Galgo News

Category: Campaign

  • Scooby – Open letter to animal protection organisations in Castille y Leon

    Scooby Alma 400 6 2017Here’s a link to the Scooby News blog where Fermin asks that all animal protection associations in Castille y Leon work together to form a strong group to fight the maltreatment of animals there.

    This stunning galga has been named Alma, saved from the Valladolid perrera. She has an old injury to her foreleg which was left to heal on its own! Scooby have also taken another galgo from the same perrera also with a broken foreleg and he is due to have an operation to try and repair it. They need help to pay for his vet care, along with all the other animals they recently rescued.

    If you can’t have a dog or can’t adopt another one, how about a Virtual Adoption? Here are the details.

  • Spanish Civil Code – get Spain into the 21 st Century on animal welfare

    SIGN AND SHARE PLEASE
    The Spanish Civil Code dates from 1889.

    For this law, which over time has undergone numerous reforms to modernize and adapt in other respects, animals are still considered “semovientes”, that is, mere things.

    Spain needs to adapt its Civil Code to the current social and legal reality. That is why we propose to promote the reform of the Civil Code so that animals receive the legal status already granted by the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which in Article 13 recognizes animals as sentient beings, that is, living beings Endowed with sensitivity.

    This legal anachronism has already been reformed in other Civil Codes such as Catalan, which expressly recognizes that animals are not things, or the French, Austrian, Swiss or German Civil Code, which have already carried out the relevant reform to change the statute Legal from animals from “things” to “living beings endowed with sensibility”.

    The Spanish legislator must assume the reality and current needs of the moment we live in, where animals are living beings with rights recognized and protected by the same legal system of which the Civil Code forms part and conform legislation to contemporary society and recognition , Affection and respect that are deserved by living beings with whom we share life and even coexistence.

    In short, from the Observatory Justice and Animal Defense, we ask that you keep the animals in mind when updating our laws and our Civil Code is updated in this aspect, because animals are not things.

    P.S. Once achieved on February 14 that the plenary of the Congress of Deputies unanimously approved to urge the Government to undertake this legal reform, in March 2017 the Affinity Foundation joins in this campaign to the Justice and Animal Defense Observatory with the aim of adding Efforts, achieve more social support and achieve final victory: that our Civil Code be reformed as soon as possible to be recognized black on white in our law as the #AnimalesNOsonCosas.

    Keep commenting and sharing the petition here and getting the number up to 300,000

  • Marching for the Spanish hounds in Frankfurt, Germany

    Hundreds of galgos and podencos marched through the streets of Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday, to raise public awareness to the terrible maltreatment the hounds suffer at the hands of the Spanish hunters. Video on this link.

  • 5th June 2017 – Olivenza Perrera, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain closes down

    Olivenza perrera dogs 400After many years of outrage at the treatment of dogs in the privately managed Olivenza Perrera in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, today closes its doors, as its licence has not been renewed. Yea, shout many people, but it is not good news for the dogs still there. 104 of them, where will they go? Here is a translation by Mo Swatek of Pro-Galgo International of this article.

    The Diputación does not know what to do. That is the answer that have given TODAY protector of Extremaduran animals and veterinarians on the relocation of the 104 dogs that are in the kennel of Olivenza and that the provincial institution has to remove before Tuesday. On Monday the contract with the kennel expires and its owners have decided to close the premises.

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  • OUTRAGE – against the Spanish judges, maire, police officers, Junta de Castile-y-Leon

    Scooby dead galgo 400 3 6 2017I am almost speechless about some of the Spanish scum – judges, maires, police officers – they are scum of the earth and sub-human when you read this story! Sign this petition to support the suspended police officers who tried to help these dogs, now safe with Scooby. Here’s the story.

    Helping animals is not a crime. *** please sign and share, please ***

    Let’s avoid that two cops nationals under suspension for saving the lives of 6 Greyhounds in a deplorable situation in Fuensaldaña (Valladolid). The Seprona and the vet of the board of Castile y León, had refused to seize the animals pre-emptively. If they had, they would have been spared the death of one of the dogs just a day after the inspection.

    We all need to support to the cops!!

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  • British & Irish Greyhounds in China – is this what is in store for Spanish galgos?

    Caged Northwest works hard to stop the exportation of British and Irish Greyhounds to China. Injured dogs are sent there by their breeders, trainers, Irish Greyhound Board etc; the page is full of the dogs in forced mating. Australian greyhound breeders and trainers send their dogs to China – though they deny it. I dread the day when the Spanish galgueros might latch onto the idea of galgos to China.

    Here’s a link to one report of what the Chinese use greyhounds for.

    This photo is of 2 greyhounds who were forced to mate – notice the bitch has her mouth taped!

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  • 3rd June 2017 – Frankfurt, Germany – March for the galgos

    All details of where to meet on this link.

  • Pepis Refuge, Pedrera, Seville – help the dogs the Spanish don’t want

    Pepis 400 009A couple of years ago Pepi’s Refuge was hit by the parvo virus, resulting in a huge vet bill. This year they were hit by distemper. With so many dogs in the refuge and donations dropping considerably, there was not the money to vaccinate against the disease. 3 galgos died, Jane Brian is still giving medication to several others. This week she was rushed into hospital with severe pains. She is now back at the refuge, on medication but still giving medication to the dogs – the dogs always come first with Jane and Alan.

    Things have never been so dire at the refuge. On one hand we have fewer dogs than we have in a long time, on the other there’s no money to feed them, let alone get them prepared for transport. Donations have never been so slow and despite Alan and Jane using their pensions week in and week out, the pot is empty. The distemper that rampaged through the refuge has amounted to a huge vet bill that we simply cannot pay. And whilst it is unpaid we cannot take any other dogs to get them prepared to travel to foster and forever homes.

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  • The Container Dogs case – the truth

    Container dogs 400 11 2015Regular readers will remember the story a couple of years ago about the Container Dogs in Murcia and the hard work ACTIN association did, along with their lawyer, to try and get the dogs released. Sadly their work has been maligned publicly and the asso has been forced to issue yet another statement about the case.

    ‘Sorry to have to do this again but it still continues and it’s important for future cruelty cases in Spain, please ask people to share and spread the truth.

    There is still a very bad rumour that the dogs involved in this case died, and for reasons that we don’t really understand but are currently being dealt with – the rumour says there was no case, or the dogs didn’t exist and other very damaging things.

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  • Thought for the Day

    Rest in Peace Angels 400