Category: Adopt

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.

This little dog has been picked up by a lady who has just had a baby eight days ago, someone appears to have attempted to gouge his eye out…. the mind boggles????

She already has a few dogs and cannot keep this one so if anyone can offer foster care or a permanent home, please contact her on the email below.

belcebu10@hotmail.com

She’s in Burgos, northern Spain.

Cristina de Luna is trying to find a permanent home for this little dog.

She is called NANA, she’s a crossed galga, very small.

She’s around 45 cm high and weights 10 kg., and is only 10 months old.

The photos show her in her foster home, but now her foster mum is very ill, and a refuge is the only other place open to her.

She cries the whole day and is very depressed because she doesn’t understand what happened.

If there is anyone looking for a small dog, this little girl is perfect.

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Although he’s not a galgo, I’m including the story of Hallo, as he has been saved by a friend of Marisa’s.

Marisa continues his story.

Hallo is a really difficult case in Spain. He was found by a friend of mine in the centre of Seville last Halloween, jumping above the cars in a really big avenue.

She got him into the car and went home. Hallo was really frightened. The days passed and Hallo never lost the fear.

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