Susan Dawson did a fantastic job or creating the 2013 Pepis Calendar and she’s now asking everyone to submit fabulous pix of their hounds for the 2014 calendar. Here’s what she says.
‘The Blue Greyhound is putting together a fantastic calendar for 2014 to raise funds for Pepis Dog Refuge based in Pedrera, near Seville in Spain. The 2013 calendar was a huge success, and we received lots of positive feedback from buyers in the UK, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, France, USA and Canada.
Sandra Baas has now organised a petition to the Junta of Castilla la Mancha to protest about the murders and hangings of galgos, especially in the Toledo region. Please sign the petition and share it with everyone you know. Fill in your surname, first name, email address, country.
Update – Sandra Baas 2:44pm Apr 26
Here are the photos of the murdered galgos in Fuensalida. Remember, the hunters claim they aren’t cruel to their dogs, they don’t hang them! They may not hang so many now as they used to but Toledo is a particularly bad area for galgos…
Warning, these pictures could upset you
From Sandra Baas.
‘Once again they have done it … and they will continue. Spain remains the country where sadistic hunters hang their galgos, with complete impunity. Galgueros, an extremely dangerous sect which decides which of these angels must die and how. Galgueros, the sect that not only exploits and abuses their galgos every day of their lives, but also revels in providing an agonizing death.
Once again it is in a town of Toledo, specifically in Fuensalida. Be ashamed, the Council of Fuensalida because you are as guilty as the ones who killed these dogs, you are guilty because you know it happens and you remain silent about it.
Jane Brian writes. ‘ This winter has for us been a wet one and as we showed on the website before,the mud that engulfed our patio and some of the dog pens has again invaded us. We have been advised that it has become dangerous as a huge piece is just waiting to come down and could destroy the house. As we use the house for injured dogs and dogs who have sterilisation opps this has become top priority.
We own a large hill that is attached to the refuge and we feel this would be the only way we could safely continue our work. To make this possible we need your help.
Because of all the news coming in every day, I don’t have time to post all the appeals I receive about galgos in perreras. Volunteers work in most perreras, trying to find associations and foster homes to save dogs. This week there are over a dozen galgos in Mairena perrera, including a puppy, pic here. There are 209 dog photos in the 15 April album of Mairena perrera. If you want to help, email SOS Animales Sevilla direct. If you want to donate to save this puppy or any of the other galgos, donate Paypal ayudaperrosmairena@hotmail.com and specify donacion galgo. Paypal a/c to send donations – here it is in full Paypal ayudaperrosmairena@hotmail.com
On Monday 15th April Mme Michelle Striffler, the French MEP actively involved in animal welfare issues at the European Union, together with 11 other co-signatories, submitted the Written Declaration 0006/2013 on putting an immediate stop to the torture and mistreatment of greyhounds in Europe. Just 200 hundred words that can have a great impact on the lives of many greyhounds. The Written Declaration will lapse on 15th July 2013.
Cuenca refuge in trouble. Original story. I now have this news from a reliable source.
The licence has gone to Rescani Belgium which work together with people from Madrid. So it stays a shelter.
Odile Brochot, president of Lévriers sans frontières, and 6 French volunteers just returned from a rescue trip to Spain. They went to a perrera to save some dogs from certain death there, took their rescued dogs back to Fondation Benjamin Mehnert, went to a galguero hideaway, saved some dogs there and then went to Scooby Medina where they also took some dogs to be taken back to France to be adopted out.
At the perrera, they saw an angel and met the devil.
Vivienne Wharton of ACTIN was recently interviewed for Wild Time Radio and you can listen to it here. The interviewer is not the best in the world (I’m an ex BBC radio presenter and I can tell you he wouldn’t last long there!) But Vivienne does manage to get over a lot of important points to draw attention to the terrible dog abandonment in Murcia and animal cruelty in general.
