On this page our President will share happy, funny, special, but also sad stories with you ...
Julio
I am Julito, ex-sparring dog, ex-vigilant and now prisioner. I want to tell you my story...
I have been sparring of dogs that were preparing to fight and died in the clandestine struggles of Algeciras….
This has let scars on me that you can see in my face, but worst are the ones in my soul…
I have still nightmares....I return to the sand where I try to save my life and in dreams
I kicking, growl and I don’t have anybody that wakes me with sweet words…”Julio, be quiet..you are at home”…
I survived although when they found me I was almost dead, they pick me up and they give me a place in the corner of a store in exchange for protecting during the night.
I did job very good, I am a brave dog but they put an alarm system and I could seve them anymore so they abandon me.
I’m old, grumpy, I’ve psychological consequences by the badtreat of human and I don’t like some men and I can bite them.... with this features….I know that nobody will adopted me…I know…that I will died behind this grid…prisioner..
Sometimes I wish I died in the sand like my other fellow dogs…
Could you give me an opportunity?
Pantojo
Survival..
Pantojo, our little brave dog from the streets, he lived there for years. Someone kicked him, he found a garbage bin with food, he knew how to save himself and survived. Someone noticed him, and then, as if a miracle came along the way, he was saved. Rescue came, luckily, because Pantojo was very ill.. but his new owners wanted him the way he was. They gave him a chance and took him inside their lives, and slowly he starts to feel a little bit better.
People can be so amazing, that is what Pantojo has found out now! He received a big rewardfor holding on..
Christmas 2009 has become his heaven on earth!
Castor
A normal human being cannot understand this..
A young man, with an expensive car stopped in front of the gate of our Refugio..
He gets out of his car, opens the closed trunk from his expensive shiny car, and out of that jumps a young Groenendaeler. De dog sits next to him, and looks at only one thing: the young man…
This man tells us (again) that the dog was sitting next to the highway, and he saved him, but he had to get rid of it now... because…
The dog keeps watching up, full of admiration for the young man.. He keeps looking at one thing, an owner.. his owner…!
He gives the dog to us, it does not understand but it walks along. It keeps looking back to the young man. The young man asks if we have a ragto clean up his trunk. A big turdhas been put there, and his shiny car is not so shiny anymore..
“We don’t have rags” that’s what we say to the young man. And then we go inside with a new dog… a new life which we will fight for. Everyone welcomes him with love, respect and pain in the heart.. because we know what he feels, we know about the mixed up feelings that he feels. He isn’t stupid and will know pretty soon what is happening..
How are we going to call him? “Fydele” says Diane, but we already have a Fydele, so than we should call him Castro, but in the end Castor it is. No chip, an untraceable past.. except for the story of the young man with his expensive car…
But Castor says enough, he is a young Groenendaeler, with beautiful soft brown eyes that tell us that he is worth it to go to a nice owner and become his best friend. He deserves to be treated with love and respect, and he deserves to get a better place to be put in than the trunk of an expensive car.
Castor is with us now, one out of many, with Christmas coming soon.. What will they think? The nights are cold, the days are long… Dogs keep on coming in, we are afraid to go and watch the gate, because it is worse than ever. You simply cannot send them back home, because their home doesn’t exist anymore…
Graham
Graham was brought in by his hunter
Graham, our sweet galgo was so luck. His own hunter brought him. A useless scrap for hunting, let him pass away.... We took him over calmly and let the hunter leave..we were already glad he brought the sweetheart to us.... Graham is the most noble sweet boy you can imagine.... a real life companion, a real friend.....
Pekingese mix Koria in the killing station
The killing station... It is December right now, but you keep thinking about all the killing stations that kill hopeful and sweet dogs and cats every day. Christmas is near, and as a human being you get more emotional, memories go trough your mind. And if we look at our own dogs, nice and cosy in their basket, or on the bed, or when they lay their heads in your hands and look so grateful.. you keep thinking of them that are waiting in the corner, counting down.. in the cold, on the moisture floor, hoping that there will be someone to save them, to pet them, to let them live.. live the life they deserve..
Koria is one of them, a sweet doggy, still in the killing station.. She's 27 centimeters high, only 5 kilos and only 2 years old... Her nails were long, like the picture shows.... I hope someone reads this and wants to save her, we are so packed, we don't have much margin.. But we have to hope that there are people that want a partner for life this Christmas... They need us, and you, so much... Koria, one out of many....
