Here’s another illustration of transport by the Spanish galgueros for hunting dogs – about 60 dogs in this lorry, all loose, off to the hunt. This weblink explains a rehala. Some restaurants keep dogs chained up to hire out to hunters for a rehala.
Category: Advice
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Rehala transport – 60 dogs loose in a wagon
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Update on Polar – Clinic with Caroline Ingraham, Zoopharmacognosy
Today Polar and I attended a day clinic with Caroline Ingraham – check her website here to discover the incredible work she does, including with the RSPCA and other animal welfare organisations in the UK as well as one or two Spanish vets.
Her stay in our area of France included visiting farm animals and an equestrian livery yard. Today the subject was dogs. I’d been invited to take Polar along because of his disability. There were two other dogs present, French rescued dogs – one a little hunting dog like a beagle without a tail who had been very badly beaten, with no confidence atall, and the other a labrador x who had spent his early years on a short chain, forgotten about, who had jealousy problems.
So we had 3 dogs with very different problems.
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That crazy woman writes…!
This is a story of truth, mystery, accusations,lies, assassination…
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What are you feeding your dog – is it good enough?
You might be interested to look at this link and see what brands of dog food contain what, the wording and what it ACTUALLY means when you read the ingredients. Total independent reviews.
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Making changes in Spanish society – ACTIN reports
From Viv Wharton of ACTIN.
‘Many people tell us that there is no hope, that the problems in Spain are in-grained into society and that the general attitude towards animals is bad for cultural reasons, or the government just don’t care and animals fall to the bottom of the list of priorities. We hear many different reasons all the time but whatever the reason/reasons of which there are many, things are changing.’ Read the full article here
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Bogus RSPCA callers – animal owners beware – please circulate!
Please see message below that was received today from a trusted source. Could you all send to everyone in your address book, with lots of eyes looking for this van there’s much more chance of them getting caught.
When I was halfway to Kent doing deliveries this morning I had a phone call from my son, apparently the RSPCA were at my door. I have seen a white van with lowercase letters ‘rspca’ (NOT their Logo) in my road for the last 2 days with the occupant seemingly just walking around ? Luckily, having seen the van, I had reminded my children just yesterday that if they come, they do NOT come in, they do NOT see my dogs, and they must come back when myself and/or my husband are here.
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Quinolone antibiotics – a searious health risk – Kate’s story
Kate lives in Spain and contacted me for help with a dog she had rescued. Animals have been an important part of her life. She is now dying. Why? She was prescribed a quinolone antibiotic. This story is a health warning about Quinolone antibiotics. This happened to Kate, it could happen to you.
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Transporting dogs & cats Spain/UK? DEFRA new regulations
Article to read about the latest DEFRA regulations for transporting dogs and cats between Spain and the UK.