Matilda is now in the safe hands of Greyhounds Rescue Holland
What did she do wrong to be abandoned in this condition – apart from being born a galga in Spain.
http://www.greyhoundsrescue.nl/nGRH/verhalen/Matilda/matilda.php
15 June 2008 update: 17 June 2008 Oh god, where are you now?
This is Matilda. She is the most seriously malnourished galgo to have been found in Sevilla and neighbourhood. Still terrible young, approximately 1 year old.
Volunteers at a shelter put down food and water for a cocker spaniel which was roaming free and, what happened. In stumbled the walking skeleton of Matilda.
She shivered and trembled, more dead than living, she ran to the scraps and water. Matilda has a skin sickness and it will last months before she can be vaccinated. She has a fever, for which she is receiving medicine. From her teeth she has eaten stones and debris
At the current time Matilda is the third galgo who has arrived at the shelter in such piteous circumstances. At the moment she is hanging onto life.
Why do galguerros continue to maltreat galgos???
Translation from the Dutch website.
I’ve also translated the end of the link, unedited.
Matilda, lief little girl I must cry if I see the photograph of you, you emaciated bald corpuscle, it do me so much grieve. Matilda, lief little girl, what a terrible life you have had endure, by cruel people you moved. You are by tend gone. Matilda, lief little girl, you are now at kind people, that good you look and your convalescence and a complete good voorleven wishes. Matilda, lief little girl, you already this way have long fought to live continue, do not give on, there its people who you want this way gladly give a loving life. Matilde, lief, did not indicate little girl frightened and trust people who there are now for you, they will fight with you for a better future, without pain. Matilda, lief, keep little girl full, keep on fighting I will be in ideas at you, belief hears me! A lot of kind knuffels, support and strength! Anja