This poor galga was found abandoned and badly injured, collected by the police and taken to Madrid perrera. She’s obviously had puppies recently. She’s about 7 years old. It’s super urgent that she is got out of there to a vet and in foster/refuge where she can receive the care and treatment she needs. The volunteer has named her Safira.
irina.animalessinhogar@gmail.com
-
Madrid, Spain – badly injured galga – rescue/vet treatment/foster urgent.
-
David’s parachute jump
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt! David’s still collecting sponsorship. Thousands of thanks to all those who have sponsored him so far. The total is going up…
-
Royal Canin in the Ukraine – encouraging bear baiting?
And another protest – this time Royal Canin dog food. PLEASE SHARE! FOUR PAWS has evidence that ROYAL CANIN has sponsored several of these gruesome spectacles (see poster below) over recent months. FOUR PAWS calls on ROYAL CANIN not only to stop sponsoring these cruel contests, but also to take on the responsibility for the future of the tortured bears. Call on Royal Canin to take responsibility and send a protest mail now
-
Decathlon, Valencia, Spain – pony rides for the visitors
Besides dogs, my other lifelong passion has been horses. This is a ‘living’ pony ride outside Decathlon, Valencia, Spain. This is what the ponies do all day, every day – can’t even move their heads!
-
Protest about the dog meat trade in the Philippines
Please sign this petition to protest about the dog meat trade in the Philippines.
-
David jumped – pix here, story to follow
Here are some of the pix of David’s fabulous jump today, including the plane with the hole in the side out of which they jumped – and NOT the parachute they used! He’ll write his feelings about it all later. Please keep donating, we’re not quite there yet..
-
The Spanish nightmare continues – 180,000 dogs killed in the past year…
There’s been no let up in the number of galgos abandoned and dumped in the perreras. So many that I simply can’t post them all – 19 in one just one perrera recently, multiply that by the hundreds of perreras in Spain…and that’s just galgos. The figure quoted for dogs killed in perreras in the last year is 180,000! That’s 493 dogs every day, 206 dogs every hour, or 1 dog per minute.
The pressure on the refuges, the volunteers, the fosterers is tremendous – and the national and provincial governments STILL do nothing to implement a mass sterilization programme and educate people not to let their dogs mate.
One example of the pressure on the refuges is an appeal this week from Cristina of Arca de Noe of Albacete.
-
A worldwide epidemic – we must continue to fight it!
Does he bite?
No, he lies, fights, destroys, contaminates, kills….
Is he on his way to the perrera?!
How I wish!
-
D-day – David’s jumping today – don’t forget to sponsor him!
David’s parachute jump today – here’s what it’s for and how to sponsor him.
-
The hung galgos of Fuensilada, Toledo – update on the court case
You may remember the case of the two galgos in Toledo who had been hung by their owner. Their microchips had not been removed and he was traced. Associacion Baas Galgo took him to court. Here is the update from Sandra Baas.
‘On October 9th, a court trial will take place at Juzgado n1 de lo Penal de Toledo for the man who murdered his two galgos by ways of hanging. Two years ago, the corpses of the two young dogs (one was 22 months old, the other was 5 years old) were found in the Fuensalida, Toledo location. The dogs had been hung and killed. One of the dogs, had a microchip which identified their owner, who confessed to the massacre and told the judge that he was not aware that hanging his dogs was considered illegal and that he did so because they were deemed “ineffective” since they were not successful hunting dogs.