Galgo News

Category: In the media

  • Pregnant galga, abandoned on the streets of Cordoba – please help

    Pregnant galga Cordoba 3 08 2010 300 One of the things which really sickens me and also makes me exceedingly angry is the abandonment of animals – everywhere. I receive many emails containing appeals for help for abandoned animals, or mass cullings of stray dogs or wild mustangs. The reason there are so many unwanted animals is because of MAN, as in human. If there were not people like breeders of animals, dog and horse shows, circuses – to name just a few – there would not be the need for refuges and rescue associations.

    This is yet another example of irresponsibility and lack of care – a galga abandoned on the streets of Cordoba, prey to any dog which scents her when she comes into season. The result, she is still wandering the streets of Cordoba, heavily pregnant and about to give birth to yet more unwanted dogs.

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  • Spain’s Catalonia bans bullfighting! There’s hope yet for saving the galgos.

    This is a report on Yahoo

    Spain’s Catalonia bans bullfighting.

    The result of 68 in favour, 55 against the prohibition was expected, since the Catalonian parliament had cast preliminary votes in December accepting a citizens’ petition to outlaw bullfighting on the grounds that it was cruelty to animals. There were nine abstentions.

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  • Trial by Tape Measure – The Story of Lennox

    British dog owners will be aware of the hastily and flawed Dangerous Dogs Act, which includes Breed Specific Legislation, section one of the DDA. A Belfast family whose beloved pet dog has been seized because of this law, spoke with Animal campaigner and singer Maria Daines and she has written an article on the subject in K9 magazine, which you can read here.

  • Action needed by the EC on enforcing improved animal welfare conditions in Europe

    Ch 9 3 eurogroup The following is a report from the Eurogroup for Animals in respect of animal welfare conditions in Europe.

    ‘The European Parliament has called on the European Commission to take clear action to improve the welfare conditions of animals throughout the course of its current mandate. Voting overwhelmingly in favour of Marit Paulsen’s report on the Evaluation and Assessment of the Animal Welfare Action Plan 2006-2010, MEPs signalled that they would like to see measures put in place to develop, implement and enforce animal welfare legislation.

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  • Spanish Galgos – What are they? What is their problem?

    A Galgos Story – video footage about the Spanish Galgo on YouTube

    I’m posting this link because a comment was posted yesterday by someone visiting Galgo News for the first time, read the story about the galgo saved from death by hanging, and does not know about the plight of the galgo.

  • Car-jacking in Europe – Warning from the Police

    This warning has been circulated by a friend in Spain. It could also apply to any other European country. Be warned.

    ‘WARNING FROM POLICE

    THIS APPLIES TO BOTH WOMEN AND MEN

    BEWARE OF PAPER ON THE BACK WINDOW OF YOUR VEHICLE–
    NEW WAY TO DO CARJACKINGS (NOT A JOKE)

    Heads up everyone! Please, keep this circulating… You walk
    across the parking lot, unlock your car and get inside. You
    start the engine and shift into Reverse.

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  • Plight of the Spanish Galgos hits the headlines

    More publicity in the UK for the plight of the galgos, and theFrenchPaper has this month published a Letter to the Editor from Beatrice Monnet of L’Europe des Levriers.

  • EU condemns wolf hunt – why can’t it condemn the annual massacre of galgos?!

    This has just come through from the EuroGroup for Animals newsletter.

    Swedish wolf hunt condemned

    The Swedish government was criticised by animal protection and conservation organisations across Europe in December, after it authorised the killing of a substantial proportion of the country’s wolf population. No less than 12,000 applied to hunt 27 wolves, the set quota. The majority of animals were killed on the first day of what was believed to be a less than humane hunt. Sweden’s wolf population has only just started to recover after the species became seriously endangered in the 1970s. For this reason, wolves have not been hunted there for over 45 years. Wolves are a protected species under the EU’s Habitats Directive, but may be killed if they threaten livestock or a country’s economic situation.

    So why can’t the EU condemn what happens to Spain’s galgos?!!

  • Worst New Possible – Greyhound Racing in South East Asia

    The worst news possible – greyhound racing in South East Asia. Read the full article

  • European Commission – the Cabinet replies to the stray’ dog problem

    Refuge Villarobledo 4 250 I have today received a reply to my letter of 18 November to the European Commission in respect of the welfare of dogs in Spain.

    ‘Dear Madam

    Thank you for your letter of 18 November 2009 concerning the welfare of dogs in Spain. Comissioner Vassiliou has asked me to reply on her behalf.

    The situation you are describing in your letter raises serious concerns for the welfare of those greyhound racing dogs which are neglected or killed at the end of their working season. You also write that there are pet dogs which are abandoned by teporary residents of Spain at the time of their return to their home countries.

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