Category: In the media
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Join PACMA to fight for the animals of Spain
On 15 October PACMA began a decisive and ambitious campaign: they want to add 500 new members before January 1, 2025.They say…
Why? Well, we intend to develop four major actions for next year, and your membership is necessary to make them a reality:
1. Lower veterinary VAT: We want to launch a campaign to reduce the cost of these services, today a luxury for many families.
2. Strengthening sentences for animal abuse: We need firm and effective legislation that prevents cruelty to animals and forcefully punishes those responsible. We want to deploy all means of pressure to propose a new reform of the Penal Code.
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2025 Calendars now on sale
Here are links to 2025 calendars so far. Grey2KUSA work with galgos as well as greyhound rescue.
Fen Bank Greyhound Rescue“>Fen Bank Greyhounds
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Protectora Modepran Valencia – desperate times
All the animal rescue associations are suffering badly with a lack of donations during this recession. Here’s a story from one of them.
‘Animal advocate Modepran makes this announcement
UNSUSTAINABLE SITUATION
From Modepran we see ourselves in the obligation to release this statement to bring awareness to the situation in which our protector is. We’ve been at the limit for several months, and after the end of summer the situation persists, and we can’t do it anymore.
With an average of between seven and fifteen rescued dogs daily that add to the more than 656 dogs and 370 cats that already live in our shelters, the situation is unsustainable and entails a collapse of the facilities, in addition to the inability to take on the maintenance costs and be careful.
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Walking through the Camp by Marta Navarro Garcia – against hunting with Galgos and Podencos
From Plataforma NAC
The minor hunting season begins and with it starts hell for thousands of hunting dogs in Spain.
One more year we watch helplessly how they are used as mere tools and how they are discarded, broken, injured, hungry and, in the worst case, lifeless.In these moments of sorrow, we share the wonderful poem by Marta Navarro Garcia read at the protest on February 6, 2022
WALKING THROUGH THE CAMP
I have seen death looking for my friends,
hundreds of winged beings,
of deer, of wild boars,
of rabbits, of partridges,
of greyhounds, of Podencos. -
Lost Companion by Steve Sanderson
Steve Sanderson b.1969. English artist.“We meet once in a while….. when I close my eyes”
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Valladolid, Castile La Mancha and Leon, Spain – hunting hell for galgos
From Plataforma NAC‘WE WONDER, WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH THE GALGOS WHO DON’T MEET THEIR EXPECTATION THIS NEW SEASON?
Article https://n9.cl/xwfw2 from the Valladolid newspaper
The hare hunting season with galgos started last Saturday 12/10, El Pilar Day, and will remain open until the fourth Sunday of January in the year 2025.
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“The campaign as contemplates the hunting order of the Community starts in all hunting quarters in the region on this day in which, traditionally raised the curtain on minor hunting throughout Spain, although years ago this does not happen anymore that each community maintains its own hunting orders and specific hunting calendars. -
Greyhound Racing banned in Chile – blind greyhound for adoption
Fundacion Galgos Chile has achieved a ban on greyhound racing in the country from June 2024. Video on this link.Introducing a blind greyhound who needs foster/adoption.
‘Hello good afternoon, I would like to know if you would help me share a puppy that needs a home urgently, the puppy is in Melipilla, it is a greyhound black of approx 3 years, he has a vision problem maybe a product of racing or hunting. We can transfer it from Melipilla to San Antonio if anyone is interested.
For more information contact the association direct.
3 years ago they rescued 12 galgos, video on this weblink.
You can also register a denuncia in a case of animal cruelty.