Galgo News

Category: Fund raising

  • Toledo, Spain, galgo hell – galgo graveyard, galgo in gully – Baas Galgo rescue

    Galga love 190 12 2011Toledo – hell for galgos. Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo reports on the latest examples of galguero cruelty.

    ‘Last weekend (weekend before Xmas) our Baasgalgo rescue team found a massive galgo graveyard. They have been digging all day and finally found 8 murdered galgos.
    I cannot give you any more information since the case is now denounced.

    When Leticia came back and looked on our facebook page, she saw there was a girl called Selene asking for help…a galga was thrown into a gully around 800 meters deep.

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  • Chiclana, Cadiz – Happy Ending/Final Feliz saving dogs

    Happy Endings Chiclana 250Happy Ending/Final Feliz is an animal rescue association near Chiclana, Cadiz. The association was created by Margarita, a Norwegian lady who keeps the rescued dogs in her own home, surviving on her pension and funds raised from car boot sales organised by her volunteer helpers. Earlier in the year, the association were threatened with court action as they were informed the land (used regularly by the public) was privately owned.

    However, life improved this year for Margarethe and the dogs. She tells the story.

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  • Galga Salva, burnt with acid – Galgos del Norte update

    You remember the story of Salva, the galga found in the perrera in Burgos, burned with acid, rescued by Galgos del Norte. Sadly she lost her fight for life. This is a translation from their website.

    ‘Salva has left us, dehydration from the burns affected all her internal organs and she not been able to continue fighting.

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  • Gran Canaria – holidays in the sun – not for the abandoned animals!

    Let’s not forget the shelters on the islands where so many people spend holidays in the sun…Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Mallorca, Ibiza…….behind the glitz, abandoned dogs and cats struggle to survive. It’s only thanks to the few shelters and volunteers that some of them are saved. But they still need to find forever homes, mostly on the European mainland.

    Here’s the latest news on Gran Canaria

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  • Burned with Acid – dumped in the Burgos perrera!

    Burgos 4 250 12 2011A while ago, animal volunteers in Burgos area, which I have travelled through and is a mass of half finished apartment blocks and huge cranes – a building site – heard that it is difficult to adopt out of the Burgos perrera. Immense ignorance, lack of information, lack of compliance with the law, the carelessness…. on 9th November this galga arrived, starving, normal for a dog abandoned on the street.

    But Galgos del Norte got in there and this is what they found….(click on Lee Mas under the Salva story

    The diagnosis of the vet, words cannot describe her suffering – BURNED by acid…. and this dog was just left in the kennels in the municipal kennels without treatment.

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  • Radio Programme on Galgos Thurs 8th December – please listen

    Last week, Tony highlighted the plight of the Podenco on his radio show with a great response from you listeners. Some of the response was from the UK. Tonight he is carrying on where he left off and including the beautiful and much maligned Galgo in his broadcast.

    Please listen in and hopefully try to take part. These dogs desperately need help and any publicity is good for them.

    His broadcast starts at 9pm (Spanish time) 8pm (UK time) and you can listen in by going to www.bigfm.es and then clicking on Listen Live Now. Any emails can be sent to info@bigfm.es and Tony will respond to you on air. His show is called Nightowls.

  • Galgo News Xmas Card 2011 – buy cards and my book too

    Xmas%20Card 150 2011This is the Galgo News/Podenco Post Christmas Card 2011, a watercolour by my friend and animal lover Anji Ratcliffe; it’s a galgo and podenco pup on a Christmas Tree bauble. Printed on 210gm white card, it retails at 5,00 euros per pack of 6 inc envelopes plus postage. All proceeds will go towards vet fees for injured galgos and podencos.

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  • Christmas present suggestion – Sponsor a dog/kennel/stable

    Spanish shelters and refuges rely on donations towards the cost of caring for their rescued dogs. Why not Sponsor a dog/kennel/stable as a Christmas or birthday present. The following are small refuges which will be very grateful for any help.

    112carlotagalgos

    Pepis Refuge

    Galgos del Sol

    SOS Animals

  • Baas Galgo 2012 calendar now on sale

    Baas Galgo now have their 2012 calendar for sale; 4 of the stars on the calendar have adopted galgos. Order direct here.

  • Galga Reka – suffering in Seville

    Reka head 250 11 2011This beautiful galga is Reka. You will see her terrible injuries below. She was found a week ago, the injuries were not fresh, and smelled, it was not known how long she had been suffering like this. She was exhausted, hungry and ready to give up when found.

    Ana from Gran Familia tells the story. ‘She had to be anaesthetised in order to clean up and sew these ugly wounds, the leg muscle has been joined from behind but possibly she will be left with a slight limp. She had some internal bleeding and a torn vulva, which would intimate she was pregnant. It is difficult to imagine how these injuries happened but Reka has had to stay in the vet clinic to have her wounds treated.

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