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Please sign the petition against the mistreating and killing of the galgos in Spain! Over 11000 people have signed already, the dogs in Spain need your signature!

To the President and the King of Spain,

Affter several hundred thousand of abdandoned and mistreated galgos (spanish greyhounds) and podencos (Ibizan Hounds, Canarian Warrenhounds and Podenco Andaluz) that are abandoned or brutally killed each year, we ask the spanish government to apply the existing animal welfare laws on the breeders and hunters as they are the reason for the massive breeding, mistreatment and distruction of those dogs.

• We ask for a rigorous control of the breeding facilities, applying the existing laws incl. the one for microchipping, rabies vaccination and the “nucleo zoologico”, (a permit to keep and breed animals according to the existing laws incl. adequate kenneling, veterinary care etc)
• The existing animal welfare laws should be used to control the backyard breeders and the handlers of hunting dogs.
• Judges should use the laws to fine hunters and breeders who do not fulfill the existing laws and SEPRONA (environmental police) should inspect hunters and their dogs without informing the person of the coming inspection to avoid the elimination of badly kept animals etc.
• All hunting dogs must be microchipped for identification purposes
• All hunting dogs must be vaccinated with rabies and multiple vaccines to avoid diseases
• All hunting dogs have to be registered by their owners at the local townhall
• No hunting dogs should be abandoned or killed by their owners
• Unwanted dogs have to been handed over to the nearest rescue paying a 100Eur fee

We expect a European country like Spain to apply the animal protection laws in favour of the hounds in Spain and we ask the authorities to insist on a control of the hunters, and the inhumane treatment of their dogs has to be eliminated forever.