Spanish Dogs Stick Out Tongue To Their Hunters!

Who can clarify more clearly about grievances than those affected? And can dogs even enlighten?

In my pictures, the four-legged protagonists, all of them animal protection dogs from Spain, cheekily stretch their tongue out at the viewer in the pictures. But the tongue is not for the viewer, it is for their former owners, the spanish Galgueros. “We survived, we do not give up and do not tolerate the annual brutal disposal of thousands of our friends!” A silent contradiction of those affected dogs.

Even if the background of the topic is absolutely not laughable, the viewer of the pictures should be entertained and carried away. – Horrible images are presented in the media every day, dulling us and preventing accurate questioning. That is exactly what should not happen when viewing these dog-pictures. At first they smile, they fell in love with the dogs. Secondly, people understand what happens with these dogs if they are not rescued by an animal welfare organization. So the pictures and exhibitions open the eyes and minds of a lot of people. When that happens, I have reached one of my primarily goals: to achieve the attention for these dogs. Another goal is to give these dogs a lobby an a voice.

The depicted Galgos are rescued hounds from Spain, who were either for a short time in the hunt or were not “good for it”. They have taken a long and agonizing journey and now live with loving people in safety and are finally loved and kept as appropriate to the species.

In Spain at the beginning of October the owners of the greyhounds are looking forward to the beginning of the hunting season. Previously, the “Galgueros” bred and trained these dogs unchecked throughout the year. The now on every weekend held, colorful hunting spectacle is not used to secure their own supply of meat. Here fun and profit are in the foreground, a competition with high prize money, at the expense of the dogs and the game.  So that things may change soon for the mistreated creatures – and that perhaps after all you can move something in the mind of those who mistreat the dogs only for their amusement, the hunting and also for money. Everybody should know that every year mostly after the Spanish hunting season more than 50.000 galgos PLUS other hunting dogs like podencos, setter, bodegueros and others are disposed of – a lot of them being killed in horrific kind of ways.

“Free the galgo”!

Because it is import not only to rescue these dogs but also to make people aware and change something in the minds of the galgueros, the Spanish hunters.

Look at my tongueout series #ouropinion

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