Not so many galgos in Portugal as in Spain, but here are 2 looking for forever homes.
Category: Regional news
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Protectora Scooby Newsletter 3 – laws and laws! Not for hunting dogs
From Fermin Perez.
Hunting Season In Full Swing
The hunting season began in earnest in the autumn and this brings with it more animal abuse, deaths, neglect and exploitation of dogs who are later rejected. The poor souls are either surrendered directly to Scooby or dumped in the countryside straying and fending for themselves, running the risk of starvation and injury in a road traffic accident. Some hunters, in various locations near to each other, corral their dogs and ask us to take them. The calls from local villagers about loose dogs have already started. We drive to pick them up, bring them to our clinic and kennels where they are vaccinated, castrated, and treated for injury and illness. We keep them safe until we can home them in Spain or via our international support groups.
The weather so far has been very wet and this has made hunting difficult. It remains to be seen how the season continues, whether or not it is impeded by soggy winter weather, and how many dogs are discarded into the Spanish shelters.
#MismosPerrosMismaLey : “No Discrimination For Dogs In Law” -
Galga Carlotta and her best friend – with Protectora Scooby
This sweet photo of galga Carlotta and her best friend mix Millie is from Cobie Steketee at Scooby Residencia Valladolid. -
Puntanimals – Galga Kayla comfy, warm and safe
Taken from a post on my Galgo facebook page.‘I think there’s no doubt that she doesn’t miss her previous life.
Bet you never been tucked in and been this warm.
They sure haven’t put you in a soft and comfortable place to lay down.
Bet they never showed you love and that you mattered.Kayla has been lucky enough to be with the pack and have Puntanimals take care of her. I wish everyone was as lucky as she has been.
For this
1 if you can foster
2 if you can’t foster you can sponsor
3 you can team up with just one euro a month
4 you can donate food,medicine,cleaning supplies,coats,blankets etc. Anything you think sure is useful
5 If you are certain of all that comes with it, ADOPT responsiblyYour help is welcome in any way you can
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Protectora Scooby Newsletter 2 – Welfare and Tired Computers
From Fermin Perez.
We are always pushing for welfare developments for animals living in Spain. Unexpectedly we acquired a new dimension to this area of our work. The Spanish government proposed an update to our animal welfare legislation. It was so ground-breaking, it seemed too good to be true. We realised it was when the Government acquiesced to demands from the Spanish hunting community and agreed to exclude hunting dogs. Given the thousands of hunting dogs exploited, abused and dumped in Spain every year, this is an amendment to the proposed legislative update Spanish rescues and animal advocates are unwilling to take lying down. We have been part of an active campaign calling on the Government to withdraw the amendment. It centres on the fact a dog is a dog and all breeds should be equal in the eyes of the law : “#MismosPerrosMismaLey”. We write more about this issue later in the newsletter but sadly it looks as if the Government is unwilling to take the necessary steps to protect hunting dogs.
Tired Computers
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Galga Eden – ready for a forever home atlast
Regular readers will remember the story of the galga starving and covered heavily in ticks, who luckily went into the care of Galgos Rescue Almeria. Sandy Galgoslover now give an update.‘Galgo’s Rescue Almeria is feeling emotional.
Being born as a galgo in Spain means a life of deprivation, neglect, abuse, humiliation…..
We can try to repair the damage and prepare them to integrate in a world unknown to them. After a period of rehabilitation, many can build a new and different life, although some carry permanent mental damage.
How Eden’s life began we will never know, what we do know is how it goes from the day she was freed. There were rumors, stories circulated, but we never imagined that there was a place worse than hell where animals were left to their fate in a horrific way. The date August 4, 2022 is etched in our brains as a day we will never forget. Anger, emotions….. so many feelings haunted our minds when we rescued Eden from this place. It was terrible to see, when we arrived at the vet everyone was shocked. They had never seen anything like it.
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Protectora Scooby Newsletter 1
Unfortunately Protectora Scooby no longer have their volunteer posting their English blog. So I have copied their December newsletter and I’ll be publishing installments over the courts of the next couple of weeks. Here’s No 1 from Fermin.Thank you very much to everyone who has helped Scooby over the last year. We are grateful to those who donated in aid of our rescue and rehabilitation work; offered a permanent or foster home to one of our dogs or cats; worked as a volunteer with our animals; and have raised funds in their community and amongst friends. We are thankful to the lawyers who have helped us prepare for cruelty cases going to court. Thanks are also due to a small number of volunteer, support groups to home dogs and cats in
Spain and internationally. This is crucial for the animals, the adopters and our shelter. Without adoptions
making kennel space, we cannot rescue more animals.