Author: Beryl Brennan

I’d like to introduce you to Podenco Rescue. It’s a brand new website dedicated just to these fantastic dogs, who also suffer horrendously at the hands of the Spanish hunters, both on mainland Spain and the Spanish Islands.

It’s great news for the Podencos, hopefully they will get a much higher profile, and Podenco Rescue will be searching for homes for podencos in any shelter and with any association, wherever they are.

So if you want to know more, visit the website, they also have a Facebook page, and contact them if you either have a podenco looking for a home, can foster a podenco or even adopt one.

And you will find my foster dog Darin on the website. He’s an absolute poppet, a truly golden boy and really deserves a family who can give him the exercise and attention which is his due.

Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo has just forwarded this information link. You will have to use a translator, as the information is in Spanish. The important point is that the FEG – Federacion Espanola Galgos based in Madrid – is this month discussing the registration and identification of galgos owned by its members.

They say on their website “After more than a century of lagging behind other countries which use galgos and greyhounds for competition, the Spanish Federation of Galgos, with its president D Carlos Sanz Calvo at the helm, has adopted an ambitious Plan of Record and Indentification of every galgo born under the aegis of the federation”.

Sadly, this only one of several galgo hunting federations and only relates to galgos owned by its members, but it is a start, and long overdue.

Living in France, I don’t have too much of a problem reading French news, etc. But I can’t even begin to understand Spanish, which is why I have to use a translator. This link is to the blog with news of the poor galgos in a perrera in Valladolid. I’m a bit pushed for time but if anyone can translate the latest news and post it in a comment here, that will be great.

UPDATE – Eva of Scooby Medina tells me that Fermin Perez is working hard to get these dogs out, that it is possible they are not dead. But the perrera is being unco-operative.

Galgo News is chiefly about the plight of the galgos and podencos, in Spain and the Spanish Islands. However, being a Libran, I am not averse to speaking out about the heartless Brits who are leaving Spain and their dogs behind – and there are some in France who do the same.

Linda, from Los Infiernos shelter in Murcia, explains.

‘I help at the same refuge as Tina, who has been appealing for help to rehome the galgos abandoned by the hunters. The Brits don’t bring their dogs to our refuge at the moment; the dogs are found abandoned and then brought to us by the police. I will tell you a few of the cases I have encountered.

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Remember the story of the 90 galgos dumped at the Villa del Rio shelter in Cordoba at the end of January? Leticia at the shelter, and Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo have been working hard to care for the galgos and rehome them. There are now 70 galgos still at the shelter and Baas Galgo are appealing for donations to pay for food etc for these galgos.

If these dogs are still in the shelter in August/September, any bets the galgueros will be back to get them for the next hunting season?!

Watch Galgo News this week, as I’m working on preparing a campaign about this! In the meantime, if you can help Baas Galgo, donate here.

Charl desperately needs a trap to catch the galga loose in Estepona. She has asked around to borrow one, without success. If she does not have a trap soon, the galga could disappear, or get injured or…….

Please contact Charl urgently on comdelrio@hotmail.com