Bus en Alia
They were hung on the bus stop by their owners, and they hung there for the whole weekend. Waiting and hoping that it wasn't true.. Then a vet came, he worked at the University of Cordoba and took them with him. He brought them to the university, and here mother and son would function as test animals. Both were bound to their sterilized shelter.. their cavalry started... Students could experiment on them... Fortunately someone could help us to save mother and son, and after a few weeks they are finally with us, safe. They were terrified to meet us, because both of them went trough a hell.. since today their tails wag again, en they feel that we mean it well. Bus and Alia are saved, and now we work on their future...!
Zero....
"My name is Zero..Do you know what means?...Zero.. thought my owner when he bought me pressure by his family..Zero, cause during 10 years of inconditional love that I gave him, he feels “zero” for me…zero feelings he felt when he left me alone…abandoned.
The big day: Zero hour ….time to die… in the killing station of Cordoba (Spain)….i was waiting to be kill, I could see how they closed the jail, how they catch the cold steel lasso, I could see the needle brighting…countdown….10, 9, 8…..just in the last time, in the last second…in my zero time…..she arrived and rescued me.
Pitt bulls and Staffords… Presas en Canarias
People call them dangerous dogs, they bite people, they bite children to death.. they are dangerous dogs….But all those people that only read newspapers and sensational reviews, forget that this dogs just like all other dogs enter this world pure.. with a pure mind, and a very straight dog heart. They just want to become part of a family just like every other four-fouters. They want a life full of hugs to trade for a lifelong friendship.
Two little Pitt bulls just came in, the mother was very old and very ill. She was an extraordinary sweet mommy, she suffered a lot and she had put a lot of puppies on this world, time after time. Her passing away was her release, she did not want this world anymore, how much of her puppies ended up well??? How much of them were sold to people that do not honour the race??? And she kept on producing.. the poor animal was so used up.. it was inhuman to see…
Now we hope to find a great, lovely and responsible boss, that will love them like they deserve to be loved, and that will raise them like they deserve. They are now still pure and unspoiled, they play and love everyone, human or dog.. They are both stout rascals.. Down here you see the pictures of two other lucky bastards of Rinekes son, this is the result of a good responsible home…. Let’s hope our Pitt bulls can experience the same…!!
Story of Chrisje
Killing station Jerez, one of the hardest, most inhumane I have ever visited, the executioners they come and go. They think they are God, they decide who will live and who will die. They treat as unwanted guests. They yell at us.
You make a fist in your pocket, you stay calm and you try not to show them your abomination.
Then I passed by Chrisje,....
"This one we are killing it tomorrow, it bites and it is mean...."
That were the words of the executioners, Chrisje was not moving in the dirty cage, he did not look up anymore, he knew he was going to be killed,...
His old body was lying on the filthy floor, his eyes were sad.
Against the will of everyone I went into the cage and I sat down next to Chrisje,...
At first he did not watch me but when he noticed me well, he started watching me intensely.
It was really touching. Normally I am strong but now I could not hold back the emotions. He was watching me like he wanted to say: what do you want from me?
Very carefully I took him in my arms and brought him to my car...
And that is how Chrisje went with us...
He clearly needs time to gain his trust. If he does not know you he is very distant, scared from humans to be hurt again...
He is sitting like an old man in the corner, hoping he can be still happy one day...
We love Chrisje already and know he deservers better,...
Chiqui
CHIQUI died today, he died in the corner of the clinic, where we have put him quietly in his basket last night.
It is a disgrace that we do not get more help here. And that you almost die of guilt because you were unable to take him home. But the biggest disgrace are the people who dumped him at his age in the killing station, like a piece of garbage, so he could be killed by an executioner
If there is a heaven for dogs, I am sure he already arrived and I know he will support us from heaven, because with us he did know a little bit of love and warmth from human kind. Unfortunately we could not realize his dream to find a golden basket.
CQIQUE, you little though man, we will not forget you, you were an old wise sweet friend,...
The intuition of a mother dog...
When we arrived in the killing station to load all the dogs in the car, I passed by the final cage...
I saw a female Mastin, she was in labour, she killed every puppy which was born...
She was watching us with big scared eyes...
Very carefully we picked her up with the 2 little puppies which were still alive
Mum is doing fine but in the meantime the 2 puppies passed away,...
I have seen this several times in a killing station...
I remember a galgo in a killing station who killed her puppies one by one, as she knew her puppies were going to be killed.
