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  • Why have a dog?

    Galgo Post 250 1 15 11 2015Can you imagine the bad luck this poor boy has had in his 2 year life?! Angie Robinson tells his story.

    ‘This is POST. We’ve seen him before in the Valencia perrera municipal….. He was found wandering last year and picked up by the dog catchers, and then later retrieved by the owner. He was found again, last week, wandering alone with a broken chain still around his neck where he had broken free. We understand that he was kept on a plot of land chained up, living outside. This time, the owner has signed him over with permission to sacrifice. POST is CESE – this means that when a kill list is drawn up, the CESE dogs that are entered by owner will be at the top of the sacrifice list.

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  • Valencia – 50 galgos and podencos rescued from hell – foster and refuge needed for them urgently

    Galgos 112 250 1 8 2013This poor galgo on a 5m chain is one of 50 galgos and podencos discovered last week in Valencia. Galgos 112 are working with the Spanish police to save them. They have issued a denuncia against the owner. You can read the story on this link

  • Cordoba & Valencia – galgos and podencos rescued

    Cordoba 11 galgos 2 250Two stories of more galgos saved – the first one is 11 galgos in Cordoba. The hunter was taken very ill and hospitalised and an appeal went out to help the galgos. Galgos del Sol took 2 and several small associations stepped in to help. The galgos are all ok.

    The second story is about a dozen or so galgos, podencos and other dogs including puppies abandoned in an empty swimming pool! You can see how deep it is by looking at the male volunteer with a couple of the dogs. It is believed they were left there by gitanos. They have all been rescued by Apadac association in Callosa de Segura, Valencia region. You can see more photos on their website.

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  • Between Madrid & Valencia – Cuenca heartbreak for Pilar

    Logo Cuenca Refuge 200 .jpg-for-web-normalOne of the things which really angers me – and I know it angers the Spanish volunteers – is that the municipal councils really don’t care about the stray dog problem. They provide council killing stations, as well as the privately run ones like Olivenza in Badajoz. I’ve received a letter from a Dutch supporter, Anita, who recently spent a couple of weeks volunteering at the privately run shelter in Cuenca,in the middle of an area full of hunters, between Madrid and Valencia. Here’s what she wrote.

    ‘I volunteered in the Cuenca refuge for about 16 days and was really in shock the first days. There are so many dogs and they never come out of their kennels. Among the dogs are many many galgos, some of them are afraid but they are never aggressive.

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