Galgo supporter Valarie Wolf has kindly composed this letter to send to the European Commission and MEPs.
Please copy and paste it and send it to the European Commissioner, you will find other relevant addresses on this weblink.
Thank you for your help and support, Valarie, as always it is very much appreciated.
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More publicity in the UK for the plight of the galgos, and theFrenchPaper has this month published a Letter to the Editor from Beatrice Monnet of L’Europe des Levriers.
Cristina has just sent these wonderful photos of Kafir, running free, only 12 days after having his hind leg removed. Read the original story.
There are stories coming out of Spain now saying that the story of the balming of galgos at Cordoba University was the work of someone posing as a student at the university. I have seen copies of documents containing the original information. We have a saying in the UK ‘no smoke without fire’ – which means that there has to be an element of truth in a story.
I will continue with my investigations, as will others, as this has now stirred up quite a hornet’s nest.
Watch this space!
PLEASE can someone help this galga in Seville..she is in a terrible state………
lolidalo@hotmail.com 675146168 Loli
and Bimba, a podenca has taken her life in her own hands, abused, neglected and cold – she has given up eating now.
Teléfono: 655 68 58 59
protectoraburjassot@gmail.com
Me, I post all these stories and I just want to take them all and give them a chance to know love and a gentle caress, and a good meal every day.
UPDATE 13 FEB 2010 BOTH THESE DOGS HAVE NOW BEEN TAKEN INTO REFUGES.
This has just come through from the EuroGroup for Animals newsletter.
Swedish wolf hunt condemned
The Swedish government was criticised by animal protection and conservation organisations across Europe in December, after it authorised the killing of a substantial proportion of the country’s wolf population. No less than 12,000 applied to hunt 27 wolves, the set quota. The majority of animals were killed on the first day of what was believed to be a less than humane hunt. Sweden’s wolf population has only just started to recover after the species became seriously endangered in the 1970s. For this reason, wolves have not been hunted there for over 45 years. Wolves are a protected species under the EU’s Habitats Directive, but may be killed if they threaten livestock or a country’s economic situation.
So why can’t the EU condemn what happens to Spain’s galgos?!!
The following people in the European Parliament have ‘recognised the need for improved animal welfare in Europe’.
John Dalli, the candidate Commissioner for Health and Consumers, stated that animal health and animal welfare will be core issues during his time in office.
Agriculture Commissioner is Dacian Cioloş.
Janez Potočnik is the proposed Environment Commissioner.
I have to admit that at the moment I am heavily occupied with completing a project which is intended for release whilst Spain has the EU presidency. So if anyone would like to compose a letter to all these people and the EU President about the balming and the galgo massacre now under way in Spain, then I will post it on Galgo News for all to copy, paste and send off. This is the link to all the MEPs too.
I misunderstood the story of these galgos. Cobie tells the story
Today I found out through one of my Spanish contacts that the abandoning, hanging and in other ways mistreating of the galgos for some people just is not yet enough and now they abuse them in an even, I think, more cruel way than you ever could guess.
To embalm a dog, formaldehyde is injected in the vein while the dog is still alive,then take all the blood out of the galgo by which treatment the dog of course dies. They then fill the veins with a chemical fluid which keeps the corpses conserved for many, many years. This is called balming but I am sure you heard about this. So they have a big storage of dead dogs which they use for their studies. In many countries, eg. in Holland, this way of study is forbidden, there are new and technical very good new ways to do a vet study.
Good news from Pro-Galgo -Teo and Don Juan are off the danger list! Waiting for news of Stefany and Cepo.
All this veterinary treatment is very very expensive, if you can donate towards the cost of treatment for any of the dogs, especially the ones whose legs have to be amputated, details of how to donate are on the website.
Those of you lovely supporters and readers of Galgo News in Spain – where does the law stand on ‘citizen’s arrest’? Hubbie just told me about this website – can we copy this to prepare a case against Senor Zapatero or any of the other councillors/politicians, legal enforcement officers’ if people in public office in Spain do not fulfil their election promises?
Ohhh, wouldn’t that be an exciting road to travel! I could get very excited about this!
