she is so terrified, and looks as though she has a wound on her back.
Can anyone help catch her? Charl is going to check her out, but will need help. Email Charl if you can help. comdelrio@hotmail.com
At an Offtopic section of an spanish forum (“Save a life” we thought it was a good idea to beg you to help us collaborate to gather one million signatures, needed to ask the European Commission to introduce a law to protect all animals in the European Union member states against animal abuse and maltreat in Europe.
This is the text of the petition, originally written in French:
Author of the petition: GALGOS FRANCE (Greyhounds France)
For the attention of the European Parliament Commission:
Thanks to the new right to the citizen’s initiative, one million citizens from all over the different member states can now ask the Commission for the presentation of new proposals.
At the end of the day in a perrera in Spain – whilst the method of euthanasia was probably the cheapest, and painful, at least they will not have to suffer any more.
And this isn’t the fate of just Spain’s abandoned dogs – it is the fate of thousands of dogs throughout Europe, including Croatia, Turkey, Serbia, Romania. I am receiving appeals to post petitions about this on Galgo News, but I can’t help them all – this journal is chiefly about the galgos and podencos.
THe European Commission and individual member states HAVE to deal with the problem at source, which is strict control of breeding of all dogs, and a mass neutering programme.
The Gift of Life is the greatest gift, and the gift of the love of a dog is second – it is unconditional, no holds barred, whatever is done to it.
Lucena perrera, Cordoba – death row this week. And these are just the galgos – and puppies! And look at the size of the cage – with 6 dogs in it!
If you can help, here are the contacts
A beautiful piece of poetry received today – a beautiful animated drawing accompanied it, but that is copyrighted, so I’ve put my own pic here.
Here in this house… I will never know the loneliness I hear in the barks
of the other dogs ‘out there’.
I can sleep soundly, assured that when I
wake, my world will not have changed. I will never know hunger, or the fear of
not knowing if I’ll eat. I will not shiver in the cold, or grow weary from
the heat. I will feel the sun’s heat, and the rain’s coolness, and be
allowed to smell all that can reach my nose.
PROTEST ON 22ND FEBUARY IN MADRID FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS.
I haven’t attached the photos because they are really sickening and I am sensitive to the fact that, whilst most people are aware of the horrors perpetrated on animals in Spain, explicit pictures can be found on other websites
Just a reminder to sign the Greyhounds In Need petition for Galgos, before 30th April.
I’d just like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who reads Galgo News, comments on posts, and joins in the letter writing and petition signing posts which I highlight. Whilst my aim is to highlight the plight of the galgos and podencos, I get emails appealing for help to highlight the stray/abandoned dog problem in other countries which have now joined the EU.
So this is a petition to sign to help one of those countries.
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Here are four of the beautiful dogs on death row at Cadiz Perrera. The perrera is full, there is no more space. Besides galgos and podencos, there are even crossed huskies. I never understand how a Husky can live in the heat of the Mediterranean!
Contact is nelebana80@hotmail.com
There are so many terrible tales about galgos and other abandoned dogs in Spain, that I have to limit myself to galgos and podencos. This email has just come in from a lady in Spain who has been a supporter of abandoned dogs for many years. The information in the message illustrates just what a terrible time abandoned galgos have.
‘Dear Everyone, I’m writing to all of you in the hope that you will be able to help me by posting pictures on your websites?
John and I found Holly by the side of the road on Christmas day.
