I SPOKE TO YOU IN WHISPERS -BY NEIL ANDREW
‘I spoke to you in whispers
As shells made the ground beneath us quake
We both trembled in that crater
A toxic muddy blood lake
I spoke to you and pulled your ears
To try and quell your fearful eye
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11th November – ‘I Spoke to You in Whispers’ by Neil Andrew
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11 November – remembering all the animals lost in war and service
A piece I wrote for 11th November – Remembrance Day‘Remembrance
They had no choice – no ‘Your Country Needs You’ posters because animals can’t read. Since time immemorial horses have been used in battle, probably pulling chariots followed from around 900 BC by warriors on horseback. Asian warriors were among the first mounted archers and fighters. In the Middle Ages, knights and horses wore weighty steel armour, hence the breeding of the heavy horses – Clydesdale, Shire, Percheron and Friesan horses.
By the time of the First World War, horses, donkeys and mules were needed to move supplies, equipment, guns and ammunition. Over 16 million animals in all, including mounted camels in desert campaigns, dogs and pigeons to carry messages, canaries to detect poisonous gas, cats and dogs to hunt rats in trenches. Unbelievably even monkeys, bears and lions were kept as mascots to raise morale.
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Irish greyhound ends up in a Portuguese animal shelter!
The English and Irish greyhound breeders and trainers don’t care where their dogs end up once they are no use for racing and earning money. Here’s a poor soul who ended up in Spain and then Portugal. Podencos are the most used hunting dogs in Portugal so this poor boy could be headed for an uncertain end – just lucky in that he didn’t get sent to China!! Besides being in Portugal his other handicap is that he is a black dog.
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SOS Galgos Barcelona – another abandoned and injured galga saved
SOS Galgos, Anna Clements and her vet Husband, is one of the older galgo rescue associations which I had the privilege of visiting many years ago. Here’s the story of a recent rescue.
‘Zafra just arrived at SOS GALGOS.
A month ago we asked you for help for a run over galago that couldn’t move, they had abandoned it, invisible, despite its suffering. Another extreme case that we undoubtedly took care of. Zafra needed an emergency surgery or she would become paralysed and the response was INCREDIBLE.
Now after the surgery and more than a month of extreme care to keep her prosthetic from moving we want you to see how our puppy is doing. Now zafra can find a family and forget the hell she lived through.
THANK YOU for the donations, for all you do Teamers and partners to continue to help.
Let us continue to save them!
Please become a partner or help by donating: www.sosgalgos.org
Paypal: sosgalgos@sosgalgos.org
Help us to keep saving galgos! Please consider becoming a member or make a one-off donation today: www.sosgalgos.org
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Galgo puppies galore for sale on Milanuncios – overbreeding by galgueros!
These poor babies don’t stand much chance of a good life with a galguero in Spain- in a couple of years they could end up abandoned on the road or in the campo or dumped in a perrera! Heartbreaking.
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Abandoned galgo – another victim of the hunters
From Cobie Steketee at Scooby Residencia Valladolid.A week ago she saw this poor boy outside the shelter after she had been shopping, looking at the galgos in the patio in the Scooby Residencia, obviously looking desperate for company and a place of safety. But when I approached a bit he ran away in fear. So heartbreaking and yes, hunting season has definitely begun and this poor galgo pays the price. Abandoned and looking for everything a dog in despair needs but with his fear he will be hard to catch. Never the less we keep trying.
I wish the galgueros would find another hobby…’
Update is that he has been caught and is now in the perrera, only a young galgo…
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Galgo Lord with Scooby Residencia Valladolid – hoping for a forever home
From Cobie at Scooby Residencia Valladolid‘This stunning boy is Lord and a while ago he stood at the door from the Scooby residencia with a broken front leg. Obviously abandoned like that and asking if we could help him. Of course we did so he was operated in Madrid and now he is completely recuperated, he does not even limp. He is still very young, super sweet, sympathetic, loves to play with the other dogs and not scared at all.
He’s obviously had a hard life from all the scars on his poor body. All he needs now is a loving forever family. Chip: 98111.
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When will they punish the right end of the lead?
Although this poem is about a ‘dangerous’ breed, it could just as easily apply to any galgo in a perrera which has a kill policy, where the galgos are dumped by the hunters!