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  • 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.
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    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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  • Updates on the Seville galgos – Scooby Medina helps

    Seville rescue 1 10 2010 250 Here’s a message from Cobie, a Dutch volunteer who has travelled to Spain to help at the Scooby Medina refuge.

    ‘Scooby saved some 75 galgos from the area around Sevilla. A few weeks ago they went picking up some 25 galgos, Last Wednesday another 37 of which you can see the pictures and tomorrow (Tuesday) another 25 are being picked up by Scooby. They come from everywhere, taken from the streets, from gypsy camps, from perreras, also from the bloody perrera from Mairena.

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  • Galga Shari, in Almeria, Spain, saved by Ibizan Hound Rescue

    Have a look at this link, it’s a story about a galga picked up in Almeria, Southern Spain, and being looked after and treated by Ibizan Hound Rescue. She was full of ticks and with an infection in her broken hind leg. There is a fabulous pic of Shari playing with a couple of the rescued podencos. Ibizan Hound Rescue are always looking for forever homes for their rescued podencos, some of them are prepared with passports for entry into the UK. Contact IHR direct.

  • Seville gypsy camp – revealing the truth, exposing the suffering

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    This is a diabolical situation which has been ongoing for two or three days. Volunteers are working like mad to save these dogs.

    A volunteer writes. ‘Am writing to ask for help. I know everyone is saturated with dogs and right now, with the hunting season in full swing, every week we find more and more dogs. But I had to send this appeal.

    It’s a case in Seville in a shanty area. There are gypsies with many compounds made of metal where they put hundreds of dogs, above all galgos and podencos waiting to be tried by the gypsies as to if they can be used for hunting. Those that can are sold to the galgueros. The others they kill. They rent these places for months and have to pay the head of the gypsy hierarchy.

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  • Tribute to Yeni, pointer bitch hung near Toledo – Spanish hunters exposed!

    Video tribute to Yeni – pointer bitch hung outside Toledo – Spain, the world is watching what your hunters do! Beware, hard images.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QblLcDUwk

  • Galga Gaby, abandoned in Murcia, fostered in France, adopted in the UK

    Gaby Diary Pix 009 190 Here’s something to make you chuckle, amidst so many horror stories. I am fostering a galga rescued by Tina Solera of Los Infiernos Refuge in Murcia (by the way, click on the ‘hound’ logo on the right to donate desperately needed dog food to her) who is en route to her forever home in the UK. The galga is a terrible thief! What a surprise! But as she is larger than my Carmela and Sahara, she can reach more things.

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  • Galga Mora, happy in Italy thanks to Galgos 112

    Mora 2 crop 10 2010 Jorgi Oliva 250 This is Mora today, a happy fit galga living in Italy with her adoptive family and canine siblings. This was Mora earlier in the year. Thank you to Arca de Sevilla, Galgos 112 and their vet who all did a wonderful job of putting her back together again.

  • Galgo, dumped in well to drown, Toledo should be ashamed!

    Galgo drowned in well land Sandra 10 2010 250 Spot the Well!!

    This weekend has been full of dreadful emails about the dogs in Spain. So I’m just going to do short posts and you can click on Continue to read more.

    This is from Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo. Letitia, the Guardia Civil employee who also helps at the Villa del Rio shelter in Cordoba (owned by a Spanish galguero!!) was contacted by a hunter on 17 October.

    ‘Galgo DIES IN A WELL IN A TOWN NEAR TOLEDO

    The beginning of the hunting season means new cases of animal abuse against the Galgos.

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  • French bastard dumps a neglected little dog in our courtyard in Deux-Sévres

    Lost Dog 10.2010 003 250 I call the Spanish hunters bastards, but some of the French are bastards too, as are so many of the English at the moment. We went out on our horses yesterday – the first time since May, as we don’t ride during the summer, it’s too hot and there are too many flies. We returned to find that someone had dumped a little dog in our enclosed courtyard whilst we had been out! I guess he is a X Bichon Frisée – cute little dogs but their coats need daily attention. This one could never have had a comb or brush near him! I’ll post pix of what we cut off him.

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  • Galga Lady Carla – fighting for her life with the help of Baas Galgo

    You may remember earlier in the year I posted an appeal from Baas Galgo for help to pay for veterinary fees for a badly injured galga, which they named Lady Carla. Here is an update on how she is getting on.