Category: Adopt

You may remember at the beginning of the year I featured a story about 3 galgos and a podenco in the Jaen killing station. The galgos were all rescued under the auspices of GRIN and podenca Estrella came out to me to foster. Two of the galgos and Estrella have now found their forever homes, but galga Angie was too ill and it has taken all this time to get her health sorted out.

This is what Telma of GRIN says.

‘Angie is one of the three Jaen galgas that was rescued Feb. 2010 from the killing station. The other two galgos, Luna and Quia and the one podenco Estrella have been homed already. Angie was not able to homed due to her stomach illness which turned out to be worms and giardia, thus her loss of more weight.

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The volunteers in Spain never cease to amaze me with their devotion and courage to taking abandoned dogs off the streets, especially galgos. GN friend Tina Solera was doing the school run last week and came across two more galgos wandering loose. Luckily for her, they were not too frightened to be persuaded into her car, and they are now at Los Infiernos refuge, where a special enclosure has been created just for galgos.

The two dogs have been named Romeo and Rodolfo.

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After the story of the blind galga touched so many hearts, here are updates on the other 3 galgas at Los Infiernos shelter in Murcia, where Tina is a volunteer. Here’s a reminder of Sandy, Lali and Guapita.

Guapita is approx 2 years old. Her beauty took my breath away and when I was told she had been sleeping rough on the road outside my friend’s house I could not rest until I caught her. She is extremely shy but has a hidden spirit where I can see she is waiting to burst out and show her true potential.

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Regular readers will know that besides being passionate about galgos, I am also passionate about podencos. And they suffer horrendously at the hands of hunters too, especially cruelty but also they are the dogs who end up with a leg caught in a ghastly metal snare – these traps are illegal in the UK.

I’ve featured the story about poor Bone, and the little Podenca Andaluz who needs a shelter to take her so that she can have an operation on her eyes, and now here is another podenca, rescued from near death in freezing temperatures.

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This is another poor galgo, abandoned by a heartless galguero now hunting has finished for the summer. A volunteer tells her story.

‘Last night I was talking to a friend about what a hard time greyhounds have here in Spain. She then told me that there was a galgo living in her street and had been there approx 3 weeks now.

I drove to her street and straight away there was the galga, curled up in a ball on the road. I couldn’t catch her, she was far too scared, so I found the boy who had been throwing her food for the last 3 weeks. He was able to get close enough to put on the collar that I always keep in the car.

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This galgo puppy is 3 1/2 months old, and is in a kennel waiting to be euthanaised! If anyone can take him to foster and care for him, please contact

info@galgoleku.org.

Gracias

Equipo Galgo Leku
www.galgoleku.org

DeGalgos is another hard-working association, based in Barcelona. There are two sad stories on their website. The first one is about an adopted galgo which has been stolen – can you imagine the poor dog. Rescued from a life of hell, adopted through the association, and now stolen, probably by gitanos. Sadly, this story is all too familiar for the galgos adopted in Spain.

The second story is about Estefania. Look at the wound on her hind quarters. She had been grabbed by youngsters and dragged behind a car. The wound was full of maggots. Luckily she is on the road to recovery and now looking for her forever home.

If you can adopt one of the beautiful galgos on the website, please contact the association direct.

I use Spanishdict.com for translation, it seems much better than babelfish or google.

Two more galgas rescued from the streets in Murcia.

Tina Solera is a volunteer with the refuge Los Infiernos, Torre Pacheco, Murcia. They don’t have a website, so I posting an appeal from her.

‘I have attached two photos of two galgos that came in last night, very frightened and hungry. The first galga is brown and white (female) 1-2years and we have called her Brunita. The second one is black, 4-5years (female) extremely underweight and very frightened, we have called her Azabache.

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Introducing Sandy, searching for a forever home. She arrived at the Los Infiernos refuge, Murcia, about 7 months ago, pregnant, rescued from gypsies, which is possibly why her body is covered in scars. 5 of the 7 puppies died, all galgos.

She had a home waiting for her in Germany, until it was discovered she was pregnant. At the moment she is quite a confident galga, approx 7 years old, vaccinations and passport up to date,blood tests clear. So she is ready to go.

Contact Tina if you can offer her a forever home.

And Kafir is still waiting for that special person to continue his journey back to the heaven of being a much loved pet, instead of the life of hell before he was caught. Contact L’Europe des Levriers about him.

There are so many terrible tales about galgos and other abandoned dogs in Spain, that I have to limit myself to galgos and podencos. This email has just come in from a lady in Spain who has been a supporter of abandoned dogs for many years. The information in the message illustrates just what a terrible time abandoned galgos have.

‘Dear Everyone, I’m writing to all of you in the hope that you will be able to help me by posting pictures on your websites?

John and I found Holly by the side of the road on Christmas day.

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