Galgo News

Category: Campaign

  • Protectora Modepran Valencia – desperate times

    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.

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  • SOS Galgos – protest against the Spanish Animal Protection Act 7/2023

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    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.

    #Noscagamosenlaley

    (The link is on Instagram, apparently)

  • Investigation into the high rise of vet fees in UK and USA

    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.

    UK

    USA

  • Marching in Germany for the galgos and podencos

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    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.

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  • URGENT – protect the dogs of Los Infiernos Protectora, Lorca – send a letter now!

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    This is tragic. Please send an email even if you aren’t an animal person. Read to the end for the email addresses.

    I’ve asked for a Spanish translation and as soon as it is available I will publish here. Maybe best to write in Spanish.

    From Los Infiernos Protectora Supporters
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    Dear Lorca Town Hall ( Ayuntamiento de Lorca )

    I am one of the volunteers at Los Infiernos Protectora and have been volunteering with the dogs there for eight years now, not as long as some people, but it’s been a while. I’ve seen volunteers come and go. It happens, it’s not for everyone. I can honestly say, the volunteer group we have now is the very best team we have ever had. We have people working so hard in the background, it’s not all about showing up and walking the dogs and feeding the cats, although we are very good and dedicated in doing that.

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  • National Adopt a Black Dog Day

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    Read about it here.

  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – CMA UK look at extortionate vet costs

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    From Fermin

    ‘We participated in an on-line meeting of the UK All All-party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group about foreign dog
    adoptions a few years ago. For us one of the vets hit the nail on the head in the discussion. She rightly said adopters adopt with the best intention. They want a pet dog, not a project. And this makes total sense. It is a challenge in a refuge environment to discern completely accurately how shelter behaviour translates into a home but that is our aim: To present families with adoptable companions, rewarding for them and the dog, with appropriate rescue back-up.

    Talking to our network, it seems that costs have a role to play. We don’t actually fully cover our costs when asking for an adoption fee to support our work. If we reflected the actual expense, we would home very few dogs and cats. We try to keep the costs to a minimum.

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  • Greyt news for British greyhounds

    Working to end gambling on greyhound racing. Read the story here.

  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – costs of running the shelter

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    From Fermin – Scooby Shelter Running Costs: Veterinary

    We have a number of running costs to keep the Scooby shelter perational and thought it would be worth focussing on different
    internal cost groups to demonstrate how much we rely on your donations and how we spend the money you give us. In this
    newsletter we highlight our veterinary costs.

    We are fortunate to have our onsite clinic and our own vets. Our vets are salaried and we can present them with most of the medical conditions we come across as well as all of our spays and castrations. Sometimes we have to refer veterinary work to specialists or off-site vets but generally we rely on the skill of our Scooby vets.

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  • Scooby – Adopt a Senior Galgo

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    From Scooby

    ‘We have quite a few senior greyhounds at the moment at Scooby, for example this super sweet girl Sinchy. She’s already 8 years old and luckily her galguero doesn’t want her anymore and so she has the chance of a better and dignified life as she deserves.

    She’s quite fragile and a little shy and that’s why she’s looking for a calm family, with one or two other dogs because they give them confidence and gets along very well with all other dogs.

    For more information email adopciones@scoobymedina.org Sinchy your chip: 1654.’