Lucy Murphy recently spent a week volunteering at Protectora Scooby shelter in Medina Del Campo.
Hi all, I just thought Iād share some film of my time at Scooby!! What an amazing place!! The staff and volunteers there are fantastic, I highly recommend going to help out whenever you can!!
And a video of Scooby dogs marching for Day of the Galgo 1 February.
FEBRUARY 1 WORLD GALGO DAY
They say out there, that greyhounds dream their whole life with a life to come, they dream their home, their family, every place, and that dream helps them to be able to get through their reality of abuse and torture. Many make it and others get left in the way.. So when a greyhound comes to your life is not that you have chosen but he dreams.
The end of the hunt comes and with it the end of their lives or the release of others.
Over a year we collect many dogs, but the vast majority are hunting dogs, especially greyhounds and podencos. It is very painful to see how they arrive with their souls totally shattered, atrocious fear and utter distrust for human, not to mention the physical wounds. Dogs that pee and defecate on you when you look into their eyes… We can’t imagine what they’ve had to go through.
This story from Refugio Kimba about galga x Sena.
Sena, the warrior princess, is looking for a home.
This precious little girl hasn’t had a good life. She’s been chained all her life, she didn’t know anything, just her little house and the shadow of a tree, she couldn’t love more than a meter and a half.
Right now she is in a foster home, she learns very fast, walks very well and is slowly learning more new things. She’s a little timid with other dogs, but she’s learning to play too.
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She is approximately 8 years old, of which he has not had a normal life, she weighs about 22 kilos. Her time has come, life on the chains is over, now come the soft beds, good food, good walks and love and pampering forever
Animal Rescue Spain is asking for donations.
We have rescued this galgo abandoned in the bones, he was letting himself die, injured, a man found him and the police notified us. Look how skinny he is!! Help us save him with a donation.
BOURDEOS – FRANCE 29th January to support the Cause
Just like in other European countries, thousands of galgos, podencos and other dogs arrive in France every year as victims of hunting in Spain.
Rescued dogs that thanks to their solidarity and generosity await a home where they start a dignified life.
Europe takes to the streets for the rights of our hunting dogs and here in our country, our political class thinks they should stay out of the Animal Protection Act.
THANK YOU FOR BEING THEIR VOICE
Marching in The Hague
SAVE THE DATE: PROTEST MARCH 5 FEBRUARY THE HAGUE
This Sunday, February 5, there will be peaceful demonstrations in Europe for the Spanish hunting dogs in support of the No A La Caza (no hunting) protest organized every year by the Spanish Platforma NAC. In support of these protests, the GalgoPodencoPlatform in the Netherlands is organizing a demonstration in The Hague today.
Like previous years, a peaceful protest march is supposed to be run from the Laan van Reagan and Gorbatsjov in The Hague to the Spanish Embassy to hand over a letter asking for attention and support for the plighted si tutation of the Spanish hunting dogs in Spain. We gather on the lawn at the Laan van Reagan and Gorbatsjov from 12:00 o’clock and there the protest march of about 1.8 km to the Spanish Embassy begins.
Give a thought to the tens and tens of thousands of galgos now dumped in the campo, abandoned, dumped in perreras, no longer wanted by the bloody galgueros.
Please sign and share this petition to help the greyhounds in Vietnam be rescued and rehomed by recognised associations.
On a very rainy day at my home in the UK it’s that time of year to think about holidays and summer sun. Many Spanish shelters welcome volunteers to help with the care of their rescued hounds and it’s very rewarding. Many first-time volunteers return again and again.
This link is to the galgo and podenco rescue associations by country – many Spanish ones are listed – for both mainland Spain and the Canary Islands. Please contact them direct, you will be welcomed with open arms.
Weblink to a free knitting pattern for a galgo
Free pattern to download
Pattern to purchase from Etsy
