Charl has sent in stories of 3 more galgos, dumped like rubbish to fend for themselves. The mentality seems to be “galgos can hunt, they can look for food”.
Nata… another lame galgo, saved by some more “guardian angels” of the galgos.
Nata arrived at the shelter El Arca de Monzòn (Huesca) – no one knows how, but she was begging around the exterior of the refuge. Perhaps luck brought her that far.
It’s quite possible she was brought there by the same gypsies who had her because she was no good at running, for she has a wound in her front paw.
With her playful and happy character, it is possible to believe she has not suffered any long lasting abuse which could have made her a shy creature. Quite on the contrary, she is grateful for all signs of affection.
She will ask for attention, and greets everyone with her tail wagging, so sweetly that everyone just has to respond with a stroke and a smile. She loves people, neither does she have any issues with male or female dogs, … she also knows she is a girlie who is “stunning in her looks” – and she uses this to her advantage! She uses it to take a ball, achieve a treat, and at the moment anything she likes. She is also good with cats.
She is curious, perhaps too much so, and everything surprises her, but she is not scared. The other day she misunderstood the noise of a car, and jumped up on top of it, thinking it was her friend.
It resulted in 4 stitches in the back paw, 3 in her knee, and 5 days of complete rest. We hope this serves as a learning experience (to all) – but Nata has only just started to live, and nothing is going to stop her!
She has been blood tested and the results are all negative.
If you would like to adopt Nata, (and who wouldnt?) please contact www.degalgos.org/ or comdelrio@hotmail.com (Charl is English)
This is Tigra, a brindle Galga, and Golfo, a male black Galgo, who are living rough, on the streets of an industrial estate in Murcia.
They are both young, but we cant tell their age since we can barely touch them, something understandable, when you think what could have happened to them in the past! They look no more than two years of age.
Soon the time will come by again when hunting starts, PLEASE help us catch them and home them they are both sweet and docile, and the risks are high that the female could become pregnant, and they could be caught by galgueros for hunting or unscrupulous breeding.
PLEASE if you can help contact churri968@hotmail.com or me, Charl, on comdelrio@hotmail.com.