Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Cuidad Animal Shelter – full to overflowing!

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    Earlier in the week I told you about 4 galgos rescued from abandonment by a galguero and now with Ciudad Animal Association. The shelter desperately needs help, this photo is what the volunteers are coping with now hunting is finished for last season.

    ‘January, February and March feared the hunting season, and today ending April we are full again, every day we receive a lot of warnings and emergencies for our area, having to say no to many… but also making a huge effort To attend to those cases which are more urgent and where the life of the animal is in danger or is wounded.

    If there are warnings on the streets in La Mancha, imagine what is in the kennels of our surroundings… all the cases we see every day of which we can save some but how many stay on the road.

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  • Cuidad Real – Cuidad Animal Shelter – desperate help needed for their galgos

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    Cuidad Real is 200km south of Madrid. It is where I went to adopt my first galga 11 years ago. Cuidad Animal shelter is now full to overflowing and yet the volunteers still respond to desperate calls for help. Here’s a translation of the story about these 4 galgos.

    ‘This is the state where these four galgos have arrived last week, they were in a kennel where we were told, which come from the street or their galgueros that have left them there, there were more but we have brought the most Urgent to save.

    The situation is like a wheel that does not stop and it seems that it will never stop. We have to follow the galgos because they don’t deserve the life that they have experienced.

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  • 39 galgos in hellish conditions – now rescued

    (google translation) Empty stares, marked bodies, cries of real terror… we have faced one of the toughest rescues, a total of 39 Greyhounds and 2 Mestizos on a farm of almost 30.000 square meters. their only food, the dead pigs on the farm. We were asked to help some great friends since they had no way to help many galgos. We didn’t have enough tears when we saw that massacre, galgos crowded with ticks, a ground full of real shit, eaten to bite. Images that will remain forever engraved on our retinas, shrieks and looks that will be etched in our heart and will cleave again every time we remember this day that never had to have existed because those animals never had to be in this state .

    We want to thank the CUBIL DEL DESAMPARO for your big donation of pipettes for each of the dogs, thanks to AIBA for your donation of pills and medicines, to the Spanish Greyhound volunteers for all their help and involvement, to furry loves all over the feed Donated, thanks to Nines, Belen, Tatiana and Jacqueline, Carlos, conchi and Valentin for all their help and involvement in the eviction. Thanks to Lourdes for her help in the transfers.

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  • RIP – the animals who suffered and died

    Costa del Sol refuge was no refuge for the animals who ended up in the hands of this woman and her family!! Story here.

  • Scooby Sprinters and the Medina del Campo 10km run

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    NEWSFLASH: TEAM SCOOBY SPRINTERS COMPLETED THE MEDINA DEL CAMPO 10KM RUN TODAY, UNITED FOR THE ANIMALS: 3 over the finish line in 1:01:49 and one across the line in 1:01:48. We are so grateful to them for running for the Scooby rescued animals and profiling Protectora y Santuario Scooby in Medina del Campo. We have pledges of €3,690 for their run and donations of €979 already in (some PayPal fees to deduct). Please congratulate our runners here and PayPal your pledge to edwin@scoobymedina.com by 18 May. Thank you to everyone supporting TEAM SCOOBY SPRINTERS. This is a major contribution to our fencing replacement project, still another €7,330 to go but we’re well on the way.

  • Is your dog the correct weight?

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    This would be a good poster to put up in all vet clinics.

  • I am a dog!

    I am a Dog!

    I feel emotions, just as you do. Just like you I feel Love, I feel Fear, I feel Pain and Joy. I also feel Grief!

    I am not born knowing how to fit into your life. I will sometimes get it wrong. Sometimes I will not understand what you expect. I may fear things or act in a way you don’t understand. I may not understand how you are acting, or that strangers to the home mean no harm. I may not know what is acceptable to play with and what is not! I have to be taught these things, just as you had to be taught as a child.
    I am an individual, and just like you may not fit exactly into your expectations.
    Please teach me. I like to learn. I like to please. I love to be loved.
    Just because I may make mistakes please don’t discard me.
    I should not be an ‘until’ dog. I should be a forever dog!

    Just like you, I feel Love! I feel Grief!

  • Team Scooby Sprinters – will you sponsor them on 29th April?

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    Eva, Špela, Urška &Žiga will run the 10km marathon in Medina del Campo in aid of Protectora y Santuario Scooby on 29 April. We are hoping you will support them and Scooby by sponsoring one or all of the runners per kilometre.

    We know how much you love to support the Scooby animals and now, for the first time ever, we have an amazing opportunity for Scooby to have a presence in the Medina del Campo annual marathon. Not only one runner, but 4 which will give the shelter an unprecedented profile on its home ground. The Scooby animals are so lucky to have these runners going to such lengths (lengths of 10km to be precise!).

    If you would like to sponsor the runners, please go to the Protectora y Santuario Scooby Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/spascooby/ and write your pledge per runner in the comments fields under the announcement about the run. We will post each runner’s time after the race on 29 April and when you see this alert, please PayPal your pledge to Edwin@scoobymedina.com Please bear in mind that PayPal deducts a small fee from your pledge. Regardless of how you pay, please mark your donation “runnername&yourname”. If PayPal is not possible for you, please private message us for an alternative means. The closing date for payments is Friday 18 May 2018.

    You can meet the runners on this weblink.

    Please pledge…. and share…… and keep sharing.

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  • Help save and rehome the Macau greyhounds – the stadium is closing!!

    At long last the dreadful Canidrome in Macau, China, will close its doors and over 6oo greyhounds need to find forever homes, may of them from Ireland and the UK. Read the story here, please share and donate etc to help.

  • Costa del Sol may stop euthanaising healthy animals

    Read the story here.