Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Madrasa, Seville – abandoned galgos & podencos urgently need help

    Seville galgos & podenco 300 1 2013These skeletal galgos with bad skin problems have appeared in Madrasa, a suburb of Seville, they have wounds on their bodies, two have broken tails and one has problems on a back leg. They are in an area where hunters often abandon their dogs, now hunting is drawing to a close.

    The podencos are also in Madrasa. One podenco is injured, weighs about 10kg, and 5 babies. They are in an area of orange trees. The male podenco has not been seen for a week.

    Please can anyone take them in, help us with them?

    adoptaotros@live.com
    albitatb_1993@hotmail.com
    (Spain – 618 632 382)

  • Cartagena, Spain – ACTIN Walk of Awareness – Sterilise your dog/cat

    Viv Wharton, founder of ACTIN, has been organising monthly dog walks in Cartagena where she lives. These are aimed at publicising the need for sterilisation of dogs and cats. You can read about the walks here. Viv would like anyone living in Spain to consider organising a similar walk to get in touch with her. The more publicity, the better. Contact her through the website.

  • A Spanish galgo speaks…

    Charl Carly 250 1 2013Meet Carly, a white galga in the perrera for killing. Saved and now with 112carlotagalgos.

    Carly.

    I wish I could explain
    to you the pain
    I feel when I looked at you.
    The fear it runs right through my bones,
    chills me through to my very soul.

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  • Galgo Manolo in Valladolid – Scooby looks for a family for him

    Scooby Manolo 2 200 1 2013Not all galgueros are complete bastards – like the one who deliberately left galga Gala with two broken legs out in the campo in Andalucia – to starve to death in great pain. Manolo was left with Scooby Residencia Valladolid. Here Cobie tells his tale.

    MANOLO was left behind in the residencia because he was ‘no good for hunting’, said the galguero. I´m sure the galguero was no good for the dog because every galgo is a champion! Manolo is very lucky because now he can start a better and happy life with a caring family who will love him dearly because he is young, 2 and a half years old, very handsome, playful, super sweet and nice, has no fear and loves all other dogs and, even more, loves people. For adoption, contact Scooby

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  • Please sign this petition – we need another 4,000 signatories!

    Don’t forget to sign this petition and get friends and family to do the same. Danielle wants to get 20,000 signatories before she sends it off.

  • Galga Gala – saved from a galguero murderer

    Scooby Gala 1 200 1 2013Two pieces of news, which came up whilst I was stuck in the UK with hardly any computer contact.

    Gala is a beautiful young galga found in a field in Andalucia with two deliberately badly broken legs – the left front and the left back – so she could not possibly get up and walk anywhere. Left by some bastard Spanish hunter to die a long and lingering and painful death. Luckily she was discovered and El Amparo took her to their vet where their vet operated on her to pin her legs back together again. Here are some before photos, and an incredible after video where she is walking with her legs splinted.

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  • Update on Scooby on rescue effort for El Galgo Senior

    Here is the latest update from Fermin on the rescue of between 100-150 galgos at the El Galgo Senior refuge near Alicante.

  • Stories in brief

    Two badly injured galgos dumped in a perrera, and taken in by 112carlota galgos – Ebro, the more sick of the two – is on the road to recovery; both his broken front legs are now in pins and he is being nursed at the finca.
    Jade – after a promising start, became seriously ill last week and the vet and Charl made the ultimate decision yesterday. RIP Jade.
    As one door closes, another one opens for Carly, saved from being killed last week and arriving at the finca today.

    Scooby Medina have taken in Gala, a black and white galga abandoned in Andalucia – both front legs so badly broken that the bones were sticking out.

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  • Scooby takes the El Galgo Senior galgos after Pat tragically dies.

    After a tragic accident, El Galgo Senior association in Alicante lost their president Pat. Scooby have stepped in to take over 100 galgos from their shelter. Scooby now needs the funds to transport the galgos from Alicante to Medina del Campo, so please donate if you can help. Even better, off to adopt one! contact Scooby direct at www.scoobymedina.com.

  • Apologies

    for the lack of news at the moment. I am in the UK arranging palliative care for my mother in law, have restricted access to a computer and the Internet, and no facility for uploading photos. I am due to return to my home in France on 19/20 January – so long as the snow here in the UK has thawed and disappeared!