They do not want that their children to suffer, they prefer to bite them to death, than to hand them over to the sadistic killing hands in the killing station...
They know so much more, they are so much more intelligent than we are, they smell death and protect their own blood against this misery by killing them themselves,...
Maria is a very sweat and soft Mastin, she has been so unlucky...
Old Shephard in the killingstation of Los Barrios
When we arrived at the killing station this poor doggy just came in. The old shepherd is old, very neglected and he has tumours on several places. His fur was disgusting, and his cute eyes and thankful face did not understand what was going on. He looks around, and it is so sad to see the old dogs suffer.. They are abandoned, like they have never existed.. We are going to try to make this darling happy for a few months, years.. maybe weeks. This would make the world so different for him..
The situation is a little bit improved. No dogs have been killed anymore, but it is hard to continue. So many dogs are coming in. And the man that is working there, is an irresponsible cold soul. No feelings, no mercy, he is very hard to cooperate with. But we do it for our poor dogs, we have to keep trying. It will take time but this will change.. The stickler wins......
Mirte with the dirt....
This morning, when we opened killing station LOS BARIOS, there was a scared English Bulldog lying in a corner, heavily shaking. She is in a concerning condition, skinny, not fed well, skin is sore, she is ill, and there are signs of neglection everywhere. After talking to it the poor little animal licked us from top to bottom, she is sooo sweet, so thankful. She was thrown over the gate with gloves, which were also left at the gate. Probably they were dirty because of the dog. This was the owners solution, both the dogs paws are wrest from, probably because of the throwing. You cannot find words to describe the bastard that did this. It is often hard to control your feelings when you keep seeing things like this. How unrespectvol and inhumane people treat animals.... The daily stugeels to keep the inhumane things under control, this rescue work has become my life, my goal, I thank God that I do not see the offenders. Small bulldog MIRTE, thats what we called her, is safe with us, she is our new little project. It will take a while before this baby can leave, because we do not know what is wrong yet, but she has eaten, she has drank, and she licked us gratefully. Her first day to hapiness has started, tomorrow can only be better, MIRTE, thats what we are going to take care of all together.....
The pictures say more than I can tell....
Ricky
RICKY, a doggie of just a few kilos, in a plastic bag in their car, in a heat of 25 degrees,
As they did not want to dirty their car and as they were fed up with little RICKY, they thought it would be good idea to put him in a plastic bag in the trunk.
And there he came, almost suffocated, a wonder that he was still alive, totally distressed… no wonder….he was not only little RICKY, hundreds of ticks and flees came along with him…
Littly Ricky is now with us…
We don’t want IT anymore, the Spanish lady said,…
Patience and diplomacy and once in a while drink a Palm to stay calm,….
There are no words for this…
Today in Spain
Today we have received these terrible images.
These innocent puppies were slaughtered and murdered in a terrible way.
What kind of human does this? They are looking intensively for the offenders, but as usual they will have a near escape.
One cannot imagine the things that happen here to the animals.
Those bastards can do as they want without being punished… How long will this still last in Spain???????????????
El sábado 14 de noviembre nos concentraremos por segunda vez en Medinaceli y en Soria.
MEDINACELI: 11h., en la Plaza Mayor.
SORIA: 13 h., frente a la Delegación de la Junta de Castilla y León
Por orden alfabético: Amnistía Animal, AnimaNaturalis, Asociación Animalista Libera!, APROVA “Asociación Pro-Vida Animal”, AVAT "Asociación Veterinarios Abolicionistas de la Tauromaquia", Cacma "Colectivo Andaluz Contra el Maltrato Animal",Equanimal, PSG “Proyecto Gran Simio”.
Acude y difunde, no te quedes impasible
Brake Trough!
Dear all,
It took years and years, it gave me lots of sleepless nights, it created a piece of my life, it was difficult but finally we got there!
Yesterday we had a long meeting with the owner of the most famous and dreaded killing station in the area, LOS BARIOS PERRERA. The images and experiences with this station are engraved in the memory of many people. Thousands of dogs were killed in this station,…
“Dieren in nesten”, animals in trouble a Belgian television program made a program about this killing station.
A lot of people know the misery of this station and the many other stations.
We still have a lot of work to do but the first step has been made!!!
We are controlling the perrera. Today the key was handed over. As of today nobody in this perrera will be hungry or thirsty anymore.
