This link will give you the list of all the Spanish cities for marching, plus many European countries. Join in if you can.
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Spain 6th February – marching for the hunting dogs
We, PFF, are going to march on the 6th of February in Málaga. At 11:30 am is meeting time on Plaza de Marina in Málaga. Please come and join us and support the couse of the galgos and podencos, as well as our group.
We march together with our spanish friends in 30 spanish citys. Together we are stronger!
NO A LA CAZA!Be there if you can!
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Spain – Animal Law, Insincere Promises and Broken Contracts – An horrendous day for animal life in Spain
From Yo Galgo.
Today is the last day to present objections to a law that will redefine hunting as a cultural asset in Spain, and change the protection of wildlife forever.
Read the full article here…scroll down to find the English translation.
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URGENT – Podenco’s Owner died, abandoned in the garden
Grom Galgos Liberty.Very very Urgent !!!!!
Her anxious look haunts me!!!!
Looking for Foster or better adopters for Fly, podenco about 4/5 years old. Her owner passed away a week ago and is now alone in the garden. A neighbour comes to feed him and brings him home at night. I stopped by to see him this morning, Fly is scary, but within 10 minutes he came to me.
HE seems to have been neglected by the absence of care and regular absence of his master and spent a lot of time alone, Fly will therefore need reassurance to trust again. Living with dogs looks ok, for cats we don’t know.
This cutie is adorable and deserves to find her furever family.
Contact galgo.liberty@gmail.com
Or by text 06.74.46.73.95
Visible in the Aude (Carcassone area, south France).
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Living with a blind dog
A few weeks ago I introduced you to Bo (Bocelli), a blind podenco we recently adopted from life on a chain in Lorca, Spain. Having both had dogs for all our seven decades of life, we have never had a blind dog. So it is a new experience for us. He has now been with us for a couple of months and is settling in very well. He can now find his way out of the kitchen into the garden to the toilet, and back again. Luckily we have a ramp at our back door rather than steps, which is much easier for him. He hasn’t so far ventured into the rest of the bungalow but no doubt he will do it one day, in his own time.He shares his home with Rosely, a sighted podenca, and very often shares his bed with her. She wears a bell on her collar so he always knows where she is. He is at the stage of wanting to play with her in the garden, but after 6 years shut in a shed breeding babies, Rosely doesn’t know how to play. Her main interest is her stuffed toys, baby substitutes I suspect.
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Spain is still in the dark ages – no help for the hunting dogs
From Galgos en Familia.
WHERE ARE THEIR RIGHTS???
The Andalusian government declares unconditional help and support to the hunters, for what they declare, to be accomplices of torture. They declare to agree with the suffering, mistreatment, abuse and exploitation, which this sector systematically exerts on the dogs of the so-called “hunting breeds”
They also motivate them, through grants and bonuses
And we ask ourselves, where are their rights? The rights of all citizens who do not want to be complicit in this barbarism, of all of us who are not willing to be accomplices or executioners?
And most importantly, where are their rights? where are the rights of those animals that are tortured, slaughtered, killed and abandoned?
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DeAnimals – fighting to protect the Spanish hunting dogs
In 2016 I met Raquel, a Spanish lawyer who organised training courses for anyone involved in animal law in Spain. Here’s a weblink to their site which explains the work they do. -
Galgo’s Rescue Almeria – old podenco finds his forever in Italy
From Galgo’s Rescue Almeria4 years ago Lucky, an old podenco, came to us. We followed him for several weeks and tried to gain his trust and on January 18, 2018 he let himself be caught.
What he didn’t realize was that his life would change drastically “ from street life to sweet life “.
Lucky was a vagabond, a loner who had probably roamed the streets for most of his life. He had leishmania, a few months later he also got distemper. But Lucky is a survivor with a huge will to stay alive.
December 2020 Lucky left GRA and could spend his retirement in Italy at Casa degli Elfi Rescue OdV – Podencos & Co where he also stole everyone’s heart.
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From Spain to Canada – Podenco Friends hounds to their forever homes
From Bev Farmer of Podenco Friends.
Here is a glimpse of behind the scenes and what happened when the dogs land in Canada a few weeks ago.
I am often asked ‘are the dogs stressed with the flight’, but we prepare them by getting them comfortable with the flight crates. When I take them to vets they always are transported in flight crates and it’s safer for them.
The dogs arrived and they were relaxed and calm and even though with people they have never met before they take everything in their stride. It takes an incredible amount of work and preparation both here in Spain and Canada so the dogs can fly. The paper work is complex and we have to double and triple check everything dealing with customs on both sides.
Numerous messages and phone calls and finally they were on their way.