Category: Campaign

  • Galgos chained up in bunker – video of Antena 3 news report

    This is the video of the news report on Antena 3 about the galgos chained up in a bunker.

  • Pro-Galgo and Le Bulletin des Levriers – saving Jerez galgos

    Herewith pix of a rescue this month by Le Bulletin des Levriers, the French arm of Pro-Galgo. And if my translator package tells me right, the black mama galga and her pups in Jerez are now safely with out with one of the rescue associations.

  • Navarra perrera – podencos on death row – hunting dogs don’t deserve to die!

    Urgent – podencos, setters and other hunting dogs in the Navarra – can anyone save any?

  • Seville galgos, another 33 arrive at Scooby Medina

    Seville galgos 33 arrive 14 02 2011 250 More of the 100 galgos rescued from Seville have arrived at the Scooby Medina refuge. Here’s what Cobie says.

    ‘Last week arrived the first 33 galgos from another 100 from Seville, the rest will come this week. I´ll send you pictures of them and also pictures from 2 galgos of this group who have burn marks on their thighs, This is something the gypsies do, like a kind of microchip but more painfull for the poor dogs. They do it with acid from batteries or with a hot iron like with horses or cows.

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  • Another petition to sign

    Another petition to sign http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/dogs-and-cats-being-gassed-in-spain/

    Spain has the same problems of animal abandonment as most of the other European countries as a result of the recession – people lose their jobs, lose their homes, lose their pets. On top of the actions of the galgueros.

  • Zaragoza Killing Station – podencos need saving – please help

    Podenca Zaragoza 1 08 2011 250 The hunting season is now over and hunters are getting rid of their ‘4-footed tools’!
    These are the Perricos to be slaughtered in a few days at the Zaragoza perrera. This is the appeal I received

    ‘We are only two volunteers who have many dogs in kennels which we pay the fees and we can’t take any more dogs. We have all this responsibility on our shoulders and we desperately need adopters for the dogs in our care, and more so we need special people who can rescue these young podencos before they are sacrificed in a few days.

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  • End of hunting season in Spain – galgueros dump their dogs en masse!!

    Galgo Rescue June 2009 050 210 I can’t keep up with it all on Galgo News, just too much to post; galgos and podencos abandoned throughout winter, refuges full to bursting, embalming galgos rears its ugly head again – more in another post – and now galgueros dumping their dogs at the refuges and shelters. Yet more galgos dumped in the perreras, and now cutting microchips out of the dogs before dumping. How do the volunteers cope?

    Now I’ll tell you about a man who could make a change but hasn’t.

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  • Barcelona Dogs – stunning leather dog collars – raise funds for galgo rescue

    Klea_levin_house 250One of the items which many associations use for fundraising is to sell dog collars. The huge majority of these collars are fabric martingale collars. My experience of these is that a) the dog scratches the collar and the fabric gets tatty and 2) I would never ever risk walking one of my galgos outside in one. It may be that I have bought a design not suited to the purpose which I required. But personally, I still prefer a shaped leather collar. And the most fantastic designs I have found are Barcelona Dogs.

    I met Klea, their creator/designer, when I went to Barcelona at the beginning of December 2010, and I can confirm the superb quality of these collars and the designs unique. Even better that the price for the collars was not staggering, which I had expected, considering the ‘jewels’ used.

    For anyone wishing to purchase a collar from Klea and at the same time raise funds for galgos in Spain, then if you order through the link on Galgo News, Klea will make a donation to my Galgo Fund. To ensure Galgo News gets the donation, please use the code berylgalgos. There are two special designs for galgos, at a discount price, but you can also choose a collar for any breed/type of dog from the whole range of collars. So please click on the website Click this link for special rescue galgo range.

    As I’ve mentioned before, money raised from the sale of my book and notelets is used to donate to appeals for help with vet fees, which I post on Galgo News.

  • Pleas on behalf of Podencos – hung, injured, starving, abandoned – Shame on the hunters!

    La Linea hanged with trap 1 02 2011 250 Here are some more podencos, abandoned, injured – one hung by a steel strap, another found with a metal collar, starving, needing help. Even two podenco puppies in a perrera in Seville! The hung podenco is at La Linea shelter in Cadiz, as is the old one abandoned at a petrol station. Adopt from La Linea through Podencoworld
    Contact here for the starving podenco at La Cazalla, 70km from Seville, and contact here for the puppies in the perrera in Seville. If anyone can help………..

    La Linea starving pod 1 02 2011 250

    Starving podenco 1 Seville 02 2011 250

    Seville perrera puppies 02 2011 250

  • El Arca de Noe alert – Cordoba petshop – maltreating animals

    Quick alert from El Arca de Noe Cordoba. There is a pet shop in Cordoba run by a woman, who is accused of mistreatment of animals, but she is still trying to buy animals to sell. Please help us to spread the word and that this message reaches everywhere! Contact us to protest. elarcadenoecordoba@gmail.com www.arcanoecordoba.es