As of today the little ones will no longer be killed by the bigger dogs. No puppies will die in their own dirt,…
It stays a perrera, a killing station but they will allow us to feed the dogs and cats and to take care of them. We can provide a vet when necessary and we will make sure the less dogs need to be put to sleep.
Instead of 10 days, the life of every dog which is brought in is extended to 21 days. That gives us time to fight for every life. We will not win all the time, but that is still the ultimate goal.
In fact this is very emotional news, but at the other side, one might wonder how is this still possible? In 2009 we still needs to fight for this, concentration camps for animals, with dead as final cause.
If all perreras would cooperate with our sterilization projects, if every dog needed to be sterilized before it would get adopted, the number of dogs which needed to be killed would be less than half…
Unfortunately killing stations earn too much money with every dead dog, it is a big business…
No human can become between, it is a mafia, it is their little shop, even if it are nice dogs which are traded for their business…
I am grateful for the owner of Los Barios. He shows himself from a different side, he cooperates and that is a big step.
The life in this killing station will look different from now on. We work now on a plan how we are going to handle this new station.
But slowly will this dreaded killing station become better…
Fabienne
Sibelle
Sibelle, was 9 year long the beloved dog of a family. She could go with her owner wherever he went en was sure this would last for her whole life… as well today when her owners walked in the killing station…
With her tale waggling she thought it was another walkies. She did not realize that 5 minutes later she would be in one of the killing stations…
She saw her owners walking away. Sibelle did not understood it.
A few hours later she was attacked by another dog en they need to place her in a different cell of the killing station…
Her body full of blood en slowly this poor sweetie realized that her owners given up on her… they were gone…
Sibelle, hoping that everything would turn around…, she is now crying silently in the killing station, it goes straight to your heart….
How can you do this to a dog, Sibelle waiting silently in a corner…
On his way to die....
This little twelve-year old poodle was brought to us by his owner (if you can call him like that??!) in a wheelbarrow wrapped in a plastic bag.
After 12 years of severely mistreating this poor dog, Tuesday was the day they decided to dump him in the killing station.
The poor thing’s back paws were completely limp, with tumours everywhere and its eyes were completely inflicted because they hadn’t been cleaned in years… The poor thing couldn’t hold its urine anymore and that was why the bastard decided to wrap the dog in a garbage bag and tie her neck with a rope. Like that the dog was “ready to go”… Prêt à porter…
The poor dog, not knowing what was really happening, kept on watching to het BELOVED OWNER with eyes full of believe until the last minute…
What a scandal! How for God’s sake can you deal with this??
Fabienne
A podenco who could escape
This is one of the thousand podencos who go through hell here.
The females hang on a chain of half a meter, they are on heat and need to give in on mass rape. Those ones who give birth, mostly die of hardship in terrible conditions. No one who cares or worries about them, because this is SPAIN,…
No worries, the hunter says, we have new puppies, the old ones can die
Here is one of them that could escape from the booby trap,…
Already decades these animals suffer from this pain. Since a few years we try to combat this, but the misery continues…
We will try to save his podenco, … if it is not already to late…
Bernard made it!
Bernard,
Big boy with a little heart.
He was so sick that everyone thought he would not make it, but he did!
It was not easy, he has been so lucky, he survived! There were days we thought, oh god he is not going to make it, but today he went home!
His big thin body was not that pretty yet, but with a strong will and his beautiful head proudly up, he was ready for the big journey.
Here you see Bernard arriving at his new destination.
Bernard is home!!! His sister is still waiting to find her golden basket!
Stafke was born with a abnormality
Stafke came into the killing station of Los Barrios, just when we were there. Off course we took the little sweetie with us.
He has 3 normal legs but his fourth leg is shorter and has only 2 toes.
He is a very little dog, probably he has not eaten that much and needed to fight to survive.
But he is alive, and he wants to be very happy!
This boy got his first vaccine and is 2 months old.
Who gives this little sweetie a chance, .. within approximately a month he might go to his new home,…
Psst…! Are you here ? This is so dark…..
Yes, you, my neighbours in another boxes…..
All my babies and me will DIEtomorrow…Do you knowwhat is “DIE “ ? They was talking about it today ….
Oh ! I don`t know but the woman was kissing to me and she said“ Please, don`t be afraid . Tomorrow you will play in another place so beautiful and quiet……”
Yes, yes…She was talking with me too and She has promised wie will live better…Wow ! I can not believe…No more water in my body every morning, no more horrible food, no more shouts , not knocks….It seems that our s days here have finished…Super !!!!!
