Category: Adopt

This is a podenca living on the streets of Cordoba. She has had a litter and the pups have now been taken, by whom? She has gained her trust in a lady nearby, and this lady is the only one who can touch the little dog.

She is being sterilised today and needed a foster home for that reason, as she has nowhere to go to recuperate, other than the streets again. She is living in the park and there is a hunter who has a place for podencos, who interested in catching her and keeping her for breeding. His place is not suitable – not difficult to imagine – and it is hoped that, at least by sterilising her, it will deter his interest.

Poor girl! Contact

Noemi Gonzalez
Mail: info@adoptanos.org
Web: www.adoptanos.org

Through helping with galgo rescue, I’ve been introduced to podencos, or Ibizan Hounds. We’ve fostered one, Jazmin, an absolutely delightful character.

Some of the podencos have had their beautiful pink noses mutilated to make them look like a pig, as with Joy, which apparently is supposed to improve their ‘ratting’ capabilities!

These dogs also suffer the same degree of indescribable cruelty as the galgos.

You can read about the breed on www.ibizanhoundrescue.com.

In the meantime, meet Violetta, a little character looking for her forever family.

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This galgo was found the other day loose on a motorway, luckily before he was injured or killed.

The refuges are already full to bursting, his rescuer cannot keep him in her apartment as she already has 16 cats and 2 galgos there, so he is living in her car.

If anyone can help please please contact the refuge through the website below.

http://www.veuanimal.org
veuanimal…tel 607 94 21 27

Recently my little Valhund escaped from our courtyard and turned up by a neighbours lake, with her paw in one of the vile steel traps, which had been set to catch a fox.

Luckily for Pepsi, it was only her toes which were caught, and no bones were broken.

This little podenco was not so lucky. Caught in a trap, left for five days before help arrived. Now urgently looking for a foster and forever home.

She is extremely thin, and sadly her leg could not be saved, so she has an amputation at the shoulder front leg, due to the wound being severely infected because it was left open so long.

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I’d never heard of an Azawakh, or ‘African greyhound’ as my contact called her. So it was interesting to read up on wikipaedia about the breed.

Samia is sadly looking for another home, through no fault of her own. She is 6 years old, a beautiful copper colour, and very slender. She has been with her present owners since they bought her from the breeder when she was 3 years old.

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The trouble with this time of year in half of Spain is that the appeals for help from the Spanish refuges to help rescued galgos is never ending.

Here is another appeal just received.

This galguita is in care.

She was rescued from the refuge where she was on death row with the many other galgos there, most have been rehomed except this one.

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My home is sometimes used as an overnight stop for one of the French galgo rescue associations, and I have been privileged – is that the right word? – to see quite a number of galgos, of all colours, and podencos running free in our enclosed courtyard, whilst on their way to be fostered or go straight to their adopting family.

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I am fostering Colate. He is a magnificent chocolate- coloured galgo, with amber eyes. He thought he had found his forever family, but has come back to me because their home situation changed.

He was brought out of Spain by L’Europe des Levriers as a pitifully thin dog, covered in scars. After 4 months of feeding up, he is now extremely handsome. His scars have covered and his coat gleams.

He’s about four years old, extremely affectionate and loving – considering the background he probably came from – and gets on with all my other dogs, including my lurcher, who is the Alpha dog.

Colate is not an aggressive dog – in fact he’s pretty typical of the galgo breed – loves long walks, curling up at my feet or in front of the wood burner, car rides, and playing ball.

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Rescued from the horrors of Spain. Yor, Brenda, Adonis and Sara were brought out of Spain by Amigos de los Galgos and are now being fostered by volunteer Joanna Simm in the Aude, southern France

If you can offer them forever homes, please get in touch with Joanna, who can explain what to do.

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Visit the website of the people who are currently looking after him. This is the English version.

http://hasiandashaenglish.blogspot.com/

And here is the piece about Lord Byron from January.