The temperatures in Scandinavia, especially Finland, are very different from Spain, especially for the thin-coated galgos. Here’s a story about the Finnish association which rehomes galgos, Kodittomat Espanjan Koirat ry. Kati explains.
Kodittomat Espanjan Koirat ry – The Homeless Dogs of Spain association in English – was established in 2006 by Miia Marjamäki, the president of association. Within the past 6 years the association has found new homes from Finland for over 2000 dogs.
Here’s a story of a galga and puppies in Portugal. Whilst there are not so many galgos there, these hounds often suffer. Matt Lightfoot tells the tale.
‘Mum in the pictures belongs to an alcoholic (the man that killed the other pups). One of the female pups will replace the mum as breeding stock, and this lovely lady will be handed over to Teresa (volunteer rescuer) once the pups are weaned. She is extremely emaciated and Teresa has already left him a 10Kg bag of dog food, but the galga needs special nursing, high energy feed (like Royal Canin starter) or she won’t survive feeding these puppies.
Miel – taking some steps – would have thought it would have been far better for him to be on a non slip surface!
Mo Swatek of Pro-Galgo is now taking care of Miel – Honey – as the galgo has been named. The original estimate for her vet fees was 3,000 euros – a comment came back about spending so much on one dog. Here’s what Mo says.
There will be a lack of posts this weekend, my daughter is coming out to stay, I haven’t seen her for 11 months, and so shan’t be sitting at the computer during her short time with me. That doesn’t mean there aren’t loads of appeals coming in – dogs rescued, dogs stolen – yes, the gitanos are after the galgos to sell to the hunters – refuges struggling.
Had an interesting visit to the vet today with my galga Carmela.
Danielle Hart, who has kindly translated my book into French – has organised this petition for the galgos and podencos. Please sign here. We need to reach 10,000 signatories.
Many of the Spanish refuges and associations are very small, existing from month to month on donations, the local councils turning a blind eye to the problem of abandonment of dogs, even though by law they should provide a dog pound.
112carlotagalgos is one such small association in Malaga. Charl del Rio has been working on behalf of the galgos and podencos in Spain for many years, latterly caring for traumatised, injured and sick dogs prior to rehoming. She’s also given talks in local schools about the problem of abandonment of dogs. Her dream has been to have an educational centre where children can visit and learn to respect animals and care for them, especially dogs. Now she hopes her dream is about to come true. But she needs your help. Here’s the story.
Interesting post on my Fb page Save the Galgo -SPCA Vereeniging confiscated 22 Greyhounds and the animals were in such a bad way that 7 were “humanely put to sleep” and the rest were GIVEN BACK to the owner!!!!! SPCA Vereeniging wrote that the owner who was caught in the act would be prosecuted. ‘When Greyhound Rescue SA asked questions ‘we were deleted from the wall of Vereeniging SPCA. https://www.facebook.com/spcaver?ref=stream
They have also deleted all my posts and questions from the wall – We have a right to know what happened to those Greyhounds’. (I’ve asked the question myself – see if I get a response. )
