Urgent appeals for help for three podencos.
Please, Can anyone help us save this podenca Clara in Hellin perrera? Only 2 yrs old. Or if anyone can contribute to kennel fees, they can get her out into kennels. Contact: linaortu@gmail.com vicfisioperros@hotmail.com tel : (Spain) 618 89 71 82 (from 10 to 13 h)
This poor podenca is on the streets of Jaen.
These two galgos were rescued from the Resur perrera by Animales de Baeza. They are in kennels because there is no room in the refuge and they could now be stolen if they are not taken. Their kennel fees have been paid for 2 weeks, plus vaccinations. Is there an association which can take them for foster and rehoming. The French association which helps her have already taken some galgos from her. Clara is the brindle one, Diana the black one. Please contact Mairie Teresa at Baeza, Jaen. Apparently there are still more galgos on death row in Resur, but her shelter is full. animalesdebaeza@gmail.com
August, and there are still galgos arriving in the killing station!
You may remember earlier in the year I posted the story of Voyka a young galgo found abandoned, who had co-ordination problems with walking, possibly as a result of a blow to the head. This is an urgent appeal for an adoption for him, to save him going back to the kennels. There was an adoption application but, after extensive research, it was not deemed the right home for him. Because of his physical problems, he needs a really special home, with another dog, where his disability will not cause a problem. This is the report from Lourdes, who has him in her care.
You may remember that earlier in the year I posted about Maria Teresa and the Baeza refuge. The sister of a wonderful galgo supporter has now created a website for the shelter, and donated her time and expertise to them. Here is the result.
The shelter is still searching for volunteers for the following tasks:
1. translate the content of the website into French
2. taking photos of the shelter and of the dogs for the website
An appeal received today.
‘I am writing on behalf of María Teresa, president of the Baeza (Jaén province) shelter which also runs the local dog pound as a no-kill organization and rescues dogs from other dog pounds in the area . There are a high number of galgos in the shelter, at the moment gone well past saturation point.
María Teresa does sterling work but she is very much alone due to lack of volunteers in her part of Spain and she is no longer young.
She needs volunteers willing to help out at many levels and contacts that could help her place the galgos.
ArcoNatura Linares: “battered and burned in Linares, this galga was found on 25th April 2012… This is what people do with a galga in Linares (Jaén).” A harmless galga, battered and burned alive. Volunteers Arconatura llevabamos were trying to catch her, had a place for her, knew she was pregnant. They went in search of her to try and catch her and this is what they found. There was no trace of the puppies, babies cut from her and taken for who knows what.
This is the reality of Spain- we need the world to see how inhuman have people become!
The Spanish government keeps saying these things don’t happen any more(!) but in our experience they happen just as much as before mainly because of the general indifference of both the authorities and the citizens and also the lack of strong laws to protect the animals.
Please write to the Spanish embassy in your country, attach these photos and tell them you will not be visiting Spain until they protect the animals. Thank you. PACMA
WARNING – DISTURBING PICTURE
Here are two videos of the young galgo Voyka, with Lourdes Pulger at Torre del Campo, Jaen. Lourdes is appealing for donations towards the vet fees. Paypal donations to tikaami93@hotmail.com. Read the story here.
Lourdes helps with a small association in Torre del Campo, Jaen. This galgo, now called Voyka, was recently rescued, and his movement is disco-ordinated. He has now been assessed by the vet and this is what Lourdes says.
‘I tooko Voyka to Jaén to test various things: the x-rays didn´t show anything in the head and the column but our vet thinks that it´s Wobbler syndrome
Here is the latest news from Lourdes on the Torre del Campo galgo, which had received a heavy blow to his head, making his movement unco-ordinated.
‘My vet was with my little galgo boy this morning. She didn’t order a blood test because the lab just works on Tuesdays. Next week we’ll do it.
Emails coming in about the hunters dumping their galgos in Jerez, Gesser, Albacete, Hellin perreras, as well at shelters. Here are some of the 15 taken to death row in Jerez perrera this week, including this one with raw wounds on his body. Anyone wanting to save any, contact Maribel maribeljerezsos2@gmail.com 605637101 Maribel www.perreras.org en perrera 1
