Category: Adopt

The news on the Galga from Toledo was that she was rescued.

Her bleeding was because she had not been able to take out the after birth from having given birth. She also had kidney failure and she was hospitalised for six days. She is now going to her foster family, to be socialised.

Whoever had her hurt her tremendously, and she is terrified. Her four puppies are perfectly well, still in the hospital, and tube fed. They will shortly be going to two families for their foster care where they will start to be bottle fed every three hours

Thank you to Charl for this good news.

This is Camaron, he is in Jaen, a podenco which was found abandoned – left at night and he was totally desorientated, passing from one side to another.

He found his way to the door of a security guard office, and he stayed there all night without moving. Everywhere the guard went, the dog followed. He is very scared, and needs guidance so he is not alone.

He’s only about 8 months old. All tests negative. good with dogs and cats, sterilised, vaccinated, microchipped, wormed and de-flead. He urgently needs to find a foster home or adoption, as I can’t keep him, I have so many other dogs.

CONTACTO: sinadobo@hotmail.com
telefono Spain: 00 34 635957910vero

Trancos is a delightful 3yr old podenco X who spent the first years of his life in Spain chained in a yard, in all weathers, summer and winter.

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I find it very difficult to believe just how many galgas are used simply as breeding machines, producing a litter of pups every year. It also makes me very angry. There are too many galgos in Spain, without breeding more. And yet the authorities turn a blind eye.

Some of the bitches, after having been abandoned by the galguerros, end up living on scrub land, in caves, searching for food to produce the milk for their pups. One such bitch living in a cave with her pups was recently shot dead.

Jara is one bitch who survived, lucky to be found near a refuge and taken in by the volunteers.

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This story has come in from Caroline at elregufioescuela:

Yesterday in the afternoon a colleague of mine was in the house of a lady who has 40 dogs. She cannot take any more.

We are worried about these 5 babies. They are 4 months old and live in a kennel in very very poor conditions. One has a very bloody paw because the bigger ones pick on it.

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Three years ago this beautiful galgo was adopted from Parque Animal in Torremolinos, Malaga, by an English couple.

Having previously been abandoned, he thought he had found his forever home.

Nearly 4 years later he finds himself back where he was, due to unforeseen circumstances out of his control and that of his adoptive parents.

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This is Luz. She was wandering the streets of Jaen, hard to catch. Despite trying to catch her in many ways, including tranquillizers, the way she was finally caught was by being knocked down.

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Puppy, five months old, extremely malnourished – found in appalling conditions – recovering in a foster home for a few days, but the fosterer has other dogs at his house and can only have him for a few days.

Urgently needs a forever home.

If you can help contact sinadobo@hotmail.com 635-957-910 (Spain)
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or please pass onto your contacts.

Charl has sent in stories of 3 more galgos, dumped like rubbish to fend for themselves. The mentality seems to be “galgos can hunt, they can look for food”.

Nata… another lame galgo, saved by some more “guardian angels” of the galgos.

Nata arrived at the shelter El Arca de Monzòn (Huesca) – no one knows how, but she was begging around the exterior of the refuge. Perhaps luck brought her that far.

It’s quite possible she was brought there by the same gypsies who had her because she was no good at running, for she has a wound in her front paw.

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So… the sadness continues for the Spanish Galgos. Charl del Rio tells the tale of Noche.

It never ceases to amaze me how much a galo has to suffer and continues to endure, unless they reach the relative safety of a refuge. It is nothing a human would endure without giving in and complaining, or giving up totally. All galgos, when rescued, show gratefulness as only a galgo knows how.

This is the story of Noche, a galga who has endured immense suffering.

This is the night where her life was turned around and she found hands to cure her wounded body.

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