Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – CMA UK look at extortionate vet costs

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    From Fermin

    ‘We participated in an on-line meeting of the UK All All-party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group about foreign dog
    adoptions a few years ago. For us one of the vets hit the nail on the head in the discussion. She rightly said adopters adopt with the best intention. They want a pet dog, not a project. And this makes total sense. It is a challenge in a refuge environment to discern completely accurately how shelter behaviour translates into a home but that is our aim: To present families with adoptable companions, rewarding for them and the dog, with appropriate rescue back-up.

    Talking to our network, it seems that costs have a role to play. We don’t actually fully cover our costs when asking for an adoption fee to support our work. If we reflected the actual expense, we would home very few dogs and cats. We try to keep the costs to a minimum.

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  • Gabapentin for Dogs – what you should know

    Read the full article on this weblink.

  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – Animal Rescue Transitions To ‘Bureaucrazy’

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    Fermin writes.

    As many of you know, the Scooby shelter grew organically from doing the best we could with limited resources and still
    making tangible improvements for our rescued animals, nursing them back from the brink to overcome sickness and
    adversity to become dogs and cats well enough to go to loving adoption families. Yes we had tragedies but our small team
    shared the work and helped the animals to a better life. I still remember a volunteer vet from Scotland, in the twilight of his
    career, telling me to welcome volunteer vets but crucially to make sure they had solid experience because in a ‘field’
    medical setting, she said we’d need people who were skilled to work with what’s available, rather than the early career medical professionals who would not yet be ready to work in a situation needing ingenuity and technical resourcefulness. I still remember this vet stitching by candlelight when we were blighted with power cuts.

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  • 7 Galgos stolen from a shelter!

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    STOLEN ANIMALS FROM OUR SHELTER.

    Last week some soulless sub humans have entered our shelter and taken 7 greyhounds. YES, THEY WERE STOLEN FROM US. After all the suffering those animals have gone through, having saved them from a life of abuse and misery, now those MISERABLE PEOPLE HAVE RETURNED THEM TO THEIR HELL.

    We are filled with rage, helplessness and pain. 7 beings we had fought to save have been taken from us. What they have done is INHUMANE and WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT. We need your help, and we need it NOW.

    If you have a minimum conscience, if you have any humanity left, we ask you to SHARE THIS UNTIL EVERYONE KNOWS. We won’t stop until these bastards pay for what they’ve done and until our greyhounds are back, safe.

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  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – Dogs bred for fighting

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    Dogs Bred For Fighting – The Tragedy

    It pains me every day when I Iook at our incarcerated dogs bred traditionally for fighting, the ‘dangerous’ dogs, the so-called ‘bullies’. There are no formally banned dog breeds in Spain. There are restrictions on owning some of these breed types in Spain (muzzles and on-leash in public places are mandatory). We have more than 60 of these dogs in the Scooby shelter, including around 9 Belgian Malinois who can be very dangerous in inexperienced hands. We cannot home these 60, even if there were a demand for them. We have investigated the possibility of transferring them to fit and proper owners in countries where they can be lawfully kept and exempt from euthanasia if they don’t pose any risk to public safety.

    However, this is a strategy thwarted with problems and risks, and would add to the rescue crisis overseas. This is not our intention. Under our animal laws here in Spain, we cannot consider a kind course of action for these dogs to find them peace because euthanasia of dogs without a veterinary second opinion is illegal. These dogs would not meet the permissible legislative standard.

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  • Scratch pads for dogs

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  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – Declining Adoptions, Rescues & Donations

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    From Fermin.

    ‘We collaborate with 10 – 15 partners internationally who help us fromtime to time to home our rescued dogs and cats in their countries. This is much needed because it is impossible for us to home dogs and cats in significant number in Spain. Shelters like ours cannot operate without international adoptions.

    We, like our adoption artners and fellow shelters around the globe, are witnessing a decline in home offers. We have noticed this trend over the years since 2019/20 and attributed it to the many pets homed during the COVID period. But it is a continuing trajectory and we suspect there may be more to it than a simple glut. It is now so acute that we cannot rescue as many dogs and cats as in prior years or indeed those now in adversity because our refuge is at capacity. It is simple if we don’t move dogs and cats to families, we will not have accommodation space for those in need of rescue.

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  • All about Canicross with your hound

    Canicross is becoming a very popular sport between owner and hound.

    Read all about it in this article.

  • English greyhound rescued in Spain by SOS Galgos

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    From SOS Galgos

    ‘Jimena was used as a ‘hunting tool’ for hare-coursing for the 5 years of her life. She is a greyhound not a galga, hence her size and beautiful coat. SOS Galgos brave team drove to Valladolid to pick her up along with more greyhounds also unwanted to their owner. She is extremely affectionate and sociable.

    If you would like to adopt Jimena, please write to us at info@sosgalgos.org You can also help her by spreading the word about her need to find a forever loving home. She also needs support with her vet care and food expenses. Please consider sponsor her by going to our website www.sosgalgos.org
    You can also come visit her and spend some quality time together.

    Paypal: sosgalgos@sosgalgos.org

    SOS Galgos bank details
    ES89 2100 0148 5302 0058 2650

    Teaming: www.teaming.net

  • Greyt news for British greyhounds

    Working to end gambling on greyhound racing. Read the story here.