Galgo News

Category: Regional news

  • Join PACMA to fight for the animals of Spain

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    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.

    Candy Cane International

    Grey2kUSA

    Fen Bank Greyhound Rescue“>Fen Bank Greyhounds

  • 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

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    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.

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  • Valladolid, Castile La Mancha and Leon, Spain – hunting hell for galgos

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    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.

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  • Greyhound Racing banned in Chile – blind greyhound for adoption

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    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.

  • SOS Galgos – protest against the Spanish Animal Protection Act 7/2023

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    SOS GALGOS (oficial)

    One year after its implementation, we protest the Animal Protection Act 7/2023, a law that denies hunting greyhounds rights and sentences them to a lifetime of suffering. Come on, that’s a f*cking law.

    Become a partner to protect the greyhound from this unfair law!

    Protest with us by sharing the campaign so that everyone knows what is happening with the greyhound.

    #Noscagamosenlaley

    (The link is on Instagram, apparently)

  • Investigation into the high rise of vet fees in UK and USA

    Pet owners in both the UK and US have felt the impact of the high rise in vet charges over the past several years and it’s not the vets who are benefiting from the increase. Having said that, are they benefiting from selling out their practices to speculative companies who have nothing to do with animals and thereby benefiting in that respect? Basically, to me, it all boils down to human greed, and pet owners and animals are suffering as a consequence.

    Below are links to 2 articles which are looking at the problem.

    UK

    USA

  • CACWGAS – calling keen campers in the UK – camping with your galgos and podencos

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    We have caravanned for decades but not been able to take our Spanish hounds with us as we always had too many – usually 4 or 5. Now reluctantly back in the UK from France and down to 2 hounds, last year we took our podencos caravanning with us. Wondering how to contain them on a huge campsite, I found a wonderful facebook group which members gave me lots of suggestions and help.

    The group has a website which is full of information plus during the year Dave Landey, the admin, organises 4 big meets where all sighthound passionatas can join together and share companionship and fun with their dogs.

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  • Marching in Germany for the galgos and podencos

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    Last weekend in both Leipzig and Mainz in Germany hundreds of people and dogs were marching to ban hunting with galgos and podencos in Spain.

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