Anyone recognise their galgo here?! Another of cartoonist Richard Skipworth’s greyt creations.
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Greyluctance!
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Galgo Severi – waiting with Dogs of Portugal for his forever home
Severi, another of the beautiful Portuguese galgos dumnped at the end of the hunting season, now looking for a forever home, contact Dogs of Portugal direct if you have room in your home and heart for him.
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Dogs and a sheep murdered on a Seville railway line
News from Scooby.
A man is being investigated as the alleged perpetrator of the death of a sheep, a German Shepherd, a Mastin and 13 Galgos, recently found on a stretch of railway in the province of Seville.
In addition, the corpse of another dog was located nearby of the home of the person under investigation.
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Galgo found dead with chip removed – Scooby offers a reward
The situation for Spain’s hunting dogs does not change…the galgueros refuse to implement control of breeding and stopping abandonment at the end of hunting. Here Scooby writes.
‘We offer a reward of 500€ to who can provide truthful information about the owner of this galgo found dead in Roales Del Pan (Zamora) and with the chip removed *.
And it is that the situation, far from being solved, is worsening year after year. The problem after each hunting season has been reported in recent years, but nothing has improved. In fact, we could say that the hunters are still abandoning and killing the same or more than before.
That is why we ask the citizens to co-operate and denounce those who commit these atrocities, and we are sure that in the local communities everyone knows who owns these animals which are found dead or abandoned.
We also call on the security forces to pay more attention to animal abuse because this type of act must not go unpunished.
Link to news in press: http://bit.ly/2pb6y1w
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The Greyhound Health Initiative news
Here is the latest newsletter from the Greyhound Initiative linked with Dr Guillermo Couto, who has done extensive research into galgos as well as greyhounds. On the subject of the greyhound with the allergy to dust mites etc in the house, we have tiled floors in our home in France and I would never ever return to living in a house with wall to wall carpeting, as we had in the UK. I have pads on the tiled floors which the dogs can sleep on, and vetbed, all of which can be washed regularly to get rid of the dust.
When we moved to France, my horse developed an allergy to dust mites – in the hay, stone stables,
bedding. I purchased a nebulizer to give him treatment – he was such a good boy standing with the equipment on – but in the end we moved house to a farm with over 6 hectares where he can live outside.What we do for our pets, eh!
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Scooby to the rescue again – 44 galgos from certain death
News from Scooby. ‘At the end of February Fermin and Christina drove to Jerez de la Frontera, Andalucia, and saved there 44 galgos from a certain death. 30 From them came to the Scooby residencia in Valladolid. They are, very beautiful and elegant males but very scared, humiliated, abused, robbed of all their dignity, but alive. Broken, but not defeated. They will need time, understanding, patience and lots of love and fortunately, we have lots of all that and we will make you whole and proud again…!’
Here is the latest news from the Scooby Blog…makes sad reading that for all the work the shelters do, the over-breeding and mass abandonment of these majestic hounds does not stop.
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Sign the petition to ban the Salon du Chiot (Puppy Fairs)
In France where I live there are regularly held Salon du Chiot which are hug ‘fairs’ at which you can buy puppies and anything to do with dogs. These fairs should be banned. Please sign and share this petition, even if you don’t live in France.
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Reasons I have no money!
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PACMA – marching in Madrid on 15 3 2018
PACMA are taking their protect about animal maltreatment in Spain to the Spanish Government – Congress itself – on Thursday 15th March 2018. Join them if you can.