Galgo News

Category: Campaign

  • Baas Galgo – help equip a refuge for the Toledo galgos

    Baas Galgo new refuge Toledo poster 190 12 2011Baas Galgo have been helping rescue and care for dozens of galgos in Toledo, so they want to open and equip a refuge there. They desperately need funds for this project and you can help in the following way: please click on this link and add a comment. For every comment posted, the association will receive 50cents. Every 50cents will help towards the new refuge, as well as contributing towards the ongoing vet fees from the flooding earlier in the year in Cordoba. You can also follow the project on Facebook Galgo Espanol

  • Save Greyhounds from China – more action needed from everyone

    PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY TO ALL YOUR GROUPS AND CONTACTS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INCLUDING ALL YOUR IRISH/ASIAN CONTACTS AND ALL ANTI-GREYHOUND RACING CAMPAIGNERS WORLDWIDE AND ALL WEBSITES, TWITTER, MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK FOR MAXIMUM PUBLICITY

    CHINA CRISIS CAMPAIGN UPDATE

    Say NO to greyhound racing going global- greyhounds seen in China-
    please take action now to protect our greyhounds

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  • More abandoned Cordoba galgas and a lame puppy

    Cordoba galga & pup road 2 250 12 2011Cordoba again, yet another galga and puppies. Here’s the report from El Arca de Noe Cordoba.

    ’23 Dec. I was driving along a road going to a store on an industrial estate when a galga crossed my path, her teats were very swollen. I had to brake hard so as not to hit her. She ran into the rough ground on the industrial estate, and I then saw she was not alone, there was another galga with her, and a puppy – the puppy is lame.

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  • Badajoz Perrera, still more galgos dumped! Curse the heartless Spanish hunters

    Badajoz perrera 5 2 25024 12 2011And more young galgos in the Badajoz perrera.

    A volunteer reports. ‘This week is especially had with the arrival of many galgos and dogs that have been used for hunting and now already kicked out by the thugs of hunters. S.O.S KENNEL BADAJOZ! Curse the hunters and people close to them!

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  • Spanish Galgo massacred for Christmas – never ending

    Friday, December 23, 2011 Another galgo massacred. Christmas in Spain.

    An association volunteer reports. This is horrible, is a non-stop.

    When we are collecting a galgo Marlon from the clinic where he had jhad an operation, we received a call from someone who sees this horror and asks for help for her.

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  • Last chance for Toledo galgos on death row

    Toledo galgos 3 333 12 2011These galgos are in the Toledo perrera and the association has been told it is the last time they will be allowed in there. In 3 months they have managed to take our more than 100 dogs, with the help of the protectoras and individuals who have made this possible. These are the galgos currently there, mostly young ones.

    Males video on YouTube

    Females Video on YouTube

    contacto: adopciones@ashaprotectora.es

    www.ashaprotectora.es

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  • Life for the galgos in Spain – ‘Children of the Wind’

    ‘The Curse of the Children of the Wind’ – video to watch on YouTube. Some of the photos are quite old. (Thanks, Val, for posting on Fb Save the Galgos)

  • Las Palma, Canary Islands – man shoots dog dead with homemade weapon

    FECAPAP (Canaria Federation of associations protective of animals and plants), in the Canary Islands, recently condemned the killing of a dog by a home made weapon. Earlier this week, a resident of Mazo, La Palma, killed his dog by shooting it with an illegally owned homemade firearm made of two cylindrical tubes, using 16 cartridges! The man was arrested by the Guardia Civile and will be prosecuted for possession of an illegal firearm.

    FECAPAP (together with PACMA) have denounced the killing, in that the dog’s owner didn’t give it a chance of being rehomed by handing it in to a local shelter.

  • Save a child? Save a dog? Either way, you save a valuable life.

    Zaragoza perrera galgo 250 12 2011I took this off Facebook today. Please read this article with an open mind before taking the familiar and very unfortunate question: “With the children who are starving, let’s save a dog ? “.Yes, there are many children who die of hunger, but, fortunately, not in Spain.

    In Spain one hundred thousand dogs are abandoned each year. With the advent of the crisis, kennels and shelters have been saturated. And this epidemic of dropouts shows me what I already knew: if you buy a dog as one who buys a bag, pay for a puppy just because the breed has become fashionable, it is as likely to leave as you stop wearing the bag when season pass.

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  • Gran Canaria – holidays in the sun – not for the abandoned animals!

    Let’s not forget the shelters on the islands where so many people spend holidays in the sun…Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Mallorca, Ibiza…….behind the glitz, abandoned dogs and cats struggle to survive. It’s only thanks to the few shelters and volunteers that some of them are saved. But they still need to find forever homes, mostly on the European mainland.

    Here’s the latest news on Gran Canaria

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