Category: Fund raising

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

JEAN IS RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES!
Dublin Marathon – October 27th
Please sponsor her to raise funds for Greyhound Action.

Long distance runner and greyhound rescue worker, Jean Snelling, will be running in the Dublin Marathon on Monday, October 27th to raise much needed funds for Greyhound Action.

We are urging as many people as possible to please sponsor Jean and to get your friends, neighbours and family members to do so too.

Contact us as soon as possible at info@greyhoundaction.org.uk or on (0044) 01562 700 043, giving your name and address, so we can get a sponsorship form sent out to you.

Are there any marathons in Europe which fit people could run to raise funds for galgo rescue associations? If so, email me on my homepage and let’s see what we can do. Why don’t I do one? I’m not built for running!!

PRO-GALGO has several dogs available for sponsorship.

These dogs are either in foster care or are being housed in shelters until they are ready for rehoming. HOWEVER the dogs in pounds can only be saved from PTS if there are funds to continue caring for them. As you can imagine the pounds are run by volunteers who try to save as many dogs as they can BUT if the funds aren’t there then they can’t save every one.

It costs approximately 50 Euros per month to pay for the care of dogs in pounds to prevent their destruction, and to pay for their foster care in volunteers homes.

The salvation and rehoming of the desperate dogs in Spain completely depends on the kindness of the public to make donations. By sponsoring a PRO-GALGO dog you will be helping to save its life.

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It’s your last chance to enter the Photo Competition organised by Sandra Baas. 31st August is closing date.

Here’s the link for details. http://www.baasgalgo.com/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=87&lang=en

Thank you so much to those who sponsored Annie, the founder of Action for Greyhounds UK – via the email appeal which was forwarded out for her tandem Skydive.

I’m pleased to share with you the photos taken on her ‘big day’.

Annie’s Skydive was originally scheduled for approximately 9.30/10am but due to bad weather conditions (rain and high winds), the Skydive Company had to wait for a window in the weather, and so she never got up and away until almost 2pm.

But the wait was worthwhile, and although Annie had never been in a plane before, and was rather more concerned about that than the actual jump, she was elated with the whole event. They did a ‘free-fall’ first, then the parachute opened before they hit cloud, and they descended through the cloud as they came down, which Annie said was simply amazing.

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20 of the happiest years of my life were spent in Suffolk. It’s a lovely friendly county, lovely English countryside. Quaint pubs offering Ploughman’s Lunch or Carveries. Nothing quite to match that where I now live in France!

But you can’t take away the memories. Old Buckenham is one Suffolk village I remember well. Annie Boddey lives there now. And she’s marking a milestone in her life. She’s skydiving to celebrate her 50th birthday! AND even better, she’s doing it to raise funds for greyhounds.

For more information see, Annie Boddey – Sponsored Skydive

This will only take a moment of your time, but it could help a galgo get an antiparasite collar.

Click on this link. It will take you to a site in Spanish, but don’t worry if you don’t read Spanish. Go to the box on the right hand side of the screen and fill in your email address.

You’ll then get a list of animal shelters in Spain. Choose one, click in the circle on the left of the shelter’s name – I picked El Refugio Escuela because that’s where Bebe came from – and then click at the bottom of the list to confirm the donation.

If you have more than one email address, use it, as then more antiparasite collars will be sent to the refuges for free!

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So far, 329 collars have been donated.

The story of this bitch and her puppies arrived in my mail box a couple of days ago. They were found on a plot of land, malnourished but alive. On top of this, the poor bitch had a terrible wound, which is badly infected.

Luckily, they were taken in by Refugio Escuelo Sevilla, already overflowing with dogs and puppies. The bitch, named Ceilo, is receiving veterinary care and, when she is fit enough to travel, will be fostered with Mo Swatek, of Pro-Galgo.

Pro-Galgo has donated 200 euros for the initial veterinary expenses, but 15 euros per day is needed to finance keeping the pups in a boarding kennel till they are recovered and rehomed.

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Sylvie Texier, a volunteer with L’Europe des Levriers, has organised a great fundraising picnic at Charron, on the Charente Maritime/Vendee border, and she’s hoping for lots of people to come and enjoy good food and great entertainment.

The day kicks off at 11am with coffee, a selection of dishes for lunch, with a visit to the fishing port to work it all off. There will be fishing and pony rides for children, and a firework display to round it all off.

All for 12 euros per person, 8 euros for u/12s. Contact Sylvie to book

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