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Tag: hunting in Spain

  • Scooby rescues 50 more hunting dogs in Castilla-la Mancha, Spain

    50 Greyhounds and hounds from Castilla La Mancha…

    In a few weeks the hunting season with galgos will come to an end and that means that now already shelters and perreras are completely full with galgos, discarded by their owner who just considers them a bad working tool and nothing more…
    Scooby will take the next couple weeks hundreds of galgos and podencos in to save them from being killed in a perrera or waiting for years and years in shelters because nobody adopts them.

    Sunday the 10th. of January we had to go to pick up some 50 galgos and podencos in a shelter in Tomelloso were every day a few galgos are brought in by their loving owners or mostly, are just thrown over the fence.

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  • The Spanish Galguero – victims of their cruelty

    Murdered galga 170 1 1 2016Intimidation is a terrible thing, especially when the result is attacks on people, property, vehicles, animals.  It is not uncommon in rural Spain for people who speak out against animal cruelty, make denuncias, to suffer in such a way.  Here is a story of just one such case.  My heart goes out to the poor lady, and to her dogs who died so horrendously.  (Taken from a facebook page Million Paw March for Justice)

    ‘With permission, We are saddened, shocked, and angered to have to report that the post made on the March earlier of the murdered Galga, Nanou, mutilated and tied to the owners fence in an act of apparent revenge belonged to one of our Marchers. A Marcher, who asked not to be named, who has been with us all from the very beginning. No words can properly express the sorrow and pain our Friend of the March is going through but they wanted a summary of the events told here and the village named.

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  • URGENT – 1 MILLION SIGNATURES STILL REQUIRED

    Please keep signing and sharing – you can sign more than once! We need tens of thousands more signatures – we have to stop this proposal from the galgo hunting federations.

  • More on Mairena – the horror revealed

    No words…

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  • Campaign – please write to the Spanish galgo hunting federations

    Regular readers will remember that in March 2013 I published my ‘Letter to the Galgueros’. After the news of Fermin and the meetings with the FEG, I sent him a copy of my letter. He will be publishing it on the Scooby website and will also be forwarding it to his galguero contacts.

    So I thought now would be a good time for us all to send a copy of the letter to the galgueros, since the mass abandonment and dumping in perreras is worse than ever and has not let up in the past 18 months. Figures now are certainly 120,000 galgos ‘disposed of’

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  • A letter to Senor Galguero…

    To Senor Galguero, from Beryl Brennan

    I woke up ANGRY this morning. And it’s YOUR fault.

    Why?

    I’m a writer; I write for newspapers, magazines, websites. I’d like to write more books – I’ve got plenty of ideas, but not the time. I used to get paid for my writing. Now, writing about anything other than galgos and podencos has taken a very back seat, so I lay the drop in my income firmly at your door. Because I don’t earn any money writing about galgos and podencos, I do it because I must, for these innocent souls. That’s for starters.

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  • Two galga pups saved from Malaga perrera, now in the US thanks to GRIN

    Nice story about two lucky galgo pups saved from the El Paraiso perrera at Malaga, now in the US. April Lamb, mentioned in the article, has been working hard with Danielle Hart to try and persuade National Geographic magazine to publicise the plight of the galgos. Join in the letter-writing campaign published yesterday.

  • Letters needed for the galgos to National Geographic Magazine

    Danielle and April have continued to keep contact with the National Geographic Society and they need your help again. Below is the letter they have composed to keep up the pressure for more coverage in the magazine about the plight of the galgos. You can either copy, paste to your computer and print off and post, or send by email, addresses below. If you post, can you also enclose a sheet of photos of badly injured galgos, to illustrate the horror they suffer.

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  • Villarejo, Salvanes – hunters disposed of hounds

    Villarejo Well 2 250 12 2012The hunters continue to deny that they kill their dogs when they have no more use for them. I have seen wells in from which live galgos have been rescued…here’s the story of another one rescue alive, but others which were not so lucky. Again, this is an Internet translation, no time to correct the grammar, but you will understand the story!

    A live galgo was rescued from this well, along with the remains of other dead dogs, which were put into bags and carried a locator chip that allowed the agents to identify the owner of the dogs through the College of Veterinary Surgeons , who certified the animal rescued and the remains of one that appeared in the bag belonged to same owner.

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  • 24 reasons why Scooby enjoy picking up s..t!

    It’s only the middle of October; the hunting season in Spain has now been in full swing for a month, and already the perreras are filling up with hundreds of galgos dumped there by the galgueros as ‘unfit to hunt’ – either because they lack the ‘killer instingt’ or they are sick and injured.

    Scooby are hard at work trying to save many of these young hounds and Cobie writesfrom the kennels with the latest news.