Galgo News

Category: Campaign

  • Abandoned in Toledo – need a safe place for her

    For those of us who don’t live in Spain and experience the terrible problem of abandoned dogs, it’s hard to understand someone being so close to this beautiful galga and ignoring her – not taking her in to a place of safety!

    From Irina.

    SOS GALGUITA ABANDONED IN A TOWN OF TOLEDO.

    People are giving her food because she seems to be always in the same spot, but as usual, she needs a foster to be able to rescue her.

    I will write to ERA to see if they can put a trap cage but of course without a place for her to go it is impossible to rescue her.

    Please, could any association help her? With the current heat she is in great danger of suffering a heat stroke or being hit by a car or even getting pregnant.

    If anyone could foster her, write me an email and we’ll organize the rescue. They think it’s a female.

    Thank you. irina.animalessinhogar@gmail.com

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  • Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert – left for dead, saved by FBM

    And another story of the amazing work done by the Spanish volunteers to rescue and rehabilitate a poor galga left for dead.

    A NEW MIRACLE CALLED RENEE. She was found half buried. As a consequence, her hind legs did not respond.

    X-rays and other tests showed no injury to either her spine or her legs. But Renee couldn’t walk … Still we never gave up, and we set out to rehabilitate her paws and make her walk.

    A miracle, an achievement of the entire team, and her enormous spirit of self-improvement have made Renee eventually walk. We can call it a miracle, because it certainly is. But it has also been the result of intense and hard work by her veterinarian Mariana and her physiotherapist Elena, who never threw in the towel, and by all of us who have always encouraged and helped her achieve it.

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  • Protectora Scooby – a desperate situation – over 450 dogs rescued since December 2021

    From Cobie at Scooby Valladolid

    ‘At the beginning of this year, Scooby saved the lives of many, many galgos and podencos from Andalucia, Murcia and Extremadura. We had thought that most of them would be adopted by now but that is alas not the case. So please, if you think about adopting a dog, consider to give one of our boys or girls a chance and on top of giving them a so much earned home, you can lower our costs because with all prices skyhigh, we really struggle to make ends meet.

    For donations please:

    Paypal fundacion@scoobymedina.org

    Bank ES84 0049 5219 5422 1645 9780.

    Thank you very much!’

    Read more about the problem on this link.

  • Protectora Scooby – beautiful small galgo boy & 2 stunning brothers for adoption

    Scooby small galgo 400 6 2022
    Besides beautiful girls, we also have stunning boys looking for a home. Like this happy boy, he loves cuddles and playing with the other dogs. He is not very big and walks good on the lead and is not scared at all. Chip: …3287.

    These 2 must be brothers because they look exactly the same, both so gorgeous and handsome.

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  • VOTE PACMA if you live in SPAIN

    Vote PACMA 400
    I am not a tool

    I am Someone

    Vote PACMA on 19 June

  • Charl del Rio -112carlotagalgos – on crates for dogs

    Albacete perrera 400 2 May 2011 damitai2
    In all my 70+ years of living with dogs from puppies to old dogs, I have never felt the need to use a crate. But these days it’s become fashionable to use a crate if someone can’t train/control their dog. I think – well, human, how would you like to be shut in a cage?’ So this is a very informative article by Charl del Rio, founder of 112carlotagalgos in Alhaurin le Grande, Malaga, on this very subject and why one shoule NEVER use a crate on a galgo or podenco.

    ‘IMPORTANT INFORMATION

    CRATES/TRANSPORTINES/BENCHES AND GALGOS

    Please remember galgos are not greyhounds and come from an entirely different background. Many a galgo has been rescued from a severely dark place and time in their life. Many many are rescued from dark small hovels, under ground and in some cases with pallets on the top.

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  • Petition to sign for the galgos

    Link to the petition. Figures are wrong, though, it’s more like 100,000 abandoned every year at the end of hunting.

  • 4 older galgos need rescue and adoption

    Galgos with hunter 1 400 5 2022
    The galgueros are bastards when it comes to blackmailing rescuers. This appeal was on facebook last weekend, I’ve asked if they have been rescued. This is the story.

    ‘These 4 galgos are with a galguero who no longer wants them. We want to get them out and get them to safety, because we know their owner will get rid of them one way or another.

    They are relatively old, the galguero is impatient to see them leave, he gets angry, and made it clear to us that he was not going to wait to get rid of them….

    We still and always need donations to save them, and/or an association to take over.

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  • Galgo Vitorio and Podenco Nube – waiting in Malaga for years for forever homes

    The Hairy Smile 2 dogs 400 5 2022
    So sad that so many rescued Spanish hounds wait for years in a shelter in the hope one day they will have a forever home. Here are 2, in Alhaurin le Grande, Malaga 29120.

    ‘Both have been waiting for years behind bars. (Contact: The Hairy Smile – La Sonrisa Peluda) 652813071 Málaga!!

    VITORIO (Galgo) and NUBE (Podenca Campanero) are the most abused breeds in this disgusting country!!!! As much as they are publicised, NO ONE, absolutely NO ONE seems to see them. BARS AND CHAINS ARE THE SADDEST “LIFE” THAT CAN EVER EXIST IN THIS WORLD But I’ll continue to infinity and beyond to hope to find them forever homes.

    Nube and Vitorio, bored in the shelter after all night in their kennel, bored of life in the shelter… they deserve a home, a family to have a real life with. No matter how much we give them love and care, they are not happy, they deserve so much more and no one gives it, why? Sad so sad. 7 and 5 years roughly respectively, a lot of life ahead, and if no one fixes it, they will spend the rest of their lives here, with the only family that has helped them even if it’s not enough . Only you can prevent it, SPREAD, ADOPT, ADOPT. Malaga.

    Association The Hairy Smile tele Spain 0034 652813071.

    You can help from 1€ a month through our teaming:

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