Animals/Pets news & information for Galicia

DEAFENING music in the early hours led residents in a Lugo apartment block to calling the police, and they had some choice words to say about the owner of the home it was coming from.

EXCEPTIONALLY-CLEAR and very close-up footage of a brown bear has been taken in Galicia – the first time the species has been sighted there in 150 years.

PANICKED residents in a Galicia town called the Guardia Civil after seeing two fully-grown wolves strolling down their street – the latest rarely-spotted wild animals to reclaim the streets now humans have vacated...

A GALICIA city has argued that the north-western region has no zebras, but plenty of cows – and this should be reflected in their pedestrian crossings.

DRONE footage off the coast of Galicia shows a blue whale – the largest mammal on earth - swimming close to the Cíes Isles.

A BAR in A Coruña (Galicia) has a regular customer who has been coming in daily for a plate of tortilla – or Spanish omelette – for the last four years, and plants herself on the counter to ensure she is the first...

A RIDER drunk in charge of his horse on a public road in Galicia is facing two major fines and was ordered to dismount immediately.

During the early hours of yesterday morning, someone broke into a farm in Bando, near Santiago de Compostela, and let around 20,000 minks out of their cages.