The plight of the galgos has, it seems to me, been worse this year than ever before, and still, all through this summer, volunteers are rescuing starving and injured galgos. A volunteer says, ‘in a month and a half the hunting season with galgos starts again and already the galgueros are training their dogs like crazy to get condition on them, to get stronger muscles, more speed, only to leave them behind later in the fields or perreras if they don´t hunt as they want.
Please, adopt a galgo because there are still many left everywhere from the last season, all in need of a loving family and a forever home! For the end of the hunting with galgos in Spain!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nvLZ_USYQ&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9OuZS61jVs&feature=relmfu (Olivenza is a privately owned killing station in Badajoz, Extremadura, you can read about it in my book From Heaven to Hell, The Story of the Spanish Galgo)
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3 responses to “Galgos in training – Save the Galgo”
i wish more people would come fwd beryl for these beutiful gentle angels they so deserve a forever each and every one of them bless i got this thing in my head that if i win out on that damn lottery befor sept i would be bring more over with rey i can live in hope
At some point, the French galgo rescue associations are going to have to look towards North-America for homes for their dogs. I don’t think any of them are letting their dogs go to N.-A. I inquired with 2 or 3 of them and the response was the same, not out of Europe… Some of the Spanish associations are partering with GRIN out of the US and they will help with North Americans wanting to adopt Galgos, but of course, it’s a matter of money. It costs about $800 to get the galgo to the US or Canada. And people over here are not aware of the plight of the Galgos. Every person I’ve talked to about it had never even heard of a galgo. I had never heard of the galgos until just before Christmas 2011 when I received a petition from France to end hunting with galgos. Perhaps, the French associations could also partner with GRIN?…
the French associations wont home dogs outside of France. It is because they remain as a back-up in case something happens and the dog has to be returned/rehomed. and they wont budge on that. GRIN do two trips to Spain each year, taking dogs back. It amazes me how much money they must have to pay for it all. But good that they do it. So I doubt French associations will ever work with another association outside France. Thanks for caring.