Charl del Rio received this reply from the Animal Aid charity, in respect of the email which has been circulating about the ‘artist’ and starving dog in Latin America.
Dear Charlotte,
Thank you for sending us this email – we do share your anger. We have known about this ‘artist’ for some time (the exhibition with the dog was held last year) but it remains unclear what actually happened.
A reminder that the vile man claiming to be an artist is still planning on taking a dog off the street, chaining it to a wall in a studio, and starving it to death, like he did last year.
Sign the on-line petition, and here are the email address and website of the art gallery where the artist murdered the dog in Costa Rica 2007 in the name of art!
info@madc.ac.cr
CHECK OUT this link for an update on this http://www.greyhoundaction.org.uk/starved.htm I have written to HSI for more information and confirmation of what they say.
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A plea from Kathi Backes of SOS Levriers for as many people as possible to sign their on-line petition before 31st March 2009.
Kathi says, ‘Our last petition (17 000 signatures) was sent to the Spanish Minister of Environment. I think things in Spain are moving, and it is helped by these signatures by the thousands which come from people all over Europe! When we receive an answer, I will put it on our webpage, so all visitors can read it and see it!
We need to continue to work against those atrocities in all ways and one of these is our petition, this time to the President of the Parliament, Mr Zapatero. If we do nothing, nothing will change! So we need to take every opportunity to put pressure on the politicians who can change the laws!’
Stop the physical and mental cruelty against Galgos and Podencos in Spain
The following letter has been received from April and Paul Carrier, right, at the Alpha Dog Centre:
We have worked for 8 years rehabilitating and preparing small groups of 10 to 20 Spanish Galgos for adoption. We have been spared the reality of the desperate day-to-day struggle undergone by dedicated and caring individuals like Saskia and Juan the veterianarian, who spend the bulk of their lives working to help abandoned Galgos and many other dogs of all shapes and sizes at their shelter.
They are on the ‘front line’, seeing and experiencing the abandonment of galgos and other dogs on a scale hard to imagine.
This morning Paul went to visit their shelter, Acogida de San Anton in Villamartin, Andalucia, to collect another galga. He found Saskia and Juan sad and beginning to lose hope – they currently have in their care around 70 Galgos, and 125 other dogs.
THIS IS SPAIN!
A boycott against Spain has been launched. Don’t visit Spain on holiday, don’t buy Spanish goods. Help the animals of Spain.
Visit Cruelty in Spain to discover more information about the boycott which has been launched against Spain and their abuse to animals, galgos/bulls.
The Spanish Environment Minister, Cristina Narbona, is inclined to create a new National Animal Protection Law to avoid the atrocities against galgos and podencos.
Please, email her to emphasise the support she will receive from galgo supporters worldwide.
To read more, visit galgosinfronteras.
This petition is against a man who calls himself an artist. In 2007 he chained a dog up and left it to starve to death. He called it ‘Art’. More on www.greyhoundaction.org.uk/greyhound.html
He is planning to do this again this year.
Please add your name to the half million people who have already signed.
This is the link. It requires your name, email addres, town and country completing, to add you on.
Charl del Rio has now written with more information, and a plea.
This email address, and website, is that of the art gallery where the artist murdered the dog in Costa Rica 2007 in the name of art!
info@madc.ac.cr
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PLEASE join me in sending a letter to them in disgust. My letter is below which you are welcome to use, or send in your own words. It would just take a moment.
We all try and do our bit to help the plight of the galgos and podencos in Spain. What I’d like to do now is have a MASS letter-writing campaign to the Spanish Prime Minister. Together with Charl, we’ve put together the following letter.
Please print off a copy of the letter and send it to the Spanish Prime Minister.
Please tell all your friends to do the same, and ask other animal rescue/welfare associations to run this appeal on their websites.
I’m getting a copy of it translated into Spanish too, and I’m checking, as I think there are elections due to be held in Spain on 9th March and it may be that Senor Zapatero is not re-elected.
Also an email address, although I think letters through the post will have more chance of arriving on someone’s desk! gabinete@presidencia.gob.es
For those of you supporters who wrote to the Lady Mayoress of Palma to protest about the closure of the centre, and who had their email returned, I have received the following reply.
Loosely translated from Spanish, it says,
‘The council are not into “sacrificing animals if they can help it”. The centre was opened in 2000, and licenced for 10 dogs. It now has more like 44. and local neighbours have complained.
Over a long period of time they have discussed this with the centre,
Many of the email addresses did not work because they have been so
inundated by emails that either they have suspended the email address or
blocked them.
The association has managed to obtain a court injunction stopping the
removal of animals from the refuge.
The judge is still to rule if the association can keep the animals or
not.
We are in touch with the association and they appreciate the support you
have all given.
Thank you.
Saludos
Paul Agius
Presidente de ADANA
www.adana-estepona.com
0034 699 026 129
