Galgo News

Category: Adopt

  • Galgo Ed in Murcia – can you help

    AWSM Ed 250 2 2013Ed, the galgo in the front of the picture, has Erlichia AND Leishmania, so he was very lucky to have been picked up when he was found wandering around a village with Elsa the other Galga in the photo. He is being treated firstly for the Erlichia which has had this handsome guy lying in his bed over the weekend, eating ok but sleeping a lot and obviously feeling quite rough.. .and on top of all that he only has one ‘testicle’ AND his tail doesn’t work, as in ‘wag’, So WHEN all the medication has finished in about a month, he will also be castrated, which will be a bigger op than normal for a castration. He will have an xray on his back end to see if there is any damage or just some inflamation which is causing it.

    If you can help in anyway toward the vetenary care and medication it would be greatly appreciated. either to PayPal roberta-brown@sky.com or sherliebradley@yahoo.co.uk, collecting on behalf of AWSM. State it is for Ed. Thank you

  • Dogster tells the story of some rescued Galgos

    Some publicity for the galgos on the Dogster website. Please share far and wide to help the galgos. Next on the list, podencos!

  • Portugal Dog Rescue – Galga Estrela’s rescuers need help

    Portugal dog box 250 2 2013Do you remember the story of Estrela, the galga in Portugal suffering at the hands of an alcoholic an drug addict wife? Teresa de Sousa and her team did an incredible job rescuing Estrela, another galga, and their puppies. Teresa badly needs funds to build some kennels to keep sick dogs separate from the healthy ones. She needs 350 euros – not a fortune. Please help her achieve her goal. Here are the details, you can donate by Paypal or credit card.

    Update on Estrela. She is doing well in foster care, EU passport prepared, and it looks like she is going to come to me in France for temporary foster en route for her forever home in the UK. Teresa and Ines thank you all for your donations which helped them save the lives of the two galgas and their puppies.

  • Scooby Medina – saving animals for over 20 years

    A video of a visit to Scooby Medina by Filipo Soresi Bordini on a visit there in January 2013 Remember, all the dogs you see need a forever home. Contact Scooby if you can offer one, or donate towards vet fees, dog food, medication etc.

    Plus a older video about life for the galgos in Spain.

  • 26 galgos from Seville to France – Levriers Sans Frontiere and Fundation Benjamin Mehnert.

    French galgo rescue association Levriers Sans Frontiere recently brought 26 galgos from Fundation Benjamin Mehnert in Seville to France for adoption. Here you can see photos of the 6-hour trip.

  • Cuenca – 27 galgos arrived at Scooby – they need homes!

    You will remember the appeal to save the Cuenca refuge being changed back into a perrera. Scooby have taken 27 galgos from there. They arrived on January 10th.
    Cristina and Simonetta, an Italian volunteer, left at 6 in the morning to get the dogs to Scooby. So it was a double women power transport and it worked very well!
    We hope we can soon release them into a new life as beloved pets and we count on you to make our hope become reality! See the video. They need money for food, vet fees and, of course, homes! http://www.scoobymedina.org

  • Madrasa, Seville – abandoned galgos & podencos urgently need help

    Seville galgos & podenco 300 1 2013These skeletal galgos with bad skin problems have appeared in Madrasa, a suburb of Seville, they have wounds on their bodies, two have broken tails and one has problems on a back leg. They are in an area where hunters often abandon their dogs, now hunting is drawing to a close.

    The podencos are also in Madrasa. One podenco is injured, weighs about 10kg, and 5 babies. They are in an area of orange trees. The male podenco has not been seen for a week.

    Please can anyone take them in, help us with them?

    adoptaotros@live.com
    albitatb_1993@hotmail.com
    (Spain – 618 632 382)

  • A Spanish galgo speaks…

    Charl Carly 250 1 2013Meet Carly, a white galga in the perrera for killing. Saved and now with 112carlotagalgos.

    Carly.

    I wish I could explain
    to you the pain
    I feel when I looked at you.
    The fear it runs right through my bones,
    chills me through to my very soul.

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  • Galgo Manolo in Valladolid – Scooby looks for a family for him

    Scooby Manolo 2 200 1 2013Not all galgueros are complete bastards – like the one who deliberately left galga Gala with two broken legs out in the campo in Andalucia – to starve to death in great pain. Manolo was left with Scooby Residencia Valladolid. Here Cobie tells his tale.

    MANOLO was left behind in the residencia because he was ‘no good for hunting’, said the galguero. I´m sure the galguero was no good for the dog because every galgo is a champion! Manolo is very lucky because now he can start a better and happy life with a caring family who will love him dearly because he is young, 2 and a half years old, very handsome, playful, super sweet and nice, has no fear and loves all other dogs and, even more, loves people. For adoption, contact Scooby

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  • Galga Gala – saved from a galguero murderer

    Scooby Gala 1 200 1 2013Two pieces of news, which came up whilst I was stuck in the UK with hardly any computer contact.

    Gala is a beautiful young galga found in a field in Andalucia with two deliberately badly broken legs – the left front and the left back – so she could not possibly get up and walk anywhere. Left by some bastard Spanish hunter to die a long and lingering and painful death. Luckily she was discovered and El Amparo took her to their vet where their vet operated on her to pin her legs back together again. Here are some before photos, and an incredible after video where she is walking with her legs splinted.

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