Category: In the media

The hunting season in Spain is drawing to a close. The nightmare for the galgos, the refuges and all the volunteers is already beginning, as the heartless sadistic galguerros start to dispose of upwards of 50,000 galgos. This link takes you to the Scooby Medina website and a video of a galgo rescued from a well.

Guam is an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands. It belongs to the USA. Guam Greyhound Racetrack closed abruptly in November, resulting in hundreds of greyhounds being handed out to anyone who asked. The world is watching and protesting, and greyound rescue associations in the USA are desperately trying to deal with the situation. Read the background to the story, third item on the page, and here.

Pat Getz of Greyhound Protection League reports that the first two greyhounds, Houdini and Jet Li, have just left Guam. They are being flown to California, and a CA greyhound group will care for them till they are adopted out!

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The International Society Against the Exploitations of Racing Animals – ISAERA – have produced an excellent video entitled Greyhound Racing in Modern Britain? (Part One).

The video features Debra Rothery founder of Tia Greyhound and Lurcher Rescue giving an insight to both the independent re-homing charities and the industry’s own Retired Greyhound Trust.

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Maria Daines, campaigner/singer/songwriter for animal charities has two songs written for animals in the all genre chart at the Independent Artist Company.

Here’s what she excitedly says:

Dear all,

please check out the links below, amazingly two of our songs written for animals are charting in the all genre chart at The Independent Artist Company.

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Just received info to check out this video. Where else but Spain?! http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/12/Dog-Save-Road-Injured-Dog-614171.html

Tomorrow (26/11/08) a team of volunteers from Levriers in Danger are heading to Spain for 4 days, accompanied by group of journalists who will report on the plight of the galgos.

The team are also carrying with them 2 lorry loads of donated goods for the Spanish refuges, and they will return with 17 dogs for rehoming in France.

Louis-Marie, president of Levriers in Danger, says it is of great importance to alert public opinion to the horrors of the plight of the galgos, and against which the Spanish volunteers, refuges and all rescue associations battle each day.

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Two networks which traffic in stolen hunting dogs in half of Spain were charging up to 30,000 euros for the best dogs, and sacrificing the least fit.

30,000 euros for a good hunting galgo!

Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo has a report on the investigation and court case.

Read about it on this link: Greyhounds stolen.

Cristina Narbona, was a very vocal Environment minister in the Spanish Government. Sadly she was replaced earlier this year. Read about her.

Charlotte, a tireless campaigner for galgos, recently had an article published in The Euro Weekly News, highlighting the plight of the galgos in Spain, as the hunting season is set to start next month.

She is, however, somewhat frustrated in that the editor of the paper has used his ‘editorial licence’ and linked the article to Adana refuge, rather than to Charlotte herself.

Whilst Adana does fantastic work for abandoned animals in southern Spain, they are not as heavily involved with rescuing galgos as many of the other associations and refuges with which Charlotte has contact.

Here is the plight of greyhounds article.

Action demanded from Irish Greyhound Board

Please support the appeal below from Greyhound Crusaders.

For more info about the plight of greyhounds in Ireland and Greyhound Action Ireland’s campaign to
protect them, see Greyhound Action.

Tony Peters, UK Co-ordinator, Greyhound Action

Read the article in the Irish Times.