Could you chew off your own arm or leg? Kafir tried to. Cristina tells his story.
KAFIR ( ex Blacki on internet forums ), male of 70 cm, 3-4 years and is that special galgo of endless sweetness.
Kafir comes from Mérida ( Badajoz ). He was abandoned, always looking for food and one day he appeared with a terrible wire around his hind leg. It was so tight that it created a very bad and deep wound up to the point that the leg began to gangrenate.
Kafir was in so much pain and was suffering so much that he himself began to bite himself up to the point that people saw him, saw that the leg was hanging only by a tendon.
It was impossible to catch him. Ana, a volunteer from Merida followed him day by day, left him food with antobiotics and even called him under the rain. Kafir was very weak, and only skin and bones…with a hanging leg.
When he ran he was crying so loud that only a few sensitive people told the volunteer to please catch him to give him an injection to die in peace. Kafir managed to get rid of his own leg, by himself(!) and disappeared for a few days…after that, he was so weak that Ana, a volunteer could catch him, after 3 months of desperation.
He recovered in a foster home, put weight on, and now he will finish his recovering with me. We give him medicines once a day and make him get strength in his healthy hind leg.
Kafir is extremely sweet, affectionate, gentle, grateful, calm and so happy about everything. He loves to eat and I don’t know if he even loves more to be caressed. He constantly follows us with his brown eyes and whenever we pass beside him, he always wags his tail with such a force that you can hear the “tam-tam” on the wooden floor.
He is fine with all kinds of dogs, cats and children but I think he needs another dog at home for company, as once I stayed with him at home and my husband went down with my two other dogs, he began to cry.
Kafir is 70 cm big and has 30 kg of love and tenderness which he fully gives to anyone who will embrace him and say ” I love you “.
Please, if you can give this amazing dog a forever home where he will never know pain again, contact L’Europe des Levriers.
If you can donate towards the cost of his operation and medical treatment, please use this link.
Comments
9 responses to “Holidays in Spain – not for galgos – pain and suffering is all they know”
Well done to all those involved in catching him. You should all be really proud of what you have done, its amazing. Its so hard catching the greyhounds, by the time they have been abused for months and months they cant trust humans anymore BUT now this galgo will know there are great people out there and hopefully will retire in peace!
Bonjour Tina
I go cold just thinking about the agony this poor dog suffered…………….unnecessarily. Now we have to do all we can to find a wonderful forever home for him.
Beryl
It breaks my heart to think of his suffering…..
Whoever adopts this wonderful lad will be a very lucky person – if I didn’t live so far away I wouldn’t hesitate to offer him a loving home.
Oh my god…It will never cease to shock me about the way these beautiful creatures suffer. THANK YOU for helping this lovely dog. And he is one of the ‘lucky’ ones….
I wish there were more peole like you out there. Well done for persevering & saving this poor dog.
Thankyou for saveing this dog the suffering he must have gone through.I have 4 rescue greyhounds and if i could give him a home i would but live to far away,im so glad their are people like you who help these poor dogs.
Hi Folks
Thank you to all of you who have commented – he is in foster with Cristina at the moment – she who rescued Kamal, King of the Galgos, if you read his amazing story on Galgo News. Next month I am going with Bea to Spain to meet up with Cristina and bring Kafir to France, along with a dozen or so other galgos. So I will let you know how he goes on, and post some more pix.
We must find him that special forever home.
Me, Id just adopt them all! But MOH would have something to say about that!
Bless you all for supporting the galgos, podencos, and Spains other abandoned dogs.
Beryl
thousands thanks to Anna & Cristina & people who get involved in helping this amazing dog. We need more people like you. God bless you!
nida
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Bonjour
Thank you for reading his story and for
commenting. There are thousands of people in Spain, volunteers who work in
the refuges and give up so much of their lives and their time to help the
galgos. Sometimes the volunteers themselves are the victims for helping
the dogs – they suffer abuse, their families are bullied, their property
damaged. It is an enormous emotional and physical strain on them
all.
Which is why I try to give praise to them as much
as I can, and why comments such as yours are helpful too. They need to
know the rest of the world is supporting them.
Beryl