It’s time to run another letter-writing campaign to the Spanish national and provincial governments. Thank you to Dioni del Rio for this translation. Please copy and paste the letter into a word document and post. This link takes you to the list of addresses for the recipients – the national government – Prime Minister, Ministers of Tourism, Environment, Sport, Interior, all in Madrid, Andalucia, Murcia, Extremadura, Castilla la Mancha, Castilla y Leon, Balearics, Canary Islands, Valencia, Basque. The relevant addresses are highlighted in bold. You’ll need 15 copies of the letter if you write to them all. I’m beginning to get replies to my letters, so someone is reading them! Please join in, the galgos and podencos desperately need your help.
Tag: Madrid
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La Bienvenida, Ciudad Real – moving date Easter, no room for all the dogs!
This story is particularly sad for me. La Bienvenida, Cuidad Real, is the first refuge I visited in Spain and from where I adopted my first galga, Karmel (pic is my first meeting with her). The refuge is 200km south of Madrid.Protectora La Bienvenida
The shelter will move to a new building around Easter. That sounds nice and it is,but not for all the dogs: because at the moment there are many more dogs then there should be, it means that lots of them cannot go into the new shelter!!
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Accommodation in Madrid – any room available?
Look at this beautiful face, those trusting eyes. This is Akaru, 8 yrs old. His hunter is going to take him to the perrera to be killed, because he’s got younger dogs now. What a betrayal. Akaru is one of 4 galgos in Madrid belonging to this hunter; he will take them all to the perrera to be killed, unless anyone can take them. Contact is vanessa.mascoteros@gmail.com
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Hounding Misery – Nano Calvo writes about the Spanish Galgo
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Dog Fighting – an innocent victim used as bait – Spanish galgos suffer
Because galgos are not aggressive dogs, unscrupulous people use them as bait for dog fighting. This galguita found a few days ago, is young, full of wounds and has a broken tail.
There currently seems to be some uncertainty as to who actually has the galga,
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Federacion Espanola de Galgos – letter-writing campaign, write now!
I have now composed a letter to the Federacion Espanola de Galgos, the ‘umbrella’ association in Spain to which the other galgo hunting federations belong, and invite you to send copies also. Thanks to Dioni Del Rio for the Spanish translation. (An English version is at the end). Please copy and paste, and post. Please ask as many of your friends and contacts to join in.
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Galgueros murder galgos in Salamanca – UNESCO heritage city!!
The holocaust continues, the galgueros continue their vile deeds. But they are being found out, they are being ‘outed’, and we will continue to expose their hypocrasy – they claim they are kind to their dogs!
After Toledo, now Salamanca, west of Madrid in Castil y Leon, a hellish region for galgos. It’s also been declared a UNESCO Heritage Site. I bet the inspectors didn’t see this sight!
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Protest in Madrid 23 October 2011 – PACMA need your support
This news received from Esdaw.
Now the Spanish government are trying to introduce an animal ‘protection’ law. If it goes ahead, they will fine anybody found feeding stray dogs or cats. Strays will be able to be euthanised 3 days after entering a compound.
PACMA are organising a protest against this new law on Sunday, 23rd October in Madrid. If anyone is going, any associations protesting elsewhere, please be sure to let me know.
Please SHARE far & wide!
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Here we are again – galgos still in killing stations from last year’s hunting – now they’re loose again on Spain’s roads……
It’s been a never-ending struggle for all the rescue associations in Spain, coping with thousands of galgos and podencos, as well as the thousands of other abandoned and maltreated dogs of Spain. And now, before last season’s detritus has been coped with, the bloody hunters are already abandoning this year’s rejects. Loose on the roads of Andalucia, Murcia….how can the bastards deny what we all know – the majority of them don’t give a bloody damn about the dogs they don’t want to keep.
Be strong, Spanish volunteers, we are all with you as much as we can be.
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Injured galga rescued from a Madrid building site – L’Europe des Levriers appeals
This galga was rescued, injured and suffering from hunger, thirst and the scorching sun for three days on a building site in Madrid. She was rescued by a veterinary student. UPDATE – Sadly just learned that Olivia did not make it, sadly she died. But I leave here story here for you to read. Olivia (as she was named) had a broken hip and a leg!! Veterinarians wanted to kill her, her injuries were so bad.