Galgo News

DeAnimals - fighting the corner for animal cruelty in Spain

I’d like to introduce you to Senora Raquel Lopez Teruel, a Lawyer specialising and working solely in animal law (animal rights and welfare). Raquel’s law firm, DEANIMALS (DEFENCE OF ANIMALS) is based in Murcia, but she handles cases in various cities around Spain.

Raquel’s role involves liaison with the police, welfare associations and animal professionals in general, and she has undergone considerable specialist training for this role, which encompasses all types of legal situations, including:

• Denuncias against pet owners
• Defence of animal welfare associations
• Legal advisor on animal law to owners, animal welfare associations, police, administration, etc.
• Specialist in Denuncias in respect of abused animals

Song to a Galguero

Hey Galguero!

At first I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights
thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along
and you DUMPED me
in a Perrera place

Scooby galgos - a volunteer's diary

Here's another report from Margie Easter who regularly travels from the US to Spanish refuges to help the hounds. This time she took 5 galgos back to forever homes.

Sweaters for Shelter Dogs - recycling old jumpers

A suggestion for recycling your old jumpers and help hounds in shelters.

A message for Dog Breeders

This is a message for dog breeders - you contribute to the over-population of dogs and the mass killing of dogs as a result. This especially is for the galguers and cazadores who overbreed galgos and podencos and to everyone else in Europe who breeds galgos and podencos. TIME TO STOP BREEDING THESE HOUNDS!

Greyhound Molly - the start of my journey

I was going through some old photos (before my time of digital ones!) and found a couple of photos of my first greyhound Molly. Back in 1994 when people didn't adopt greyhounds and Greyhounds in Need was in its infancy, a stray greyhound turned up at our home in Suffolk, UK. She had a tattoo in one ear and so I contacted the Greyhound Stud Book to see if we could identify her origins.. We were unsuccessful, although they could tell me that from the letter X in the tattoo that she had been born/registered in 1987.

Molly became a much loved pet, a very popular PAT (Pets as Therapy) dog and as you can see from one photo, she lived happily with our cats - here's Tabitha stepping out beside her - and we had her for another 7 years before ill health finally took its toll.

And it's thanks to Molly that my journey into the world of galgos and podencos began.

Why have a dog?

Can you imagine the bad luck this poor boy has had in his 2 year life?! Angie Robinson tells his story.

'This is POST. We've seen him before in the Valencia perrera municipal..... He was found wandering last year and picked up by the dog catchers, and then later retrieved by the owner. He was found again, last week, wandering alone with a broken chain still around his neck where he had broken free. We understand that he was kept on a plot of land chained up, living outside. This time, the owner has signed him over with permission to sacrifice. POST is CESE - this means that when a kill list is drawn up, the CESE dogs that are entered by owner will be at the top of the sacrifice list.

Please buy a Christmas Dinner for the Galgos

Please buy an Xmas dinner for the galgos at Pepis Dog Refuge

Galga Renata - her journey to a forever home

This is a story about galga Renata, but it could be about thousands of galgos in Spain.

Last winter she was found in agony with a cord around her neck. Luckily volunteers of Fondation Benjamin Mehnert in Seville took her in and, with the help of their vet, she was nursed back to health. She was taken by the French association Levriers sans Frontiere (Galgos without Borders) into foster, and the family very quickly decided to adopt her!

All year LSF work to help the galgos but so many of them end up in perreras, in misery, with little water and food, the symbol of their suffering, in silence, anonymous...

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UPROMA - working on animal welfare in Murcia, Spain

A report on 2 more of the speakers at the PAES International Conference in Murcia in October 2015.

Pedro José Moratalla Moratalla has a degree in Computer Systems Engineering. He is involved in environmental and animal welfare issues, issues on which he has received training over time and has continually joined different national and international volunteering programmes.

Pedro joined the Local Police of Castellón de la Plana in September 1997 and since then he has developed different positions at the Police Units of Traffic, Public Safety and Emergency Service. In 2012 he presented a draft project proposal to set up a specialised unit on environmental and animal welfare issues which was approved. The new unit, initially called Blue Patrol (now UPROMA – Environmental & Animal Welfare Protection Unit), under Pedro’s management, started working at the very beginning of January 2013 and he remains at its head today.