Lovely video giving 10 reasons to adopt a galgo – in this film it is greyhounds, as the film was made by Animals Australia.
Category: Campaign
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Cuidad Animal Refugio, Cuidad Real – dozens of galgos…
Cuidad Real is about 200 kms south of Madrid and the Protectora of La Bienvenida is the shelter from which I adopted my first galga Karmel. The region is a hellhole for galgos, abandoned in their hundreds and the shelters struggle to cope.
Cuidad Animal Refugio has dozens for adoption, here is a weblink to them.
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Refugio Kimba in Cadiz – the oldest Animal Protective in Spain
(Lola) The Protective Society of Animals and Plants of Cádiz, better known as “Kimba Shelter”, was founded in 1872 and is therefore the oldest Animal Protective in Spain.Although in its origins the protection of the plants was mainly its exclusive purpose, finally and in 1966 the refuge was created that would house the abandoned animals.
Since then the work that has been developing this Protective, includes different paths but always aimed at the same purpose … the defense and protection of animals.
Below are a few of the galgos waiting and hoping for forever homes. Contact Refugio Kimba.
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Happy hounds at Hope for Podencos
Rescue shelters are always grateful for volunteers taking time out from work the spend their holidays helping hounds. Hope for Podencos is no exception, with 80 dogs to care for, many rescued from Gran Canaria. Here’s a lovely video taken by one of 3 volunteers who recently spent a week with the hounds. Mostly they are Podenco Canarios but there are a few galgos in the mix too!
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Galga Venus – safe with Refugio Kimba in Cadiz
From Refugio Kimba.‘It would be difficult to explain to Venus, as well as to so many thousands of abandoned galgos for not already offering her galguero-hunter the benefits he needs, that she with clear symptoms of malnutrition and dehydrated, has to give birth to her cubs in that horrible place of where we rescued them because whoever accompanied and served faithfully is no longer useful, and as if it were an unusable tool, he directly abandoned it.
Spain is the only country in Europe that allows hunting with galgos, and as such and according to data from the Spanish Greyhound Federation 200,000 greyhounds are used annually, of which according to statistics collected between law enforcement, collection services animals and protectors, 50,000 plus those not counted in any way are abandoned.’
This link takes you to the figures I presented to the PAES International Conference on Animal Welfare in 2015 – nothing has changed since then. The galgueros continue to breed and abandon their hounds without care.
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Scooby to the rescue again – pup dumped in Valladolid perrera!
Cobie writes ’10 Months old and already left behind in the perrera municipal from Valladolid. She felt very lost when she first arrived here after Scooby had taken her out of there but now she is adapting well to her new friends and her kennel. Especially after we told her that she is definitively the galga with the biggest ears we have ever seen! Her name is NOT Orejas (ears in Spanish) but Tuna. So beautiful…’Black is beautiful, especially with a colourful collar. Their coats gleam and shine once they have been rescued and recovered.
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Branded then abandoned – bastard galguero!
From Scooby Medina del Campo. ‘So much, so much, the galgueros want their dogs, that some of them mark them to fire or with acid to differentiate them from the rest. So much, so much, they want their dogs that when they no longer need them, they have no compunction in getting rid of them.Again, some galgueros show the world how cruel, inhuman and insensitive they can become and how much they don’t care about the well-being of their dogs.
We are sickened in our hearts just thinking about the anguish, pain and suffering that this galgo has had to endure, poor creature.
Bastard galgueros!
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Ann’s Canine Care – helping the galgos in need
I have the utmost admiration for the volunteers in Spain who work tirelessly to help the abandoned hounds – never able to turn a blind eye to an appeal to help one, no matter the cost to them. Ann Maria Payne is just such a lady, please read this story and support her.’26/7 2019 – It’s 4am and I’ve been here an hour trying to write this post after receiving this in messenger.
Hi Ann Marie, There is a man who has a 6-year-old gauge and they tell me they want to kill her. It has micro chip. Would you have room for her? or is it not possible? You tell me when you can. Thank you.
I want to reply to her and say ” Tell that bastard that he will be held accountable if he kills this dog, because it does have a chip” But the sad fact is that they are never held accountable because they have the ways and the means of making the dogs just disappear. They are utterly heartless. And given the fact that there is no protection for these Galgos as pets. What’s to stop them?
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Sad galga and handsome galgo puppy – Portuguese hunter doesn’t want them
Two more galgos being discarded by a Portuguese hunter, luckily he is giving them to Dogs of Portugal shelter.This is Muffin, a small young galga. You can read about her and see more pix and videos on this weblink.
And this handsome young galgo is Troll, also unwanted by the hunter. Read about him, more pix and videos on this weblink.If you are interested in either of these hounds, contact Dogs of Portugal direct.
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Animals In Need, La Linea – forced to close
Nightmare news for this well established shelter in southern Spain near Gibraltar.. Always the innocent animals suffer then the wrong people own the land. Read the story here.