Thanks to Caroline Grebbell for help with sorting out and updating the list of Galgo and Podenco Rescue Associations. Here’s the link to the page
Category: Adopt
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Scooby Medina – another 24 galgos arrive from Alicante – 200 in just one month!
Scooby have just taken another 24 galgos back to the refuge at Medina. By my reckoning, that’s over 200 galgos in just one month! Read about it here, and please help by finding forever homes for them.
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Portuguese Galga Joy – waiting for her forever home
Introducing galga Joy, abandoned on the streets in Portugal, rescued by Portugal Dog Rescue, who also rescued Estrela, and is in foster with Gabi, who describes her character.
‘Joy is a wonderful reddish brown colour, 2 years old. She was very sad and thin, with bad skin when she arrived. She is affectionate and playful, walks well on the lead, but is still nervous out on the street. She also tested positive for leishmania, but this was soon treated and now she is on 150mg Alopurinol twice a day. She will need to be tested again in 6 months’ time.
Oh, I love this dog, just look at her!’
If you can offer Joy the forever home she deserves, please contact Portugal Dog Rescue or Gabi
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Scooby – galgo adoption and educating the young Spanish
Scooby English blog – update on adoptions of dogs from Scooby, plus the work they do in schools to educate the younger generation of Spanish.
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Scooby English Blog – update from Fermin on the galgo situation
Back home after a week in the UK with my son and grandsons, and my daughter. So now, a few news items for you.
Please check out the Scooby English blog, here’s the latest from Fermin. This year seems to be even worse for disposal of galgos by the hunters. And remember, Scooby need the money to feed, passport and sterilize all these hounds, plus finding forever homes for them.
Meet Zare – another young survivor
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Sighthound Underground – SHUG – helping home hounds in America
SHUG – Sighthound Underground – is another new association in the USA involved in helping sighthounds, including galgos. Here’s what the director Michael says.
‘Yes, we just formed this past December 2012 and are just getting started. We’ve rehomed one dog so far and have a Galgo currently in fostercare. I need to get both of them up on the website and I will use your other suggestions, too as we work on our content! (I suggested when you formed, which shelters in Spain you support, news stories, rehoming stories, what donations are used for.)
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Saved from the streets of Seville – no holiday here
This is Cronos, rescued in this state from the streets of Seville by Macu. He has a serious skin condition, scrapings have been taken for analysis and for treatment to start. Poor boy. Macu’s paypal address for donations.
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Two galga pups saved from Malaga perrera, now in the US thanks to GRIN
Nice story about two lucky galgo pups saved from the El Paraiso perrera at Malaga, now in the US. April Lamb, mentioned in the article, has been working hard with Danielle Hart to try and persuade National Geographic magazine to publicise the plight of the galgos. Join in the letter-writing campaign published yesterday.
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Scooby Medina to the Galgo Rescue
A couple of weeks ago, 40 galgos arrived at Scooby Medina from Seville. Next week they are taking in 140 – yes, 140 – galgos from all over Spain. This is a message from Scooby’s President, Fermìn Pérez Martìn:
Hello to everybody:
I am writing to all of you because we are receiving a huge amount of pleas of help from everywhere for taking galgos from perreras all over Spain and I would like to count on you with your support financially and taking dog, you know that without all of you we will not be able to do it, we have the space and you have the rest so together we are a winning team, waiting for your answer. Fermin
Donate to feed and vet fees here.
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ADANA, Badajoz, Spain – galgo lucky to be alive
ADANA have rescued this badly injured galgo, suffering multiple bites – particularly to his testicles – and a torn neck. He also has a recent scar about 2cm wide which runs round the neck. The new neck wound is very deep to such an extent that you can see they veins. The tear is about 3cm long. To have survived such horrendous injuries – cause by being bait in a dog fight, or possibly also having been hung and released means this boy has a very strong survivor instinct. He has been named River. He’s in Badajoz, a particular hell hole for galgos.
So, ADANA is appealing for help to pay the vet fees to help River on the road to recovery.
You can make donations through their bank account or by Paypal Donations on the button on their website. If you click on the Union Jack top right hand corner of the homepage, you can read their news in English.WARNING – Upsetting photos