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Tag: protest

  • Cruel Spain – galgos tied up in caves to starve to death – shame on Spain

    Cuevas Chinchilla cave entrance 01 2011 190 The entrance to Hell. From A.P.A.P. Albacete Noah’s Ark we want to present a new case of animal abuse, which occurred in the town of Chinchilla de Montearagón. Again, the galgo, noble animal, an innocent victim of the cruelty and ruthlessness of some heartless owners.

    Last week members of the Protective went to check the call of some youths who made a grisly discovery, several bodies of dogs in a cave near the village.

    Fearing the worst we viewed some of the caves in the area and found in several of them the same sad scenario, dogs in various stages of decomposition, bound with ropes to rocks inside the caves where they had been left to die slowly of starvation. .. and even whole litters thrown into small pits from which they could not leave.

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  • Spanish Galgo hanged in Badajoz – the hell of Spain

    Hanged galgo 250 Extremadura 16 01 2011 Terrible news coming in all this weekend……and this is the worst. A galgo found hanged near Badajoz, which we know is a hellhole for all dogs. Here’s the link to the story. This is a Google translation.

    Extremadura environmentalists complained to the Office of Environment of Badajoz on the 14th of January after the discovery of a greyhound hanged in the town of Don Benito.

    The animal had been cruelly tortured with multiple blows all over his body and burns on the outside of the ears. He was hanged under the Secondary Canal aqueduct located in the area known as sows, of that municipality of Don Benito.

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  • Join the campaign – write to your Italian MEP – translation here

    Thank you to Sveva for this translation. Please write to your MEP now. Original link

    Who is your MEP in Italy?

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    Grazie alla portata mondiale di Internet, ormai non è più possibile nascondere nulla da chiunque possieda un computer. Viviamo in una comunità globale in cui si condividono le notizie istantaneamente su una base quotidiana.

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  • Cordoba European Cultural Capital?!! No way – sign the petition please.

    Please, if you haven’t signed this petition, do so.

    Hi: few days ago we requested your help in this new campaign to ask if Cordoba was chosen as European Cultural Capital, in cultural events not included bullfighting. But participation is still low. If you have not participated in and signed on the following link, just a minute. Thanks: Asanda

    http://www.asanda.org/index.php?module=Peticiones&func=display&id=10

  • Training galgos in Andalucia – Spain should be ashamed – write and protest!

    Postal addresses now added. Scroll down.

    Training galgos 1 400 Photos we hoped never to see again, an ‘activity’ which should be banned by law and perpetrators pay heavy fines. Please look are what these poor galgos are being put through, and write your letter of protest to the Junta. Please publicise widely and ask everyone you know to protest.
    Training galgos 2 400

    The Junta de Andalucia, namely the Minister of Agriculture, Clara Aguilera, and Manuel Brenes, director general of the Government of the Board, has supported the legalizing of training galgos attached to mirrors, tractors and motorbikes. They believe that this practice does not amount to abuse of the animal. Aguilera pledged to seek a definitive solution to the sanctions imposed by the SEPRONA, who could detain anyone ‘training’ his dogs with this method and they imposed penalties of up to 600 euros. Galgueros have met with the members of the Junta, who has shown them support.

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  • ASANDA Petition against Cordoba City of Culture! Please sign

    ASANDA logo 200 Please take a moment to add your name to this petition on behalf of ASANDA and circulate it to all your family and friends, asking them to do the same. It is about using animals in ‘Spanish Culture’ especially as Cordoba has been nominated as City of Culture 2016. HA!! We who have visited know better!!

    Click on this link, scroll down the page to read the English translation. Then go to FIRMAR written in green. Click on this which will open boxes into which you need to put your personal details and any comment you wish to add. You will need to fill in all the boxes for the link to work. Type persona in the bottom box, as instructed, meaning you are a human and not a robot!

    Thank you as always for your support.

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  • Join the Campaign – write to the Junta Andalucia, Spain – protest!

    Galgueros-consejera Andalucia Junta 09 2010 250 Look at the faces of these people. They are the Junta in Andalucia. They have just passed a law allowing galgos to be run beside motorbikes, to train them for galgo racing! Below is a letter which El Refugio Escuela have put together. Please copy it and email to the address given. I have asked for a postal address too, as we all know that email addresses can be blocked.

    We have to let these people know that this is NOT acceptable. Please support this campaign.

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  • Holland v Spain, World Cup – All galgos and podencos to wear orange!

    Ellie Galgo Love Foundation Holland 210 I’ve just received this message which I share with you.

    Sunday is the World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands. So on this occasion I am putting out a call to everyone. I am a Dutch owner of dogs from Spain. I call on all galgo and podenco owners to put orange on their dog’s collar, as an act o protest and an indictment of the treatment of dogs in Spain.

    Thanks on behalf of all Spanish dogs.

    Kind regards, Joke Brussen, volunteer for www.greytcreations.nl, and www.podencoworld.nl galgolovefoundation.nl
    Please spread the word!!!

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