A while ago I reported on the story from Macu in Seville, where she took a poor galgo with no hair, from a gypsy encampment, where everyone laughed at him and told Macu she was stupid for taking him. He’s now in the care of L’Europe des Levriers and there are some beautiful photos of him on this link.
A translation of the story so far.
News in from Scooby Medina.
Murcia: More than 16 murdered galgos found in a village in Murcia with signs that they were violently mistreated. The same galgueros there have more galgos, these were seen this week without water or food and with these hot summer temperatures…
This is a place where several hunters keep their dogs in the worst possible conditions and where they horribly kill the ones they no longer want. Murcia is a dreadful place for animals, especially galgos, and there are many such places we don’t know about. Everyone should raise a stink. But the police need to have a chance to act ( it’s the first time they act, in that part of Spain they mostly completely ignore the cruelty cases) or we can make them angry and they can just turn their backs for good.
WARNING. EXTREMELY UPSETTING PHOTOS
Macu lives in Seville and works tirelessly to rescue galgos and podencos from a gypsy settlement. Here are the latest ones, for which she needs help, both financial and adoptions. She says that soon life in the settlement for the dogs will be hell, as temperatures in the summer heat will reach 50 degrees and those dogs kept inside buildings will surely die. This galgo puppy was left at the settlement. Macu has saved her and has her in a kennels for the time being.
To contact and donate to Macu by Paypal or donate to the associations which have taken the dogs, via their weblinks
A Spanish volunteer tells her story.
“My name is Carmen and I grew up in a village close to Seville in the South of Spain. I always liked animals (when I was a child I always wanted to have a cat). However, I never got any because “animals are not for homes but for the countryside”. I remember seeing galgueros riding a motorbike and pulling 5 or 6 galgos behind for training. This was a familiar picture, so it looked normal to me. I never asked myself why there were always different galgos from season to season. I cannot remember having wondered about the fate of those galgos I did not see anymore.’
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The results of abandonment of non sterilized dogs – in this case galga Triani in Seville perrera with her 11 puppies. Condemned to die before they can see. perrosurgentes@hotmail.com and for fostering monicasilvan@hotmail.com
