Lady Carla – who looks very much like my beloved galga Carmela – was the galga left extremely badly injured on the hard shoulder of a road in Spain. Rescued by brave volunteers and put back together by an amazing vet and his team of nurses, she is now in a foster home and making a slow recovery. Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo has written an update. Read more
The cost of the vet fees are still ongoing, details of how to donate – however small an amount, are at the end of the story.
It’s been a busy week behind the scenes at Galgo News, with two more dogs brought out of Spain for new lives.
Oco is the little podenco caught by Charl when she was hoping to catch the Estepona galga. The galga, Oco and a cat had all been surviving together on the streets; the galga was the only one not to be caught.
Gaby was an abandoned galga living on the streets further south. It took Tina two weeks to eventually catch her and take her back to the Los Infiernos refuge where she is a volunteer.
Mo Swatek of Pro Galgo is happy to say that the first of the Jerez galgos are out and safe in Catalonia.
‘In a very fast trip of less than 36 h we went for the first load of the jerez galgos in danger to be pts. We brought 11 galgos (3 females and 8 males) plus 2 minpins. The mother had been abused as a breeding bitch and when not productive anymore given away, the baby could not be sold as in Spain people want very very young puppies and once over 4 month old, they are nearly impossible to sell. I had to take them because we were afraid that somebody adopts only the pup letting the old mum alone.
Got a favourite recipe? ADANA would like to know.
The ADANA Cookbook
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Adana is compiling a special ‘Adana Cookbook’ with recipes contributed by friends of Adana.
You may remember earlier in the year that Charl del Rio was trying to catch the galga Estepona. Sadly she did not succeed before the bitch disappeared. Charl was certain the bitch was pupping. Now 8 puppies have been found, some of them have been taken by ADANA shelter for rehoming, the others remain in the hope that the bitch will return and can be caught.
Whilst greyhound action groups around the world are protesting about the possibility of building a greyhound racing stadium at Logan, Queensland, Australia, and one of the comment posters, Sue Burley of Australia, is explaining why Oz greyhounds live such fantastic lives, this post has been sent to me. Perhaps Sue would now honestly explain just how far this project has got, since this post is over one year old!
Sue Birley, Australia (Greyhound-Data Team Member)
Posts 1929
Dogs 5,281 / Races 5,021
11 May 2009 06:35
Was driving past the Cronulla Park site this morning and lo and behold there were the Engineers with their equipment and a big drilling machine working on the EPA report? Not rumour, fact seen with my own eyes.
Now why would they be continuing with the EPA report if Logan wasn’t going ahead Dan?
http://greyhound-data.com/knowledge.php?b=4¬e=394489&order=&x=12
There has been a very active, informative and interesting debate on the post about petitioning against the building of a greyhound stadium in Logan, Queensland, Australia. One of the vociferous pro-greyhound people posting comments is Sue Burley.
She is, or was last year, an active member of the Australia Greyhound Data Team and this is one of her comments, and a link.
‘No need for another club with the Gold Coast having 3 tracks and racing 7 days a week, as long as we satisfy the Unitab agreement.
To add to the lively debate regarding the protest against the construction of a greyhound racing stadium at Logan, Queensland, Australia, take a look at this. And please add your name to the petition.
http://www.petitiononline.com/GAIBEGA/petition.html
To: Australian federal Government
We the undersigned call upon the Australian federal government to ban the export of greyhounds to Asia.
The Australian greyhound racing industry is shamelessly promoting and encouraging greyhound racing in Asia. At present greyhounds are being exported from Australia to Asia to places such as Korea, Vietnam and China for the purpose of racing/breeding with further plans to create networks of tracks throughout Cambodia and the Philippines. These are countries notorious for the barbaric torture and slaughter of dogs for human consumption. There is no hope or opportunity of rehoming greyhounds that are ‘surplus’ to requirements in Asia. As exposed by the media they are ending their days being butchered in the dog meat industry or thrown into landfills. At present this is the fate of Australian greyhounds in Asia.’
You will remember the story of Sofie, the brindle galga abandoned to life on the streets of Badajoz. She disappeared for a couple of days and, on her return, her lower jaw had been shattered – as though she had been kicked really hard in the mouth. She was able to be caught and through the care of the vet, with her lower jaw held together by metal rods, she is now able to eat on her own, and this latest video shows her out for a walk along the street.
Hey folks. There are a couple of comments on the post about stopping the building of a greyhound racing stadium in Logan, Australia. They accuse me of being a troublemaker.
Yippee! I’M A TROUBLEMAKER! What a great accolade, I can’t believe it! And if it involves improving the situation to the lives of the galgos and greyhounds around the world, Then Yippee, I’m a troublemaker!
Hope you agree!
