This is the firm transporting the greyhounds to the airport – no windows nor ventilation. Express your disgust on their email address.
Category: Campaign
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Lufthansa fly 24 greyhounds from Ireland to China today – Protest
There is a new facebook page for people to protest about the Irish sending greyhounds to China via Manchester airport and Lufthansa. This is what is going on today – 12 May 2016 –
All is not lost….. And we need you to go crazy posting and calling for those 24 dogs today.
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Scooby Galgos needing your help with vet fees and foster homes
2 Scooby galgos needing veterinary care, Scooby needs help to fund it. And 2 more. Scooby also needs foster homes in Madrid area for the dogs to convalesce.
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The reality of galgo racing in Spain
Galgos in Spain is all about money…money. Galgos bred indiscriminately to find the best hunter; galgos bred indiscriminately to find the best racer – a good racing galgo can fetch up to 30,000 euros and then stand at stud. The galgueros bet on coursing – where hares are bred and then released at the site – and they bet on galgo races – Medina del Campo being the centre of galgo racing in Spain.
Here is a Spanish video (warning, some upsetting photos) which shows the reality of galgo racing, the men betting, the drugs pumped into the dogs, the dogs pummelled in the traps to get them fired up to charge up the racetrack….then the brutal reality of their life thereafter.
Please share widely to publicise the reality of galgo racing.
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Peaceful Protest for Spanish Hounds – 1st May 2016 in London, Manchester & Glasgow – photos
Early in the year when I read the Spanish Royals were to visit the Queen at Windsor and I contacted my friend Polly Matthewson of Podenco Alliance about it, suggesting a demonstration, I had no idea how it would grow. So thanks to Polly, Martin Podman French of Podenco Support South West, Dawn Karen Walker (Manchester March) and Irene Allen (Glasgow March) for taking up the idea and developing it to the marvellous day we all had on 1st May 2016 publicising the suffering of the Spanish hounds and showing what marvellous pets they can make. Herewith my photos from the March in Manchester – sadly it rained but didn’t dampen the spirits and we handed out lots of leaflets about the plight of the Spanish hunting dogs. (Spot me on the left holding the big banner!) The London organisers handed in a petition to the Spanish Embassy and also No 10 Downing Street.
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A Galgo’s Story
Lovely film to watch – upsetting photos to begin with, some you will have seen before.
List of galgo rescue and rehoming associations
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DeAnimals – great work by Spanish police who attended their courses
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Joanna Lumley OBE backs the International Day of the Podenco
PRESS RELEASE – 28 APRIL 2016
A huge pack of ex-Spanish hunting dogs will march to the Spanish Embassy and 10 Downing Street, London on the 1st of May, the International Day of the Podenco, in protest at the mass abandonment of hunting dogs in Spain.
Families who have adopted abandoned Spanish hunting dogs in the UK will gather with their dogs in Belgrave Square, central London at 11am this 1st of May to mark the International Day of the Podenco. They will march with their dogs to the Spanish Embassy, 39 Chesham Place at 12pm and on to 10 Downing Street for 2pm to protest about the cruel treatment of the podencos, galgos (Spanish greyhounds), pointers, setters, bodegueros and other breeds that are abused in their lives and discarded in their thousands upon thousands every year in Spain.
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Black is beautiful – 3 stunning young galgas in Portugal needing forever homes
I’ve received information about 3 stunning black galgos which have been sent to Dogs of Portugal association from a shelter in Spain – I have asked why. They are gorgeous hounds, click on the links below to read about them and see their pix. If you can offer one a forever home, please contact Dogs of Portugal direct.