Save My Life Benidorm have vans going out on Monday 4th November loaded with food, water, cleaning materials etc to shelters badly affected by the floods. This is the second van load. They have clearance from the Police to go.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-the-valencia-flooded-rescues-animals
From SOS Podencos
Edu, the kennel owner, is alive and seems physically well but he is in shock. Nobody rescued him even if the rescue services were contacted several times for almost 12 hours. They were collapsed. So many people are trapped or missing, so only one person and dogs weren’t the priority.
Most roads are still closed but his son could go to the road near the kennel that is higher and throw him food over the fence. Some dogs were barking. We don’t know the extent of the damages and the animal deaths.
On 15 October PACMA began a decisive and ambitious campaign: they want to add 500 new members before January 1, 2025.
They say…
Why? Well, we intend to develop four major actions for next year, and your membership is necessary to make them a reality:
1. Lower veterinary VAT: We want to launch a campaign to reduce the cost of these services, today a luxury for many families.
2. Strengthening sentences for animal abuse: We need firm and effective legislation that prevents cruelty to animals and forcefully punishes those responsible. We want to deploy all means of pressure to propose a new reform of the Penal Code.
All the animal rescue associations are suffering badly with a lack of donations during this recession. Here’s a story from one of them.
‘Animal advocate Modepran makes this announcement
UNSUSTAINABLE SITUATION
From Modepran we see ourselves in the obligation to release this statement to bring awareness to the situation in which our protector is. We’ve been at the limit for several months, and after the end of summer the situation persists, and we can’t do it anymore.
With an average of between seven and fifteen rescued dogs daily that add to the more than 656 dogs and 370 cats that already live in our shelters, the situation is unsustainable and entails a collapse of the facilities, in addition to the inability to take on the maintenance costs and be careful.
SOS GALGOS (oficial)
One year after its implementation, we protest the Animal Protection Act 7/2023, a law that denies hunting greyhounds rights and sentences them to a lifetime of suffering. Come on, that’s a f*cking law.
Become a partner to protect the greyhound from this unfair law!
Protest with us by sharing the campaign so that everyone knows what is happening with the greyhound.
(The link is on Instagram, apparently)
Pet owners in both the UK and US have felt the impact of the high rise in vet charges over the past several years and it’s not the vets who are benefiting from the increase. Having said that, are they benefiting from selling out their practices to speculative companies who have nothing to do with animals and thereby benefiting in that respect? Basically, to me, it all boils down to human greed, and pet owners and animals are suffering as a consequence.
Below are links to 2 articles which are looking at the problem.
Last weekend in both Leipzig and Mainz in Germany hundreds of people and dogs were marching to ban hunting with galgos and podencos in Spain.
