Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Toledo, Spain, galgo hell – galgo graveyard, galgo in gully – Baas Galgo rescue

    Galga love 190 12 2011Toledo – hell for galgos. Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo reports on the latest examples of galguero cruelty.

    ‘Last weekend (weekend before Xmas) our Baasgalgo rescue team found a massive galgo graveyard. They have been digging all day and finally found 8 murdered galgos.
    I cannot give you any more information since the case is now denounced.

    When Leticia came back and looked on our facebook page, she saw there was a girl called Selene asking for help…a galga was thrown into a gully around 800 meters deep.

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  • Christmas hounds waiting for their forever families

    Xmas greyhound cropped 250 12 2011A couple of lovely Xmas pix to make you smile. Santa’s ‘reindeer’ is Freight Train an ex-racing greyhound waiting in the UK for his forever home. Contact Marion if you want to know more. The petite Podenca Andaluz is Tecla, waiting in Seville for her forever home. Contact me if you want to know more

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  • Estepona, Spain – Guardia Civil drag dog by van

    Great anger in Spain with yet another demonstration of animal cruelty. Read the story in the Olive Press

  • Chiclana, Cadiz – Happy Ending/Final Feliz saving dogs

    Happy Endings Chiclana 250Happy Ending/Final Feliz is an animal rescue association near Chiclana, Cadiz. The association was created by Margarita, a Norwegian lady who keeps the rescued dogs in her own home, surviving on her pension and funds raised from car boot sales organised by her volunteer helpers. Earlier in the year, the association were threatened with court action as they were informed the land (used regularly by the public) was privately owned.

    However, life improved this year for Margarethe and the dogs. She tells the story.

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  • Las Palma, Canary Islands – man shoots dog dead with homemade weapon

    FECAPAP (Canaria Federation of associations protective of animals and plants), in the Canary Islands, recently condemned the killing of a dog by a home made weapon. Earlier this week, a resident of Mazo, La Palma, killed his dog by shooting it with an illegally owned homemade firearm made of two cylindrical tubes, using 16 cartridges! The man was arrested by the Guardia Civile and will be prosecuted for possession of an illegal firearm.

    FECAPAP (together with PACMA) have denounced the killing, in that the dog’s owner didn’t give it a chance of being rehomed by handing it in to a local shelter.

  • Galga Salva, burnt with acid – Galgos del Norte update

    You remember the story of Salva, the galga found in the perrera in Burgos, burned with acid, rescued by Galgos del Norte. Sadly she lost her fight for life. This is a translation from their website.

    ‘Salva has left us, dehydration from the burns affected all her internal organs and she not been able to continue fighting.

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  • Young galga needs someone to take her from the galguera – Badajoz

    Badajoz galga galguera 250 12 2011This little galga in Badajoz is only a year old, and nervous. Her galguera (female, note) says she will not hunt and so she doesn’t want it. I suppose we should be grateful so far she hasn’t abandoned it nor taken it to the perrera. Hopefully one of the Spanish associations or volunteers has taken her. It’s an example of what is going on all the time now, the pressure the volunteers and associations are under. Here’s the email contact, if anyone can help.

    CONTACT: GARRAPATERACOHERENTE@HOTMAIL.COM

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  • Save a child? Save a dog? Either way, you save a valuable life.

    Zaragoza perrera galgo 250 12 2011I took this off Facebook today. Please read this article with an open mind before taking the familiar and very unfortunate question: “With the children who are starving, let’s save a dog ? “.Yes, there are many children who die of hunger, but, fortunately, not in Spain.

    In Spain one hundred thousand dogs are abandoned each year. With the advent of the crisis, kennels and shelters have been saturated. And this epidemic of dropouts shows me what I already knew: if you buy a dog as one who buys a bag, pay for a puppy just because the breed has become fashionable, it is as likely to leave as you stop wearing the bag when season pass.

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  • Gran Canaria – holidays in the sun – not for the abandoned animals!

    Let’s not forget the shelters on the islands where so many people spend holidays in the sun…Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Mallorca, Ibiza…….behind the glitz, abandoned dogs and cats struggle to survive. It’s only thanks to the few shelters and volunteers that some of them are saved. But they still need to find forever homes, mostly on the European mainland.

    Here’s the latest news on Gran Canaria

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  • Burned with Acid – dumped in the Burgos perrera!

    Burgos 4 250 12 2011A while ago, animal volunteers in Burgos area, which I have travelled through and is a mass of half finished apartment blocks and huge cranes – a building site – heard that it is difficult to adopt out of the Burgos perrera. Immense ignorance, lack of information, lack of compliance with the law, the carelessness…. on 9th November this galga arrived, starving, normal for a dog abandoned on the street.

    But Galgos del Norte got in there and this is what they found….(click on Lee Mas under the Salva story

    The diagnosis of the vet, words cannot describe her suffering – BURNED by acid…. and this dog was just left in the kennels in the municipal kennels without treatment.

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