Galgo News

Tag: United Kingdom

  • 8th October – World Event to End Animal Cruelty – join a local one

    World End Animal Cruelty Day 105 Oct 8th Message from Pia Berrend. We are planing a “World Event to End Animal Cruelty” which we affectionately refer to as WEEAC. An idea for the world’s first joint action against cruelty to animals which originated in the United States. WEEAC can now be found in 25 countries and 48 cities around the world, all on October 8th, 2011. Each country and participating city have organized events on their own.

    Our organizaton was founded this past Feb. 2011, and the response has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic and we have many countries & organizations now involved and more signing on every day.

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  • Say NO to Greyhound Exports to China – sign the petition

    A petition targeting the Irish Greyhound Board and the Irish Government has been published on the Care2 website calling for the withdrawal of the IGB’s proposals to export greyhounds to China. Please sign the petition and help place pressure on the Irish authorities to show some care and compassion for this gentle breed.

    The petition will be delivered to the Irish Embassy in London – the Irish Greyhound Board and Government offices.

  • Tesco supermarkets encourage greyhound racing – letter template to send to protest

    Please support the campaign to stop Tesco supermarket from offering a Dog Racing Voucher to encourage people to go to watch greyhound racing. If you haven’t already written, here’s a template letter. Please, everyone, wherever you live, support this campaign. See end of post to read the original circular message.

    · Call Clubcard free on 00800 00 59 16 88 to protest in person or

    · send an email to customer.services@tesco.ie ,seamus.banim@tesco.ie, lorraine.shiels@tesco.ie,

    . write to Tesco Ireland ,Gresham House,Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland

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  • Join the Campaign – Write to your MEP now!

    A reader in the UK has taken up the plight of the galgos in Spain with her MEP. Derek Vaughan, one of the Labour MEP’s for Wales has replied that he ‘was very concerned about the problem and has tabled a Written Question to the Commission to bring it to wider attention and see what can be done to help end this unnecessary suffering’.

    Derek Vaughan needs the support of as many other MEPs as possible. Please write to your MEP and ask them to support the Written Question. Below is a sample letter which is a variation of the one to the president of the European Commission already on Galgo News.

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  • Lurchers hung from a canal bridge – in England! The Mirror reports.

    I rant against the Spanish galgueros and gitanos for their barbaric treatment towards galgos and podencos. But I will be the first to admit that British people can be just as sick and perpetrate horrendous cruelty to animals. The difference is that there is the RSPCA to follow up complaints of cruelty, far more than Seprona in Spain seems willing to do. And more Brits are likely to report cases of animal cruelty to the RSPCA than Spanish people are to report cruelty cases to Seprona, for fear of reprisals against themselves, their families, their homes, their cars. Intimidation, in other words.

    But this sickening story is worrying – are there now sick Brits who emulate the Spanish hunters? Read the story

  • Humane Society International – the UK branch replies

    I refer to previous posts concerning Humane Society International and have now received the following response from their UK branch.

    ‘Date: Thursday, 23 December, 2010, 16:58

    Dear Beryl

    Thank you for your email about galgos, and for all you do for the dogs – and good luck with the book!

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  • Galgo Carlos – looking for his forever home in the UK

    Carlos2 IHR Valerie Wood 29 11 2010 250 This is Carlos, who sadly lost one of his hind legs as a result of being shot. He is looking for his forever home in the UK. Here’s what Valerie Wood of Ibizan Hound Rescue says about him.

    ‘Carlos is a lovely boy, very nervous of strangers but once he knows people his so soft and loving.

    Carlos was “rescued” by an Irish man who found him on his land. Carlos had been shot in the hind leg by hunters. The Irish man did his good deed by taking Carlos to the vets and saying that if they performed surgery he would pay for it and that Carlos was now his dog. Sadly Carlos was never collected from the vets and the bill was never paid.

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