Category: In the media

This one came from America – I’m sure all you pet lovers will identify with the sentiments expressed here – it matters not what type of animal – dog, cat, horse, rabbit, snake.

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There’s hope for campaigners for a better life for Spain’s animals. The Spanish parliament is set to approve a new law giving the right to life and freedom to apes. If the law is passed, legislation will make it illegal to keep apes for use in animal experiments, circuses, TV commercials and filming. This is to comply with the Great Apes Project.

So perhaps this will give hope to all animal rights groups, especially in relation to bulls, donkeys and, of course, our beloved galgos. Plus all the thousands of other abandoned dogs and cats in the country..

The Times: Apes get legal rights in Spain, to surprise of bullfight critics

Laboratories Shering-Plough contacted Sandra Baas through her website to offer a major donation: 3825 vaccines for dogs, specifically the Quantum DA2PP & CVL.

These vaccines will expire in a few weeks, so co-ordination and speed were demanded to deliver them to different shelters in time.

This was made possible, in partnership with Ddevida, responsible for the defence of animal rights, in record time indeed. The distribution of vaccines was ready in just over a week.

We are always ready to organize and coordinate, but first we need resources.

Read the full story on Baas Galgo.

The Plight of the Spanish Galgo continues: Read the latest letter from Charl del Rio about the work in Spain, France and other European countries as well as the USA now the hunting season has closed.

Ines is a volunteer with the refuge Perrikus at Madrid. Bosco was her galgo. This is her story.

When I heard the news, my blood turned cold. Bosco had been stolen by the gypsies. It doesn’t bear thinking about, kept in a cage, maltreated.

How can we bear to think of her beloved galgo in the hands of the gypsies. It is agony. Where does she begin to search?

Bosco was a difficult galgo, very difficult. He was very aggressive with other dogs and also with humans.

Those who know galgos well said he had suffered terribly from maltreatment, to become so aggressive, because a galgo has a gentle, affectionate temperament, not rebellious at all.

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Weekly Telegraph have this week published a short article about Paul and April Carrier, of Alpha Dog World, plus the appeal by them for help for the San Anton refuge at Willamartin. Here is the link to read it:

Every dog has his day at Spanish centre

The legal responsibility in the UK for stray dogs is set to change in April.

At the moment the Environmental Protection Act 1990 advises returning a dog to its owner, if it is wearing identification; contacting the dog warden or local authority, or take it to the nearest police station.

In April this will change, for the worse.

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My copy of WAG, the quarterly magazine from Dogs Trust in the UK, dropped through my door this week. On page 3 is a heading ‘Hope on Horizon for Greyhounds’.

it is a report examining all aspects of the greyhound racing industry and the main recommendation is to amalgamate the 2 governing bodies into just one, to be called the Greyhound Board of Great Britain.

Clarissa Baldwin, the CEO of Dogs Trust, is disappointed that Statutory Regulation has been dismissed by the Government.

A copy of the report can be viewed on Donoughue Report Greyhounds.

I’d like to hear your comments. Is there anything we can adopt for galgos in Spain?

The following article appeared in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week.

Spanish King ‘meddling’ in hunting law row

I wonder how many of the men marching with their greyhounds later intended to hang them from trees, burn them alive, mutilate them…?

Should we start a letter campaign to King Juan Carlos? What do you think?

Six people have been detained after a spectacular pursuit, including a helicopter. They got surprised when hunting with galgo’s without permission in the region of Toledo.

Since the end of November the police department of Castilla la Mancha has performing “Operation GALGO”.

They are seeking for hunters who hunt with galgo’s without a permit, in order to eliminate this kind of hunting.

During this operation, performed by the SEPRONA (the police department responsible for nature protection) six people were surprised hunting with galgo’s and detained in the provence Toledo.

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