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Why greyhounds? Perhaps you're wondering why this association only give greyhounds and warren hounds up for adoption and no other breeds.
Might it be a kind of canine elitism? Don't the others deserve the chance of being adopted and happy?
We love nature and animals of any breed, age and colour and we believe that any living being has the essential right to live, and if we throw ourselves into helping greyhounds is for a very clear and frightening reason.
Greyhounds are bred indiscriminately by the so-called "galgueros" in different areas of Spain.
They select the greyhounds that seem to be the fastest of the breeding and try them in the field. The ones that don't pass the exam are doomed. The luckiest ones will be abandoned many miles away from the farm, the others will be sacrificed in the cruellest way that one can imagine: they will be burned alive, thrown into wells or hanged from a branch in the woods. Woods of death, which are direct witnesses of the massacre, plenty of nooses - often more than one for each tree - that will be used time and time again for the agonizing sacrifice of thousands of greyhounds that are born to serve and suffer.
The murderers declare that it is a fair death, "by tradition" and that they don't shoot them because "a greyhound isn't worth a bullet".
The ones that have passed the exam will live badly going through calamities, often shut in shanties without air nor ventilation, breeding indiscriminately, hunting for their owners and fighting for a piece of hard bread. With a little luck it gets a piece of hard bread for 15 greyhounds. As the damned saying goes, "Si a un galgo sólo pan duro, si la liebre salta 20, el galgo 21", that it means that while the hare jumps 20 feet high, if you feed a greyhound with hard bread, it would jump 21 feet.
And that is the way they live until they are not of use anymore or the owner gets better puppies. Then the first will finish its unhappy days where others already met a terrible, painful and slow death. Without knowing neither a caress nor a day of joy.
The greyhound is a majestic dog, fast as the wind and light as a feather. A pedigree revered in former times, till the point that its possession had been prohibited to peasant and poor people, while was permitted only to nobility and aristocracy.
Nowadays their virtues are also their ruin. It has turned into a useful dog, both for races and hunting, because everything that is touched by humans for their profitability becomes a tool. And when it breaks or wears out, it is just thrown away.
We have been lucky enough to realize that the greyhound is a wonderful pet: very intelligent and sensitive, clean and discreet, kind, patient and careful with children and old people.
In Spain the number of abandonment are shamefully shocking, but when we talk about torture, fierceness and thousand of murders every year, we can't turn a blind eye to it.
This is the reason why we throw ourselves into this breed, so abandoned and despised by its owners and potential murderers.
Discovering a greyhound as pet is a unique experience and although many of them have been maltreated and scared by human, they develop a great devotion and respect for their adoptive families. This is something that only the one who can shares his daily routine with a greyhound can understand.
