Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Spanish Holidays – join a rescue, work in a shelter, experience the REAL Spain

    Ready for the off 350 Since Christmas, we’ve had a lot of snow and freezing conditions in our part of France, so I was praying we wouldn’t encounter the same problems as we prepared for our journey to Madrid to bring home our cargo of rescued galgos.

    Suzette is a new volunteer to the team, and she has a big van, so I was looking forward to having a lot of dogs for company on the return journey. She had done an absolutely amazing job of collecting donations for the poor shelters which L’Europe de Levriers (EDL) helps, and from which it takes the galgos for rehoming in France. If I tell you that, by the time we reached the French border, the van was absolutely full to the roof, it is no word of a lie!

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  • Rotaguau Perrera, Spain – the cost of saving a dog from a trip of hell

    Rotaguau Perrera (dog pound) has now raised its charges for saving a dog from there.

    Bearing in mind the number of hunters who are now dumping their galgos at perreras, this could be the cost to an association for saving EACH dog

    72 euros for MRW
    50 euros to the vet
    40 euros more to the vet for ‘protective’ – not sure what that is
    30 euros to take the dog from the perrera to MRW (animal transport company)

    TOTAL – 152 euros to save each dog.

  • Spanish holidays – Spanish people – it’s a Third World Country!

    For those of you who live far afield and have not visited Spain, or for those of you who have visited Southern Spain in search of sun,sangria and sea, this is a story of the REAL Spain.

    Driving back from Spain to France along the E05 towards San Sebastien, we stopped off at a petrol/parking/grill centre, literally just at the side of the motorway. The parking was busy with cars and a few lorries.

    We parked close to a car where there were 4/5 20-somethings – rasta hair,revolting low-slung jeans (who the devil wants to look at their pink bum cheeks!) – and tatty clothes.

    Remember the Andrex advert and the golden labrador puppies? Well, imagine one of those but with long curly fluffy hair, BUT THE SAME SMALL SIZE.

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  • Galgo Loose at Ikea with a cord round its neck – Cheap Holidays Torremolinos Spain – life is cheap!

    Just received an email from that marvellous campaigner for galgos Charl – please pray she catches him.

    Sorry, this was the first email which came whilst I was in Spain.

    ‘I just got back from going to Ikea and a white galgo with bailing twine wrapped round his neck crossed my path. I shot out of the car and followed him to where he goes. Very similar to the white sarna galga but very thin and sad. He was hard to follow, his fear of himself, solitary.

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  • Saved from starvation in the Jaen killing station – happy to be in France

    Jaen perrera galgos 4 1209 300 Introducing Estrella. She came out of Spain on the rescue this weekend. This is the picture of her which I posted a few weeks ago, where she was in the Jaen killing station in a cell with 3 galgos.

    This is her story so far.

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  • Scooby Medina needs donations for their auction – please help

    Dear friends,

    In 2009 we held the first Scooby North America Auction and raised enough money to help install a much-needed tile floor in the Hospital and Surgery Center at Scooby Animal Refuge in Medina del Campo, Spain. Our goal for 2010 is to build as many brick shelters as possible in the paddocks to help protect the animals from the elements, but we can only do it through your generosity.

    How can you help?

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  • Madrid – here we come for some galgos!

    Hi Folks – just to say that there won’t be any news for a few days, as I’m heading off to Spain today with the rest of the team, to bring back some more galgos and a few podencos, saved from a horrendous death now hunting in Spain is ended.

    Read about it next week!

  • Pro-Galgo help galgo Don Juan to an amazing recovery

    Donjuan40210-1 Pro Galgo 0210 300 Update from Pro-Galgo on Don Juan’s amazing progress. Help is needed with the cost of the vet bills, details of how to donate are on the above link.

  • Sun, Sea, Spanish Holidays, Cheap Holidays – why not just feel abandoned – like this galga!

    Tina Solera abandoned galga 0210 300 Tina Solera,one of the galgo rescuers in Spain, has just sent in this story today.

    ‘This galgo has been wandering now near my village for approx two weeks and I’ve been trying to win her over and had a few attempts at catching her. Today I gave it another go, chicken, pizzas and countless sandwiches later(whatever I could get my hands on.. the pizza came from 3 teengaers relaxing and eating in the park).

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  • Baas Galgo – 90 galgos left at the Cordoba shelter – Urgent help needed

    Baas Galgo Villa del Rio shelter inside 0210 300 ASSOCIATION BAASGALGO REQUIRE URGENT HELP
    DONATIONS REQUIRED TO HELP 90 GREYHOUNDS RESCUED FROM CORDOBA (SPAIN)

    The hunting season has come to an end and 90 galgos were left at the shelter by their owners. As usual if you do not accept them they kill them.

    With a huge effort we try to safe as many lives as possible but the shelter is packed and we can not accept any more galgos, we need help to find forever homes urgently

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