Tag: Madrid

  • Spanish hunting dogs need protection by law

    🎬 PPP Hunting 🐗
    Collaborative video between Aula Animal and Plataforma NAC
    🎤 Why are hunting dogs not included in the animal welfare law?
    🐕 Dogs, who are sadly used for hunting, are not included in the animal welfare law because the hunting lobby has exerted strong political pressure to prevent them from having rights.
    In this way, they remain completely unprotected so that hunters can continue to use them as mere tools in their hunting practices.
    🎤 Why are millions of wild boars, roe deer, and rabbits raised annually to repopulate hunting grounds?
    🐗 Millions of species intended for hunting are raised annually in hunting farms so that hunters have enough prey to kill.
    These hunting farms carry significant risks and negative consequences for animals and the natural environment.
    An argument in favor of hunting is that it helps control populations of wild boars and rabbits.
    Hunting does not help control animal populations; on the contrary, it is the hunting industry itself that produces artificial overpopulations causing imbalance in wild populations.

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  • Please join PACMA protests this Sunday 18th October if you can

    HUNTING DOGS IN THE LAW NOW!
    ❌Of more than 2000 investigated and detained for animal abuse between 2021 and 2023, none went to prison. This is what the parties in Congress allow.
    🚫This has to end! Hunting dogs must be protected by animal welfare law.
    🙌That’s why we need you at the rallies that will take place this Sunday at 12:00 in 13 Spanish cities:
    📍Madrid – Plaza de Callao
    📍Seville – Plaza Virgen de los Reyes
    📍Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – Plaza de la Feria
    📍Zaragoza – Plaza de España, in front of the Provincial Delegation
    📍Barcelona – Plaça Sant Jaume
    📍Tarragona – Plaça de la Font
    📍Valencia – Plaza de Tetuán
    📍A Coruña – Plaza María Pita
    📍Málaga – Plaza de la Marina
    📍Santa Cruz de Tenerife – Plaza de España
    📍Donosti – Alderdi-Eder (City Hall)
    📍León – Plaza San Marcelo (In front of Botines)
    📍Bilbao – Ernesto Erkoreka Plaza, 12 (City Hall)
    📣We’re waiting for you!
  • Galgos en Familia – visit the shelter

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    Video

    Galgos en Familia is a shelter dedicated to the rehabilitation and adoption of Galgos, founded with love and commitment by Vera Thorenaar.
    
    The mission of this wonderful project is to offer a fresh start to these elegant dogs, providing them with the care and attention they need to heal and thrive.

    Dogs for adoption

  • Galgos Rescue Almeria – callouts to rescue even on Sundays

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1177445137849126

    From Galgos Rescue Almeria

    Even on Sundays, the rescue centre never rests.  When the phone rings, we often already know what time it is. Once again, a call for help. A small galgo girl… no longer wanted. Discarded. Thanked for her work, then cast aside as if she no longer had any worth.

    Our GRA van left immediately, as it so often does, heading to the agreed location. There she stood. Small and unsure. Her eyes said it all: she had had enough. Years of obedience, running until her body could no longer cope, enduring humiliations she never deserved. And yet, when we approached her gently, her tail gave a tiny wag. A spark of trust… despite everything.  For this little girl, a new adventure begins today. (more…)

  • Mariangeles of FePaex leads the march in Madrid 10 June 2012

    After joining in the Manifestation in Strasbourg on 9th June, Mariangeles of FePaex headed straight off and led the march in Madrid on 10th June!

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  • Strasbourg, Madrid, Barcelona – supporting the galgos on 10th June 2012

    Latest news on the Manifestation organised by the galgo rescue association in the Vosges CREL in Strasbourg on 9th June 2012. Madrid and Barcelona are now joining in! Read below in Spanish and English. I’ve got my transport sorted out, will be travelling to Strasbourg tomorrow and back home on Sunday – 9 hrs each way with a pee stop, over 1,800 kms!

    Thank you to CREL and everyone else involved in organising this tremendous event. Let’s hope we make enough noise to get some action!

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  • Hounding Misery Part 4 by Nano Calvo

    The fourth and final part of Hounding Misery by Nano Calvo. As always, stunning photos and plenty of food for thought.

    Part 1Part 2
    Part 3

  • MRW – transporting animals around Spain

    MRW article 250 3 2012MRW is an animal transport company in Spain which is used by many refuges and association to move animals from perreras, refuges etc. They are used in preference to private transport companies because they are cheaper.

    This is a translation of an article in the Spanish press.

    MRW mistreats the animals they transport. Seprona has verified this information.

    Arca Madrid says that is a scam to get money. Refugiocan, in Valencia, has also verified it. They say that:

    As Protective Association we corroborate what Seprona says.

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  • Why Spain does not act against animal abuse.

    I thought you might be interested to read this piece by Oscar van Gastel which he has posted on Animal Welfare Support Murcia on facebook. Although it refers to bull fighting, it could also apply to all animals used in fiestas, plus the Spanish hunting dogs.

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