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A rehala is where the dogs are hired out to hunters.

The Seprona of the Civil Guard has intervened, at the request of the Galgos del Sur animal protection association, 25 hunting dogs from a rehala that were in “poor conditions” in the municipality of Hornachuelos .

The association, as reported this Monday in a statement, has taken care of a dozen , while the other 13 animals have been distributed among the Hornachuelos City Council and other rehalers.

One of the dogs was dead, still on the end of its chain! Seprona is the arm of the Spanish police to whom cases of cruelty are reported and they have the power to take the cases to court.