Video of the reality of hunting in Spain with the galgo. Hunting has now officially closed and galgos in their thousands are being dumped in perreras, abandoned on the campo….over 2,000 people marched in Madrid on Sunday 7th February 2016 to protest about the galgueros and their cruel practices, over 500 in Barcelona (photo at The Ramblas) over 150 in Alicante, over 100 in Castelleon…figures for the other 10 cities still coming in.
Category: In the media
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Hunting in Spain with the Spanish Galgo
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Hunting in Spain – Brigitte Bardot protests to King Felipe VI of Spain!
Brigitte Bardot has written to King Felipe and the government of Spain protesting about the plight of the galgos and podencos at the end of the hunting season, to end urgently hunting with Galgos because it´s cruel, torture, not necessary and it does not belong anymore in the 21st. century…
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Argentina prohibits dog racing A big applause for it!
Good news someone is actually Banning this .So to others Countries hope this sets a precedent to actually admit the truth about Dog Racing and its cruel tradition – Google translation
The Commission for Justice and Criminal Affairs Senate Argentina has signed a new law that prohibits any breed of racing dogs. People might be surprised that violating this law shall be punished by three to four months in jail. They have banned dog racing since this is a form of abuse and mistreatment of animals because the dogs undergo injections, drugs and treatments to make them faster, it also promotes illegal gambling and tax evasion.
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Sign the petition – stop a law to chain dogs in Gran Canaria!
Please sign and share this petition to be presented to the Council at the meeting on 4th February.
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Galgos del Sol – video of life in Spain for the hunting dogs
An excellent video showing the truth about living in Spain with the daily problem of abandoned galgos and podencos. Galgo News was contacted by Tina when she worked as a volunteer at Los Infiernos refuge where there were galgos needing help…which I publicised for her, and donated to the cost of the kennels at Gaynor’s. We also fostered a couple of her rescued galgos, including Bracken. He was adopted in the UK but sadly circumstances changed drastically (outside the control of his adoptant family) and David drove back and brought him back to France where he is still with us today. He is a great character, the Spanish vet did a wonderful job putting his damaged leg back together and it always comes up for attention ‘poor me’!
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Scooby rescues 50 more hunting dogs in Castilla-la Mancha, Spain
50 Greyhounds and hounds from Castilla La Mancha…
In a few weeks the hunting season with galgos will come to an end and that means that now already shelters and perreras are completely full with galgos, discarded by their owner who just considers them a bad working tool and nothing more…
Scooby will take the next couple weeks hundreds of galgos and podencos in to save them from being killed in a perrera or waiting for years and years in shelters because nobody adopts them.Sunday the 10th. of January we had to go to pick up some 50 galgos and podencos in a shelter in Tomelloso were every day a few galgos are brought in by their loving owners or mostly, are just thrown over the fence.
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Justice for Galgas Nanou and Lulu in Spain – sign the petition
You may remember a post a few days ago about 2 pet galgos murdered by galgueros as retribution to the owner for speaking out against them. There is understandably a groundswell of anger against the situation and a petition has been raised to demand justice and prosecution against the perpetrators. Please sign and share.
From the organiser. ‘Please sign the following petition, to help a friend of mine, who has been severely punished by local hunters (in Southern Spain) for having been brave enough to break a tradition of unpunished tyranny from the part of the head of the hunters’ tight community. Her punishment was to find one of her Spanish Greyhounds (galga) hung from an olive tree behind her house…and been told by the vet that the animal had been previously frozen and kept somewhere…
A horrendous CRIME that cannot fall into oblivion…just as so many galgo’s deaths do every year…This is not only death…but murder made worse by psychological torture and deliberate sadism.
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7th February 2016 – 14 towns in Spain – Manifestation against galgo hunting
7th February 2016
12.00 in 14 towns in Spain as below – 11.00am in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
El domingo 7 de febrero tienes una nueva oportunidad para mostrar tu rechazo a esta deleznable práctica.
¡Ahora 14 localidades unidas al mismo tiempo! Todas a las 12:00. Menos Canarias a las 11:00
Busca tu ciudad y participa. Salva vidas
ALICANTE:
Recorrido: Plaza de los Luceros, Av. Federico Soto, Av. Doctor Gadea, Av. Doctor Ramón y Cajal, Paseo de Explanada de España, Fin de trayecto en Ayto de Alicante. -
Huge Slump in support for Bullfighting in Spain
Great news in this report, let’s hope we can do the same with hunting with galgos and podencos
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DeAnimals – Courses on animal welfare for lawyers, Seprona, animal volunteers, judges
On 23rd January DeAnimals specialist animal welfare lawyers, held another successful course for people in authority who want to study the laws for animals; animal welfare; prison law and how to make a denounce against animal abuse. Delegates included Seprona, local police, national police, a judge and a lawyer; it was also attended by an Actin Committee member. The course also covered working to make an ANIMAL PROTECTION group that can help to make important changes in Spain and different cities and towns in Spain.
The principal and important things to make changes in Spain is the INFORMATION, the information and knowledge of the laws gives power to the legal process and this is the true key to making changes in Spain for animals.
Actin sponsored 6 people on the course, which was enabled by a generous donator.
The next course will probably be Saturday 9 April in Murcia, to be confirmed. It will start at 9.30 to 19.30h with food included. The price with food will be approximately 90 to 95 pounds. Actin may be able to sponsor a delegate, if they are unable to afford the costs and can demonstrate that this course will help them in their working capacity, as an animal welfare advocate.
DeAnimals will also be running a course for lawyers, association and police about animal law, prison law and abuse of animals in the official College of lawyers in Sevilla. This course is free to everyone, trainee lawyers, police and association. Actin will be sponsoring this course.