Greyhound Pets of Atlantic Canada – read the story here.
Category: Adopt
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Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville – galgos for adoption
Please take a look at these beautiful galgos…all with a story to tell…all safe, happy and waiting for forever homes. Please contact Jane at Pepis if you can take one into your home and your heart.
These are a few of the lucky ones off to forever homes in Italy.Here are some of the dogs who need sponsoring – could you spare just 10 euros/month – or more – to feed them?
Or what about joining the Teaming group. More information here.
Could you spare a week or long weekend to volunteer at Pepis – help feed the dogs, clean the kennels, walk the dogs…get in touch here to find out more.
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Scooby team – to France, Holland and Italy
This weekend Fermin and members of the Scooby team are travelling from Spain through France to Holland and Italy with some of their rescued dogs going to foster and forever homes. It’s an incredible journey, especially when you consider that they also have jobs during the week. Fermin writes.
How many more trips we’ll have to do?/ how many more trips do we need to make?
Recent data points to Castile y León, where are the four Scooby shelters, like the Spanish community more violent with the dogs. This is a land of hunting and violence in the name of the ” traditions “, a land of sayings; ” where a necklace is worth more than the galgo “.
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Update on Hypatia, the beaten galga.
The strong will to live shown by galgos who survive the terrible treatment inflicted on them by the sub-human galgueros who try to kill them is incredible. From the original pages of Hypatia badly beaten about the head and left for dead – whilst people walked by her on the street and ignored her – to her being rescued by volunteers and now to these latest ones of her feeling well enough to bask in the sunshine and take a walk with her friends.
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1294 – dogs homed by Scooby in 2016!
From Fermin Perez of Scooby Medina. These figures include all dogs, not just galgos.
1 “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
– Elvis PresleyIn 2016 we have saw an increase in the number of dog adoptions and an even bigger increase in the number of cat adoptions, but every year I ask myself: “when will this stop?”
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The Broken Spirit – The Galgo’s Last Run –
THE BROKEN SPIRIT – THE GALGO’S LAST RUN. A Dutch documentary about the galgos life in Spain which includes showing the work of Scooby Medina del Campo.
There are dozens of galgos at Scooby waiting for their forever homes. If you have room in your home and heart for one, please contact Scooby.
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Life on the frontline of Animal Rescue in Spain
(SWanchez) This is what life is like at Pepis Dog Refuge for Jane and Alan Brian. In 2005 they moved to Spain for a retirement life, instead this is what they cope with 24/7/365. Neither of them are in the best of health, but they carry on caring for the dogs the local Spanish throw out. They survive only on donations. Please join their teaming – just the cost of a cup of coffee a month – or a monthly donation of £5/5 euros. Every little helps.
Jane writes. ‘Being a legal refuge, you are limited to how many dogs you can take, this alone is a problem. WHY, because Seprona the guardia civil can prosecute you for having over your quota, because it is illegal to do that,so we are here and easy targets. BUT it is also illegal to dump dogs,and when they do we have to deal with it/ Do we untie them and let them go to be shot or starve to death. NO we don’t, we deal with it.
BUT who is going to prosecute the people who dump them? NO ONE, because you have to prove they dumped them, no chip no proof. The law is useless.
That being said, the dogs can be removed and destroyed. Welcome to Spain.
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Galgos with Scooby needing special experienced homes
Here are two galgos amongst the dozens with Scooby association, but these two are special as they have neurological problems and therefore need special experienced homes. You can read about them and see videos on this link.
I’d like to be able to show you another galgo just rescued from Scooby – dumped in a perrera in an horrendous state. The video is only on facebook, here is the link if you are able to view it. As ever, it reinforces the fact that the majority of galgueros are sub-human and not fit to breathe the same air as the galgos, nor share the same planet!
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Galgos galore at Scooby
Scooby, like so many refuges, has galgos overflowing – here are some of the lovelies hoping for forever homes in 2017.
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Living in Spain – not for the faint-hearted
Most people dream of retiring to a life in the sun, many consider running a business. Spain is one of the top destinations and that’s just what Vivienne Wharton decided to do in 2007. As Founder of ACTIN, she recently stepped down as President and had time to chat to me about life in Spain.
I asked her why she chose the Cartagena area of Murcia, as Spain is such a large country! ‘It was really by accident. My best friend had moved here and whilst I was visiting her I came across Tara Casa, which was perfect for my plans to create a retreat. I hadn’t planned on living in Spain full time but to commute for the retreats. But as often happens, life doesn’t always take the path you plan. The previous owners abandoned their 2 dogs at the house and so the move to Tara Casa became permanent’.
Like a lot of animal lovers in Spain, it is virtually impossible to turn a blind eye to the abandonment and cruelty which exists on the doorstep, especially dogs and cats but also for horses and donkeys. Living among the beautiful almond groves, Viv had the same problem.