Category: Adopt

A little podenco looking for a forever home.

About three years old, she was used as a hunting dog, beaten quite regularly. Then she got her hind leg caught in a trap. so her owner tried to cut the leg off with ‘scissors’.

Releasing her to a life on the streets, she was knocked down and injured further. Luckily she was found and taken in by a rescue association, who operated on her leg, to be cared for in a foster home.

She was so traumatised by now that she didn’t make a single sound, or move at all.

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We hang Christmas decorations at this time of year. The Spanish hang dogs. This is one who was lucky enough to be found still alive, which is a miracle.

He allowed his rescuers to cut the rope, and remove the assassination cord from his neck without a whimper. His wounds are being treated by caring volunteers. His crime? To be born a Spanish galgo.

When hunting ends in January there will be dozens more cases like this, many of them will not be found alive.

He has been christened Noel. He is now looking for a forever home. Contact Cristina at GalgosIn Fronteras if you can help.

Join the campaign to stop this barbaric cruelty. Click on any of the website links in the right hand column and find out how you can help.

The galgos need all the support they can get.

Noa is a black galgo of about 3 months old. On 22nd December he suffered a road accident, knocked down in Palencia, left on the tarmac with no help offered, not even from the local animal protection society.

Luckily Amigos de Milord learnt about him and he was taken to a hospital in the city where his pain and injuries were treated. He is now with an orthopaedic traumatologist.

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Two beautiful dogs, being fostered by Cristina de Luna, are looking for forever homes.

Cristina describes Sari, a young galgo bitch.

The galga is very young and has gone through hell (….me too). She was found on the street, run over by a car. She has had four operations. We tried to save her front leg but it has been impossible and it was amputated two weeks ago. We spent a long one and a half months trying every alternative.

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If you can’t adopt a galgo, what about fostering one. It doesn’t cost much each month, 10 euros, or £7.50. It’s not much to us, but it is worth a lot to the refuges in Spain which rescue galgos and look after them till homes can be found for them abroad.

Sandra Baas, a jewellery designer who lives in Spain, who runs just such a scheme, explains.

Baasgalgo manages protection campaigns for galgos/greyhounds living in refuges or other protective shelters in Spain. Many dogs live in protective associations or refuges for many years, because they are not lucky enough to find ‘forever homes’

Taking good care of these animals consumes a lot of the total available budget. That is why we offer the possibility of financial adoption of a dog. If for some reason you cannot or do not want to adopt a dog in your house, there still is the possibility to help one of those poor creatures in this way.

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Thin, emaciated with shocking burnt paws, a young brindle galga wandered the streets of Seville. A galgo carer, Lola, pulled into the carpark of the local supermarket, and the galga appeared and allowed herself to be stroked.

Returning to her car with food for the dog, Lola, found the dog had disappeared. As she opened the boot of her car to put the shopping in, the galga appeared again, and amazingly jumped into the car. Usually they are too timid and take time to be caught.

Lola took her home and named her Reina. The recuperation process began, worming, de-flea treatments, treatment from the vet for her paws. But danger lurked as she was being walked one day.

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Latest news on Fabienne is that she is now in a foster home where she can receive the medical treatment she needs, on her road to recovery.

Introducing Fabianne, luckily for her she was found by some volunteers, under a small bridge under the Andalucia motorway, on top of an old mattress.

This particular day it was pouring with rain and she was soaking wet.

At first they thought she was a puppy, but it turns out she is approximately 6 years of age, and weighing only 11kg.

She was in a state of hypothermia and malnourished to such an extent that she was near death.

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Inocente is a beautiful brindle galgo mix, about 3 years old, but with a past which would horrify any sensitive person.

Someone tried to hang Inocente, but he was saved before he died. He has an old fracture of the tibia with a 40 degree distal deviation.

The Kimba refuge at Cadiz is asking for people to help find a family for Inocente, one to give him all the love possible and help him to forget his past in Chiclana de la Frontera (Cadiz).

If there is anyone who can help, contact Kimba – www.refugiokimba.org

Introducing Fran, only 2 years old, rescued when she was tied under a lorry by the gypsies.

Passion Levriers are looking for a loving home for her.