2 Scooby galgos needing veterinary care, Scooby needs help to fund it. And 2 more. Scooby also needs foster homes in Madrid area for the dogs to convalesce.
Category: Regional news
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Irish Government condones sending greyhounds to China. Murderers!
Sickening news, can’t bear to think of the suffering in store for these greyhounds —- horrendous long journey to China with a short life and cruelty at the end! Murderers who made this decision!
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Warning – do not let this man have any dogs
Received from Lynn Paulrodos – URGENT!! SPANISH RESCUES ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH GALGOS AND PODENCOS!
I have just had this message from a friend in Hungary!
Please,could you spread the word not to give this Ernst Vock any galgos or podencos?He is a collector, 3 years ago in his country police confiscated 20 dogs and banned him from having dogs.
He came to Hungary and now tries getting galgos and podencos from Spain, saying he can take 10-15. No one should give him any! -
The reality of galgo racing in Spain
Galgos in Spain is all about money…money. Galgos bred indiscriminately to find the best hunter; galgos bred indiscriminately to find the best racer – a good racing galgo can fetch up to 30,000 euros and then stand at stud. The galgueros bet on coursing – where hares are bred and then released at the site – and they bet on galgo races – Medina del Campo being the centre of galgo racing in Spain.
Here is a Spanish video (warning, some upsetting photos) which shows the reality of galgo racing, the men betting, the drugs pumped into the dogs, the dogs pummelled in the traps to get them fired up to charge up the racetrack….then the brutal reality of their life thereafter.
Please share widely to publicise the reality of galgo racing.
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Peaceful Protest for Spanish Hounds – 1st May 2016 in London, Manchester & Glasgow – photos
Early in the year when I read the Spanish Royals were to visit the Queen at Windsor and I contacted my friend Polly Matthewson of Podenco Alliance about it, suggesting a demonstration, I had no idea how it would grow. So thanks to Polly, Martin Podman French of Podenco Support South West, Dawn Karen Walker (Manchester March) and Irene Allen (Glasgow March) for taking up the idea and developing it to the marvellous day we all had on 1st May 2016 publicising the suffering of the Spanish hounds and showing what marvellous pets they can make. Herewith my photos from the March in Manchester – sadly it rained but didn’t dampen the spirits and we handed out lots of leaflets about the plight of the Spanish hunting dogs. (Spot me on the left holding the big banner!) The London organisers handed in a petition to the Spanish Embassy and also No 10 Downing Street.
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Escapee from hanging….galga now in safe hands
Warning, upsetting photos. This galga somehow escaped from being hung. See the result, grossly swollen head. Luckily she is now safe with a rescue association and receiving excellent veterinary care.
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Joanna Lumley OBE backs the International Day of the Podenco
PRESS RELEASE – 28 APRIL 2016
A huge pack of ex-Spanish hunting dogs will march to the Spanish Embassy and 10 Downing Street, London on the 1st of May, the International Day of the Podenco, in protest at the mass abandonment of hunting dogs in Spain.
Families who have adopted abandoned Spanish hunting dogs in the UK will gather with their dogs in Belgrave Square, central London at 11am this 1st of May to mark the International Day of the Podenco. They will march with their dogs to the Spanish Embassy, 39 Chesham Place at 12pm and on to 10 Downing Street for 2pm to protest about the cruel treatment of the podencos, galgos (Spanish greyhounds), pointers, setters, bodegueros and other breeds that are abused in their lives and discarded in their thousands upon thousands every year in Spain.
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Scooby Residencia Valladolid on Spanish TV
Video of Cobie Steketee who manages Scooby Residencia Valladolid for Scooby Association – her turn on Spanish TV earlier this month publicising about the galgos and podencos.