GALGO FM

In this episode I talked to Myriam Wälde-Behning on the translating process of her book Sighthound Stories. And because there was an overseas cooperation for editing the translation we invited the lecturer of this project Mary Jane O'Connor to join us. She told us a bit about her work in animal welfare in the US.

Yeray came up to my wishlist of interview partners just in the moment, I thought about a wishlist. He is the creator of the award winning documentary film Yo Galgo and an important voice for the Galgos. He was invited to speak on Greyhounds and Galgos to members of the European Parliament and has participated in research and redaction of the open letter on the welfare of hunting dogs in Spain, that was send from the European Parliament to the Spanish government in March 2021.

In October 2021 I visited FBM in Seville, Spain. For 7 days my friends and I helped out as volunteers. Back home I realized that fantastic photographer of Galgos Travis Patenaude visited FBM, too, just 10 days after we left. No better chance to talk to Travis and share some experiences and talk about dogs we both have seen there. I’m a freetime photographer so of course we talked about photography, too.

Travis told me about depression and how Galga Leena helped him to deal with that, his way into photography and what’s his approach in photographing Galgos.

For my German podcast Jaspers Abenteuer I spoke to Maria Teresa Garcia Rodriguez. Teresa lives in Tenerife and is an animal welfare activist since she settled to the island over 30 years ago. Teresa is part of Plataforma No A la Caza, a Spanish movement against hunting. She also is president of the animal welfare organisation APRAM Tenerife. Teresa told me about the bad situation of hunting dogs in Spain, animal welfare acts and the massive importance of education for better future perspectives.

I think this interview is very important, because of the insight view Teresa has. So I decided to translate and voiceover it and put it in the first interview episode of this podcast.

Welcome to GALGO FM, a brandnew podcast!


Inspired by my mate Jasper, a rescued Galgo Español, 
this is my 2nd podcast made to raise awareness for the 
fate of hunting dogs in Spain, especially the Galgos.



In this first episode I will tell you something about this podcast.

If you are interested in dogs, in animal rescue and the situation of Spanish hunting dogs especially the Galgo Español this podcast maybe is the right one for you to follow.

You'll hear interviews with animal welfarists and 
people that stand up for the Galgos in several ways.