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  • Safe now – galgo puppy hung and thrown into the river at Castille y Leon, Spain

    LINO, baby who was tried to kill with a rope and thrown into the river.  She is now safe with Galgos De León
    We talk about systemic cruelty and impunity.
    The exclusion of hunting dogs from the Animal Protection Act in Spain has, in fact, armored the abusers, leaving the Galgueros with an unfair legal shield. Knowing themselves protected by the law, many continue to treat these noble animals as mere disposable tools, condemning them to a destiny of torture, abandonment or death, while protectors fight alone to save lives like this little warrior who is now fighting to recover at the veterinary hospital.

  • Pepi’s Dog Refuge visit September 2016

    Pepis 400 010I recently spent a week at Pepi’s Dog Refuge where I took the money raised from my Fun Dog Show to help pay some of the vet bills.  The weather was baking hot, temperatures over 40 degrees, so the dogs spent a lot of time sleeping in the cool of their kennels.  The roofing is special material which keeps out the rain but also keeps out the sun, provided by Anpana association in Italy.

    On the day I arrived, we visited the vet.  A podenco puppy had been found injured on the road in the village and xrays had been taken of his broken leg.  The vet asked Pepi’s to take him.  His leg was in a splint as in some cases with young bone, the injury can heal itself, new bone can grow.  The pup was named Vero, he’s an adorable little chap and no doubt when he has recovered, he will soon find a forever home.

    Another young podenca bitch is quite an escape artist and able to climb out of her kennel to spend her days in the corridor run! She too arrived with a broken leg which has healed perfectly.Saturday was an interesting day!  

    Hunting with podencos starts Saturday evening and finishes Sunday lunchtime.  During that time there were several hunters, each with 4 or 5 dogs mostly podencos, hunting rabbit amongst the olive groves.  There was great concern on Saturday evening when one walked on land in front of the refuge greatly upsetting the pepi’s dogs.  Behind the house he fired off his gun, narrowly missing the corner!  Hunting is prohibited within 150 metres of property.  When the hunter saw us all he scarpered, leaving behind the dead rabbit.  Alan Brian called the Guardia (gamekeeper) who said he would have a word with the hunter.  As Alan said, it’s likely the hunter could be a relative of his!  Also, as elsewhere in Spain, if they complained to the Guardia Civil, it is very possible they would find their refuge dogs poisoned or stolen.  Hunters are very vindictive.

    Sunday morning saw another hunter approach the house, 2 dead rabbits hanging from his belt.  With him was his Podenco, Braco (brown & white pointer) and a small rough-haired dog of dachshund type.  He is the local butcher in Pedrera and told us he had found the little dog and kept it.  Sadly later in the day there was a young podenco running around, obviously lost and left behind by his hunter.  We left water out for him but he had disappeared the following day.

    I also saw a couple of vehicles ‘training’ the galgos …goodness knows how far the poor dogs were being made to run in the searing heat!  In the Pedrera area they are used for coursing, not hunting.  Jane remarked that no doubt one or two of them at least would be dumped at the refuge gates during the winter.

    Sadly when I left on Tuesday morning, Pepi was having trouble breathing and was taken to the vet for oxygen.  She was rescued from the piggery opposite the refuge and, even with a heart problem, lived with Brians for 16 years.  She will be greatly missed by Jane and Alan but her legacy lives on in all the Pepi’s dogs rescued and rehomed.

    Pepi’ Dog Refuge survives solely on donations and fundraisers.  Money is currently needed for microchipping and castration of some dogs in preparation for travelling for adoption. If you can help in any way, please do.  Without Pepi’s Dog Refuge, the dogs of Pedrera area would face a terrible life.

    Introducing Vero and some of the other current Pepi’s incumbents, every one waiting for their forever home.

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  • French book on galgos – raising funds for Scooby

    For my French readers.

    http://www.lagazettedeslevriers.org/t6724-livre-sur-les-galgos-au-profit-de-scooby-france#159232 En me promenant sur le net, j’ai trouvé ce petit livre sur les galgos. Je l’ai commandé à Marie-Françoise Derache. C’est un livre vraiment très intéressant sur nos amours les galgos . J’ai discuté avec l’auteure, via ma boîte mail. Je vous conseille fortement ce livre. Il est vendu 10 euros + 3 euros de frais de port. Marie – Françoise qui est une femme avec un cœur…gros comme ça, reversera le prix de son livre à Scooby France. Pour chaque achat, il sera reversé 10 euros. Merci pour Scooby de faire une bonne action. Merci d’en parler autour de vous. Voici son adresse mail : palicia49@yahoo.fr

  • 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.

  • Castilla la Mancha – Spanish hunters on the move – join the protest

    Castilla la Mancha running galgos 7 2014 250The galgo hunting federation in Castilla la Mancha have requested the Junta to allow this cruel practice of ‘training’ galgos from motorised vehicles. I have first-hand experience of a galga who went down and was dragged – Paca is in my galgo book, for those of you who have bought it. Please sign this Amigos de los Galgos also writes on the following action she has taken. (google translation)

    ‘From the Association Amigos de los Galgos we have forwarded the writing contained here down the Parliamentary Association of Defense Animal, (APPDA) which invokes the animal welfare as the ultimate goal of the Association, to see if it may cause any effect.

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  • URGENT – 1 MILLION SIGNATURES REQUIRED

    Cobie Steketee posted news on her fb page that the Federation Nacional and Galgo Hunting Clubs want to raise 1 million signatures to request UNESCO to class hunting with galgos as World Cultural Heritage. This would mean it could NEVER be banned! I asked my friends om Paris at Galgos Ethique Europe to raise a petition in response. It will be presented to UNESCO HQ in Paris.

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  • Scooby Junta – the law on ‘training’ galgos from motorised vehicles

    This note was sent by Cobie at Scooby Valladolid – you may remember last year the Junta proposed rescinding the law in Andalucia.

    ‘Good news: this letter, send to Fermin, informs that the junta de Andalucia will NOT approve the training from galgos behind motorised vehicles, it STAYS forbidden like in the rest from Spain!

    Fermin: ¡Lo hemos conseguido!

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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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  • To be killed in Badajoz perrera 21 November 2013

    Having recently said I was going to concentrate on publicising galgos and podencos already rescued and waiting for forever homes, I decided to post these galgos and a podenco on death row in Badajoz perrera – will be killed on 21 November – all under 3 years old.

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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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