Galgo News

Category: Adopt

  • Desperate, injured, starving in Cordoba

    Grissom 1 8 2012 170Black galgos, starving, injured, all needing help. First of all we have the case of a black galgo who has been named Grissom. He’s got a gun shot wound to his leg, the pellet is still there, and it has broken his leg. He desperately needs surgery etc and that will cost. He was very think when picked up, very loving, but obviously can’t move about on this damaged leg. He’s in foster care with 4 other dogs. If anyone can help, please contact Jenny Pabon plataformanala@gmail.com, or paloma.plataformanala@gmail.com

    The second case is really desperate too. Two black galgos (bottom photo) who have been living near some properties in Cicada, Cordoba, for over two months. One of them has neck marks, possibly a hanging mark, they are in a state through lack of food, often take refuge in a stream, so are at risk of the mosquito. The lady can’t take care of them because she has two dogs.

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  • Toledo, Spain – August and galgos are still being rescued by Baas Galgo

    Baas G rescue 1 250 8 2012The latest rescue by Baas Galgo in Toledo. Sandra tells the story.

    ‘As you know, the Galgo Holocaust can be in any season. While much of the population are enjoying their holidays, our little martyrs continue to suffer mistreatment and neglect, withstanding high temperatures and trying to survive. And while that much of the population enjoying their holidays, our Baas team is ALWAYS ready for a fight, no matter what season is, with a common goal: to do justice.

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  • Animales de Baeza, Jaen – two more galgos needing homes

    Baeza Clara 250 8 2012These two galgos were rescued from the Resur perrera by Animales de Baeza. They are in kennels because there is no room in the refuge and they could now be stolen if they are not taken. Their kennel fees have been paid for 2 weeks, plus vaccinations. Is there an association which can take them for foster and rehoming. The French association which helps her have already taken some galgos from her. Clara is the brindle one, Diana the black one. Please contact Mairie Teresa at Baeza, Jaen. Apparently there are still more galgos on death row in Resur, but her shelter is full. animalesdebaeza@gmail.com
    August, and there are still galgos arriving in the killing station!

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  • Rescued from the gitanos on the Costa Blanca – looking for forever families

    Paradise Romeo 190 8 2012These three beautiful galgos were taken from the Gypsies. Romeo, his wife Juliet & daughter ‘Star’ were abused & locked up in a tiny ramshackle kennel. Romeo and Juliet are soul mates really need to be homed together. Romeo (the rough haired galgo) is very nervous, but soon comes around after he’s got to know you. Juliet and Star (the white one) are both very friendly. For more information and if you can offer these lovely dogs a home, please contact Paradise Kennels.

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  • Galgos in training – Save the Galgo

    Injured pup 170The plight of the galgos has, it seems to me, been worse this year than ever before, and still, all through this summer, volunteers are rescuing starving and injured galgos. A volunteer says, ‘in a month and a half the hunting season with galgos starts again and already the galgueros are training their dogs like crazy to get condition on them, to get stronger muscles, more speed, only to leave them behind later in the fields or perreras if they don´t hunt as they want.

    Please, adopt a galgo because there are still many left everywhere from the last season, all in need of a loving family and a forever home! For the end of the hunting with galgos in Spain!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nvLZ_USYQ&feature=share
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9OuZS61jVs&feature=relmfu (Olivenza is a privately owned killing station in Badajoz, Extremadura, you can read about it in my book From Heaven to Hell, The Story of the Spanish Galgo)

  • Another case of vile maltreatment of a galga – Galgos 112 to the rescue

    This is the story of Noa, a galga found in Cordoba with a badly injured leg, who jumped into a river to escape being caught. But now she is in the care of Galgos 112. Her body was full of gun pellets, she has lost an eye, and her leg has been amputated. She is now in foster care in Seville.

    Here’s her story. apologies for the grammar, but I’ve just lifted it off an Internet translator. But you will understand it.

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  • Galga Ginny – fighting against the odds – please help

    Ginny 2 170 7 2012Maribel Jerez does a marvellous job of circulating appeals on behalf of dogs on death row in Spain’s perreras, chiefly in Jerez and Gesser in Cadiz. One recent one which circulated was a photo of a sad galga, no one came forward to take her, so Charl of 112carlotagalgos stepped in to save her. The perrera has now decided to spay dogs before they can leave, so Ginny, as she has been named, was spayed. It was only when she was collected from the perrera that it became obvious that Ginny was not in the best of health. Here’s her story.

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  • Galga Nana – learning about life with the Pro-Galgo family

    Do you remember Nana? She’s been in the care of Pro-Galgo and her vet for the past months. She’s now recovered, is growing, and becoming a ‘little galga monster’! Here is a lovely video of her at home with Mo’s dogs, learning that life in the outside world can be fun with the right people. Thank you to everyone involved in her rescue and her care in bringing her back to health.

  • Seville – safe at last with a chance for a happy life

    Seville, Macu to the rescue again from the gypsy settlement. Little Barbi, scared, covered in ticks, full of worms, such a baby to be away from her Mama. Foster and help with vet fees please.

    Contact Macu macu19782010hotmail.com Seville 665809169

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  • Life on the line in Cadiz

    Cadiz babies 1 200 7 2012These babies are in Cadiz, their mother was killed. Bottle feeds every few hours, but they are feeding well. We need somewhere for them to go when they are bigger, and vaccinated etc. Please contact us martasalado@hotmail.com – Associations only

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