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  • Cuenca Dog Pound – Urgent appeal – 100 dogs need saving

    Urgent appeal to save the lives of 100 dogs. Oscar writes from Cuenca;

    ‘Milagros from the Cuenca Dog Pound just informed me that the Inspection has been at the pound and that they “counted” 100 dogs too many. Therefore it is extremely urgent to get 100 (ONE HUNDRED) dogs out of there. Please could you notify ANY dog shelters, fosterplaces, whomever. The dogs are chipped, vacunated against rabies and are FREE OF CHARGE, they do not cost anything = 0.00 € !!
    The only thing to pay for is the transport wherever. Please help me to spread this awful news around. THANKS

    People can E-mail me in English, German, French, Dutch (Nederlans/Vlaams) or Spanish : cuenca@marmenor.eu
    Web : www.arcoairis.com
    Tlf. : (0034) 630 881 560

  • Arca, Seville – a volunteer tells her story

    Carmen of Arca Seville 200 4 2012A Spanish volunteer tells her story.

    “My name is Carmen and I grew up in a village close to Seville in the South of Spain. I always liked animals (when I was a child I always wanted to have a cat). However, I never got any because “animals are not for homes but for the countryside”. I remember seeing galgueros riding a motorbike and pulling 5 or 6 galgos behind for training. This was a familiar picture, so it looked normal to me. I never asked myself why there were always different galgos from season to season. I cannot remember having wondered about the fate of those galgos I did not see anymore.’

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  • Neuter your dog – stop uncontrolled breeding – galga with 11 puppies in Seville

    Seville perrera Triana 250 11 pups 5 2012The results of abandonment of non sterilized dogs – in this case galga Triani in Seville perrera with her 11 puppies. Condemned to die before they can see. perrosurgentes@hotmail.com and for fostering monicasilvan@hotmail.com

  • Join the Demonstration in Strasbourg, 9th June 2012 – for the galgos

    A Demonstration has been organised for 9th June, 2012 in Strasbourg in front of the European Parliament. Meet at 2pm (1400) to march for 1 1/2 hours to protest about the maltreatment of galgos and podencos by the Spanish hunters. Bring your hounds too, if possible. It is hoped that as many associations and individuals will come in large numbers to gain maximum publicity.

    Where possible, car sharing transport could be arranged.

    Contact manifestation.levriers@ymail.com
    for more details, if you need help with transport, etc. Please publicise widely.

  • Death row in Perreras Jaen and Badajoz, starving on the streets of Cordoba

    Couple of white galgos in perreras still; the top one is in the Jaen perrera, very scared. perrera Jaen contact: abydajaen@hotmail.com
    The second one is in Badajoz. Contact sosperrerabadajoz@gmail.com

    And the poor cream galgo is wandering the streets, abandoned, in Cordoba. Scavenging around rubbish bins for what he can get, some people are leaving food in bags, he’s got an abandoned puppy for company. Need to find a place for him, anyone room in a shelter, foster…anything to get them off the street. Contact mujerpetirroja@gmail.com

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  • Teaching the younger generation to care for animals

    Animal Hotel in Aguilas, near Mazarron and Cartegena, also organise Educational days with children, to teach them about animal care.

  • Aguilas, Spain – San Animal and Santuaro and Animal Hotel saving galgos

    Antoinette galgo pup 3a 250This is Maxima, one of three beautiful galgo pups saved from death row in the local perrera, where they were suffering from dehydration and diahorea, now in foster in Aguilas. The tiger-stripe one (bottom pix) is Kate, who is the noisiest and bossiest! No name with the top one. Photos taken when they were 3 months, old, now they are 5 months. Contact Antoinette if you can offer them forever homes. http://www.sananimal.org/

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  • The Reason

    Badajoz galgo pups 200 3 2012I dedicate this poem – written I think by someone in the German Shepherd Dog Club – to all volunteers involved in dog rescue,(and other animals) everywhere in the world.

    The Reason

    I would’ve died that day if not for you
    I would’ve given up on life if not for your kind eyes
    I would’ve used my teeth in fear if not for your gentle hands
    I would have left this life believing that all humans don’t care

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  • Sick on the streets of Calasparra –

    Galgos are still dying in perreras all over Spain, as well as the thousands of other innocent dogs and puppies, victims of indiscriminate breeding and a non-neutering programme. Here’s the story of one more galgo save from the street. Lesley tells the story.

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  • SOS Galgos, Barcelona – saving and rehoming galgos

    SOS Galgos English website 250 4 2012SOS Galgos in Barcelona have now got their new website in English. Click on this link – if it takes you to the Spanish website, just click on the Union Jack at the top of the page. They are still working on completing the information on some pages.

    You will see their claim – 160 galgos abandoned every day, that’s 58,400 galgos every year – so much for those people who have said to me ‘you exaggerate’ when I say 50,000. SOS Galgos is based in Barcelona city, in the veterinary clinic of Albert, which is where the operations – shown in the photos – were carried out.