Just wanted to share this lovely verse with you, sent by Pat Getz
Grow Old with Dogs
As I am growing old…….I wear soft gray sweatshirts and a bandana over my hair, and I spend my social security checks on wine and my dogs.
I sit in my house on my sofa and listen to my dogs’ breathing. I will sneak out in the middle of a cool night and take my dogs for a walk, if my old bones will allow.
This is an appeal with a difference. We’re asking for people to sponsor two galgos. Their story first appeared on Galgo News in June 2008 and then again in October 2008.
They have been in foster with my friend Joanna Simm in south eastern France, and as they are getting on and have been with her so long, it is possible no one will now want to adopt them.
They both need medication, especially Quijote (also known as Luis). Could you sponsor the medication? This is what Joanna says.
Remember Van Gogh, the little galgo X puppy saved by SOS Galgos – he’d had his tail cut off and part of each ear. He is now safe in a foster home. Here’s the latest news and photos.
This is the press release from Greyhound Action.
DON’T ALLOW GREYHOUND RACING IN THE PHILIPPINES!
Worldwide action needed – now!
According to a recent article in the Manila Bulletin the Philippines House of Representatives has agreed to legalise commercial greyhound racing, but the Bill still has to go to the Senate for a final decision.
Could you chew off your own arm or leg? Kafir tried to. Cristina tells his story.
KAFIR ( ex Blacki on internet forums ), male of 70 cm, 3-4 years and is that special galgo of endless sweetness.
Kafir comes from Mérida ( Badajoz ). He was abandoned, always looking for food and one day he appeared with a terrible wire around his hind leg. It was so tight that it created a very bad and deep wound up to the point that the leg began to gangrenate.
Kafir was in so much pain and was suffering so much that he himself began to bite himself up to the point that people saw him, saw that the leg was hanging only by a tendon.
I have removed the post about their rescue as there seems to be a great deal of confusion about who is getting the dogs out. As I live in France, I can only report the news which is sent to me and have no reason to doubt the authenticity of the source from which I was given the information.
So long as someone gets the dogs out!!!
Valarie Woolf says ‘Here is the webpage with the Philippine Senators. Please, everyone—send emails to them denouncing the approval of the bill that would permit dog racing in the Philippines.’
Click on the photo of each senator for their email address.
Greyhound Action says ‘We’re now waiting to hear from the Phillipines Animal Welfare Society with a list of e-mail addresses of senators for people to contact.’
This is the link to my previous campaign letter to the President of the Philippines.
One piece of great news! In Granada, Andalucia, a judge has taken action against a man for maltreatment of a dog! Hurrah!! After 2 sentences in two years, and a fine of 720 euros against the owner, the dog is now in the safe-keeping of a shelter.
The court action was made by Fernando Luis Velazquez of the Associacion Amigos de los Animales, Granada – and he won! Hurrah and bless him!
PS The video of the dog follows the cartoon.
Link to more of the story, click on Translate page for English version
Thursday 31st December, 0830. Pedro Munoz animal shelter, Ciudad Real.
Loli says ‘This is what we found on arrival at the shelter today. These three poor dogs, bound and chained and icy cold. They may have spent all night getting wet .
This has been the gift that someone gave us on the last day of the year.’
This urgent message is from Bea and Cristina, who work helping some of the poorest refuges in Spain.
‘The Spanish refuges are in total chaos. After San Anton in Cadiz and Pedro Munoz at Ciudad Real, it is with the turn of our refuges to be submerged by the floods. Far to poor to have a pumping system, the galgos are standing in water up to their chests.
Salamanga and Villa del Rio have nothing, they desperately need help from abroad.’
From a volunteer ‘In In Villa del Rio, Cordoba, I am desperate. It hasn’t stopped raining, we are trying to clear the water from the refuge with buckets, and still it rains. After days of doing this, my back is aching, it feels broken. Every day I remove the wet covers to put down dry ones. We have a failing pup… ”. Here, there are 75 galgos… Please help-us!
