There’s been no let up in the number of galgos abandoned and dumped in the perreras. So many that I simply can’t post them all – 19 in one just one perrera recently, multiply that by the hundreds of perreras in Spain…and that’s just galgos. The figure quoted for dogs killed in perreras in the last year is 180,000! That’s 493 dogs every day, 206 dogs every hour, or 1 dog per minute.
The pressure on the refuges, the volunteers, the fosterers is tremendous – and the national and provincial governments STILL do nothing to implement a mass sterilization programme and educate people not to let their dogs mate.
One example of the pressure on the refuges is an appeal this week from Cristina of Arca de Noe of Albacete.
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