Tag: Leicester

  • warning – dog thieves loose in the English Midlands – and watch your lurchers!

    A couple of days ago I read an appeal about dogs free to a good home’. I’ve never believed an animal should be given free to a good home – if you can’t keep it, take it to a shelter. The particular dog in question ended up used as live bait to train fighting dogs – naturally it was killed. Here’s a frightening warning on the same subject.

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  • Lurchers hung from a canal bridge – in England! The Mirror reports.

    I rant against the Spanish galgueros and gitanos for their barbaric treatment towards galgos and podencos. But I will be the first to admit that British people can be just as sick and perpetrate horrendous cruelty to animals. The difference is that there is the RSPCA to follow up complaints of cruelty, far more than Seprona in Spain seems willing to do. And more Brits are likely to report cases of animal cruelty to the RSPCA than Spanish people are to report cruelty cases to Seprona, for fear of reprisals against themselves, their families, their homes, their cars. Intimidation, in other words.

    But this sickening story is worrying – are there now sick Brits who emulate the Spanish hunters? Read the story