Another little beauty flying the flag for podencos. Here’s what her Mom writes.
‘After reading the recent article about the Podenca winning prizes and as an owner of a rescued Podenca myself, I would also like to endorse the fact that they are a lovely breed.
I’ve received the following article which is quite thought provoking.
Spain is a country which is on now its knees. It’s gone from dictatorship to good presidency and bringing a country up on form and being recognised as a good place to be. From there, the previous government to the current one, the latter was voted in December 2011, brought bad practices into its own when they took over. The country became run down, the people suffer, but as always, the politicians walk away with clean hands and a tidy pension until death. To compound the negative results of that government’s actions, Spain was hit with the Global crisis.
In partnership with Urgence-animaux, le Bulletin Des Lévriers has launched a new worldwide petition to ask for the ban of hunting with Spanish Greyhounds (Galgos) in Spain. In 2009, we sent the 20.000 signatures which we had we collected thanks to Care2 to the Spanish Minister of the Environment. Let’s mobilize again to show the Spanish government that people around the World do not give-up on abused Sighthounds in Spain and that ill-treatments, very real, of Galgos and Podencos in Spain has to stop. Please sign the new petition available here
It’s not the clearest of petition websites, as the top half of the page is blank. So you need to
