Category: Fund raising

Besides beautiful jewellery and other items which make lovely Christmas gifts, Sandra Baas of Baasgalgo now has a specially designed Christmas card for sale.

April and Paul Carrier run the Alpha Dog School at Rota near Cadiz.

They do an amazing job rehabilitating traumatized galgos, but they need your help to fund a specialist course, either by individual donations or, even better, a SPONSOR for the whole course fee.

Here is what April says.

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ADANA is a Spanish animal rescue association with 20 years of experience in caring for and re-homing thousands of abandone animals. By making a pilgrimage the length of Spain, volunteers accomnpanied by dogs from their refuge in Estepona are running The Camino Project 2009.

Here’s the link in English

Let me know if you are going to join in.

Over 300 people attended City Hall, Barcelona, last weekend for the Egyptian Fashion Show and Maria Daines Concert organised by SOS Galgos.

Here’s a brief note from Maria about the weekend, with links to a video of the concert and pictures on the SOS Galgos website.

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This is a book of photos and stories of happy adopted galgos, at the moment only in Spanish.

Tengo un ángel en casa. Historias de galgos adoptados“

„I have an angel at home. Stories about adopted galgos“

This is a book where galgos are presented in families, where stories are told about what kind of pets galgos are when offered the opportunity to share a home.

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http://www.maria-daines.com/calendar.html

Check out Maria Daines and her forthcoming gigs to raise funds for animal charities.

Buy her CDs here,and support animal charities.

Start preparing your X-Mas presents now! From 17th of November till December 1st 20% discount on all jewels and bags.

Special offer only for clients of Baasgalgo.
You will have to order by email info@baasgalgo.com or telephone +34 91 857 90 62
since the system does not discount the 20% It self!

Visit the shop now!

PRO-GALGO is currently running an auction on our forum to riase money for the galgos.

There are 16 beautiful prints available by the artist Lisa Ballard of Dream Dog Paintings.

To get bidding on your favourite prints please click on this link

I’ve received this urgent appeal from the Bright Eyes Society – a Spanish hunter is due to appear in court and funds are needed by the charity to fight the case. This is their message.

Some of you will probably remember the rescue of more than 50 podenco ibicenco dogs in the island of Ibiza in May last year.

This followed our legal procedure against Bartolomé Mari Ribas, the breeder and hunter who for more than 15 years had kept his dogs in the most appalling conditions imaginable, starving, thirsty, many very sick, on the very road, where they kept getting hit by vehicles and dying or becoming crippled to add to their suffering.

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I’ve been looking for 2009 calendars amongst the galgo rescue association websites, and so far have found these 3.

Greyhounds in Nood Belgium

Operation Scooby (Scooby Medina)

Passion Levriers – in the process of being printed, order from smorgo147@yahoo.fr