Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Cafepress- fundraising for 112carlotagalgos

    Raising funds for 112carlotagalgos – take a look at the shop – some great items.

  • Levriers sans Frontieres – saving galgos from Malaga

    A story about a mama galga and her babies (born February 2013) who were in a perrera in Malaga province, rescued by the association and in foster nearby until the pups could be vaccinated and travel to France. They will all arrive on the rescue on 24th May.

  • Help feed galgos at The Blue Greyhound ebay shop

    Can you help feed all these galgos at Pepis Refuge?

    And this is Reyes, saved from Badajoz perrera, young galgo covered in wounds, now in kennels waiting for space at 112carlotagalgos finca. She’s also got some new very traumatised ones too, so any help with feed bills will be appreciated.

  • Don’t abandon your dog…

    Interesting video in Spanish publicising that abandoning your dog is no different from abandoning your child

  • Ole Toledo – join the letter campaign now!

    This story was posted on facebook at the beginning of April so apologies that I am only just posting about it (google translation). There are so many appeals…this is another horror in Toledo, hell hole for galgos. Please send the 2 Spanish emails below, (I’ve included English google translation at the end of the post). Put your name and country to sign off.

    3rd April 2014

    Scooby blog – contacted me two days ago a girl from Lominchar-Toledo. Had long behind an abandoned greyhound … last March 31 found him murdered and buried semi. Today April 2nd has 6 other greyhounds found murdered, some stuffed in bags, others with signs of having been burnt and others hanged. How long will we have to attend such scenes??

    Has the Seprona and will lodge a complaint but none of them has thus chip ..

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  • PACMA – successful court prosecutions for animal cruelty

    Progress is slow in Europe when it comes to authorities taking action against perpetrators of animal cruelty. Here are two reports from PACMA about their success in achieving prosecution against maltreatment of animals in Spain. The articles are in Spanish but if you click on the dropdown menu in the top right-hand corner, you can select English. Thank you Kate for sending them to me.

    Story 1

    Story 2

  • Aanifeira, Portugal – report on World Spay Day 2014

    A report by Aanifiera about World Spa Day back in February 2014.

  • The Blue Greyhound – shop online and help hounds

    Churchill, the huggy black galgo, now on sale at The Blue Greyhound shop. Lots of other great items and collectables at the shop, raising money for good causes.

  • Abandoned in Spain, adopted in France – galgos and podenca

    Meet my canine gang, 4 rescued from Spain, one from France.

  • Cool to be Kind – a promise

    Cool To Be Kind has been launched by Sarah Fisher. Basically it is encouraging people to make a short 2 minute video saying what your promise is to help and to be kind to animals. Then you nominate two or three other people to do something along the same lines. If they don’t have animals, they can help in a refuge, cattery, riding stables, donate food and/or medicines.

    I was nominated by Natalie Osborne. Now you can see my Cool to be Kind video and I hope that many of you will join in and make a similar video, upload it to Youtube – and facebook if you have a page. Just nominate 3 people – make sure you ask their permission first – then make the video, upload and share.

    Weblink to the Cool to be Kind website

    Nando Brown video

    Cool to be Kind on facebook

    For those of you on facebook, here’s Natalie’s video