Sighthounds for Life are now running a mini-auction in aid of Galgos del Sol. There are lots of wonderful items, including some beautiful leather collars made by Toni Collard, paintings, jewellery. Please take a look and BID!
Just a word, you need to register with Sighthounds for Life before you can access the auction, but it only takes a minute.
The Scooby Residencia in Valladolid is now OPEN! It has been designed and constructed to hold approximately 30 dogs. Part of the Residencia is a refuge for Scooby dogs and part is kennels. The kennels are available to rent so if you are driving through Spain and want somewhere to put your dogs, please contact Cobie, who lives on site. And any donations of food, medicines, bedding etc will be gratefully received. Take a look at the website.
You remember brave Ken, the galgo hit from behind by a motor vehicle, rescued by Galgos del Sol and now with Galgo Connection Spain in Valencia. Silvia’s vet and the team are helping rebuild his body and he is now mobile with his personal wheelchair!
Here is the latest news about him from Silvia.
‘Now we take him to rehabilitation, he has more muscles in the back side, something is confused because he moves the tail and the legs but has not sensibility, the vet is looking if he gets better with the rehab.
More galgos in the Hellin perrera in Albacete. Due to be euthanaised on 10th June. There are dozens of other dogs too, and puppies galore….when will Spain take action to stop this stupidity and enforce controlled breeding and educate people to be responsible for their pets? And it’s not only Spain but the whole of Europe who perpetrate the problem.
Contact any of these people
linaortu@hotmail.com
vicfisioperros@hotmail.com
ruth_perez30@hotmail.com
Need I say more than you can read here.
One of the things which I find really frustrating is how much back biting goes on between refuges and associations, whether in Spain, Belgium, France…… At the end of the day, for me, it is about the dogs, who cares who is ‘president’ of which association, who runs what refuge so long as it complies with GEE. For goodness sake, it’s about the animals, not about people and politics….
I was in a car park in Spain and where a little puppy, probably about 5 months old, looked like a x poodle, was wandering around loose. I went to take it up when a couple of young Spanish restrained me. It was their puppy, they said. As I don’t speak Spanish, I was unable to answer them as I would have liked to. I dread to think of how it ended up…certainly not microchipped, vaccinated and in a loving family home….more likely in a shelter, if it hadn’t been killed by a lorry driving into the car park.
Some of the galgos in the Villa del Rio are under the care and control of L’Europe des Levriers, the French association with whom I work closely and from whom I have adopted my 3 galgas, plus them helping me get my little Podenca Andaluz Bebe from Seville.
Some of their puppies in one bed died, but there are others – Noche, Jade, Scarlette, Pucca – Cristina, Vice President of EDL, went from Madrid down to Cordoba and brought back some of the dogs, who are now in kennels which need paying for.
Message from Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo (website offline at the moment due to a bloody hacker!)
Dear Friends
I never thought that I would have to write to you in this way, but we are so desperate and we so badly need your help; that we have no other choice.
Last Wednesday, May 18th, a terrible flood completely destroyed the BaasGalgo shelter in Villa del Rio in southern Spain. Consequently, 100 Galgos who were in the refuge have been left without anywhere to live. All the facilities have been destroyed by the flooding. The situation is extremely serious. We can without exaggeration say that we lost absolutely everything!
This starving skeletal galgo is wandering the streets of Badajoz, next to a very busy highway; barely strength to stand; a volunteer is now taking him food and water but has nowhere to put him. Has anyone room foe him? xana.50@hotmail.es
UPDATE – FEPAEX have taken him in, he is no longer lost and on the street.
