Category: In the media

  • Join PACMA to fight for the animals of Spain

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    On 15 October PACMA began a decisive and ambitious campaign: they want to add 500 new members before January 1, 2025.

    They say…

    Why? Well, we intend to develop four major actions for next year, and your membership is necessary to make them a reality:

    1. Lower veterinary VAT: We want to launch a campaign to reduce the cost of these services, today a luxury for many families.

    2. Strengthening sentences for animal abuse: We need firm and effective legislation that prevents cruelty to animals and forcefully punishes those responsible. We want to deploy all means of pressure to propose a new reform of the Penal Code.

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  • Terrified podenca now safe with Los Infiernos shelter

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    The terrified face of an abandoned podenco caught and now safe with the Los Infiernos shelter at Torre Pacheco, which is the shelter where Tina Solera volunteered before she created Galgos del Sol. Hopefully this sweet soul will soon learn to trust humans and eventually find a forever home.

  • Podenco Family mom and babies hoping for forever homes

    Wonderful Podencos family looking for a responsible home.
    They’re with Galgos Felices Fundacion and yes, they’re a beautiful family that we’d like to introduce to you:

    Mommy (The Mother), Lea, Bimbo, Cafe, Green, Speddy, Luchy and Lila. They were rescued with Mommy when they were babies, they have grown up and are still in the Foundation. Mommy is only 2 years old and her children are 1 year old. Mom got caught after giving birth to her 7 puppies and this is how they came to the Foundation.

    These young Podquitos and their mom want a family to offer all their love. Watch the video

    Contact and help:

    WhatsApp 670373930

    https://sites.google.com/view/galgos-felices-fundacion

    #NoAlaCaza #NoAlaCazaConPerros #VictimasDeLaCaza #Podencos
    #LovePodenco

  • Another tiny Podenca Mildred hoping for a forever home

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    MILDRED, 4 years old, petite podenca of 9kg. OK CATS

    Localization: At the shelter in Spain and adoptable throughout France and bordering countries, she will be brought back to France by an animal transporter

    She is a very affectionate with adults and children. She gets along with all her peers regardless of size, as well as cats.
    Mildred walks perfectly on leash and is not scared or car sick.

    She’s a pretty active little bitch, not surprising for a podenca. This will be the perfect bitch for an active family to enjoy games and walks with. Hope she finds her forever quickly!

    Are you interested in MILDRED?

    Fill in the adoption form:

  • Walking through the Camp by Marta Navarro Garcia – against hunting with Podencos and Galgos

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    From Plataforma NAC

    The minor hunting season begins and with it starts hell for thousands of hunting dogs in Spain.
    One more year we watch helplessly how they are used as mere tools and how they are discarded, broken, injured, hungry and, in the worst case, lifeless.

    In these moments of sorrow, we share the wonderful poem by Marta Navarro Garcia read at the protest on February 6, 2022

    WALKING THROUGH THE CAMP

    I have seen death looking for my friends,
    hundreds of winged beings,
    of deer, of wild boars,
    of rabbits, of partridges,
    of greyhounds, of Podencos.

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  • Tiny Podenca Tita hoping for a forever home

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    I adore these tiny podencos, they have such huge characters. This is an older little lady who should spend the rest of her years in a forever home, knowing love and a warm soft bed. My little Bebe lived to be over 17 years old so there are plenty more years ahead for Tita.

    Tita is a small, sweet female dog of about 12 years old, who has been at the shelter for four long years. Her previous owner, a hunter, sadly passed away, leaving Tita without a home.

    Despite her tough time at the shelter, Tita remains a social and affectionate dog, who loves attention and cuddles. She gets along well with other dogs, cats and older children, making her a great housemate. With her gentle character and friendly personality,
    Tita deserves a warm and loving home where she can spend her golden years. She’s completely fine: chipped, vaccinated, and sterilized, and patiently waiting for the chance to be loved again.

    email to adopties.sira@gmail.com

  • SOS Galgos – protest against the Spanish Animal Protection Act 7/2023

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    SOS GALGOS (oficial)

    One year after its implementation, we protest the Animal Protection Act 7/2023, a law that denies hunting greyhounds rights and sentences them to a lifetime of suffering. Come on, that’s a f*cking law.

    Become a partner to protect the greyhound from this unfair law!

    Protest with us by sharing the campaign so that everyone knows what is happening with the greyhound.

    #Noscagamosenlaley

    (The link is on Instagram, apparently)

  • Investigation into the high rise of vet fees in UK and USA

    Pet owners in both the UK and US have felt the impact of the high rise in vet charges over the past several years and it’s not the vets who are benefiting from the increase. Having said that, are they benefiting from selling out their practices to speculative companies who have nothing to do with animals and thereby benefiting in that respect? Basically, to me, it all boils down to human greed, and pet owners and animals are suffering as a consequence.

    Below are links to 2 articles which are looking at the problem.

    UK

    USA