Galgo News

Author: Beryl Brennan

  • There’s life in the old dog yet – give the oldies a chance

    Saki rescued
    Hundreds of the galgos which are rescued and rehomed from Spain are young dogs. But there are some who manage to survive their lives of hell until they are 7 or 8 years old.

    They carry the scars, maybe even more of a reason to give them a chance of what life can be like. We’ve read the amazing story of Kamal who survived a life of utter hell for 11 years, in a refuge of all places!

    Virginie Labat, a volunteer with Passion Levriers, tells the story of Saki, a 10 year old Spanish galgo, who was on death row in a municipal compound in Pamlona.

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  • Perdida – lost on 13 August in Girona, Figueres area

    GalgolostPlease forward to all contacts you have, mainly in the Girona area.

    Lost galga slipped leash – needs treatment for Leishmania. Click thumbnail to right for larger image.

    Numbers below and reward offered:

    Spain: 696 058 003 or 661 662 361

  • Collie on the Costa looking for his owners

    Collie lostI have received this message from a contact on the Costa Brava:

    “I have found a collie that, obviously, has had owner and had to escape frightened by the firecrackers of San Juan; the dates agree at the moment that he appeared (July 5th).

    Yesterday, with the storm he was completely frightened. He obeys all the orders in English and that makes me think that he belongs to foreigners who were in holidays in Lloret by San Juan and they lost him then.

    As per his behaviour as much in the car, as in city and house he is a customary dog to life in family.

    Could you please forward this case to all your contacts abroad? Perhaps we can find his family, who knows? He does not have chip, or necklace, but that does not mean that they have thrown him. I would like to disclose this case in: Germany – UK – Belgium – Holland – France.

    Thank you very much!”

    If you have lost him, or know who he belongs to, please email L’Europe des Levriers or Charl.

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  • Happy Endings – thanks to the power of the Internet

    Cielo
    Here’s a couple of stories with happy endings, from Pro-Galgo.

    Two of our worst and most memorable cruelty cases this year are Bella, the severely emaciated galga and Cielo the poor galga hanged from the waist.

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  • Luz – did she need to have to go through this?

    Galgo rescue
    The latest news on Luz, the beautiful white galga who was eventually caught after she had been in a really serious road accident, is that she has had to have one hind leg completely amputated, and the front leg is pinned, and these will be removed in 6 months.

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  • Beware of this address

    The following is an email received from Charl in Madrid.

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  • Bodies of mutilated greyhounds found in a river

    Action demanded from Irish Greyhound Board

    Please support the appeal below from Greyhound Crusaders.

    For more info about the plight of greyhounds in Ireland and Greyhound Action Ireland’s campaign to
    protect them, see Greyhound Action.

    Tony Peters, UK Co-ordinator, Greyhound Action

    Read the article in the Irish Times.

  • RSPCA International – going to the dogs in Spain!

    RspcaI’ve been in correspondence with Gareth Thomas, International Project Manager for RSPCA International, on the subject of the abandonment of dogs and cats in Spain, particularly with regard to galgos in my own case.

    He has been extremely helpful with explaining the Society’s stand on this subject, and this is what he has to say:

    ‘RSPCA International focusses its aid and training on strenghtening local partners’ work to improve animal welfare, such as projects to improve responsible pet ownership, increase neutering and introduce animal welfare education into schools.

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  • SKYDIVE – Action for Greyhounds UK – Friday 8th August 2008

    Annie appealThank you so much to those who sponsored Annie, the founder of Action for Greyhounds UK – via the email appeal which was forwarded out for her tandem Skydive.

    I’m pleased to share with you the photos taken on her ‘big day’.

    Annie’s Skydive was originally scheduled for approximately 9.30/10am but due to bad weather conditions (rain and high winds), the Skydive Company had to wait for a window in the weather, and so she never got up and away until almost 2pm.

    But the wait was worthwhile, and although Annie had never been in a plane before, and was rather more concerned about that than the actual jump, she was elated with the whole event. They did a ‘free-fall’ first, then the parachute opened before they hit cloud, and they descended through the cloud as they came down, which Annie said was simply amazing.

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  • Karmel – latest

    I’m offline at home, so not able to check on latest news from Spain, but the latest on Karmel is that she is on double dose Megasolene for 3 weeks and then we reduce the amount to see what dose is small enough to keep the disease under control.

    She is being bathed once a week to treat her damaged skin and hair, and is a happy personality, but losing weight – 6 kilos in the last 3 weeks.