Galgo News

The Horror of Aviles - email the Public Affairs Official at Aviles

Pat Getz, one of the greyhound/galgo supporters in the US, has been in contact with public officials at St Augustine, the neighbouring city to Aviles, who suggested to her that we write to Senor Martinez, as well as the Mayor. Pat has composed these letters, please everyone, email Senor Ignacio with both letters. Action needs to be taken quickly to help these poor dogs and cats.

Senor Ignacio Martinez
Public Affairs, Aviles, Spain
protocolo@ayto-aviles.es


Dear Senor Martinez,

Stop Animal Cruelty in Spain - Sign this Petition

Please would you all support this petition to add yet another million voices to try and force Spain to act against the despicable maltreatment of its animals.

Please ask everyone you know to add their name.

Aviles, Spain - letter campaign to the Mayor - stop animal cruelty in Aviles

Valarie Woolf has been kind enough to compose a letter for us all to send to the Mayor of Aviles with regard to the terrible conditions in which the dogs and cats are kept.

There is an English version, and I have also translated it to Spanish using Spanishdict.com, so those of who who speak Spanish, please excuse any mistakes.

Please send off your letters, get all your family and friends to do so. Aviles is on the northern coast of Spain and wishes to attract holidaymakers. They need to know the life of hell behind the waterfront centres!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh7A1B2-vg4
http://www.elrefugio.org/pagina.aspx

Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare - add your name, on behalf of galgos and podencos

Have you added your name to the UDAW petition? Over 2 million other people have. Please add yours

Cheap Holiday in Spain? Here's just the place - Puerto Real, Santander, Cadiz

I have just found this website, which denounces what happens in the perreras in Spain. It's in Spanish, but if you click on your translator box/symbol, you will get the story in English. Don't turn away, all the refuges and associations need your support to help the abandoned dogs of Spain, especially the galgos and podencos.

Donate items for an auction - the Spanish Galgos need your help

Berta, an American friend of Galgo News and supporter of the plight of the galgos, is organising an auction on eBay to raise funds to help pay for medicals supplies and repair and building work at a couple of shelters in Spain.

She and her friend Carla are appealing to anyone and everyone to donate items to Carla, who is organising the auction for free. Items don't have to be greyhound related, absolutely anything you can afford to donate - old jewellery,T-shirt signed by famous footballers, whatever............

Send items to Carla J. Myers
4944 S. Jackson Circle
Springfield, MO 65804, USA

Thank you in advance for your generous donations and remember, the Galgos are counting on us...................................Berta

Attn. a petition to the EU requesting help to protect animals

At an Offtopic section of an spanish forum (“Save a life” we thought it was a good idea to beg you to help us collaborate to gather one million signatures, needed to ask the European Commission to introduce a law to protect all animals in the European Union member states against animal abuse and maltreat in Europe.

This is the text of the petition, originally written in French:
Author of the petition: GALGOS FRANCE (Greyhounds France)

For the attention of the European Parliament Commission:

Thanks to the new right to the citizen’s initiative, one million citizens from all over the different member states can now ask the Commission for the presentation of new proposals.

22nd February, Madrid - Animal Rights Protest - Please attend if possible

PROTEST ON 22ND FEBUARY IN MADRID FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS.

I haven't attached the photos because they are really sickening and I am sensitive to the fact that, whilst most people are aware of the horrors perpetrated on animals in Spain, explicit pictures can be found on other websites

GIN Petition for the Galgos - sign before 30th April 2010

Just a reminder to sign the Greyhounds In Need petition for Galgos, before 30th April.

Sign the petition - the European Commission have to act for Europe!

I'd just like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who reads Galgo News, comments on posts, and joins in the letter writing and petition signing posts which I highlight. Whilst my aim is to highlight the plight of the galgos and podencos, I get emails appealing for help to highlight the stray/abandoned dog problem in other countries which have now joined the EU.

So this is a petition to sign to help one of those countries.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/EU-Investigate-Balkans-Animal-Welfare>

We should remember that, in order to help the galgos especially and all the abandoned dogs of Spain, we have to target not just the Spanish government, but also the European Commission.