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Tag: hunting dogs

  • Spanish Legal Expert needed – law on galgos running free

    Cordoba galga mama 250 1 26 07This is a question for the legal experts to answer. A couple in Palencia found two starving galgos in a ditch a couple of years ago. They adopted them and walk them in the fields in a morning, letting them run free. As they are so well fed, they don’t tend to catch anything!

    The couple have now been told – by a man with two (unleashed) hunting dogs – that they are breaking the law by having the galgos run free in the campo, that they spoil the hunting. If he sees them running free again, he will file a report with the Guardia Civil.

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  • Hunter left his dogs to die – PACMA prosecute

    Link to an article in Spanish about a hunter who left his dogs to die. PACMA took up the case to prosecute. Herewith a Google translation –

    Alicante
    PACMA file a suit against a hunter who died left their dogs in Benidoleig

    Photo: PACMADENIA (Alicante), Jan. 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –

    Antitaurino Party against Animal Abuse (Pacman) has filed this complaint on Tuesday a judge in Denia (Alicante) against a hunter who they accuse of “letting their dogs die” in Benidoleig (Alicante), as indicated to Europe Press sources of this political formation.

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  • Restabal, Grenada, Spain, can anyone help these starving dogs

    Calling everyone involved in animal rescue in Andalucia. I’ve just received the following message from Scooby Medina who unfortunately are much too far away to be able to help these dogs. Can anyone go and rescue them?

    ‘Hello,
    I am hoping you may be able to help me, I have just returned to the United States from a short trip to the Grenada region. We rented a house in the rugged countryside south of Grenada called the Lecrin Valley, we were nearest the small village of Restabal, not far from Durcal.

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