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Tag: Guardia Civil

  • DeAnimals – fighting the corner for animal cruelty in Spain

    Raquel4 170I’d like to introduce you to Senora Raquel Lopez Teruel, a Lawyer specialising and working solely in animal law (animal rights and welfare). Raquel’s law firm, DEANIMALS (DEFENCE OF ANIMALS) is based in Murcia, but she handles cases in various cities around Spain.

    Raquel’s role involves liaison with the police, welfare associations and animal professionals in general, and she has undergone considerable specialist training for this role, which encompasses all types of legal situations, including:

    • Denuncias against pet owners
    • Defence of animal welfare associations
    • Legal advisor on animal law to owners, animal welfare associations, police, administration, etc.
    • Specialist in Denuncias in respect of abused animals

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  • Galgo Chapapote – stolen 4 years ago – just discovered

    One of the articles in my book on the Galgo Espanol is about theft of galgos. Now you might wonder why ever anyone would steal a galgo when they can be picked up for nothing on the street. This story will explain. Thank you to Greyhounds Rescue Holland for the translation. Watch the video here.

  • League Against Cruel Sports – letter to write to them for the Galgos

    Earlier in the year I was contact by a someone who had made contact with the League Against Cruel Sports in the UK, to ask if I could write to them about the plight of the galgos. As you will all know, it has been a terrible year for the Spanish hunting dogs, worse than ever, so time has been very short for me.

    Natalie Osborne very kindly offered to compose a letter to send, and so I am asking you all to please print off the letter below – copy and paste it into a Word document, and then print and post – to see if the League will help to try and make a change for the galgos.

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  • Cartagena, Murcia, Spain – 2 hung galgos – English translation

    Here is a translation about the two hung galgos, found in Cartagena, in the same area as Bullas, where Operation Rehala took place in January.

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  • Letter to Seprona – Spanish version – join the campaign

    Letter to Seprona in Spanish. Add to the end of the letter your name and country, and those of family, friends, anyone who wishes to be included,and

    Email to dg-seprona-jefatura@guardiacivil.org

    Estimados señores;

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  • Dog-Walking in Spain – Spanish law explained

    Exercising galgos BBA couple of days ago I asked the question – what is the law in Spain on exercising galgos, if they are companion dogs. Andrew Hurrell, a founder of Noahs Arc in Mazarron, has personal experience of the problem; he shares it here with you.

    ‘Fury from Camposol ex pats regarding hunting fine of 300 Euros

    My partner and I worked tirelessly with a dog rescue for three years in the Murcia area, and fostered and rescued numerous Greyhound types (called Galgos in Spain) which were cast off by hunters at the end of each season; you can imagine that hunters are not the most well thought of individuals amongst the dog rescue fraternity in Murcia.

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  • Toledo, Spain, galgo hell – galgo graveyard, galgo in gully – Baas Galgo rescue

    Galga love 190 12 2011Toledo – hell for galgos. Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo reports on the latest examples of galguero cruelty.

    ‘Last weekend (weekend before Xmas) our Baasgalgo rescue team found a massive galgo graveyard. They have been digging all day and finally found 8 murdered galgos.
    I cannot give you any more information since the case is now denounced.

    When Leticia came back and looked on our facebook page, she saw there was a girl called Selene asking for help…a galga was thrown into a gully around 800 meters deep.

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  • Estepona, Spain – Guardia Civil drag dog by van

    Great anger in Spain with yet another demonstration of animal cruelty. Read the story in the Olive Press

  • Spain – how to report a suspected case of animal cruelty

    HOW TO REPORT A SUSPECTED CASE OF ANIMAL CRUELTY

    August 2011

    There are increasing numbers of animal cruelty cases and people who come across them, often don’t know how to make an official complaint (denuncia) to the police. Seprona, the environmental arm of the Guardia Civil, has given the Costa Animal Society this set of guidelines on what to do.

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  • Spanish Guardia Civil – law enforcers? What a joke!

    Guardia Civi 250 wikipedia One of the things which I find really frustrating is how much back biting goes on between refuges and associations, whether in Spain, Belgium, France…… At the end of the day, for me, it is about the dogs, who cares who is ‘president’ of which association, who runs what refuge so long as it complies with GEE. For goodness sake, it’s about the animals, not about people and politics….

    I was in a car park in Spain and where a little puppy, probably about 5 months old, looked like a x poodle, was wandering around loose. I went to take it up when a couple of young Spanish restrained me. It was their puppy, they said. As I don’t speak Spanish, I was unable to answer them as I would have liked to. I dread to think of how it ended up…certainly not microchipped, vaccinated and in a loving family home….more likely in a shelter, if it hadn’t been killed by a lorry driving into the car park.

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