I can not sleep !!! Only I am waiting for tomorrow….Euuuuu!!!!!! Can I bring my bol ?Maybe we will eat steaks , potatoes and rice….Mmmmmm
I want to be the first….
Cof, cof….I am the most old dog…So, I must be the first….
And me ?I only stay here since today.My owner has leaved to mehere and I don`t know why ….
Don`t worry boy !! Maybe your owner wants you be happy with us.
TOMORROW WILL BE A BIG AND WONDERFUL DAY !!!!!
The woman was talking about with me too, but her face was very wet…She said “ Tears for your Happiness my dears “….
Sometimes I am thinking what strange is the people….
Yes but, she has promised to me a sweet home….I trust in her…I am so nervous……
PLEASE,It would be possible to sleep ????????
The babies are sleeping and I am so tired….
Good night !We must to get up early tomorrow…
Schhh………
How far can you let things get...???
30 August:
This labrador is waiting in LOS BARIOS for his death to come...
How for God's sake can you do this to an animal????
We have no other choice but to get the poor animal out of his misery by putting him to sleep humanely...
There is no rescue possible...
31 August:
Zeus is put to sleep today. We couldn't save his live...
May they who are responsible for these actions suffer the same destiny!
In Spain we say: "Hijo de Puta"...
Los Barrios killingstation...summer 2009
In the killing station of Los Barios, once again horrible things are happening… We stay away from there for a while and don’t help as much as before because of the difficult times and the enormous number of dogs that are dumped spontaneously at our gate. All means are good… Though this touches me and they are with me in my heart and thoughts.
Dark cages where urine and droppings cover the walls, with no possibilities for daylight to enter… These are the cages where since a couple of months several dogs, young and old, have to stay in terrible conditions. Our IDA is one of them… Because she wasn’t friendly enough to the guy who caught her she was punished and locked in one of the horrific cages, without daylight, under her feet her own droppings… I was able to save IDA, with a lot show though, but I managed to save her!
In the cage next to her, there were 2 pit bulls, a German shepherd, a scared Podenco and some other poor creatures that had been sentenced to death…
The poor dogs were longing for death… Because death was awaiting them…When I asked them why they had to wait so long for salvation, because that is what it is to the poor creatures, they answer me: “The refrigerator is full…”!!
GODDAMN, that is what I think than, I can’t sleep because of this and will help these animals, no matter what it takes!
There is no collaboration… You call and reflect about it and try to come to a solutions but can’t find a hearing… They promise a lot and make a fool crazy happy…. Here are a couple of photo’s of dogs in this place of horror…
This pitt bull and a couple of other dogs are trapped in this hell hole since several months… These dogs also have feelings. OK, they are pitt bulls or staffords but they are discriminated by us, humans, by mistreating them or selling them to the wrong people. This is the result! This poor thing is crazy of misery, just look in those eyes! Those sad, unhappy eyes…
Tomorrow the sun will rise again and we drink a cup of coffee and try to look up to the new day… Have you ever wondered how these animals look up to a new day? In their own droppings since months with only a bowl with old or no food at all? The heath, around 40°C, the dark walls…? Have you ever wondered how these animals must be feeling?
When I think of this, my blood rushes through my vanes with anger, but also with powerlessness and sadness. There are so many things that I would want to realise. To help those who cry for our help, because that is what they do.
There is always the same obstacle: money, money, money! If only I were rich and handsome I could do so much more! I could get them out of there tomorrow, no even NOW! Sadly I don’t have the possibility…
I have to manage things with my own means… My fellow workers call me back saying: “Fabienne, you can’t save them all”. I agree completely, but can we leave this just as it is????
The people (if you can call them ‘people’???) that run these killing stations like Cartama and many others ask us 40EUR per dog! That is 40 euro to take one dog out of the death hole or as I call it, the modern Auschwitch. Besides the gas chamber everything is complete. They even deny entrance to me often because I reveal their practices in public. I often get threats but they go in one ear and out of the other… It’s only sad that nothing changes… They have power and the law at their side… Ten days and then the law is implemented… This poor animals… Put to sleep… How? That is a question that remains unanswered. But the way they treat these dogs when we see it says enough… Do you have any idea how they act when we are not there to witness…?????
This is reality, this is what happens here, every day,…
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