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Tenerife, Canary Islands - rules for keeping dogs and cats

Further to a couple of articles I published last week about cock fighting and hunting dogs on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, here are the rules for the keeping of dogs and cats there as recently decreed. It's that man again...probably lives in a cave and seems to be blind!

"Two issues listed in an annexe and in a single additional disposition of the new ordinance of animals of Santa Cruz, Tenerife, pending publication in the official bulletins after it was adopted in plenary on the last month of January 2017, would make it almost impossible to possess and transport hunting dogs in the conditions that the majority of practitioners of this modality now do, assures the President of the Society of hunters Chicharreros, Antonio Porras, who recently addressed this theme to the elected representatives of Citizen Security and Environment, Zaida Gonzalez and Carlos Correa, respectively.

Who are the really dangerous creatures on Planet Earth?

Article in the Scooby English News Blog.

Deanimals Murcia - supporting the new Animal Ambulance

A new project has been created by Angel Navarro Perez and Ambulorca which aims to help families who have an accident travelling with animals in their car which will rescue and protect physically and psychologically these animals, thus giving, security and peace to the emotionally wounded famuly, if they have to be taken by ambulance to a hospital. An Ambulance will up people and take them to the hospital and, in turn, another special "ambulance of Lorca" will assist the animals simultaneously and will activate a protocol of animal welfare, with the support of a great professional team of multidisciplines.

Deanimals lawyer Raquel López Teruel says this is a great initiative and a necessary project that will help a lot of lives of people and animals.

The project has been at the Congress of the Spanish Society of Medicine and the ER.

#ayudandoaanimalesyapersonas
#proyectosolidario
#derechoanimal, #proteccionanimal

'You cannot be serious?!' Tenerife - Cock fighting and hunting with dogs

Look at the face of this man...does he live in a cave, is he blind. Does he not see the reality of life for Podencos on Tenerife and the other Canary Islands? Here's the link to an article in a local newspaper with an English translation.

Hunters and galleros of Güímar, Tenerife, with the support of the local hunting federations of the Canary Islands and the National Federation, have teamed up to present an initiative in defense of cock fighting and hunting with dogs and oppose a motion presented to the Mayor Carmen Luisa Castro (PP) by the United Canarian Network Against Animal Abuse, which asks for a ban on Cock fighting. controlling the use of hunting dogs and to put an end to experiments on animals in laboratories, among other measures.

Guimar, Tenerife, Canary Islands - calling for the end of animal abuse

Translation of this article in a Canary Islands journal.

The mayoress of Güímar, Carmen Luisa Castro Dorta (PP), met recently representatives of the United Canary Network Against the Animal Cruelty, Abel Román and Domingo Chávez, who promised to present a plenary motion to ask for the end of cock fighting and hunting with dogs, and that the Government of the Canaries dedicates 50 % of its budget for investigation into projects without using laboratory animals.

Güímar will ask for the support of the remaining municipalities of the Island to these proposals in the next meeting of the Canary Federation of Municipalities (Fecam), with the target to raise in common to the Government of Canaries the prohibition of cock fighting and hunting with dogs.

Román and Chávez explained to the mayoress "the gravity of the current situation on animal maltreatment" in the Islands, and requested the support of the mayoress to start "immediate measurements against the abuse and cruelty to animals".

Let's hope they make some positive progress.

Malaga introduces compulsory dog dna profiling

Be interesting to see how this idea works.

Podencos at Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville

Just look at this beautiful rough-haired podenca, a recent arrival at Pepis Dog Refuge. She sounds an absolute sweetie and would love to have a forever home. Please get in touch with Pepis if you can help her.

She's not the only podenca at Pepis, here are some more - little Vinny, only a young boy, and some handsome podenco cross too. And what about Bill and Ben, podenco/basenji cross. They have lost hope of finding a home and a hearth.

If you can't adopt a dog, what about sponsoring one. Have a look at this page for the dogs needing sponsorship.

Please join Teaming - it only costs 1 euro/month, or £1. More information here.

Tenerife - What the tourists don't see - the true Tenerife

And the podencos on Tenerife, Canary Islands, continue to suffer. Below is a Spanish dictionary translation of this newspaper article published on 7th March 2017.

The difficult relationship between hunters and animal rights lived this weekend a new episode, this time in the District of Valleseco. Several members of the first group have denounced in the national police that some unknown, supposed defenders of animals, on Saturday broke the padlock of a few kennels located at the entrance of the neighborhood - in a Court of the mountain - and released several hunting dogs, which could not be recovered by their owners until Sunday noon.

Help the Ibiza podencos or they will die!

At the end of February I published this story about packs of podencos roaming loose on Ibiza - away from the Tourist hotspots of beaches and hotels. This is an update - sadly not really much further forward. And what is even worse is that no one has come forward to attempt to help them. I know refuges are overflowing with podencos but this situation on Ibiza is tragic!

'14 3 2017 - The situation has changed in the sense that the city council has already hired a company to capture them and take them to Mallorca. The previous time this company came to capture podencos it took about 40, about two years ago. Only 9 were rescued, a person adopted them and looked for homes. The rest were sacrificed, the excuse given was that they were sick, but it was not true. As seen in the first video, which was made a few weeks ago, most are young and in good condition.

All beautiful words to describe the Podenco