Galgo News

Category: Advice

  • From a perrera to Scooby to Canada and a forever home

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    Mary Macdonald is a member of GPAC – Galgo and Podenco Rescue Canada – and last May travelled with 2 friends to Spain to take back 5 podencos and a galgo. Here she tells of how Chaval joined her family in Canada.

    ‘Chaval is a Galgo from Scooby Medina. He was rescued from a Perrera at the age of eight months. When looking at Scooby’s website and available dogs – a task that is not easy because they all deserve a loving home – Chaval caught my interest because he had been at the rescue so long. When I inquired about him I had learned he had been there so long because he was considered a “ cripple “. He had an old calcaneus fracture of his right hind leg from some unknown trauma. I decided I would adopt him regardless and in May 2018 he became a part of my family.

    He had some health issues when he arrived, excessive water drinking and excessive peeing and he needed to gain weight. After a few tests he was diagnosed with Diabetes Insipidus, which is managed by Desmopressin drops in his eye twice a day for life and he started to gain the weight he needed. After I got a diagnosis and treatment, I had his leg X rayed, not thinking anything could really be done since it was such an old fracture.

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  • British Veterinary Association – changes for post-rabies vaccination waiting times

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    Vets are concerned about the risk of exotic, zoonotic diseases being brought into the UK via travelling pets and ‘trojan’ rescue dogs. Read the full article here.

  • A message to new adoptants of Rescue Dogs

    Ann Marie Payne of Ann’s Canine Care in Malaga is a gifted poet. Here is the weblink to one of her verses, well put together with instructions for people who have taken on a foster or adopted rescue dog.

  • How to make pupsicles for your dog

    Click on this link on the Whole Dog Journal for details on making dog treats, especially during the hot weather.

  • Richard Skipwoth – greyhound/galgo hazard cartoons.

    Have a chuckle at these Richard Skipworth, cartoonist, Greyhound/Galgo hazard signs.

  • Foods poisonous to your dogs

    Here’s a couple of lists of foods poisonous to your dogs.

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    My dogs love vegetables such as carrots, courgettes, sweet peppers, tomato cores; here’s a slide show of toxic and dangerous foods for your dogs.

  • Primary, secondary, third line rescue – what’s best?

    I’ve copied this post from the Action for Animal Welfare Spain facebook page, written by Viv. I admire all everyone living in Spain (whatever nationality) living with the huge problem of abandoned, injured, starving, maltreated animals on their doorstep. How can they turn their back on such a dog, just because they have the legal limit for the number of dogs they can keep?

    Viv writes ‘This post is not to cause offence, its for discussion

    Primary rescue, Secondary rescue, Third line rescue, what’s best, what will make a difference? Perhaps a better title is, ‘less is more’, improving rescue, what do we need to do?

    The recent case in France of an English ex pat keeping rescue dogs and having some of them removed, has produced a lot of controversy and differing opinions amongst rescuers.

    Some people think it was wrong to take on so many dogs without resources and some hail her as a hero for picking up dogs that might otherwise have been killed in pounds.

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  • Protecting your dog from ticks and Lyme disease

    Read the full article here.

  • Canine contraception – the choices

    A typical but sad story about dogs in Spain. Two galgas, abandoned in a small hamlet in Spain, near Cordoba. Retired British couple are feeding them, tick treatment etc, but can’t adopt. The shelters are full and they are concerned about the galgas coming into season and getting covered by roaming dogs and producing unwanted puppies. They can’t afford 150 euros each dog for spaying.

    So I found this article about Canine Contraception which I have forwarded on to them in the hope that they can stop the bitches coming into season until a shelter/association can take them.

  • Tip of the Needle – over vaccination of animals

    Here is another article on the subject of vaccines and how often our dogs etc should have them. My horse hasn’t had a vaccination for several years – he is retired – my dogs don’t go anywhere to meet other dogs as we have our own meadows to talk in. At least for them, rabies vaccination is now only every 3 years. But they are still pumped up with the rest of the drugs! As one is 15, one 13 and one 9, surely they are well protected without still needing an annual vaccine?

    Anyone else feel the same?