Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • The dirty truth about top-selling dog foods

    From The Whole Dog Journal by their Editor.

    The dirty truth about how top-selling dog foods could actually be harming your dog’s health!
    And other untold secrets you need to know.

    Dear Fellow Dog Lover,

    You want the best for your dog – especially when it comes to his food. You read labels and try to choose the brand and formula that will nourish your furry friend.

    That’s why you’ll be as shocked as I was, to discover that dozens of today’s top-selling brands – names you thought you could trust, like Beneful, Pedigree, Purina and more – may not contain the wholesome, healthy ingredients you want for your dog.

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  • Duathlon, 19th March 2016, Clumber Park, Nottingham – Sponsor Team Pepis!

    Black galgo pup 1 190 11 7 2015Pepis Dog Refuge in Pedrera, Seville, has an outstanding vet bill so far of nearly 4,000 euros!  That includes sterilization of dogs (the first thing to be done with the arrival of each new dog, to prevent unwanted puppies), vaccinations, dogs needing operations, medication…the list is endless.  

    It’s desperate that this bill is cleared and to that end Ellen Stevens and 2 friends have entered the team event in the Duathlon at Clumber Park, Nottingham, on 19th March 2016.  If you look on the Youcaring link below, you can read all about it.

    Please sponsor Team Pepis and share widely with family and friends.  Let’s raise the total and more if possible.

    Youcaring for Team Pepis

  • Levriers sans Frontieres – the difficulty in homing galgos

    In 2007  I joined a French galgo and podenco rescue association, L’Europe des Levriers and travelled with them over several years on rescues into Spain to bring  hounds back to France for rehoming.  from about 2010 some members of the team broke away and formed their own rescue associations in other parts of France.  And this has continued, so many rescue associations bringing galgos and podencos into France that it is becoming more and more difficult to home them.

    Here Odile Brochet, President of Levriers sans Frontieres, expresses her opinion.  This is an English translation, kindly supplied from Danielle Hart, who bravely translated my galgo and podenco books into French.

    Basically, she’s saying that she’s tired of all the people screaming that they should save a galgo whenever she has a sad story about one, especially a traumatized one. That people say LSF HAS to get them out of there, but once they’re in France in a foster family, everybody forgets about them. People only seem to want beautiful galgos who don’t have problems, but they expect LSF do get the traumatized ones out of the Spanish shelters though. She says that the broken ones, the ones who have been in shelters for months if not years surely deserve to be saved the most, but at the rate it’s going if people don’t adopt them, LSF will have to leave them in the shelters.

     

  • What your dog really thinks about you

    I am your dog, and I have a little something I’d like to whisper in your ear; I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in life.

    Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now. That comes with age. The grey hairs are beginning to ring my soft muzzle. You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing for just a simple moment of your time?

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  • A very determined Galga

    Have a giggle at this galga trying to get a cardboard box into a crate!

  • PACMA making progress on Animal Rights in Spain

    Read the article here

  • Scooby Medina and Scooby Valladolid – saving galgos and podencos

    So how many galgos and podencos did the Scooby team in January and February 2016?  Cobie at Valladolid has been counting.

    Maybe you read the news on the Scooby blog or maybe you don´t, but the histories about the trips Scooby makes to save galgos is every time a different one, it´s not that we repeat the same rescues every time. Therefore I put them here again and it’s from January until 23 February, so the rescues from December and before are not included:

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  • DeAnimals – successful prosecution of cruelty to equines

    Not about galgos but an example of the incredible work done by DeAnimals firm of lawyers in Murcia.  And why they need funding and sponsorship to fight more cases and run more courses to educate lawyers, judges, police, Seprona and volunteers on how to prosecute cases of maltreatment of animals.  Please sponsor them through ACTIN here.  If donating through Paypal, please go through family and friends and mark Donation to DeAnimals

  • Spanish TV publicises the abandonment of galgos

    Translation of the piece on Madrid television about the abandonment of and cruelty to galgos.

    ‘Abandoned, abused, malnourished… So are many greyhounds when hunting season, now in February.  So protective of animals denounce it as Animal Rescue who see real atrocities committed with these dogs.  Some come with obvious signs of abuse and have even had cases of galgos who had started the chip of rennet to avoid being identified.

    Between February and June, almost 30% of dogs that are collected in the community of Madrid are galgos.’ 

    If you want to adopt or sponsor one of them, visit the Association’s website: www.animalrescuespain.com

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  • The Definition of the country Spain – by a Spanish lady

    WRITTEN by a Spanish lady, translated with Google:

    SPAIN is different !!

    I do not care who believe they all sang flamenco and Spanish dance Sevillanas, we spent the day napping and we live in an eternal summer, we really like the fun and little work, I do not care … but I hate, and I am ashamed to live in a country that itself is something to change …

    “Spain is different     –       In Spain we are different

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