A moving story of canine family love from Cobie at Scooby Residencia Valladolid.

‘This article appeared last week (12 2015) in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and it´s about the 2 abandoned galgos from Langa (Avila) for which the mayor of that village gave permission to shoot them. It´s beautiful written and very emotional, to translate it is very hard because it´s very big. But in short it comes to this:

The black and white galga you see in this picture which was taken the 25th of November 2012, is already roaming around for 3 years. After one and a half years she got company from an also abandoned male. People in that village know who they belonged to but they didn´t like to talk about that. Together they are like Bonny and Clyde because in the night they come down from the mountain where they live, to catch a chicken, not because they are agressive, no, just to survive and aparently the people there like more their chickens than abandoned galgos so they have chased them many times away or even gone up on `their` mountain to try to kill the galgos.

But our Bonnie and Clyde know that people cannot be trusted and fear them so every time people come to look for them, they hide and nobody can find the exact place where they have found shelter. They love each other very much, so one day the female gave birth to 7 puppies which were completely raised by their devoted parents without vaccins, without deworming, without puppy food or whatever we people give to puppies, they raised them without any human help to beautiful and healthy pups, probably with the help from some more chickens they could catch…

One day, they led their pups to the side of the road where they were seen by humans who did not hesitate and caught all the pups. Of course this had to be done but the parents were heartbroken because they saw how their beloved pups were taken one by one by the people they feared so much!

If you read the article, you can see a picture from a man with 2 of the 7 pups which he has adopted and the other 5 are also adopted, so safe and secure for whatever fate had in mind for them when wandering around with their parents.

Our Bonnie and Clyde are still searching for them and sometimes they are seen on the same spot as where their pups were caught. But thanks to Scooby who made known to the world that people were going to try again to shoot and kill these 2 innocent but brave galgos, the mayor has now prohibited doing so because after all it was not the dogs choice or fault to be left alone to their fate, but they have made the best of it and with succes.

Thanks to all the people that have written to the diputación of Avila to please not kill these amazing survivors, the mayor now gave permission to set up some life traps to try to catch them like that, socialise them and than find them a warm, loving home where they can live out their lives peacefully without being chased after because somebody misses a chicken! These two have survived cold freezing winters, long hot summers and in our opinion they deserve a statue in honour of all abandoned galgos from which the most don´t survive. It will not be easy because these 2 are very smart and clever and have learned a lot of bad things about men, but they deserve so much better than this kind of life…’

Great to know that sometimes our protest campaigns CAN make a difference.