I’ve been quoted $23+ for someone to send me a small paperback book – less than 310gms – which is ludicrous when it costs me less than 4 euros to send one of my FH2H books to the US. I think someone is taking the p..s! Information please on the cheapest way for this book to be posted to me – I won it in an auction. In euro terms – that’s just short of 18 euros! He must be joking!
Author: Beryl Brennan
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Fermin, galgos, Scooby Italia – all together on 2nd November 2013
Over the weekend of 2nd November Fermin Perez travelled from Scooby Medina to take a dozen galgos to Scooby Italia and their forever homes. Here are some photos taken by the translators of my book into Italian, which was publicised at the meeting.
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Buy a Galgo a Christmas Dinner
Please buy a galgo at Pepis Refuge a Christmas dinner, via the Blue Greyhound ebay shop. Details here.
Or buy a galgo at 112carlotagalgos a Christmas dinner, via the Blue Greyhound. Weblink here.
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Update on galga Tina, now back at Pepis Refuge
Update 8 11 2013 – Tina is home. She will be staying in the Vera care centre for some considerable time.
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Sighthounds for Life Auction for 112carlotagalgos – ends 10 November
Here’s the latest Sighthounds for Life auction. There are dozens of fabulous items, please have a look and get bidding. All proceeds to 112carlotagalgos.
In the last couple of months galgos have arrived at the finca desperately needing expensive operations and medical treatment. First there was Dante needing a leg operation; then Happy with no fur and swollen legs – a serious case of mange; then Kenya arrived with a deformed foreleg which previous operations had not repaired. Vet bills for these hounds alone run into four figures.
Add to that feeding all the dogs, microchip and vaccinations to prepare the dogs for adoption…money goes out faster than it comes in.
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Riddles of the Soul – another lovely story, raising funds for animals
Another book, only available as an ebook, to raise funds for animals in Australia.
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Irish Greyhounds being exported to Spain for racing
Greyhound Rescue Association Ireland (GRAI) has been informed that Spanish buyers were seen buying greyhounds two weeks ago at the Thurles Sales in Ireland. They bought 20 Greyhounds to take back to Spain for racing. The greyhounds are now kennelled somewhere in Co. Tipperary. We have been informed that when their passports are in order they will be transported to Southern Spain, either Andalucía or to Extremadura.
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Update on Galga Tina after her operation
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SOS Animals UK & Spain – Tania Coates tells her story
Tania Coates of SOS Animals UK & Spain does a marvellous job of rescuing and rehoming abandoned Spanish dogs. She’s now written a book about her adventures and how it all began. Order a copy of her book here.
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Perrera to forever home – it’s a long and expensive journey for every dog
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.