Galgo News

Category: Regional news

  • URGENT – Lobby the Irish Government, write to your MEP, to Save Greyhounds From CHINA

    Irish Greyhounds to Barcelona 250 SOS GalgosIT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY – NOT ABOUT LIVING CREATURS! Urgent Reminder: to help the majority of greyhounds who are not lucky enough to be rescued. Are you a tax payer too? If so, you are helping to subsidise the Irish greyhound racing industry via the IMF bail-out

    Every letter counts from around the world!

    Worldwide protest letters needed now please and online petition link below where thousands of signatures are needed before it’s too late!

    Full details and important info below for everyone to read and take immediate action. Please keep all correspondence polite when writing to the Irish government and your MP/MEP. Please also send your emails straight to these people’s in boxes as well as the email addresses provided below.

    michael.noonan@oireachtas.irlgov.ie and enda.kenny@oireachtas.irlgov.ie

    The Irish national budget for 2012 is now under preparation for publication in December, so time is of the essence.

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  • Seville – Desperately Urgent to save this galgo from the streets

    SANY1127 250 Charl 10 2011This galgo has been living for some time on the streets of Sevilla. The people around the area have been feeding him. Recently a van with Romanian gypsies have been passing by and trying to catch him, they deal in dog fighting. The address of the girl to contact is ana-jimenez85@hotmail.com

  • Protest in Madrid 23 October 2011 – PACMA need your support

    Esdaw - protest in Madrid 190 23 10 2011This news received from Esdaw.

    Now the Spanish government are trying to introduce an animal ‘protection’ law. If it goes ahead, they will fine anybody found feeding stray dogs or cats. Strays will be able to be euthanised 3 days after entering a compound.

    PACMA are organising a protest against this new law on Sunday, 23rd October in Madrid. If anyone is going, any associations protesting elsewhere, please be sure to let me know.

    Please SHARE far & wide!

  • Another petition to sign, to save the galgos

    Another petition to sign to stop the barbaric treatment of galgos

  • Urgent call – Seville – galgo puppy abandoned, anyone room for it?

    Galgo puppy Seville 250 10 2011Hunting in Spain has only just begun and already the slow and sick galgos are being dumped and abandoned. Here’s an urgent appeal for help for a 2-month old galgo puppy in Seville, abandoned tied by a rope to a fence.

    Sara found it, she has already two galgos at home, abandoned in the streets, and her partner won’t have another one. Please can any associations help? Thank you.
    Contact: (Spain) 650098639 saradivertida@hotmail.com

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  • Major boost for welfare of dogs and cats in the EU

    Greyhounds Rescue Holland have sent the following information.

    ‘Just after 12 o’clock on 13/10/2011, GRH received a call from the Liotard team that the Written Declaration on Dog Population Management has been supported by more than half of the Members of the European Parliament. Many volunteers across Europe, amongst whom GRH, have lobbied with their MEP’s to get their support.

    This Written Declaration asks for Members States to adopt comprehensive dog population management strategies and anti-cruelty laws, with the aim to harmonise animal welfare standards across the European Union. This marks a significant shift to developing EU legislation in this matter.’

    Read more here.

  • Galga Greta seeks forever family – 112carlotagalgos appeal

    Greta 1 250 Tina July 2011 This is beautiful Greta, a galga rescued from the killing station, scarred in both body and mind. 112carlotagalgos has healed her and now she is ready for a forever family to continue her care, and with whom she can share her life. Here’s her story, contact Charl if you can offer her forever. UPDATE – Greta has now found her forever home in the UK and will travel there in January.

    On the same page, you can also read about the incredible Clara and how she nurtures and helps traumatised galgas like Greta.

  • Greyhounds In Need – Educating the Young

    One of the most important tools to use in the fight against animal cruelty in Spain – and everywhere else, of course – is educating the younger generations. Many individual associations have their own programmes for doing this – talks in schools and youth centres, visits to refuges, hands-on caring for dogs in ‘out-of-school’ time. Greyhounds In Need have been working on an Education Programme which will shortly be available to associations. Read about it here – wait till the scroll box reaches the heading ‘Our Work In Spain’.

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  • Podenco Post – read the latest news

    Don’t forget to read the latest news on Podenco Post, supporting the podencos of Spain, who also suffer at the hands of the galgueros. Subscribe to the newsletter.

    Latest appeal – Podenco Maneto abandoned and abused on the streets near Seville

  • Here we are again – galgos still in killing stations from last year’s hunting – now they’re loose again on Spain’s roads……

    Cadiz galgo 250 05 2011 It’s been a never-ending struggle for all the rescue associations in Spain, coping with thousands of galgos and podencos, as well as the thousands of other abandoned and maltreated dogs of Spain. And now, before last season’s detritus has been coped with, the bloody hunters are already abandoning this year’s rejects. Loose on the roads of Andalucia, Murcia….how can the bastards deny what we all know – the majority of them don’t give a bloody damn about the dogs they don’t want to keep.

    Be strong, Spanish volunteers, we are all with you as much as we can be.