Galgo News

Tag: Junta de Andalucia

  • 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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  • Letter-writing campaign – received a reply? Continue the correspondence

    For those of you who joined my latest letter-writing campaign, I have a reply which you can send. Please contact me and I will forward it to you.

  • 15 souls on death row in Jerez, Cadiz – no winter sun holiday in Spain for them

    Jerez galgos 1 Vera 07 12 2010 250 Last week 15 galgos were saved from death row in the Jerez killing station, Cadiz. As soon as they had been removed, another 15 arrived, dumped by the brave courageous hunters (sarcasm!). Oh, these hunters think they are such BIG men! They are not men, they are not human, they are worse than scumbags, a cockroach I would squash beneath my shoe!

    Who is going to save these poor deserving terrified confused souls? 9 males, 6 females. All the shelters are collapsing under the mass abandonment this year. How many more can be saved?

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  • Christmas Holiday in Seville? Not for the galgos nor the volunteers.

    Fermin Perez 12 2010 170 This is the story behind the 130 galgos arriving at Scooby Medina during the course of December. Cobie and Vera explain.

    In Andalucia in southern Spain, the Foundation Benjamin Mehnert association is very actively busy with saving galgos which are, in the eyes of their owners “worthless for hunting” and will, no matter what, get rid of them one way or another. Thousands are brought every year to the perreras, the killing stations, also called the waiting room for death, where their life is not worth one penny and so they are treated like that.

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  • Abandoned and dying in Murcia – help save him – donate to vet fees

    Tina galgo Ulysees b4 capture 15 11 2010 250 Tina Solera has been out catching a galgo again! Seems to be every day there is an abandoned galgo which crosses her path, even 2! And it’s not even near the end of the hunting season. What is wrong, what is happening that all these abandoned galgos are still being found?

    This one was in a very poor state; Tina took advice from other experienced volunteers and finally managed to catch him and take him to her vet. (Bear in mind she has young school age children to see to whilst saving galgos!) This is what she says.

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