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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