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  • Animal traffiking in Cadiz, Spain – the Olive Press reports

    The Olive Press reports on animal traffiking in Spain

  • Free to a good home – would you do this to a child?

    Taken off my FB wall

    FREE TO A GOOD HOME: 2 year old child. Genuine reason, I’ve just got a new puppy so no longer have the time for the child. Also worried the child may bite the puppy. Child is crate trained and up to date on all shots. Needs home by tomorrow or it’ll be put to sleep. Thanks! YOU WOULDN’T DO THIS TO A CHILD SO WHY DO U SEE IT AS ACCEPTABLE TO DO IT TO A DOG? If you can’t dedicate 15yrs to a dog, don’t get one!! ;-)..

  • Holiday accommodation in Las Palmas, Canary Islands? Not for these podencos

    Gran Canaria podencos 200 3 08 2011 Podencos in Las Palmas, Canary Islands; chained to walls, starving, thirsty….the article explains the Order of 28th June 2011 establishing the legal periods for hunting in the year 2011 and conditions and limitations for the said activity in the autonomous Community of the Canary Islands – thank you to Juan Seco. The photos speak for themselves. Contact the association, if you are going there.

    There is a post below which, translated says ‘Hello. These photographs and facts are not on the island of Gran Canaria, but on the small island of la Palma, in the season of hunting, also in the Canary Islands. …..SEASON of hunting on the island of LA PALMA 2011…… I apologise, my geography is not as perfect as I thought.

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  • Aanifeira, Portugal – the Portuguese Podengo explained

    Here’s an absolutely fascinating article about the Portuguese Podengo/Podenco. I didn’t realise there were so many different types of just this one type of podenco. The more I learn about them, the more I love them.

  • Spain – how to report a suspected case of animal cruelty

    HOW TO REPORT A SUSPECTED CASE OF ANIMAL CRUELTY

    August 2011

    There are increasing numbers of animal cruelty cases and people who come across them, often don’t know how to make an official complaint (denuncia) to the police. Seprona, the environmental arm of the Guardia Civil, has given the Costa Animal Society this set of guidelines on what to do.

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  • ESDAW demands a common EU law to protect animals – sign the petition

    Please sign this petition

  • Costa Animal Society, Nerja – volunteer help needed for animals and committee

    CAS Strella 250 08 2011 This beauty with special eyes is Strella – she is one of 6 hunting dogs which the owner didn’t want, so he left them all tied up, starved of food and water. The owner wants rid of them asap so foster homes are urgently required.

    CAS is appealing on their behalf. CAS is the Costa Animal Society based in Nerja
    on Spain’s eastern Costa del Sol. It was founded in 1986 as a registered charity for
    the sole purpose of helping abandoned and maltreated animals.

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  • Spain – how to report a suspected case of animal cruelty

    HOW TO REPORT A SUSPECTED CASE OF ANIMAL CRUELTY

    August 2011

    There are increasing numbers of animal cruelty cases and people who come across them, often don’t know how to make an official complaint (denuncia) to the police. Seprona, the environmental arm of the Guardia Civil, has given the Costa Animal Society this set of guidelines on what to do.

    There are laws to protect animals from cruelty. They cannot complain when they food food or water, no shade from the sun or rain, or have been tied up on a short chain and then forgotten.

    But we can speak for them. Please help.

    1. Go to your local Civil Guard bas (Guardia Civil cuartel) Neither the local police nor the National Police handle complaints of this kind.

    2. Take as much written information with you as you can. Names, addresses and a map showing where the animal is will help officers easilly to investigate your complaint. .

    3. If you don’t speak Spanish, get someone who does to go with you otrcontact your local animal welfare society for help or information.

    4. The Guardia Civil will give you a copy of the denuncia, and their copy will be given to Seprona for investigation-

    5. Only Seprona will investigate

    6. With your copy of the denuncia, it can be followed up later.

    Thank you to the Costa Animal Society, Nerja, for this information

  • Petite Podenca Pizca from Palencia, Spain, appealing for a forever home

    Pizca4 Amigos der Milord 250 This little beauty is called Pizca; she’s a young rough-haired podenca who has been with Amigos de Milord association for over a year. Cristina, of the associations, says ‘she has been here for a year and I have no adopting home for her, and it hurts to think she will be in a cage all her life. She is really small, spayed, vaccinated, loving and good with other dogs – male and female – but not with cats.’

    If you can offer this little sweetheart a home, contact Amigos de Milord

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  • Sightseeing, Seville – not for this podenca

    Hernia 250 08 2011 The first podenca I fostered had been taken to the Jaen perrera by her hunter because she had a hernia the size of a tennis ball. She was rescued and operated on and rehomed in France. Her hernia was nothing like the size of this one.

    As you can see, the little podenca is petrified. She was kept in a hut, but luckily rescued and is now with a vet for urgent operation. She will have to go into a residencia afterwards unless a fostger/convalescence home comes forward. And her operation will need paying for. Please contact Immaculate if you wish to help, ask for copies of the vet bills etc. Use a Spanish translator package like Google or Spanish dict.

    IMMACULATE GOMEZ GONZALEZ CASE NUMBER 3187.0701.23.1388507616 RURAL

    movil665809169 macu19782010@hotmail.com

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