Theft of 2 galgos and severe distruction in the Linares shelter

Tete and her volunteers, arriving at the shelter of
http://arconaturalinares.wordpress.com, found the fence cut open and many ogs running free outside of the premises. On entering they found the storage room broken into with all the medication, bedding, iodine and even he dog food stolen. Much worse however, was the disapearence of the 2 galgas that had arrived just 36hours earlier.

A lovely half black & white young female, practically a puppy who was layfull and healty; and another female galgo fell into the hands of the travellers who will sell them for breeding purposes to the ruthless galgueros (galgo hunters).

This is the 4th theft of galgos this year in Linares as nobody lives in he shelter and the dogs are, as in most poor shelters in Spain, unattended at night and therefore easy victims for the travellers.

The Linares volunteers hadn't even had time to micro-chip and photograph he galgas before they were stolen.

It is now VITAL that all galgos that come into the shelter are micro-chipped and photographed imediately so that if they are stolen the and then found elsewhere the shelter will be in a good position to dentify and recover the dogs. Also if an abused or dead galgo is found with a micro-chip then the shelter will be able to make a formal report to the council and apply for prosecution.

It costs just £10 to micro-chip a galgo and give it all the advantages of being registered.
This makes it a unique and wonderful gift for a loved one.

If you would like to participate in our "chip appeal" and pay for a galgo to be micro-chipped, please email pro-galgo@hotmail.com

Payment can be made by paypal to info@total-barcelona.com

PLEASE VISIT HTTP://WWW.PRO-GALGO.COM ENGLAND FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO HELP!

omg this is so sad.Its such a pity that there isnt any sleeping accomodation at the shelter so the dogs can be safe at night also. Do you think in the near future that something can be done on this issue Mo?

I may be naive, but can a surveilance camera be mounted and connected to the police station somehow?
After all, this was the second break in.
My heart goes out to Tete and the brave Linares volunteers!
Kathy
Denver, Colorado

the shelters do not even have running water ( water tanks), not to talk about electricity... and for sure no money to install cams,
and on top of it, the police would not allow surveillance cams....
spain is 3rd world, when we talk about animal welfare ... and in the case mentioned, the police came only 3 days later to take pictures etc....

most of the shelters can not even pay good food for the dogs, how should they pay someone to controll the shelter or even an employee?

spain is different

I hope that something can be done somehow for this shelter Mo. Is there anything that we can do from this end.............donation or something that might help in some way?

The best thing would be to try to get the shelter up to modern standards with electricity etc but it all costs to do so.....I just cant understand why the Spanish Goverment is not concerned about its animal welfare and the rest of the EU is ordered to by law.....what on earth is going on there that makes it so different to the rest of Europe

Every time I read something like this, I get so incredibly angry and frustrated...

As if it's not bad enough that shelters are so under-funded already, but for people to steal their medical supplies along with dogs that they've worked so hard to save... It absolutely infuriates me.