This is a list of some of the hunting federations in Spain. Contact with them is largely only by email. I have searched the websites for contact names and addresses, but not found any for these. Can anyone in the areas supply me with the information, please?
http://www.galgoes.com/ andalucia
http://www.federacionandaluzadegalgos.com/ andalucia
http://www.galgosmadrid.com/ which is Federacion Espanola de Galgos and Federacion Madrilena de Galgos
Remember the story of the 90 galgos dumped at the Villa del Rio shelter in Cordoba at the end of January? Leticia at the shelter, and Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo have been working hard to care for the galgos and rehome them. There are now 70 galgos still at the shelter and Baas Galgo are appealing for donations to pay for food etc for these galgos.
If these dogs are still in the shelter in August/September, any bets the galgueros will be back to get them for the next hunting season?!
Watch Galgo News this week, as I’m working on preparing a campaign about this! In the meantime, if you can help Baas Galgo, donate here.
After the story of the blind galga touched so many hearts, here are updates on the other 3 galgas at Los Infiernos shelter in Murcia, where Tina is a volunteer. Here’s a reminder of Sandy, Lali and Guapita.
Guapita is approx 2 years old. Her beauty took my breath away and when I was told she had been sleeping rough on the road outside my friend’s house I could not rest until I caught her. She is extremely shy but has a hidden spirit where I can see she is waiting to burst out and show her true potential.
Charl desperately needs a trap to catch the galga loose in Estepona. She has asked around to borrow one, without success. If she does not have a trap soon, the galga could disappear, or get injured or…….
Please contact Charl urgently on comdelrio@hotmail.com
These dogs are in a killing station in Valladolid. They have, at the most, 20 days left to be saved from death. Euthenasia in a killing station is very painful for the dogs.
Yet again, the problem for the volunteers who visit the perrera is that they could be forbidden to go again. But they want to help the galgos. One they rescued was extremely skeletal, these others need veterinary treatment.
If anyone can offer foster homes or space in a shelter, please contact these people urgently.
info@galgoleku.org. .
Equipo Galgo Leku www.galgoleku.org
There’s just over one more day to place your bids for the items on the Galgo News Ebay Auction this week – and this is the final week. Remember, you can bid in any currency, and all funds will go to help galgos in need in Spain.
A million thanks to Berta and Carla for all their hard work.
The European Commission is organising the first International Conference on Education and Animal Welfare on 1st and 2nd October 2010.
Should you wish to find out more, write to the EC with regard to your concerns about animal welfare in Europe, or even request to attend, please contact
Head of Unit
Animal Health and Welfare
Health & Consumers Directorate General
European Commission
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium
I know I am always writing about what bastards the Spanish hunters are, whether on the Spanish mainland or on the Spanish Islands – there is no excuse for the extremes of cruelty they inflict on innocent dogs at the end of every hunting season.
But let’s not forget the Brits – they moved abroad for a ‘better life’ – adopted a dog from a refuge – and now they are returning home and abandoning their dogs back to the refuges.
As I cried tears over the galga left sick and severely injured at the side of the motorway – curse the man who abandoned her – there is yet another tale.
Here the volunteer explains.
‘Today I am completely heart broken yet again to have seen this young galga in our refuge. She arrived last night after a lady rang the police to say this galga was sleeping in the middle of the road. There is a reason she was sleeping and starving in the middle of the road, SHE’S BLIND.
I receive a lot of stories and photos of what happens to galgos when the heartless galgueros abandon them. It all upsets and ANGERS me, but this one made me weep buckets of tears. Just so much I could hardly see to write.
This is what the shelter says.
This is Mora, another victim, just 2 years old …
We found her on the shoulder of a motorway, unable to move, she’d been there for some days because she was malnourished and dehydrated.
