Galgo News

Greyhounds In Nood Belgium - on a mercy mission to Madrid

Over a period of 7 days at the beginning of June, a team from Greyhounds In Nood, Belgium, travelled overland with a van load of goods through France to Spain and Madrid, to visit refuges in the area with hundreds of galgos. This is the story of their trip, fascinating and moving.

At one refuge, they were introduced to a 6-week old galga puppy which had been dumped in a rubbish bin, covered in vermin. At another refuge, there were more than 300 galgos.

This story makes the proposed introduction in Belgium in October of a law prohibiting the importing of dogs from outside that country even more appalling.

Add your name to their petition.

Stop Greyhound Racing in the Philippines, South Africa & St Kitts!

**URGENT ACTION ALERT—PLEASE FORWARD AND CROSSPOST TO ALL LISTS **

International Threats to Greyhounds, Letters Needed!

Dear Friends:

We have just learned that efforts to open dog tracks in the South Pacific and in the Caribbean are underway.

Please send your letters of concern to officials on behalf of the greyhounds. Thousands of dogs will be doomed to injury and death if racetracks are legalized in these new jurisdictions.

The Philippines

In the Philippines, House Bill No. 5291—An Act Granting the Fox Millenium Amusement Club a Franchise to Construct, Operate and Maintain a Greyhound Racetrack—would make dog racing legal in the city of Mandaue. This dangerous measure has already been approved by a legislative conference committee.

Please send a letter of support for the greyhounds to:

Sign the Petition - Stop the change in law in Belgium in October

This is the link to the Greyhounds in Nood website which is also running a petition to try and stop this law coming into effect. Click on the Union Jack if you want to read what they say in English.

http://www.ginb.be/petition/indexen.php

This is the other petition

Passion Podenco Belgium - adopt a podenco

To adopt a podenco in Belgium, visit this website. Warning, prepare to have your hearing blasted! The music is VERY loud! There are some rather nice cards on sale too. I am trying to find out what will happen to them if the proposed change in law in October comes into force, prohibiting dogs from outside Belgium being imported into the country for adoption.

Podenca puppy Miffay - in Valencia - adopt her - give her a life

Can you help Miffay. She is an adorable podenca of 6 months. She was abandoned and found in a pitiable state along with another little bitch, had been attacked by processionary caterpillars which affected her tonque but, with veterinary treatment, has been restored to good health by the refuge in Valencia. She eats and drinks normally, is quiet and affectionate, and also nervous of strangers, but this will improve in a forever home. She will be a wonderful family member, and will love to play with children.

Please give her a chance of a normal life.

patriciamartin41@wanadoo.fr - 06 63 61 51 26

Transportation of Live Dogs from Spain - Solving the Problem

Cobie Steketee is the amazing Dutch lady who runs one of the shelters in Cordoba from which we brought several galgos to rehome in France. She has written an article about the problems many shelters face with regard to transporting dogs around Spain and elsewhere.

The transportation of live dogs from Spain to France, Belgium, Holland and Germany.

It has been almost two and a half years now that I have worked as a volunteer in numerus Spanish shelters/dogs homes. According to my connections through this period of time, it has become obvious that many of the shelters and adoption charities seem to run into the same problem time and time again… that being, the transportation of the dogs to other European Countries outside of Spain itself.

A lot of the Spanish dogs can easily be rehomed in other countries, but the biggest problem is, how to get them there with reasonable expense coverage. It is due to this problem that many dogs still remain in the Spanish shelters for a long period of time and these shelters quickly become overfull.

Click on the link to read the full article.

www.baasgalgo.com

URGENT - Sign the Petition - Stop the change of law in Belgium in October

In October, due to a change in Belgian law, no organization can import dogs from abroad. This means that organizations dedicated to Spanish Galgos and Greyhounds have to cease their activities. Hundreds of these dogs travel to Belgium every year to be adopted, to find families and a life full of love and affection.

Let's all try to fight this law, to stop it applying to galgos and greyhounds, as without our help they will have no chance of being adopted.

Please sign the petition.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/tegen-hondenracisme-en-discriminatie

From Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo

Green Drinking Water - Mairena del Aljarafe should take action!

A message via Charl, a plea for help for the galgos struggling in the perrera at Mairena del Aljarafe, in Sevilla.

'So.. yet again the galgos are being disregarded en masse, firstly by their hunters, secondly at the public shelters they land into which practise euthanasia. I am not saying I am against or for this, what i am saying is, they are rarely given the opportunity to even be offered as pets, .. so sent on in order to be put down. Living in squalor while awaiting their number.

Mairena del Aljarafe is a town of Sevilla, there has been a plea made for 20 - 25 galgos kept in a society there, and from there they are taken on Tuesdays and Thursdays to be sacrificed. In the early pictures the water is green and the food was placed inbetween the faeces and urine, just thrown on the floor. Having been noted that someone has been taking photographs, the water is cleaner, but the points are still the same.

It's not just here, it's in hundreds of Spanish towns - but here is where the plea is at the moment. If you have a place which can offer a galgo a home, one it has probably never known, the rewards are tremendous. Theres no love like a galgo's love. Email if you can help.

Niort to Cordoba in 4 days - Helping the Galgos - no holiday, this!

Here's the story of my recent trip from my home in France to Cordoba and back, with a team from L'Europe des Levriers. We brought 14 galgos and a couple of podencos back with us, for fostering and rehoming in France.

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It was hot and sunny in Parthenay when I set off. ‘Hope you’ve got air conditioning in the car’, commented my co-driver. Well, of course I have, I just open the windows! ‘There’s rain forecast for Madrid and Cordoba’, she said hopefully; she doesn’t like hot weather.

Join Today to support a charter to protect galgos and podencos.

New website to check out for galgos and podencos www.galgos-ethique-europe.eu

President of Levriers en Danger is behind it, hoping to gather together associations and refuges who wish to join and support a charter for the protection of galgos and podencos, which is vital for their protection and recognition.

Please sign the charter via the links below.

For individuals www.galgos-ethique-europe.eu

For associations and refuges www.galgos-ethique-europe.eu/spip

Help Urgently Needed - Euthenasia threat for 4 Toledo Galgos

Can anyone help urgently - 4 galgos at the perriera in Toledo are due to be euthenased. Contact details below.

Menace d'euthanasie imminente a la perriera de TOLEDE EN ESPAGNE -

sauvons les 4 galgos martyres d'espagne en devant FA OU ADOPTANT

CONTACT patriciamartin41@wanadoo.fr - 06 63 61 51 26

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Granada - behind the scenes in a cultural(?) province

Susanna has sent me some more information about the problems for the volunteers of the Province of Granada trying to deal with the massive abandonment of dogs from that reagion, and in particular highlighting the Podenco Andaluz.

This is what she writes.

'I think it is a problem of culture. The Podencos are not known by the majority of Spanish persons. The people use them only as a hunting dog. In the reality the Podenco Andaluz is a guardian and a fantastic pet too!

I want to tell you that the Protectora de Granada San Francisco de Asis is the most important in Granada becasue they have poor abandoned dogs from everywhere in the Provincia of Granada. However,they have a bad period because they do not have many volunteers,and they are really volounteers (they don' earn money). They have not time to put much information on the web site.