I can’t keep up with it all on Galgo News, just too much to post; galgos and podencos abandoned throughout winter, refuges full to bursting, embalming galgos rears its ugly head again – more in another post – and now galgueros dumping their dogs at the refuges and shelters. Yet more galgos dumped in the perreras, and now cutting microchips out of the dogs before dumping. How do the volunteers cope?
Now I’ll tell you about a man who could make a change but hasn’t.
One of the items which many associations use for fundraising is to sell dog collars. The huge majority of these collars are fabric martingale collars. My experience of these is that a) the dog scratches the collar and the fabric gets tatty and 2) I would never ever risk walking one of my galgos outside in one. It may be that I have bought a design not suited to the purpose which I required. But personally, I still prefer a shaped leather collar. And the most fantastic designs I have found are Barcelona Dogs.
I met Klea, their creator/designer, when I went to Barcelona at the beginning of December 2010, and I can confirm the superb quality of these collars and the designs unique. Even better that the price for the collars was not staggering, which I had expected, considering the ‘jewels’ used.
For anyone wishing to purchase a collar from Klea and at the same time raise funds for galgos in Spain, then if you order through the link on Galgo News, Klea will make a donation to my Galgo Fund. To ensure Galgo News gets the donation, please use the code berylgalgos. There are two special designs for galgos, at a discount price, but you can also choose a collar for any breed/type of dog from the whole range of collars. So please click on the website Click this link for special rescue galgo range.
As I’ve mentioned before, money raised from the sale of my book and notelets is used to donate to appeals for help with vet fees, which I post on Galgo News.
Here are some more podencos, abandoned, injured – one hung by a steel strap, another found with a metal collar, starving, needing help. Even two podenco puppies in a perrera in Seville! The hung podenco is at La Linea shelter in Cadiz, as is the old one abandoned at a petrol station. Adopt from La Linea through Podencoworld
Contact here for the starving podenco at La Cazalla, 70km from Seville, and contact here for the puppies in the perrera in Seville. If anyone can help………..
Quick alert from El Arca de Noe Cordoba. There is a pet shop in Cordoba run by a woman, who is accused of mistreatment of animals, but she is still trying to buy animals to sell. Please help us to spread the word and that this message reaches everywhere! Contact us to protest. elarcadenoecordoba@gmail.com www.arcanoecordoba.es
Please support the campaign to stop Tesco supermarket from offering a Dog Racing Voucher to encourage people to go to watch greyhound racing. If you haven’t already written, here’s a template letter. Please, everyone, wherever you live, support this campaign. See end of post to read the original circular message.
· Call Clubcard free on 00800 00 59 16 88 to protest in person or
· send an email to customer.services@tesco.ie ,seamus.banim@tesco.ie, lorraine.shiels@tesco.ie,
. write to Tesco Ireland ,Gresham House,Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Podencos and galgos both suffer unimagineable cruelty at the hands of the Spanish hunters and gitanos – Spanish gypsies. Most publicity comes from the regions of Andalucia and Murcia, as well as the Spanish Islands Ibiza and the Canary Islands. However, the Spanish interior including the region of Extremadura is also hell on earth for galgos and podencos. Here is a report from Fepaex – Federacion de Protectoras de Animales de Extremadura.
THE PROBLEM for HUNTING DOGS in EXTREMADURA = Irresponsible HUNTERS + passive and complicit
We have a wonderful generous galgo lover who is willing to donate towards the fees for rescuing this galgo and getting him better for a forever home. Is there a shelter who could take him?
This poor galgo is in the Seville perrera. Contacts here if anyone can help, I know, everyone is full to bursting and with the latest threat from the bastard hunters, the situation won’t improve. But I have to appeal on his behalf.
CONTACTO ACOGIDAS-ADOPCIONES: perrosurgentes@hotmail.com
CONTACTO PARA AMADRINAR: mariajomeana@hotmail.com
This boy is now saved. Hallelujah!
This is the hunters’ answer to the publicity about them hanging their dogs. These men are sick, there is no reasoning with them, they are a blight on Spain and the majority of Spanish people. This message just received from Scooby.
Dear Friends,
Today is February 1st. The end of the hunting season is upon us and for this reason our phones and emails have not stopped with people asking us for help to take dogs. Today we got two phone calls from Seville. The shelters there are full, and many of them have waiting lists to take dogs. But what is even worse that we heard today, is the galgueros are threatening to remove the microchip from the dogs and let them roam free in the streets, left to die.
Please can anyone in Portugal find the owners of this little dog; found begging in France. Story goes that it was given to a family but bit the child and they took it to the dog pound; the pound is full and at risk from high sacrifice, he has a chip from Portugal.. 620098100443844 – not registered in France. male small breed. Galgos France say ‘we dont know how he got to France, from an assoc or private? who can help?who has a contact in Portugal who can check out the details please? Please contact Nelly at Galgos France if you can help.
