The mission of SPCA International is simple but vast: to advance the safety and well-being of animals.
I’m delighted to introduce myself as SPCA International’s new Interim Executive Director. Our longtime Executive Director, JD Winston, has chosen a new path after serving SPCAI with passion and vision for over seven years. He will be dearly missed by our staff and supporters, but we are also energized by this opportunity for transformation at a time when SPCAI is poised to make a deeper and stronger impact on suffering animals around the world.
June 26, 2014 by www.untoldanimalstories.org
The Noble, Gentle Greyhounds of Spain in the Wrong Hands
Lori Kalef
SPCA International
In the south of Spain, there is a form of hunting hares where the hunters use Spanish Greyhounds, or Galgos in Spanish, as weapons to find their prey. This form of hunting is forbidden in each of the European Union countries through their domestic animal protection laws, but unfortunately Spain still lacks these regulations.
Our friends at SOS Galgos took to the streets of Barcelona for a 3-kilometer march in protest against the cruelty inflicted upon the Spanish Greyhounds.
Hunting with hounds in Spain is one of those controversial topics that proponents and critics cross reproaches and mutual accusations to steady your posture. The galgueros called defending their love for dogs as the main argument and always come to the “we are not all equal.” Meanwhile the animal protection associations and greyhounds especially refer to abuse suffered by this race, always associated with the instrumentation that make them hunters
By Connection Newspapers Ken and Gail Gardner of Alexandria were the lucky couple who adopted a 12-year-old German Shepherd through the Baghdad Pups Program of SPCA International. They welcomed Blek, a retired Landmine Detection Dog into their home about a year ago. Blek was born in Texas where he spent his first two years in […]
Six small puppies cluster together, whimpering on the side of a dirt road east of the Everglades.
They have no food. No shelter from the mid-day sun. And no mother.
MDDs Blek, Malysh, Miso, Nero and Rocky were specially trained to detect the explosive odors found in landmines.
MONTREAL – It was a great night for a reunion at Trudeau Airport as Pollux the dog jumped back into the arms of its family after a 12-month, cross-country journey.
MONTREAL – It seems the dog will come back, though they sure thought it was a goner.
A female black Labrador mix named Pollux is scheduled to be reunited with its family in Montreal later this week after it turned up 4,000 kilometres away in Kamloops, B.C., more than a year after it went missing.
In the eyes of many, this dog was just a typical black lab cross with white front socks.
