Galgo News

7th February 2016 - 14 towns in Spain - Manifestation against galgo hunting

7th February 2016

12.00  in 14 towns in Spain as below - 11.00am in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

El domingo 7 de febrero tienes una nueva oportunidad para mostrar tu rechazo a esta deleznable práctica.

¡Ahora 14 localidades unidas al mismo tiempo! Todas a las 12:00. Menos Canarias a las 11:00 

Busca tu ciudad y participa. Salva vidas

ALICANTE:
Recorrido: Plaza de los Luceros, Av. Federico Soto, Av. Doctor Gadea, Av. Doctor Ramón y Cajal, Paseo de Explanada de España, Fin de trayecto en Ayto de Alicante.

Huge Slump in support for Bullfighting in Spain

Great news in this report, let's hope we can do the same with hunting with galgos and podencos

DeAnimals - Courses on animal welfare for lawyers, Seprona, animal volunteers, judges

On 23rd January DeAnimals specialist animal welfare lawyers, held another successful course for people in authority who want to study the laws for animals; animal welfare; prison law and how to make a denounce against animal abuse.  Delegates included Seprona, local police, national police, a judge and a lawyer; it was also attended by an Actin Committee member. The course also covered working to make an ANIMAL PROTECTION group that can help to make important changes in Spain and different cities and towns in Spain.

The principal and important things to make changes in Spain is the INFORMATION, the information and knowledge of the laws gives power to the legal process and this is the true key to making changes in Spain for animals.

Actin sponsored 6 people on the course, which was enabled by a generous donator.

The next course will probably be Saturday 9 April in Murcia, to be confirmed. It will start at 9.30 to 19.30h with food included. The price with food will be approximately 90 to 95 pounds. Actin may be able to sponsor a delegate, if they are unable to afford the costs and can demonstrate that this course will help them in their working capacity, as an animal welfare advocate.

DeAnimals will also be running a course for lawyers, association and police about animal law, prison law and abuse of animals in the official College of lawyers in Sevilla. This course is free to everyone, trainee lawyers, police and association. Actin will be sponsoring this course.

The Spanish Galguero - victims of their cruelty

Intimidation is a terrible thing, especially when the result is attacks on people, property, vehicles, animals.  It is not uncommon in rural Spain for people who speak out against animal cruelty, make denuncias, to suffer in such a way.  Here is a story of just one such case.  My heart goes out to the poor lady, and to her dogs who died so horrendously.  (Taken from a facebook page Million Paw March for Justice)

'With permission, We are saddened, shocked, and angered to have to report that the post made on the March earlier of the murdered Galga, Nanou, mutilated and tied to the owners fence in an act of apparent revenge belonged to one of our Marchers. A Marcher, who asked not to be named, who has been with us all from the very beginning. No words can properly express the sorrow and pain our Friend of the March is going through but they wanted a summary of the events told here and the village named.

35 More galgos rescued from Jerez (Cadiz) perrera by Scooby

Fermin Perez Martin, president of Scooby, tells the story.

'On Monday 18/1/2016 we went to Jerez to pick up 35 more galgos, who now are sitting comfortably in our shelter.

We should have taken 36 galgos, but during the release of 5 galgos from the back of a trailor carried by their galguerro, one of the galgos was so terrified, he broke free from his leash, gave many bite wounds to his former ‘master’, and he fled for his life. This is sad, very sad that a galgo who was so close to the chance at a better life with us, took his chance of freedom to escape the life he knew, to be used only as a tool.
We hope that the volunteers in Jerez will find him and eventually he will get the life he deserves, and this highlights the huge importance of our work, travelling great distances to save as many of these mistreated souls that we possibly can.
Please support us in our even increasing work, you will be seeing the many new faces of our wonderful galgos appearing soon and ready for adoption.'

Ways to help us:
Making a donation: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/how_you_can_help.html
Making a virtual adoption: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/virtual_adoption/index.html
Adopt one of our animals: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/adoption/index.html
Become a volunteer: http://www.scoobymedina.org/en/volunteering.html
Join the teaming (for only 1 Euro/month): https://www.teaming.net/scoobymedina?lang=en_UK

Petition to the Spanish Minister of Agriculture

Please sign and share this petition.  Read all about it here.

Scooby takes 50 Galgos & podencos from Castilla La Mancha...

From Fermin Perez Martin, president of Scooby refuge.

'In a few weeks the hunting season with galgos will come to an end and that means that now already shelters and perreras are completely full with galgos, discarded by their owner who just considers them a bad working tool and nothing more...

Scooby will take the next couple weeks hundreds of galgos and podencos in to save them from being killed in a perrera or waiting for years and years in shelters because nobody adopts them.

Illegal racing galgo breeding exposed in Spain

Read the full story here.

Levriers sans Frontiere - 30 more galgos waiting for forever homes.

Levriers sans Frontiere are an established French galgo (and podenco) rescue association whose team regularly travel down to Seville and bring rescued galgos back to France for rehoming. Here's notice of 30 more who are now awaiting adoption.  I post this as an example of how many galgos come into France every month with all the French rescue associations and why it is getting more difficult to home them.  The associations do marvellous work but I fear it will get even more difficult to find homes for all the dogs year on year.  Spain HAS to introduce control of breeding of hunting dogs.

Badajoz perrera - life on death row

Have you ever wondered how a dog feels to be dumped in a perrera in Spain....these two young galgos are an example, in Badajoz perrera.