Galgo News

Category: Campaign

  • UK Campaign to ban betting on dogs and greyhound racing

    Don't Bet on It greyhound campaign 10 2010 250 Last Monday after months of planning between LUSH and greyhound protection groups the ‘Don’t Bet On It’ campaign launched itself into UK High Streets and Shopping Malls and UK shoppers were greeted with this message nationwide. At midday on 18th October 2010 the campaign went live online and LUSH issued hundreds of press releases to the national media and at long last a major UK company endorsed our cause and were prepared to promote and support the campaign to end the betting on dogs and commercial greyhound racing.

    Click on this link to read more and watch a video

  • ASANDA Petition against Cordoba City of Culture! Please sign

    ASANDA logo 200 Please take a moment to add your name to this petition on behalf of ASANDA and circulate it to all your family and friends, asking them to do the same. It is about using animals in ‘Spanish Culture’ especially as Cordoba has been nominated as City of Culture 2016. HA!! We who have visited know better!!

    Click on this link, scroll down the page to read the English translation. Then go to FIRMAR written in green. Click on this which will open boxes into which you need to put your personal details and any comment you wish to add. You will need to fill in all the boxes for the link to work. Type persona in the bottom box, as instructed, meaning you are a human and not a robot!

    Thank you as always for your support.

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  • Restabal, Grenada, Spain, can anyone help these starving dogs

    Calling everyone involved in animal rescue in Andalucia. I’ve just received the following message from Scooby Medina who unfortunately are much too far away to be able to help these dogs. Can anyone go and rescue them?

    ‘Hello,
    I am hoping you may be able to help me, I have just returned to the United States from a short trip to the Grenada region. We rented a house in the rugged countryside south of Grenada called the Lecrin Valley, we were nearest the small village of Restabal, not far from Durcal.

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  • Join the Campaign – write to the Junta Andalucia, Spain – protest!

    Galgueros-consejera Andalucia Junta 09 2010 250 Look at the faces of these people. They are the Junta in Andalucia. They have just passed a law allowing galgos to be run beside motorbikes, to train them for galgo racing! Below is a letter which El Refugio Escuela have put together. Please copy it and email to the address given. I have asked for a postal address too, as we all know that email addresses can be blocked.

    We have to let these people know that this is NOT acceptable. Please support this campaign.

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  • Live in the UK? Please support this Early Day Motion to save racehorses

    I have been passionate about dogs and horses all my life. I still have two horses at my home in France; we have a lovely network of lanes and tracks to ride during the cool months of autumn, winter and spring – too much heat and too many flies in the summer!

    My home in Suffolk was a mere 25 miles from the world centre of horseracing – Newmarket. I have always been sickened by the overbreeding of racehorses and I absolutely hate horse racing – especially ‘over sticks’ as jump racing is called.

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  • Another petition for the galgos

    Here is another petition about the galgos. I am posting the link, but I have doubts about the accusation that dogs in perreras are clubbed to death. If anyone has any proof of this, I will be interested to receive it.

    http://www.thepetitionsite.com/180/please-help-to-save-the-galgos-in-spain

  • Help the Galgos – sign this petition

    Another petition to sign, to help the galgos. Add your name and comment here.

  • France 24 – Mo Swatek talks about the plight of the galgo – add a comment

    Valarie Wolf has just sent me this link to an interview with Mo Swatek, President of Pro-Galgo. Please add your comments to it.

  • Vote to Ban Hare Coursing in Ireland – save hares and greyhounds

    This link will take you to a poll about hare coursing. What this means is that the paper wants to get a feel of how the rest of the world feels about coursing with real hares and greyhounds. It is important to vote ‘yes’ as this is the only chance both hares and greyhounds have. Hare coursing is banned in the UK. Unfortunately it has driven the ‘blood sport’ underground. But it is still important to keep it banned. So vote ‘Yes’ to help both the hares and the dogs. At the moment it is 28% for the ban, 79% against a ban. Disgraceful!

    Vote on this link Scroll down the page to the bottom right-hand corner.

  • Is Logan (Australia) Greyhound Stadium already being constructed?

    Whilst greyhound action groups around the world are protesting about the possibility of building a greyhound racing stadium at Logan, Queensland, Australia, and one of the comment posters, Sue Burley of Australia, is explaining why Oz greyhounds live such fantastic lives, this post has been sent to me. Perhaps Sue would now honestly explain just how far this project has got, since this post is over one year old!

    Sue Birley, Australia (Greyhound-Data Team Member)
    Posts 1929
    Dogs 5,281 / Races 5,021
    11 May 2009 06:35

    Was driving past the Cronulla Park site this morning and lo and behold there were the Engineers with their equipment and a big drilling machine working on the EPA report? Not rumour, fact seen with my own eyes.
    Now why would they be continuing with the EPA report if Logan wasn’t going ahead Dan?

    http://greyhound-data.com/knowledge.php?b=4&note=394489&order=&x=12