Category: Campaign

During the letter writing campaigns which I run on Galgo News,both for myself and on behalf of other people, the question of writing to the Members of the European Parliament comes up.

So here I give the website source of every MEP in each country, so you can source the MEPs you feel it would be best to contact. The information is broken down into, country, region and contact details of the MEP. Please use this source for anything you want to send to an MEP.

I’ve also put the details on a separate page on Galgo News.

Joan Barrett is mounting a campaign to try and persuade politicians to act to improve the plight of the galgos. I hope you will all support her in this. This is what she has sent me.

Dear Animal Lover,

I have composed the attached letter and sent it to the Spanish Embassy as well as the members of European Parliament. I would very much appreciate it if you would read the letter and also send it to them, signed, if you agree with me. Thanks.

Joan Barrett

Here are some addresses that you can send the letter to:

This is the most important addess to contact

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You remember the story of Max, the little puppy covered in red varnish by some sadistic human being – human? Well, I’m happy to report that Pro-Galgo have treated him and cleaned him up and he has now gone to his forever home. Read about it here.

On the other hand, these 2 puppies were not so lucky. Marie Dutto send me this plea. Please sign the petition for her.

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An appeal popped into my Inbox this week, which I wish to share with you, in the hope that you will all write to your local MEP, as requested. You will find a link at the end of the post which will connect you to a website on which you will be able to find the contact details of your MEP. Please cross post where possible.

Herewith the letter, either post or email

Dear Sir or Madam,

I want to bring to your attention a very sad situation in your country which is of great concern to me and to many of my Spanish friends. This involves considerable cruelty to animals and in particular to dogs. Although there are laws to prevent such cruelty they are rarely, if ever enforced and there is a rather large gap in the law that regards greyhound racing dogs as “working dogs” which are therefore not covered by the law. After the rabbit-hunting season is over they either get thrown out, dumped on the motorway or are hanged.

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The following email arrived in my Inbox this morning. Please read and take the action requested. The suffering of this poor dog does not bear thinking about.

On Oct.2nd a dog that was supposedly a family member was cruelly killed in Guimar on one of Canary Islands Tenerife by a 16 years old boy by being stoned and beaten so long until the dog died.

The poor dog was a Podenco ( Spanish hunting dog ), people thought he was stray, he was so malnourished and looking absolutely neglected, but it was later found out that he was a family member( had a microchip ) and killed allegedly by the owner itself( the boy).

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I’ve received the following please from Greyhound Action, so all you sighthound lovers, please join in and help them.

Subject: [GA] Racing Dog Protection Act – Ask the League to endorse it!

To reply to this message, e-mail to > info@greyhoundaction.org.uk

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RACING DOG PROTECTION ACT
Ask the League Against Cruel Sports to endorse it!

Many of our supporters will be surprised to learn that the League Against
Cruel Sports is not totally opposed to commercial greyhound racing, despite the slaughter and suffering to dogs caused by the greyhound racing industry.
Instead of campaigning for a ban on the industry and urging the public not
to attend or bet on greyhound races, the League is merely calling for improved welfare
measures, which will do little or nothing to end the suffering and wholesale killing of greyhounds (and other dogs) brought about by commercial greyhound racing.

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On my trips to Spain, it never ceases to amaze me at the dedication of the wonderful volunteers who work tirelessly on behalf of the abandoned dogs and cats of Spain and the Spanish islands. And I am always impressed by the good condition of the animals (obviously counting out those just rescued or with medical problems and needing treatment), and the dogs are generally so happy. Anything has to be better than life on the streets or at the hands of uncaring owners.

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I know this isn’t about galgos and podencos, but my other lifelong passion is horses, I have ridden most of my life and still have 2 of my horses here with me in France. Please take the time to put a message on the WSPA website to protest about bullfighting in Catalonia, to protect both the bulls and the horses used by these vile men in the name of ‘entertainment and sport’. The animals don’t see it like that!

LET’S EXPOSE the worst rated perreras in Spain, that is, the dogpounds where the galguerros take their galgos at the end of the hunting season in January each year, plus all the other beautiful dogs and cats abandoned by uncaring owners – the cost of putting down a dog at the moment, I’m told, is 7 euros. It takes 20 minutes for the animal to die, during which time it becomes paralyzed………………..

This is the list according to the Bright Eyes Society.
http://www.brighteyes.dk/dataentry/default.asp?id=43&mnu=43