Keep fingers crossed that it happens – greyhound racing in Wales is set to be banned.
Read the full story on this weblink.
Category: Regulations
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A Black Day for Spanish Animals – 9th February 2023
From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends‘9th February 2023 was a black day for animal welfare in Spain, the Government signed an agreement where both parties promised dignity for all animals. In what will be the ” National Animal Protection Act” the animal welfare law was passed but have excluded the bulls tortured at bull festivities, the millions of animals riddled by hunters, the ones used for animal testing, the ones considered production, such as executed in slaughterhouses, some horses, those used in pilgrimages, dolphins and hunting dogs. What this means Podencos and Galgos plus many other animals in Spain, are not protected they are in a worse position than before.
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Spanish shelters – Zero killing
Great news. But that means even more dogs in shelters! Now Spain needs a law for compulsory neutering of dogs and cats and handcuffing the hunters for overbreeding. -
PACMA – Spanish political party fighting for the rights of Spain’s animals
This is a weblink to introduce the new team at PACMA, leading the fight to protect Spain’s abused animals.This is a weblink to an article about the Government of Castilla-La Mancha wanting to promote the violence and cruelty of hunting among young people and women.
Also in March 2022 PACMA urged the Junta de Andalucía to stop promoting, protecting and shielding hunting in the community. We have sent a letter to the Governing Council of the Junta de Andalucía to stop their efforts to promote this cruel and violent activity. Weblink to this article.
This is the translation of a PACMA article about dog-fighting in Spain. Galgos are sometimes bred as bait dogs to be used in this cruel and barbaric activity.
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Spain is still in the dark ages – no help for the hunting dogs – Government lies!
From Yo Galgo.Yeah!! The Government approves the processing of the Animal Welfare Law that includes hunting and working dogs, which will be treated like any other dog. Moreover, this law, approved a week ago in the Council of Ministers, will not only protect pets but all vertebrates as a whole. Wow!! Among other things, we celebrate that: Dog owners will have to become breeders and register as such if they want to breed animals. Whoever has five specimens must be registered as a zoological nucleus. Working dogs will have to meet conditions from the point of view of occupational risk prevention; they will not carry out professional activities until they are 18 months of age. All dogs must be registered as such in the Registry of Companion Animals. Hunting dogs that are kept or have access to the exterior of the houses and may have uncontrolled contact with others must be sterilized. As for giving away or selling a hunting dog to people not registered in the Breeders’ Registry, the dog must be spayed or with the commitment of its sterilization.
ONLY this is the real truth!
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DeAnimals – fighting to protect the Spanish hunting dogs
In 2016 I met Raquel, a Spanish lawyer who organised training courses for anyone involved in animal law in Spain. Here’s a weblink to their site which explains the work they do. -
Fern’s Law in the UK – make it compulsory for lost & stolen pets to be checked for chips
On this link you can read the petition for Fern’s Law – to make it compulsory for lost and stolen pets to be checked for microchips when recovered.
On this weblink you can read the report of the debate in Parliament.
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More concerns for Spanish rescues homing hounds in the UK
This is taken from Bev Farmer’s fb page Podenco Friends.
‘Changes to the entry of rescue dogs to the UK basically if the UK exit the EU with a deal or no deal the Euro tunnel will no longer be a designated Border Inspection Point for Dogs, Cats or Ferrets.. Some months ago the ferry companies stopped accepting transports with rescue dogs on and the only point of entry was the Tunnel. If this is correct the only means of transport will be by plane to the UK very few airlines fly dogs to the UK and the last one we flew over cost 600 pounds plus the cost of the crate paid by the adopter so will be beyond the affordability of most people .. I can not confirm if this is accurate information but
I am aware many agencies have been lobbying to stop the import of foreign rescues due to animals arriving sick and with incorrect paper work. If anyone has any information regarding these changes please let us kno. This is a statement copied from a post by the group below