Hi Folks
If any of you have tried sending an email message to the President, you’ll probably have got the very nice message on your screen ‘Do NOT try that’.
Herewith postal address.
Her Excellency
GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
President of the Republic of the Philippines
New Executive Building
Malacanang Palace Compound
JP Laurel Street, San Miguel, Manila.
E-mail: corres@op.gov.ph
Website: http://www.op.gov.ph
Also write to newspapers
With reference to my call for everyone to protest about proposed greyhound racing in the Philippines, I have today received a curt message from Professor Elizabeth Snyman.
‘I do not like this message. Throughout our research project we were as
objective as possible and furthermore none of us have any ties with
either animal welfare or the racing industry. I therefore ask you not to
sent out your own subjective views’.
I have replied as follows:
Madam
Your email as above has been received, your comments noted and I respond as follows.
How long did your research take.
What form did it take.
The pic is of Masey, a Spanish racing greyhound
I’ve received the following information in an email. Please take time to read the message and then pass on to as many people as possible, and write as requested. We succeeded as a group in stopping the proposal to hold greyhound racing in Jamaica, we can do it again! Come on, everyone…………………
This on-line petition request people to sign in protest about the Catalan hunters who have had the cheek to publicise a so called ‘apology’ to schools for the horrors they commit against galgos every year. The video show an under-cover reporter interviewing one of them. Do you know what I think would be a good idea – to cut off their hands, and then hang them by their genitalia, just like they do to galgos by the neck!
Please sign the petition.
Please also circulate to everyone you know and ask them to do the same.
RSPCA report on the vote by 22nd July.
Thank you so much for responding to the government consultation on the welfare of racing greyhounds.
We wanted to let you know that the government received over 10,000 responses to the consultation from RSPCA supporters in just under two weeks. This is a great achievement!
We really appreciate you taking action on this important issue.
We want to see effective regulations brought in to cover the welfare of all racing greyhounds from cradle to grave, not just whilst they’re at the racetrack. All aspects of welfare within the greyhound industry, from breeding to kennelling, racing, transportation, management and retirement need to be comprehensively improved.
We hope the mass response to the government consultation influences the range of welfare issues that are addressed within the regulations. We shall keep you informed of the outcome of this consultation.
Thanks again for your support on this campaign.
The RSPCA Campaigns Team
**URGENT ACTION ALERT—PLEASE FORWARD AND CROSSPOST TO ALL LISTS **
International Threats to Greyhounds, Letters Needed!
Dear Friends:
We have just learned that efforts to open dog tracks in the South Pacific and in the Caribbean are underway.
Please send your letters of concern to officials on behalf of the greyhounds. Thousands of dogs will be doomed to injury and death if racetracks are legalized in these new jurisdictions.
The Philippines
In the Philippines, House Bill No. 5291—An Act Granting the Fox Millenium Amusement Club a Franchise to Construct, Operate and Maintain a Greyhound Racetrack—would make dog racing legal in the city of Mandaue. This dangerous measure has already been approved by a legislative conference committee.
Please send a letter of support for the greyhounds to:
This is the link to the Greyhounds in Nood website which is also running a petition to try and stop this law coming into effect. Click on the Union Jack if you want to read what they say in English.
http://www.ginb.be/petition/indexen.php
This is the other petition
Cobie Steketee is the amazing Dutch lady who runs one of the shelters in Cordoba from which we brought several galgos to rehome in France. She has written an article about the problems many shelters face with regard to transporting dogs around Spain and elsewhere.
The transportation of live dogs from Spain to France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.
It has been almost two and a half years now that I have worked as a volunteer in numerus Spanish shelters/dogs homes. According to my connections through this period of time, it has become obvious that many of the shelters and adoption charities seem to run into the same problem time and time again… that being, the transportation of the dogs to other European Countries outside of Spain itself.
A lot of the Spanish dogs can easily be rehomed in other countries, but the biggest problem is, how to get them there with reasonable expense coverage. It is due to this problem that many dogs still remain in the Spanish shelters for a long period of time and these shelters quickly become overfull.
Click on the link to read the full article.
In October, due to a change in Belgian law, no organization can import dogs from abroad. This means that organizations dedicated to Spanish Galgos and Greyhounds have to cease their activities. Hundreds of these dogs travel to Belgium every year to be adopted, to find families and a life full of love and affection.
Let’s all try to fight this law, to stop it applying to galgos and greyhounds, as without our help they will have no chance of being adopted.
Please sign the petition.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/tegen-hondenracisme-en-discriminatie
From Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo
