Galgo News

Category: Advice

  • Transport from Spain to Germany – dogs and cats die in the heat!

    With the open borders in Europe policy, it is easy for anyone to travel to Spain and take a dog out of a perrera to home in another country. There are no checks at the border, and the animals, dogs especially, are adopted in all innocence by someone who then finds themself with a sick animal. It is instances such as this which caused Belgium, two years ago, to threaten to accept imported dogs,

    At the end of June this year, 20 dogs and cats died whilst being transported from southern Spain to Germany. Pro-Galgo have the story.

  • A Dog’s Will

    When humans die, they make a will

    To leave their homes and all they have

    To those they love.

    I, too, would make a will if I could write;

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  • Santa Olalla, Toledo – Galgo puppies murdered and left in the street

    Dead puppies road 250 3 July 2011 SANTA OLALLA: GALGO PUPPIES… killed in cold blood and left on the street.

    Mary says, ‘This afternoon when I walked with my puppies I’ve found these galgo puppies greyhound ….. dead. They dDo not seem to have been run over, rather someone killed them.

    No one has been to take them, I just want to know if something can be done to find who did it. Whoever the bastard is who has done, deserves a lesson. They have no right to do this to poor animals …..

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  • Pet Passports UK – DEFRA relax rules from January 2012

    Good news for everyone involved in travelling dogs between the UK and the rest of Europe. DEFRA have now brought their entry rules into line with the rest of Europe from January 2012. Read the full report here.

  • Ageism – alive and practiced on mainland Europe!

    Beryl & Galgas 3 250 I am disappointed to learn that ageism is alive and flourishing in animal rescue associations. Let me start by saying to all of you who practice it – one day you will be a victim of ageism – you will be ‘old’!

    Now I’ll ask you all a question – if I applied to your association to adopt a dog, would you refuse me – on the basis that I’m 64 years old, been married for 41 years, work from home, had dogs all my life? Would you?

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  • CaniLeish – officially recognised vaccine for Leishmania!

    Great news, there is now an officially recognised vaccine for Leishmania, for use in the European Union. Thanks to Barbara LeFranc for letting me know.

  • Communicating with Animals –

    Pet_Psychic_Joanne Hull 170 Last weekend I treated myself to a weekend away – no lying in the sunshine by the side of a pool for me – rather joining half a dozen more animal lovers at a retreat in the woods of the Limousin region of France, for a weekend of learning to talk with animals! Joanne Hull, known as the Pet Psychic, was the tutor and she made the subject thoroughly fascinating and enjoyable. We students even got to practice too.

    This is what Joanne’s website says about ‘talking with animals’.

    ‘Psychic simply means using your intuition on a telepathic level, animal communication is the SIMPLE ability to listen, which to you and me means to become sensitive, to use our intuition, our gut feeling, giving our minds, hearts and souls the permission to fully experience what an animal sees, feels and senses.

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  • Podenco Post is now launched! Save and support the podencos!

    Podenco Post is now launched. It will be run on the same lines as Galgo News – goodness knows how I’ll find time to do paid writing!!! – so please support the podencos in the same way as you all support the galgos. As Podenco World says – The Great Forgotten.

    http://www.podencopost.com
    Please add it to your weblinks etc. Give the Podencos publicity too!

  • Grand Protest in Spain – 25th March – join a march near you!

    On www.noalmaltratoanimal.org you can read or see about a big manifestation through whole Spain on the 25th of March against mistreating of animals and longer sentences in prison for people who are guilty of this.

    There is a comprehensive list of all the cities and towns in which a march is organised, time and place to meet. Please circulate this far and wide throughout Spain and get the population motivated. So many Spanish people are concerned about the bad press in the rest of the world about bull-fighting, abandoned dogs and cats, horse wrestling, animals in fiestas, donkey stoning……

  • Racing Dogs Protection Act – an official proposal

    This website has been sent to me by a supporter, please read and take action where requested. A point to note; WSPA are supporting this, yet they abandoned the cause of the galgos back in 2002/2003 and, according to the latest response I received from them, they have no plans to take the matter up again.