Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Rey, King of the Galgos – needs your help

    Rey Charl 250 3 2012112carlotagalgos is a very small family association which concentrates on rescuing and rehabilitating traumatised, sick and injured galgos and podencos. Some months ago we told the story of Rey, abandoned, surviving on virtually nothing, he’d finally collapsed and almost given up the struggle. Some months on, he is doing ok, but a new problem has arisen. Rey needs help! He needs you, we need you! Here’s his story…

    Rey came to 112 Carlota Galgos several months ago, found giving up, life had let him down. He lay in the dust with life draining from him,.. down and out. He was seen and rescued. He stayed with his rescuer in Sevilla for a month and along with Polyana joined us at 112 carlota galgos for us to recouperate them and socialise them into family life.

    Rey .. seems he has everything against him, he is a black galgo in Spain, he is older and he is a natural hunter. He cannot be scolded for something which has been bred into him, he lived and kept himself alive by hunting. He is a hunter, he will hunt, and yet he will walk by your side like the gentlest galgo you know.

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  • Seville shanty town – cheap accommodation, no meals

    Seville galgos Macu 5 2012This is more about the galgos in the gypsy camp in Seville which Macu is desperately trying to save. Some photos on this link, the rest are on Facebook. Inmaculada Gómez González (Sevilla) e-mail & paypal: macu19782010@hotmail.com
    Saturday, May 19, 2012. Today was a very sad day. I went to the settlement to take pictures since before I left and I took them and spread when they were in residence, now a thing impossible to do, since I have no means. What I ask is help for them: benefit for partnerships that take them and seek their family, adoption, sponsors to get them out and bring to a kennels, distribution to refuges, etc…

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  • Dogs out, dogs in – busy time at Association 112carlotagalgos

    Ana sofa 250 5 2012It’s a busy time at the moment at 112carlotagalgos in Malaga. Two of their rescued and rehabilitated galgos Bruno and Halo have now headed off to Belgium and forever homes, Polyana and Gandalf are settling into their new homes in the UK, and podenca Angela Angelica heads off to the USA tomorrow (28th May) and her forever family. But 3-legged beauty Ana is still waiting – surely there is a place in someone’s heart for this stunning podenca.

    The latest two new arrivals are podenco Apolo and galga Marci and you can read their stories on this link. If you can donate towards their vet fees, Paypal comdelrio@hotmail.com

  • Greyhounds/Galgos Help in the World – Facebook page

    I know many of you don’t like Facebook and don’t have Facebook pages. I don’t use it, apart from my Save the Galgo and Help the Podencos pages – anything to publicise their plight. There is now a new Facebook page to help the galgos, which is doing marvellous publicity. However, there are just so many posts that I’m afraid I simply don’t have the time to bring them all to you. If you are on Facebook and have not yet joined the group, this is the link.

  • Saving galgos and podencos in Seville – Macu, Argos, Galgos 112

    Macu Seville pup 2 250 5 2012Macu lives in Seville and works tirelessly to rescue galgos and podencos from a gypsy settlement. Here are the latest ones, for which she needs help, both financial and adoptions. She says that soon life in the settlement for the dogs will be hell, as temperatures in the summer heat will reach 50 degrees and those dogs kept inside buildings will surely die. This galgo puppy was left at the settlement. Macu has saved her and has her in a kennels for the time being.

    To contact and donate to Macu by Paypal or donate to the associations which have taken the dogs, via their weblinks

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  • Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to Helsinki, Finland – are you flying soon?

    TARA animal shelter on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, urgently need people to accompany some of their dogs which have been offered forever homes in Finland. If you are flying between Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, and Helsinki, read the story here, and who to contact.

  • Mass Grave with Greyhounds found in Ireland

    Over Easter weekend April 8 to 9, 2012 a hiker found 40 km south-east of Limerick, Ireland, an open mass grave with 7-8 greyhounds from the racetrack come.

    An initial investigation by “Limerick Animal Welfare” shows that some cadavers were in a serious state of decomposition and there were also certainly two greyhounds dumped in it recently. It is suspected that there will be more skeletons, but the overgrown site needs clearing to allow further investigation.

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  • Galgos on death row in Cordoba perrera

    Galgos on death row in Cordoba perrera, all only 1 or 2 years old! Numbers of dogs in order of photos. 42, 72, 92 Contact patitasdecordoba.jimdo.es ; c_azahara@hotmail.com ; lilianapatitasdecordoba@hotmail.com

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  • Please help save this Romanian dog shelter

    Romanian dog rescue founder 190 2012Although GN is for the galgos, I couldn’t refuse this appeal.

    Please could you just look at the website – www.ourfriendsdogrescue.org.uk
    In brief, the lady who started this rescue shelter in Romania has died and there is notice to quit the land in June 2012. There is obviously a very cruel attitude to stray dogs in Romaina – they are picked up in appalling condition and shut in without food and water in the pound and just left to die. There is a chance to buy land and the person who is trying to raise the money to keep the shelter open – Carla McBride in Manchester – has been involved for 5 years.

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  • Mazarron galgos and podencos – 17 more to save urgently

    Galgos del Sol urgently need help getting another 17 galgos and podencos out of the Mazarron gypsy camp.They have nowhere to put them and need help from other associations and foster homes.They will pay for rabies shots and transport to associations. The guardia have again visited the owner and said he is not allowed to own any dogs again. They need to get them out quickly. Contact GdS