Category: Adopt

Two galgos looking for forever homes.

Yanis was found in Toledo, she is about 18 months old.

She is very intelligent and caring, good with cats, adores children especially sm all children.

Good in the car, housetrained, sterilised, vaccinated, microchipped, wormed and her blood analysis is negative.

Email: adopciones@degalgos.org

And the second is this beautiful galgo belonging to a lady who has lost her home, and has to give away her three dogs.

If you can help, contact Nancy at degalgos.org (updated)

Jan is a galgo. He has suffered horrendously. Amongst other injuries, he had a nail in his head. He is about 10 years old. 10 years of living a life of hell as a Spanish galgo.

He has been save by the association Degalgos. They are a small association, the volunteers pay for everything from their own pockets.

Jan needs help, as he is in specialist neuro care, which will cost thousands of euros. Degalgos never usually ask for help, but this time they are asking for economic help to pay for Jan’s care.

You can read about Jan and the other dogs which suffered with him on GalgoMania

It is in English as well as Spanish.

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Cristina de Luna is a volunteer withPerrikus, a refuge north of Madrid. I met Cristina when I visited the refuge last July when I took part in a rescue with L’Europe des Levriers.

It’s a small refuge, well organised, with room for 30 dogs. At the moment the shelter is totally full. And they have 18 galgos for adoption, waiting to be taken out of Spain as soon as possible.

If you can help, contact Cristina direct on misaluk@gmail.com and L’Europe des Levriers.

The Perrikus website is in Spanish and German, while Cristina speaks excellent English. There is also an English language section on L’Europe des Levriers.

This is Agua, named because she was found in a canal of water with her babies, watching two drown.

She is recovering in foster care and its seen that this is the first time she has received love, food and attention.
She walks well on the lead and is a calm quiet dog.

If anyone can help her find her forever home, please contact www.degalgos.org or myself.

Charl del Rio http://112carlotagalgos.blogspot.com

This is a Malagueno Podenco from Andalucia. She is about the size of a Yorkshire Terrier. In other words, tiny!

She was found, terrified and injured, on a motorway near Seville. Luckily a young Spanish woman, a volunteer at the Sofía El Refugio Escuela refuge, stopped her car, and managed to catch the traumatized dog. She had an injury to a hind leg, open wounds on her body, and was starving.

She named the little dog Bebe, which means ‘born again’.

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Always nice to report on forever homes found, so here we catch up with some of the dogs that have featured on the site in the past.

Yor has gone to a lovely home with a lady who lives in the Aude.

He shares a sofa with Barney, a saluki cross and Jack, a large collie.

Adonis has gone to live with an adopted galgo Pye, his look-alike.

Pruna has found a home near La Rochelle, little Noa is also adopted, and Colate has gone to a French family near Paris, who have an adopted greyhound.

The two dogs saved from hanging, Innocente and Noel, have also found forever homes, where they will never again experience the horror of ‘The Pianist’.

And Shamia, the Azawakh, now has a fabulous new life in Greece. The adopting family have a great deal of experience with the breed and are very excited about welcoming her into their country home.

While everyone is saturated with dogs coming in thick and fast it is always hard to add another to the case of abandoned dogs.

However I have been contacted by someone who has rescued a pointer, brecan aleman aprox. 1 year old female who had been left lying on the road.

They took her to the vet and she had a broken leg, probably knocked down.

She has been left with a limp but is doing very well. She is great with kids and other dogs cats, and understands the command NO. She is not a big dog and is in need of a forever home.

If anyone can help please contact Helen directly on the phone number or email below. They cannot keep her but hope to look for someone who can give her the love she deserves.

helen7alan@hotmail.co.uk

UPDATE

Holly has now been rehomed in Germany

An online eBay collar auction in aid of Refugio Kimba has allowed Sighthound Welfare Trust to provide £250 in grant funding to the Spanish based animal rescue organisation.

The grant will support the excellent work that Kimba carries out on a daily basis for galgos, but in particular the funds will help with the veterinary expenses of Linda, a pointer.

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I try not to put too many dogs on Galgo News looking for forever homes, as the individual associations are the people to contact.

But I feel a need to mention the ones which really pull at my heartstrings, like the injured and abused ones.

This is Palomo. The main things he needs are a warm bed, plenty to eat and drink, and your love and kindness.

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These podencos were in the house of an old lady who has Alzheimers Disease, and she forgot to feed them.

A neighbour has taken them, but cannot keep them, as she has five dogs of her own.

The most urgent need is that the dogs are taken from where they are now, even if only by an association, and after that, money is needed for food etc.

Money is urgently needed to help with their feed or whatever they require, plus new homes found.

Contacts are:
deanfreeman1@yahoo.co.uk
maribeljerez76@hotmail.com
comdelrio@hotmail.com