Galgo News

Category: Campaign

  • I am a dog!

    I am a Dog!

    I feel emotions, just as you do. Just like you I feel Love, I feel Fear, I feel Pain and Joy. I also feel Grief!

    I am not born knowing how to fit into your life. I will sometimes get it wrong. Sometimes I will not understand what you expect. I may fear things or act in a way you don’t understand. I may not understand how you are acting, or that strangers to the home mean no harm. I may not know what is acceptable to play with and what is not! I have to be taught these things, just as you had to be taught as a child.
    I am an individual, and just like you may not fit exactly into your expectations.
    Please teach me. I like to learn. I like to please. I love to be loved.
    Just because I may make mistakes please don’t discard me.
    I should not be an ‘until’ dog. I should be a forever dog!

    Just like you, I feel Love! I feel Grief!

  • Team Scooby Sprinters – will you sponsor them on 29th April?

    Scooby shelter 2 400
    Eva, Špela, Urška &Žiga will run the 10km marathon in Medina del Campo in aid of Protectora y Santuario Scooby on 29 April. We are hoping you will support them and Scooby by sponsoring one or all of the runners per kilometre.

    We know how much you love to support the Scooby animals and now, for the first time ever, we have an amazing opportunity for Scooby to have a presence in the Medina del Campo annual marathon. Not only one runner, but 4 which will give the shelter an unprecedented profile on its home ground. The Scooby animals are so lucky to have these runners going to such lengths (lengths of 10km to be precise!).

    If you would like to sponsor the runners, please go to the Protectora y Santuario Scooby Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/spascooby/ and write your pledge per runner in the comments fields under the announcement about the run. We will post each runner’s time after the race on 29 April and when you see this alert, please PayPal your pledge to Edwin@scoobymedina.com Please bear in mind that PayPal deducts a small fee from your pledge. Regardless of how you pay, please mark your donation “runnername&yourname”. If PayPal is not possible for you, please private message us for an alternative means. The closing date for payments is Friday 18 May 2018.

    You can meet the runners on this weblink.

    Please pledge…. and share…… and keep sharing.

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  • Help save and rehome the Macau greyhounds – the stadium is closing!!

    At long last the dreadful Canidrome in Macau, China, will close its doors and over 6oo greyhounds need to find forever homes, may of them from Ireland and the UK. Read the story here, please share and donate etc to help.

  • Costa del Sol may stop euthanaising healthy animals

    Read the story here.

  • April – Animal Abuse Prevention Month

    Scooby animal abuse poster 400 4 2018

  • Young galga rescued from death…La Guarida need help

    La guarida 400 1 28 3 2018
    Starving and injured galga left for dead in the olive groves. La Guarida received the message about her and this is the story. If you can help towards the vet fees, details below, including Paypal.

    She is alive, being stablized on antibiotics and fuidoterapia and antibiotics and has survived the first night since rescue. Despite her terrible condition, her blood tests are negative, which means she is free of leishmania, ehrlichia and filaria! She is very malnourished with wounds which are very infected, the skin broken, extremely thin. After a night in the vet clinic, she has the strength to stand!

    ‘Please help us pay for your hospitalization, little galguita, because you will be in the vet clinic for several days.

    Bank transfer – concept. Galguita of the olive grove. – La Caixa Es19 2100 2631 87 0110322978.

    – Paypal juncalin@gmail.com

    – make yourself teamers, and help, with only 1 E a month!! https://www.teaming.net/laguarida?lang=es_ES

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  • Galgo found dead with chip removed – Scooby offers a reward

    The situation for Spain’s hunting dogs does not change…the galgueros refuse to implement control of breeding and stopping abandonment at the end of hunting. Here Scooby writes.

    ‘We offer a reward of 500€ to who can provide truthful information about the owner of this galgo found dead in Roales Del Pan (Zamora) and with the chip removed *.

    And it is that the situation, far from being solved, is worsening year after year. The problem after each hunting season has been reported in recent years, but nothing has improved. In fact, we could say that the hunters are still abandoning and killing the same or more than before.

    That is why we ask the citizens to co-operate and denounce those who commit these atrocities, and we are sure that in the local communities everyone knows who owns these animals which are found dead or abandoned.

    We also call on the security forces to pay more attention to animal abuse because this type of act must not go unpunished.

    Link to news in press: http://bit.ly/2pb6y1w

  • Sign the petition to ban the Salon du Chiot (Puppy Fairs)

    In France where I live there are regularly held Salon du Chiot which are hug ‘fairs’ at which you can buy puppies and anything to do with dogs. These fairs should be banned. Please sign and share this petition, even if you don’t live in France.

  • PACMA – marching in Madrid on 15 3 2018

    PACMA are taking their protect about animal maltreatment in Spain to the Spanish Government – Congress itself – on Thursday 15th March 2018. Join them if you can.

  • Petition to the Regional Government of Castilla-la Mancha

    Please sign and share, we have to keep trying to help the hounds.