The situation for galgos in Spain doesn’t improve. Here are 2 galga sisters with 3 pups, very thin …urgently needing to be taken off the street before the gitanos take the pups to sell to hunter!
In Seville. Help please!! Contact (Spain 0034) 691684026.
I’ve been very busy these last few days organising and setting up for our 6th Fun Dog Show at our home in France, raising much-needed funds for Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville. Here’s a video I took of the showground and Best Crossbreed class. The judge was M Jean-Pascal Bichon, sponsors Blevins Franks for rosettes and souvenir programme and Pro-Nutrition Flatazor for the dog prizes.
My galga Carmela and Podenca Andaluz Bebe were both entered in the Best Veteran over 7 years old but unplaced, and galgo Polar entered Most Obedient – just missing out on a rosette.
21/8/2017 Last Monday night, some unscrupulous people came to steal 12 dogs, all of them galgos except one that was of brackish quality, a shelter that is in a locality of the province of Huelva (we do not specify at the request of the shelter to avoid more damage), after making two holes in the fencing that separated two herds from the shelter.
In this case, the individuals managed to get to nine of them, while another three managed to escape and returned later to the same refuge.
The people who are in charge of it are pending to present the pertinent complaint, although agents of the National Police and the Seprona are already aware in case some of this animals were known.
Do not give your dog Oral flea treatment, remember Bravecto especially kills dogs! There is still a facebook page working to have this treatment banned.
We at Galgos 112 introduce you to Bruno, picked up in coria del Rio, at this moment is admitted with fluid therapy as he is very dehydrated. The analysis has shown that he has lehismania, Scabies, huge anemia, and a uveitis in the eyes. A thousand thanks to the girls who picked him up and took him to the vet.
Can you help us to pay for your treatment?
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We update: in one eye he has no vision, in the other very little, a terrible infection inside his mouth. The vet tells us that he’s very old. Poor Bruno must have suffered the unspeakable, now he’s being fed a very nutritious diet so he can eat because he’s hungry. Come Grandpa much strength ❤️
Read the full story here.
This is what Fermin says. 19.8 2017
Cansado de todo, quiero un ano sabatico. Me voy a pasar al lado oscuro.
And Fermin also says (translated with Google)
I have been rescuing animals for 30 years and it seems that this is going to get worse, more and more animals, more and more problems with the administration, more and more misunderstanding. Maybe it’s time to retire and let other people do the work.
If you would like to enter your rescued racing greyhound in the 2018 calendar competition, click on this weblink for all the rules etc.
Don’t let your dogs play in rivers and lakes, however tempting. This has happened in France.
Regular readers may remember a few years back I was contacted by London photographer Martin Usborn, who wished to visit Spain to photo the galgos, and wanted the details of a couple of refuges to contact. The result was a stunning coffee table book. Here are links to 2 interesting articles which have appeared in National Geographic magazine, the first one being an interview with Martin.
In March 2013 I published this ‘Letter to Senor Galguero‘. Sadly all it expresses still applies today. The Hunting Federations have not improved matters – no controlled breeding of galgos, no mass abandonment, still keeping them in dark underground locked bunkers….what has changed is that there are now millions of Spanish people who are thoroughly ashamed of the bad press the hunters bring to their lovely country and protest vociferously every year throughout major cities in Spain.
Fermin Perez Martin of Scooby Medina presented a Spanish translation to the Federation of Galgueros when he was in dialogue with them to try and improve the situation. Needless to say, the galgueros refuse to acknowledge they cause a problem!
We must keep supporting those fighting the cruelty perpetrated on galgos by the galgueros in any way we can.
Please feel free to share the ‘Letter’but ensure that I am credited as its author.
