Category: Adopt

I know it’s an old film but much of what is on the video hasn’t changed…just a few more shelters and enclosures gone up for the animals…but the team stays the same, the animals keep coming in…and Scooby needs the support.

Video 2 – Christelle visits with her father – this is 2016 – sadly nothing has changed, the galgueros still overbreed their hounds and abandon in the same numbers.

Video 3 – From Scooby in Spain to forever in Finland

From Ann Marie Payne of Ann’s Canine Care.

‘This is to show you that although I live in a hunting area, hunting with galgos and podencos, and the abuse they suffer is not condoned by all people in the town. This photo is of a group of ladies that put on a catwalk show to highlight some of the abandoned dogs found in Campillos, and other dogs needing homes. I am 3rd from the left with Mattei, and Suerte is in the centre. Both have gone on to find loving and forever homes.

So please when you see graphic photos of abused dogs in Spain please take into account that many, many individual Spanish people, charities and groups are trying to help the situation, and they go unnoticed.

Thank you. Ann and the dogs

From Scooby.

‘The outcasts of the outcasts in the world of hunting – They call them Regalgos in Andalusia and
Perrigalgos in Castilla.

They are mongrels whose father or mother is a galgo and they are the ones no one notices. Galgos are easy to place, as more and more people realise what wonderful companions they can be in family. Podencos, although still problematic to place, usually have a size that facilitates their adoption.

But what about this new category of mix breeds?

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Lovely video giving 10 reasons to adopt a galgo – in this film it is greyhounds, as the film was made by Animals Australia.

Cuidad Real is about 200 kms south of Madrid and the Protectora of La Bienvenida is the shelter from which I adopted my first galga Karmel. The region is a hellhole for galgos, abandoned in their hundreds and the shelters struggle to cope.

Cuidad Animal Refugio has dozens for adoption, here is a weblink to them.

(Lola) The Protective Society of Animals and Plants of Cádiz, better known as “Kimba Shelter”, was founded in 1872 and is therefore the oldest Animal Protective in Spain.

Although in its origins the protection of the plants was mainly its exclusive purpose, finally and in 1966 the refuge was created that would house the abandoned animals.

Since then the work that has been developing this Protective, includes different paths but always aimed at the same purpose … the defense and protection of animals.

Below are a few of the galgos waiting and hoping for forever homes. Contact Refugio Kimba.

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Rescue shelters are always grateful for volunteers taking time out from work the spend their holidays helping hounds. Hope for Podencos is no exception, with 80 dogs to care for, many rescued from Gran Canaria. Here’s a lovely video taken by one of 3 volunteers who recently spent a week with the hounds. Mostly they are Podenco Canarios but there are a few galgos in the mix too!