Galgo News

Category: Campaign

  • URGENT – Save the Cuenca dogs – email NOW – before 4 Jan if poss

    Please join this campaign urgently, and ask friends and family to do the same.

    As many of you might already know, the refuge of Arcoiris in Cuenca is going to be converted again in a Perrera, which means killing station. This Friday 5th January 2013 they are going to decide which company is going to manage the municipal pound, which at the moment is a protectora (rescue association). They have put the conditions in the contract so severe that no association for the welfare of the animals can enter.

    The only thing at the moment we can do is to fill their inboxes with thousands of emails so that they will notice how many people are concerned about the welfare of these 400 dogs that are in the refuge now, and that will be sacrificed.

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  • Listening Dogs make reading aloud Fun

    In the UK, my first greyhound – a stray who turned up from nowhere and put her feet firmly under the table – became a very popular PAT dog – that’s Pets As Therapy. Molly and I used to visit a retirement home where the residents enjoyed talking about the dogs they had owned, and sharing their birthday cake with her. It’s not a scheme which operates very much where I now live in France, sadly.

    Here’s another idea of how dogs can help with therapy.

  • ACTIN, Murcia – please support

    ACTIN is an organisation based in Murcia Spain, working towards improving the situation for the abandoned animals, mainly cats and dogs, with sterilisation campaigns, billboards, researching legislation to protect animals, and more. They need the support of people worldwide, please take a look at the website.

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  • 175,000 dogs euthanaised every year in Spain!

    Dead dog in perrera 200 12 2012Every year, in the Spanish killing stations (perreras) 175.000 dogs are euthanaised, that is almost 500 each day! Dogs who want to live, young, old, healthy or sick, playful and sweet like your own dog with a whole life ahead…Yesterday 500, today 500, tomorrow 500, the day after tomorrow 500…EVERY DAY !! SO DON`T BREED, DON`T BUY: ADOPT !!!

  • Please sign petition – Close Mairena killing station!

    Mairena 250My heart is very heavy. I have mainly only bad news coming in from Spain at the moment – stupidity of Spanish authorities, sickening cruelty of the ‘inhuman’ species, and the suffering of all dogs in perreras. I have long publicised the Mairena perrera in Seville province, Andalusia, as one of the worst in Spain – indeed 3 or 4 years ago volunteers were stopped from taking photos of dogs needing help, because of the bad publicity. Why feed a dog you are going to kill?

    Please sign this petition – if we do nothing, nothing will change – if we sign, we might make a change. Please ask everyone you know to sign. Below is an Internet translation into English; sorry, no time to correct grammar but you get the gist!

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  • Dog Traffikers – Spain to Italy!

    It’s not always good news, when appeals have been circulated about galgos in killing stations – that they are then ‘adopted’! Depending on the killing station, some of the dogs are taken into the care of rescue associations – such as from SOS Badajoz, Zaragosa, to name but two. But others, such as Mairena, don’t care, they are simply happy to accept a payment of about 30 euros/dog, no matter where the dog goes.

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  • Gesser Killing Station, Cadiz – due to die 20.12 so the staff can go on holiday!

    Gesser Atigrada 250 12 2012These galgos are all in Gesser (Cadiz) killing station. They will be murdered before 20th December, because the staff there want to have a holiday over Xmas, and they don’t want to be bothered with seeing to dogs. What price life?!! If you can help, please contact Maribel. maribeljerezsos2@gmail.com (Spain 0034) 605637101 Maribel between 9-5 every day. You can pay a holding fee and sponsor a dog, which will then go into a kennels, and you pay for that until an association takes the dog to be adopted. Give the gift of life this Xmas, instead of your Xmas turkey and Xmas pud!

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  • Could you do dog rescue in Spain?

    I have to admit to being somewhat upset. Not for myself, I hasten to add, but on behalf of my friends in Spain and elsewhere in Europe. I’m talking about the amazing animal rescue volunteers, rehomers, fosterers – everyone involved in helping abandoned and injured animals in Spain. Regular readers will know how often I praise these people – they work tirelessly against terrible odds, risking their health, their relationships, threats to themselves, their families, their homes. I’ve visited them in Spain over the past few years and seen what they do, every day, every week, every year – no letup.

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  • Conseja Andaluz de Proteccion de Animales de Compania proves to be empty shell

    Read the full article on Greyhounds Rescue Holland.

  • Another petition, please sign, doesn’t take a minute, could make a different.

    Another on-line petition, but please sign and share. Stop Arco Arais refuge being turned back into a municipal killing station!!