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Galgos and podencos are gentle, affectionate, calm breeds of dog, which makes the atrocities perpetrated against them all the worse.
It also makes it all the more important that those of us who care, support the fight to persuade the Spanish government to regulate and control the indiscriminate breeding of these dogs and create effective laws to prevent their abuse.
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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9th 2008
Auberge du Balestie, Malegoude, Ariège.
8pm
Tickets 20 euros including wine, 15 euros excluding wine
Tombola/raffle
(The Auberge is situated off the main road between Fanjeaux and Mirepoix. It is well signposted from the road. For further directions please contact Joanna on the number given below).
It can be hard to get a good curry in the depths of the French countryside...and we will do our best to supply some! All tastes catered for, from mild to hot hot hot!! There will also be a selection of vegetarian dishes. Please come along and lend your support...and have a good evening too!
Continue reading "Spice Night in the Aude - for one evening only" »
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CHICLANA is a town near Cadiz. A few hundred eople, roughly 400 according to the estimates by the Peña Galguera Santa Ana (galguero club) enjoy, as a hobby, training galgos for competition.
Traditionally, they have trained them in El Fontanal, the Pinar público and the Cañada la Asomada, making them run behind their motor scooters on a course of about 15 kilometers in length.
Now they are denouncing the Seprona for not letting them train in these traditional areas because, according to their information, they say that “they border on private land”.
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I'm happy to say that Humo and Ebono, the galgo pups featured last month, have both found forever homes, as has Jazmin, the rough-haired podenco. Lucky dog, she spent Christmas in Britanny running on the beach, and New Year walking in the mountains of the Massif Centrale.
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Visits to my family have meant Galgo News has taken a back seat for a couple of weeks, but that doesn't mean galgos have been out of my mind. I am very conscious that the end of January draws near.
Galgos suffer terribly at the end of the hunting season each year in January as the galgueros (hunters) do not want to keep their dogs the nine months up until the beginning of the next coursing/hunting season.
Hence they are slaughtered by hanging, burned alive, mutilated, dropped down wells, impaled, a silent violence in the countryside. On one occasion 40 carcasses were seen in one afternoon round the small area of Medina. Figures of more than 8,000 galgos killed at the end of a season have been quoted.
Please publicise this as much as possible, and ask everyone you know to add their names to the petition sites listed. We all need to speak up to pressurise the Spanish Government to end these horrendous practices.
Click on any of the association sites here if you wish to see pictorial evidence of this torture.
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