I’ve made a couple of videos of the Spanish gang at home. In order of arrival, Bebe is the little Podenca Andaluz from Seville, now 14 years old; she came at 6 years old with a damaged hind leg from an RTA. Carmela is the grey/white brindle galga, 12 years old; she came as a foster dog with serious problems from maltreatment. I brought her out of Spain with me on one of the rescues with L’Europe des Levriers. It was over 2 years before I considered her recovered enough to be homed…so she stayed with us! Bracken is the dark brindle galgo, now 8 years old, from Galgos del Sol. He came as a foster, adopted in the UK but sadly, due to an ill-health change of circumstances there, David adopted him! Finally is cream galgo Polar, now 4 years old, from Pepis Dog Rescue in Pedrera. Regular readers know his story so far.

It is his left hind leg which he damaged as a puppy and 4 specialist vets have said there is no guarantee an operation would improve his movement. You can see in the videos that he is not hampered by it, but it is swollen with calcification of the bone. He’s been on MSM but I am now putting him on Turmeric.

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Tenerife Seprona finally take action against a hunter for maltreatment of his podenco…he hung it! Here is a Spanish dictionary translation of the story.

They investigate a case of animal abuse suffered by a hound in La Orotava

Agents of the service of protection of nature (Seprona) of the Guardia Civil in Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife) are investigating a man as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of animal abuse and neglect.

The incident occurred when the Civil Guard officers received an alert citizen, who recounted how he had been witness to the existence of a dog breed podenco in the municipality of La Orotava and that was with serious injuries in the neck due to a rope that was attached.

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This week in Gran Canaria. A Spanish Dictionary translation of the newspaper report.

Two professors from the universities of Barcelona and Cadiz participate this week in a conference aimed at technicians and municipal managers

A podenco abandoned until he died of thirst and hunger in a land of La Oliva, Fuerteventura.

Las Palmas Veterinary College has organized a Conference on the mistreatment of animals that will be held on Wednesday and Thursday coming in the room Tamarán, on the third floor of the House Palace of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, with the collaboration of the insular Corporation. Sessions, called roots of the mistreatment of animals and policy response, will count with the participation of doctors Jaume Fatjó Ríos and José María Pérez Monguió, director of the Chair of research of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Professor titular of administrative law of the University of Cádiz.

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Would you believe that Malaga is saying here that anyone feeding homeless, lost or abandoned animals risks a fine of 500 euros!! That’s an outrage! Spain is supposedly a civilised country!! Part of the European Union! There seems to be no sanction against those who abandon or abuse the animals but a 500 euro fine for anyone who dares to help them here. This is the reality in Malaga, Spain today. Spain, the land of bull-fighting and fines for feeding helpless animals.

This law exists in most EU countries, including Portugal. It’s an attempt to make people call authorities to pick up stray animals and take them to kennels, instead of supporting them on the streets and let them roam. A law that would only make sense if there where decent, no-kill shelters for all. It’s hardly ever enforced, people just carry out helping as usual.

Never doubt that your help in giving dogs from here a home is invaluable.