Do you go to Malaga on holiday? Do you know the fight for life which goes on there – behind the beaches and bars? 112carlotagalgo is a small association which has been fighting for years for a better life for the Spanish galgos and podencos. They have dogs waiting for their forever homes now, here is the current position about two of them, Nora the Galga and Angela the Podenca.
‘The photo doesnt do her justice as to the delicate figure that she is. This is Nora! she weighs in at 15.kilos 70 a slight shadow of a galga. Brindle, scars and wounds.. she came to us on Thursday.
Her slight frame concerned me, her lack of appetite and tiredness. The drinking.. the lack of life. I could have taken other photos to show you the damage of abandonment, a skeletical figure of a galga.. but time never called me to take out the camera.
Today she was weak, and taken to Paco. Gut feeling something wrong other than sheer thiness and weakness. Lisa went this morning and Nora wouldn’t walk. I met Lisa at the vets and the diagnosis isn’t good.
Tears fall, yet again.
Nora, wandered around abandoned with collapsed kidneys. Impossible to cleanse the blood, drinking and wee-ing, but the amount she would have needed would never have been enough. Thus causing collapse.
Nora is hospitalised and the outcome is poor. My vet Paco laid the cards on the table and said it’s not good. He is going to try and cleanse the blood by flushing liquids in, but the kidneys are collapsed. We can only try for 24 hours and see what happens. We owe her that, having made her a promise to help her.
Should she survive she will need renal food only, a special home and she may only live to 3 years of age.. but Paco made sure I understood this, it will be miraculous if she makes it that far. If she was a person she would need a kidney transplant. It’s serious for Nora.. we hang on for her. But where there is a life, we fight for it.
I have no idea the costs involved, nor how we will meet them. This is the reality of galgo rescue in Spain. We rescue and can loose them.. lost to an “almost made it”, All I can say is we wait by the phone, pray, and hope she beats the odds. She has the best vet caring for her, and our will praying for her.
Tomorrow podenca Angela goes to the vet as well. Having finished her treatment of antibiotics her breathing is noisy.. again and again the number sour and yet it’s something that we all consider afterwards. Yet a reality.
Rescuing in Spain, the life we promise these innocent abandoned and injured souls, to take them in, care for them, heal them, and give our all. I pray Nora makes it. 24 hours of critical care.. could be her all.
If you would like to help us care for Nora’s veterinary assistance we would be very very grateful. Paypal comdelrio@hotmail.com – every little helps.
We feel sad, a heavy weight on our hearts, we feel incapable, helpless, and we carry that with us. It’s how we live,every day. I will go this afternoon and hold galga Greta in my arms and pray for her new friend, a new member of the rescued group that somehow Nora makes it, and if she doesn’t we know she will have gone with all the love in the world, but we face that tomorrow. It’s something that could be highly probable. A heavy weight on my shoulders. A promise, I can’t make to her to give her an always a forever.. but maybe, just maybe she can beat the odds.
Please, join me in prayer for Nora.
In Galgo Affection – I will be sure to keep you informed.
We love you Nora, please hang in.
“Sr.galguero – you have blood on your hands!”
Charlotte & Ambo Ambasadog! http://112carlotagalgos.blogspot.com
Just another exampled of what the brave volunteers in Spain cope with, day after day, because the callous uncaring galgueros won’t take responsibility for the situation they selfishly cause. Blinkered, selfish, heads buried in the sand.