Mo Swatek of Pro Galgo is happy to say that the first of the Jerez galgos are out and safe in Catalonia.
‘In a very fast trip of less than 36 h we went for the first load of the jerez galgos in danger to be pts. We brought 11 galgos (3 females and 8 males) plus 2 minpins. The mother had been abused as a breeding bitch and when not productive anymore given away, the baby could not be sold as in Spain people want very very young puppies and once over 4 month old, they are nearly impossible to sell. I had to take them because we were afraid that somebody adopts only the pup letting the old mum alone.
Unfortunatly most of the refuges who offered to take galgos in, have chickened out in the very last minute so 6 hounds plus the minpins stayed with us, 6 went to a friend’s shelter. As they were mostly male dogs (other rescue groups had saved ONLY all the females and left a very shy female and a very sick old one to die in the killingstation). This kind of selective animal protection is obviously normal here in Spain due to the International rescue groups that prefer female galgos.
Thanks to Susi and her husband Alejandro for offering us b&b in their house, thanks to Maribel for organising all the paperwork beforehand, thanks to all the donors who made this trip possible and a very special thank you to Beryl from www.galgonews.com for her donation and also to Jackie for her very generous donation.
PLEASE PLEASE KEEP DONTATING, WE STILL NEED MONEY FOR THE VET CARE OF THE DOGS, SUCH AS CASTRATIONS, PARASITE TREATMENT AND THE BLOODTESTS. PAYPAL TO : pro-galgo@total-barcelona.com