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  • Spanish TV publicises the abandonment of galgos

    Translation of the piece on Madrid television about the abandonment of and cruelty to galgos.

    ‘Abandoned, abused, malnourished… So are many greyhounds when hunting season, now in February.  So protective of animals denounce it as Animal Rescue who see real atrocities committed with these dogs.  Some come with obvious signs of abuse and have even had cases of galgos who had started the chip of rennet to avoid being identified.

    Between February and June, almost 30% of dogs that are collected in the community of Madrid are galgos.’ 

    If you want to adopt or sponsor one of them, visit the Association’s website: www.animalrescuespain.com

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  • Scooby takes 50 Galgos & podencos from Castilla La Mancha…

    Scooby 50 Castilla la Mancha 1 2016 250From Fermin Perez Martin, president of Scooby refuge.

    ‘In a few weeks the hunting season with galgos will come to an end and that means that now already shelters and perreras are completely full with galgos, discarded by their owner who just considers them a bad working tool and nothing more…

    Scooby will take the next couple weeks hundreds of galgos and podencos in to save them from being killed in a perrera or waiting for years and years in shelters because nobody adopts them.

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  • Protesting against killing – sometimes we CAN make a difference

    Scooby fugitive galgos 250 12 2015A moving story of canine family love from Cobie at Scooby Residencia Valladolid.

    ‘This article appeared last week (12 2015) in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and it´s about the 2 abandoned galgos from Langa (Avila) for which the mayor of that village gave permission to shoot them. It´s beautiful written and very emotional, to translate it is very hard because it´s very big. But in short it comes to this:

    The black and white galga you see in this picture which was taken the 25th of November 2012, is already roaming around for 3 years. After one and a half years she got company from an also abandoned male. People in that village know who they belonged to but they didn´t like to talk about that. Together they are like Bonny and Clyde because in the night they come down from the mountain where they live, to catch a chicken, not because they are agressive, no, just to survive and aparently the people there like more their chickens than abandoned galgos so they have chased them many times away or even gone up on `their` mountain to try to kill the galgos.

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  • Valladolid perrera – Scooby to the rescue

    Scooby 250 3 25 8 2015From Cobie at Scooby Residencia Valladolid.

    Meet puppy Joseph jr. rescued 25/8/2015 from the perrera in Valladolid by Scooby. Was he born with this or has he had 2 broken front legs without them being treated? Or maybe he was taken too soon from his mother, as usually, and is this because of malnutrition? We don´t know yet but if it can be fixed, Scooby will fix it and if not, we will find him a goodhearted family who is not looking for a `perfect`galgo but for one who needs a loving family because the heart is all that matters most!

    We took 2 other galgos at the same time.

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  • Madrid – marching for the hunting hounds of Spain

    Madrid March 250 8 2 2015Hello my friends here you have some photos of the protest which has taken place today in the centre of the city in Madrid “Against galgo and other type of dogs hunting”. It was a success, there were hundreds of people among them, several galgo rescue organisations , animal welfare orgs and also three political parties, Podemos, Pacma and Equo.

    As for the official media, I think we have been put to silence except for the digital site “infolibre”.

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  • Spain – showing people DO care

    Madrid March Toro de la Vega 250 2014Last Saturday 13 September, 45,000 people marched in Madrid to protest about Toro de la Vega, this brutal killing of a magnificent black bull in the name of entertainment. Shows Spanish people are sick of animal cruelty, especially in fiestas. Will Spain ever move out of the dark ages?

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  • Madrid – cheap accommodation – book now!

    Protectora ALBA 1 250 9 2014More than 50 galgos have been rescued, including two litters of puppies, living in a garbage dump in Ontigola, Madrid province, covered in wounds, scabies and terrified. Thanks to a neighbour who denounced the situation, 6 rescue associations have taken the dogs. It took all afternoon to catch them and transport them to safety. They all need vet care, medication, blood analyses, castrations. Then they have to be rehabilitated in preparation for adoption.

    Associations involved ALBA. SOS GALGOS. ACURN. NOAH’S ARK. SPAPS. RIVAANIMAL

    Contact is carolalbaasociacion@gmail.com or hocicosyhuellas@live.com

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  • Madrid – help El Refugio achieve zero sacrifice

    Catherine Palmer has kindly translated this video from El Refugio in Asturias.

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  • Campaign – please write to the Spanish galgo hunting federations

    Regular readers will remember that in March 2013 I published my ‘Letter to the Galgueros’. After the news of Fermin and the meetings with the FEG, I sent him a copy of my letter. He will be publishing it on the Scooby website and will also be forwarding it to his galguero contacts.

    So I thought now would be a good time for us all to send a copy of the letter to the galgueros, since the mass abandonment and dumping in perreras is worse than ever and has not let up in the past 18 months. Figures now are certainly 120,000 galgos ‘disposed of’

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  • Give thought to Vulcano today – in the Toro de la Vega

    Candle for Vulcano 200Please today, think of brave Vulcano who will suffer unspeakable torture, pain, terror at the hands of screaming bloodlusters driving spears into his body from horseback – in the Toro de la Vega – despite tens of thousands of Spaniards marching to protest about it. One protester entered the bullring at Merida. See photos below of buses in Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Albacete to mention just 4 cities calling on people to go to Madrid on 14 September to join the march. Organised by PACMA.

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