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Tag: Spanish hunters

  • Villarejo, Salvanes – hunters disposed of hounds

    Villarejo Well 2 250 12 2012The hunters continue to deny that they kill their dogs when they have no more use for them. I have seen wells in from which live galgos have been rescued…here’s the story of another one rescue alive, but others which were not so lucky. Again, this is an Internet translation, no time to correct the grammar, but you will understand the story!

    A live galgo was rescued from this well, along with the remains of other dead dogs, which were put into bags and carried a locator chip that allowed the agents to identify the owner of the dogs through the College of Veterinary Surgeons , who certified the animal rescued and the remains of one that appeared in the bag belonged to same owner.

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  • Galgos in training – Save the Galgo

    Injured pup 170The plight of the galgos has, it seems to me, been worse this year than ever before, and still, all through this summer, volunteers are rescuing starving and injured galgos. A volunteer says, ‘in a month and a half the hunting season with galgos starts again and already the galgueros are training their dogs like crazy to get condition on them, to get stronger muscles, more speed, only to leave them behind later in the fields or perreras if they don´t hunt as they want.

    Please, adopt a galgo because there are still many left everywhere from the last season, all in need of a loving family and a forever home! For the end of the hunting with galgos in Spain!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nvLZ_USYQ&feature=share
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9OuZS61jVs&feature=relmfu (Olivenza is a privately owned killing station in Badajoz, Extremadura, you can read about it in my book From Heaven to Hell, The Story of the Spanish Galgo)

  • Murcia – June 2012 – Spanish hunters still perpetrating unbelievable cruelty on their galgos – THIS HAS TO STOP!

    News in from Scooby Medina.

    Murcia: More than 16 murdered galgos found in a village in Murcia with signs that they were violently mistreated. The same galgueros there have more galgos, these were seen this week without water or food and with these hot summer temperatures…

    This is a place where several hunters keep their dogs in the worst possible conditions and where they horribly kill the ones they no longer want. Murcia is a dreadful place for animals, especially galgos, and there are many such places we don’t know about. Everyone should raise a stink. But the police need to have a chance to act ( it’s the first time they act, in that part of Spain they mostly completely ignore the cruelty cases) or we can make them angry and they can just turn their backs for good.

    WARNING. EXTREMELY UPSETTING PHOTOS

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  • Mairena perrera – Spanish hunters still dumping their dogs in April!!

    End of April and still the galgos arrive in Mairena killing station. For anyone who can help, contact details below, number of dog on collar. Names are listed where possible, in order of the photos. Contact:
    Adoption: adopcionsosas@gmail.com
    Foster: acogidasosas@gmail.com
    donations: IBAN ES87 0030 1539 1101 6393 4272CUENTA BANESTO: 0030 1539 11 0163934272
    PAYPAL: ayudaperrosmairena@hotmail.com

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  • Galgueros – the truth of how they keep their dogs! Shame on Spanish hunters.

    Two videos to show the truth about how the galgueros keep their dogs – and horses. And they also illustrate the difficulty in changing the situation – these are the older generation of Spaniards, who do not understand that what they do is animal cruelty, that they blacken the image of Spain around the world, thereby hurting the responsible people – the younger generations to a large extent – who abhor this publicity, and abhor the cruelty. Video 1 Video 2 Oh how I’d like to shut these men in the pitch black locked bunkers where they keep their dogs, to live in their own shit!

  • Spain – hunters – galgos – read what a Spaniard has to say.

    It’s always encouraging when the Spanish speak out against the galgueros. I was sent this link – by le Bulletin des Levriers – to a very interesting article about the galgueros, written by a Spaniard and translated into English. Here is a link to the third article – interesting photos but not yet translated. I’ve asked for the link to the first article as I have not been able to find it.

  • Galgos in danger, Cordoba perrera and Badajoz … the holocaust continues

    Cordoba perrera 1 250 17 1 2012If a galgo won’t hunt, then the galguero gets rid of it. Some just dump them anywyhere, others will pass the dog onto another hunter…it doesn’t want to hunt, so it gets passed on to another hunter…..this is what has happened to one young galgo. This isn’t a photo of her, we don’t have one yet, just the appeal, can anyone squeeze her in somewhere to stop her ending up abandoned or in Badajoz perrera. garrapateracoherente@hotmail.com

    And 7 galgos in Cordoba perrera, on death row – male and female, from 1-3 years old.

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  • Toledo, trash on the streets – Baas Galgo to the rescue!

    Trashed galgo Baas 1 250 1 2012Last year there was Esperanza, a galga starved, beaten badly, chucked for dead in a rubbish skip in Spain. Rescued as she breathed her last, she was saved from the dead and finally, after nearly a year of treatment and rehabilitation, she even walks unaided – not very steadily, but still, she walks unaided. Two fingers to the bastard hunter who did that to her!

    Now we have another,left for dead with the trash on a street in Toledo. People walked by whilst this galgo was unable to stand, walk, badly beaten, chucked out with the trash. Don’t tell me there is a God! No God makes the innocents suffer like this. Only the sick bastards (in this case Spanish, but could be anywhere in the world) who do this to innocent animals. Baas Galgo has saved him.

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  • Seville galguera threatens disposal of her galgas – any room for them?

    Seville galguera 1 250 12 2011Appeal from Seville, a Galguera (female hunter) wants to get rid of these two young galgas, as they are no good for hunting?! Doesn’t look like they have had a decent meal in a while! They are two years old, have their vaccines and cards (EU passport). Not much time left to save them before she takes them to the perrera.

    sarapuravida@MSN.com

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  • Hunters dumping their dogs in killing stations – time to STOP the massacre!

    Jerez 2 12 2011 250Emails coming in about the hunters dumping their galgos in Jerez, Gesser, Albacete, Hellin perreras, as well at shelters. Here are some of the 15 taken to death row in Jerez perrera this week, including this one with raw wounds on his body. Anyone wanting to save any, contact Maribel maribeljerezsos2@gmail.com 605637101 Maribel www.perreras.org en perrera 1

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