Galgo News

Category: Campaign

  • Injured Galgo in Cadiz, can an association take him and heal him?

    Galgo eye 1 250 1 2 2012This poor soul is in Barbate, Cadiz. He is very thin and, as you can see, has an eye out. Surprisingly he is willing to get n a car, he is not too afraid, wags his tail a bit. The problem is that the volunteer has not the funds to pay for the operation needed on the eye. She desperately needs a foster home for him, and an association to take care of the eye operation with their vet. Please, is there an association anywhere who will take this poor boy in and save what is left of his eye. Goodness knows what caused this damage.

    If you can take him, please contact Helena 657133551 helenamalia89@gmail.com

    See update below

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  • Holiday Accommodation in Spain? Death Row in Gesser, Cadiz!

    Gesser 1 250 25 1 2012Yet more galgos on death row, this time in Gesser perrera, Jerez (nr Cadiz). 30 here this week, due to be sacrificed shortly. 30 euros it costs, to get an animal out with chip, passport, rabies vacc and tick treatment. The one with the broken leg is now reserved, there is a pup with a deformed leg. There are more photos on www.perreras.org. More dogs coming in every day – hunting is due to finish and there will be hundreds more in perreras all over the country. The hunters do not care!

    If any associations can help with these dogs, please contact Maribel or phone Maribel between 9-5 605637101. More pix here

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  • Exclusive accommodation in Spain – rescue attempts for 74 galgos and podencos

    Gypsy galgo starved 1 150 1 2012No apologies for the ‘stupid’ title to this post. I have put in key words and want to reach as many people as possible looking at Spain, for whatever reason. Update on the rescue of 74 galgos/podencos – mostly galgos – from a gypsy in Murcia, who has a denuncia against him. Here is what Tina Solera of Galgos del Sol says.

    ‘Approx 74 galgos and pods. GdS managed to rescue 9 with the help of The Henrietta Foundation who will foster 4 of those for us. La Fortelaza took 8, and another lady there took approx 5 I think and has another 5-6 reserved but has to come back. GalgoConnection Spain in Valencia are taking 3. So there are approx 45 left that are all due to be taken away and put to sleep on Friday 27th January 2012. ‘ I believe although that date is not concrete.

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  • Murcia – 70 galgos need rescuing from a Spanish gypsy – send a letter to the Hunting Federation

    70 galgos gypsy camp 250 21 1 201222 January 2012 – as I write a rescue is being carried out in Murcia. Up to 70 galgos in a gypsy camp. The gitano (Spanish gypsy) with these dogs was denounced (see my book to explain a denuncia) and the authorities said the dogs would all be put down unless they were rescued. These dogs are in poor condition, some chained to walls….the gypsies are very hard on the galgos. Several people belonging to rescue associations and refuges are involved in this operation.

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  • Dog Fighting – an innocent victim used as bait – Spanish galgos suffer

    Galga as dog bait 250 14 1 2012Because galgos are not aggressive dogs, unscrupulous people use them as bait for dog fighting. This galguita found a few days ago, is young, full of wounds and has a broken tail.

    There currently seems to be some uncertainty as to who actually has the galga,

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  • Federacion Espanola de Galgos – send a letter

    Don’t forget to join my letter-writing campaign – click here for the letter in Spanish, copy, paste and send off in your thousands!

  • Badajoz galgo – galguera threatens to kill him! Another disposable dog!

    Badajoz galgo 1 250 17 1 2012A volunteer in Badajoz pleads for help for another galgo. ‘ARWIN is a young galgo 16 months old… the galguera (female hunter) contacted us and said he will kill him in 48 hours if we can’t find anywhere for him.

    When we came to see the dog, we found he was terrified, he had a lot of bite marks on him, some healed, some more recent. I have asked the galguera please let us bathe him, heal the wounds and carry him to the vet… but she says the dog is not hers, and the dog has to go.

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  • Galgos in danger, Cordoba perrera and Badajoz … the holocaust continues

    Cordoba perrera 1 250 17 1 2012If a galgo won’t hunt, then the galguero gets rid of it. Some just dump them anywyhere, others will pass the dog onto another hunter…it doesn’t want to hunt, so it gets passed on to another hunter…..this is what has happened to one young galgo. This isn’t a photo of her, we don’t have one yet, just the appeal, can anyone squeeze her in somewhere to stop her ending up abandoned or in Badajoz perrera. garrapateracoherente@hotmail.com

    And 7 galgos in Cordoba perrera, on death row – male and female, from 1-3 years old.

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  • Federacion Espanola de Galgos – letter-writing campaign, write now!

    I have now composed a letter to the Federacion Espanola de Galgos, the ‘umbrella’ association in Spain to which the other galgo hunting federations belong, and invite you to send copies also. Thanks to Dioni Del Rio for the Spanish translation. (An English version is at the end). Please copy and paste, and post. Please ask as many of your friends and contacts to join in.

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  • Malaga perrera – galgos on death row – starving – anyone room for them?

    Malaga perrera El Paraiso 2 250 1 2012This is the harsh reality for dogs dumped in the municipal and private perreras – killing stations. It’s any dog which suffers like this, not just the galgos. But for the galgos, it’s simply that hunting is drawing to a close and the galgueros are dumping their dogs. These dogs are/were in the perrera El Paraiso at Malaga (some have already been killed). Vera describes.

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