The situation in Spain for the galgos and podencos remains desperate. Every day I receive appeals for help to get dogs out of perreras or abandoned and living on the streets. It seems to me that the galgueros are hanging fewer dogs and simply dumping them and expecting the refuges and rescue associations to take them in. They continue to dump their dogs at the gates of refuges too – tied up overnight for the volunteers to find the following day.
I simply cannot keep up with the appeals to help these dogs – I can’t post and appeal for them all, much as it breaks my heart. But I need you all to know that, just because I don’t post a list of dogs on death row in a perrera, it’s not happening. It’s happening every day…sick dogs, injured dogs, old dogs, puppies…
And the problem doesn’t stop with donating and saving a dog from death row in a perrera. The refuges are all full to bursting, foster homes are full to bursting and so a dog saved from a perrera has to go into kennels – which costs more money.
So just saying ‘hey, we’ve saved the dog from the perrera’ is just the beginning of the story. Then there are kennel fees to pay, blood tests to be done, vaccinations, microchips…and then a home to be found. This costs hundreds and hundreds of euros…and we are now in a situation where many dogs have been saved – especially podencos – and there aren’t the homes for them…so ongoing kennel fees.
And a kennel environment is not the ideal one to prepare a dog for living in a home as a pet.
So this is why I am not posting so many appeals to help save dogs in perreras. It’s not because I don’t care – I’d save them all if I could afford it! But it’s the dogs in refuges and foster homes who now need to be helped…these are the ones saved already and who need forever homes. This is a vitally important piece of saving these hounds – their eventual forever homes.
NB These two podencos are due to be killed shortly, the chocolate one is in Valencia perrera and the other is in Gesser perrera
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3 responses to “Perrera to forever home – it’s a long and expensive journey for every dog”
beryl you said everything we already know it is a heartbreak truly deeply sadly and the people in power dont give a damn wishi could take them all like you and all the friends on this blog i think every day of the situation is there a pic on these 2 babies and the greys been sent to spain there isnt enough rescues and homes for the poor sight hounds already there
I for many Years wish and hope that no grey,galgo or podenco would ever be fertil for 10 years and more, and besides no greyhound bitch could be pregnant due to AI (artificial semination) which is being done not to give nature a chance to select. Perhaps that would be the only solution to the tragic these breed encounter, in the meatime we have to support the ones that cannot speak for themselves. I have a german journalist that is interested in the facts of EU tax subsidies that Irland, Spain and Romania receives to fill their pockets, I have to do more research on this to be interested to a special report on TV this is what people alerts,than I go on to the cruelties. Recently he came in our home and make an interview with me and my rescues, this was my 1st. TV interview but hope some will follow.
oh well done kathrina i hope you get a lot of interest and i hope people take note of the situation and do something concrete about it the more join the club the better good on you