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Altarriba Foundation, as a very important part of its work, takes part in several campaigns for animal welfare. Some of them are directly started and devolep by us, but we also join and support other ones.
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DIRECT RESCUE & HELPING ACTIONS
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We say how things could be done, but do ourselves too: our actions speak as loud as our words. Altarriba Foundation has never killed. Since our very first day, a "0-Killing" policy has been always strictly developed, both in our shelters and the city dog-pounds we have managed or still manage. We have always maintained that killing is not a need for a balanced population in a shelter or dog-pound, and that taking it into practice is a simple question of will and resources.
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It means we rescue real animals who suffer a real pain in the real world, and help them to recover their lives. We offer them not only vet care (with specialist and surgery if needed), but also check for psychological after-effects and assist them. We do our best to recover animals even from dog-fighting, hanged by hunters (galguero), or "just" ill-treated at home or abandoned in a motorway.
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We manage to bring them back to a normal animal-life, and try to show the way a normal-human acts, with no strikes or hard punishments. Animals are so good-natured that we usually success. It means that new families (carefully checked before) can later offer them a new chance to live as pets, closing their suffering and fear on.
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But sometimes, the animals are so special that Altarriba Foundation itself adopt them, and take to live to a Sanctuary. Very old ones, blind, seriously ill or severely abused dogs, cats or horses, get a new life at liberty, in a home shared with other animals, with no cages.
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Moreover, one of our Departmens, "The Other Citizen", specifically manages emergencies with animals in the city: a cat falls from a window, the tow truck push a vehicle with a dog inside, animals abandoned to starve into an empty flat or pet-shop, ...
A hard work focused on education and legal status has to be done to end animal abuses. A child usually sympathize with animals, but later the environment can change this -and it changes in fact, at least to make him believe that caring for animals is just a foolishness or even a lack of solidarity with human beings. Of course, some people are also moved from sympathy to cruelty.
For these reasons, we develop programmes to increase public awareness of animal rights as it will make politicians take it seriously; moreover, we develop actions to make politicians move that way.
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CONFERENCES |
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CIPLAE
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International Conference on Legal Protection for Animals in Spain
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IV CIPLAE
Sanctioned Cruelty
May. 2008 - CosmoCaixa Barcelona
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III CIPLAE
Educating to protect: public and private involvement
Jun. 2006 - University of Barcelona
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II CIPLAE
Shelters for abandoned pets and rescue centers for wild animals
Feb. 2004 - University of Barcelona
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I CIPLAE
Fairer and more effective laws for animals
Nov. 2002 - University of Barcelona
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WFA/FOMA
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World Forum for Animals
Peace for Animals Too
May 2008 - CosmoCaixa Barcelona
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EDITIONS
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Altarriba Foundation edits two writen collections on animal issues:
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Bú Bup,
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la llamada de los animales
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A home delivered quarterly magazine for members of Altarriba Foundation. This magazine is also sent to other persons and entities, as professors, politicians, journalists, public libraries, etc. Contents make reference to our work and activities, but also to general matters regarding animal welfare and rights, exposing the truth behind some facts usually unknown, such as seal hunting, fur trade, vivisection, etc. This magazine does not contain graphics of cruelty to animals.
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Altarriba,
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Cuadernos para dialogar sobre Animales
Altarriba, Notebooks to speak about Animals
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A monographic publication where different issues related to animals are discussed and analized in depth, with contributions from several national and international specialists. This publication will allow wider lines of argument to explain why the animals must be protected, about their general or specific situation under human pressure and activities, and other questions related to the integrity and defence of their lives, the main and first reason for our work.
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1 - La Cuestión de los Toros - 2002
The Question of Bullfighting
An overview of bullfighting: economy,
tradition, suffering, laws, ...
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2 - En busca del Dios de los animales - 2004
Looking for the God of Animals
An approach to animal treatment from
several religious points of view.
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3 - Con la muerte en los talones, los perros
mueven la cola - 2005
With death at their heels, dogs still move
their tail
About killing of abandoned pets in shelters
and municipal dog-pounds to control population.
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4 - Jaulas Vacías - 2006
Empty Cages
by Tom Regan
Spanish edition.
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5 - Las Aventuras de Hair - 2007
The Adventures of Hair
by Clemens Schlettwein
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6 - El Sí y el No de la Protección de los animales
en Barcelona - 2007
Yes and No of Animal Protection in Barcelona
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7 - La Cuestión de los Toros - 2007
The Question of Bullfighting
2nd edition extended
An overview of bullfighting: economy,
tradition, suffering, laws, ...
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8 - La Vida Emocional de los Animales - 2008
The Emotional Lives of Animals
by Marc Bekoff
Spanish edition.
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