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.
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.
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
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
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
Please join my campaign on Galgo News to protest about the ponies and lion in a terrible state in the circus. http://www.galgonews.com
Just lifted this please from Help the Podencos on Facebook.
Hi Podencos!. Could you please help me out with this beautiful puppy girl??? She was found in the middle of the field with a big open scar… Right now she´s much better but she needs a home urgently. She´s only four month old loving, cute and playful… I cannot keep her because I am a shelter home for abandoned dogs and I got 4 already at home, and one of them is pregnant, due in two weeks and the mummy really needs all my attention. Please, I need your help!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/lucia.pinilla.diaz
If you’re not on FB, I’ve asked for her email address. She lives in Almoradi.
Another plea for a forever home for Denzil, the perfect podenco. He’s in a foster home, goes to obedience classes and really desperately wants his forever family.
Poor Denzil was found wandering the streets hungry and dehydrated. Galgos del Sol spotted him and set out to rescue him. With the help of The Little Pod foundation we were able to catch him. We could see he had been badly treated and was in terrible condition. Denzil was lucky enough to find a lovely foster home but this has almost worked to his disadvantage.
Here’s news of another group of volunteers in an association, working to save the abandoned dogs of Spain, and especially the podencos. Here’s what they say.
‘Protecto Adopta was born from the passion of a very small group of people who want to offer decent lives to these animals History has confirmed they are the best “non-human” friends that we may have, but however, so many times we see them just in kennels, callejeando or even lying in a ditch. Our intention is to educate the people, as well as trying to get homes to all those dogs who have already suffered the cruelty of the human being.’
