Read the full article on this weblink.
Category: Advice
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Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – Animal Rescue Transitions To ‘Bureaucrazy’
Fermin writes.
As many of you know, the Scooby shelter grew organically from doing the best we could with limited resources and still
making tangible improvements for our rescued animals, nursing them back from the brink to overcome sickness and
adversity to become dogs and cats well enough to go to loving adoption families. Yes we had tragedies but our small team
shared the work and helped the animals to a better life. I still remember a volunteer vet from Scotland, in the twilight of his
career, telling me to welcome volunteer vets but crucially to make sure they had solid experience because in a ‘field’
medical setting, she said we’d need people who were skilled to work with what’s available, rather than the early career medical professionals who would not yet be ready to work in a situation needing ingenuity and technical resourcefulness. I still remember this vet stitching by candlelight when we were blighted with power cuts. -
All about Canicross with your hound
Canicross is becoming a very popular sport between owner and hound.
Read all about it in this article.
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Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – A Bad Law
A Bad LawWe continue to operate our rescue in the context of the very bad legislative amendment enacted in 2023. A new and very ambitious update to the animal welfare law in Spain was passed in January 2022. The law itself includes training for dog owners, penalties for animal cruelty, prohibition of puppy farming and sales of pets in pet shops. All of this is totally laudable and
necessary. However, the PSOE Party (Spanish Socialist Workers), the senior partner in the coalition government, subsequently proposed an amendment to the law to exclude hunting, working and guarding dogs. The amendment was approved in 2023. Commentators say the PSOE initiated the amendment fearing reactions from rural voters. -
How to calm a nervous dog
I’ve recently been reading a few posts on a facebook page by people who have adopted podencos, and seem surprised that after a month or so the dog is still nervous. It saddens me because it would seem they expect far too much too soon from a dog which has probably lived most of its life in a shed on a chain in the hands of a Spanish galguero. It’s now been in a shelter, then on a transport and into a home environment where people speak a different language. Instead of leaving the dog alone to adjust to all these changes, they insist on invading its space to pat it, stroke it…
Those of us experienced in homing a nervous dog know it can take months before the dog settles – it took my galga Carmela over 2 years before she finally became a ‘normal’ dog. It is nearly 3 years since I adopted Rosely, who spent the first 6 or 7 years with a Spanish hunter and she is still very nervous of my husband, strangers and sudden noises. I don’t think she will improve any more.
Here’s a weblink to an article on calming a nervous dog.
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Deadly disease hitting rehala dogs in Spain
Rehala dogs are usually podencos which are hired out to hunters.
Castile-La Mancha warns hunters about Aujezzky’s disease affecting dogs.
The Council for Sustainable Development of #CastillaLaMancha has warned people with hunting license in the autonomous community about the #Aujezzky’s disease that can affect #huntingdogs and #rehalas
It takes between two and six days to incubate and the symptoms are vomiting, diarrhea, inapetence, difficulty breathing, nervousness, itching and compulsive scratching, howling, behavioral changes or neurological changes, among others. Death usually occurs within 24 hours from the time of symptoms being detected.
News: https://goo.su/D7p4
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Lure coursing in the UK
Is this something you would do with your galgo? So long as the dog runs in a straight line? Greyhounds get injured when lure coursing on a curved greyhound track. Is it ok so long as there is no betting? What do you think?Mostly sighthounds from deerhounds to whippets take part, and sometimes border collies!
Lure coursing discussion
This website explains how an event is run, under strict Kennel Club rules, and no betting allowed. Sighthound Sport UK
Lure coursing track in the USA.
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Volunteering for the dogs in the San Bartolome shelter in Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Being a volunteer is not just going up to the kennel for a walk, being a volunteer is a mission and a path that hooks you, although unintentionally, on these very special beings. Because when you become a volunteer your life changes, part of your free time is dedicated to them, your thoughts and your desires to see them outside of a cage become constant and above all you become attached, because they are part of your life now, they are your family. Yes, you go up every day, you can to give them a little love so that they feel special because they are and your voice will be theirs to give them strength and hope that one day they will feel the true essence of freedom and a loving home.
We walk the dogs every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 9-1300.
Read the story on this weblink.
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BILLY in adoption in San Bartolome shelter.
#sanbartolomelanzarote #adoptdontshop #adoptaunperro #adoptaynocompres #adoptaysalvaunavida