If you’ve ever wondered what it is like at the Scooby Medina del Campo Shelter, Margie Easter has put together this video to give you some idea of the size, and the rescued animals. Warning, some of it can make you a bit dizzy!
Remember, all these lovely animals are available for adoption. Contact Scooby direct.
I’ve featured some of Ann Marie Payne’s poems on my blogs. Another volunteer in Spain saving and rehoming the unwanted hounds, including a podenca mum and her 5 pups living in a cave, which appeal I featured on Podenco Post. Now Ann needs help herself. She explains why below
‘Last year we were forced out of our premises, conned out of €1,800 and were left with nowhere to go. We did a fund raise and fortunately many people donated and helped us to move to where we are now, and at first it seemed like paradise. We had a wonderful summer and all the dogs were happy. But then came the winter, which was the worst in 10 years for rainfall. The kennels were flooding every day because there was nowhere for the rain to drain away. Every day I had to brush the water into buckets and then carry them outside and empty them on to the street. It was a total nightmare.
The first Murphy’s Army Purple Poppy Campaign was launched in 2016 to encourage members of the public to come together to pay tribute to the many animals lost in Service, and to those who Serve us today.
Our research had shown that although the traditional red poppy was well known, the significance of the purple poppy – to remember the animals – was less so. Hopefully our efforts over the years have changed that as many more purple poppies are now being worn with pride.
In this very special anniversary year – 100 years since the guns fell silent on the Western Front and the end of the First World War – let’s make our 2018 Purple Poppy Campaign an even greater success.
Please join with us and together let’s ensure that the animals who lost their lives during this conflict, those lost in Service since, and those who serve us today, are not forgotten but forever remembered alongside their human counterparts.
http://purplepoppycampaign.org/2018/06/01/a-note-from-our-founder/
Ann’s Canine Care in Malaga has recently rescued these two galgos, now named Duke and Oliver. It’s not just a case of a volunteer turning up at the pound, paying the fee and getting the dog. Here Ann says thank you to the team of people who helped her.
‘A lot of special people to say thank you to today. And because of them Duke and Oliver are out of the pound and, into the next stage of finding their forever homes. Thank you Heidi Goll, Beate Zwickenpflug for arranging their release, and to all the Godmothers for supporting them. Cristina Mora Carballo for organising the transport for them, and to Dori Barragán and her husband for taking me to the pound to release them and bringing us all back home. The boys have settled in nicely, and will update more about their personalities in a few days when I know more. A great day for the Galgos’
Have a chuckle at these Richard Skipworth, cartoonist, Greyhound/Galgo hazard signs.
Regular readers will know that over several years I have been publicising and appealing for help for the dogs in Pepis Refuge in Pedrera, Seville. Rachael Lepage is an amazing young woman living in the UK who has worked tirelessly to find forever homes for the dogs. Leash of Life is her association and here is her appeal, I hope you will support her.
‘Leash of Life need your help! As some of you may know, a few months ago the owner of Pepi’s fell very ill suddenly and we were contacted asking if we could take the remaining dogs as a matter of urgency. Which we did. A Spanish rescue very kindly found kennel and refuge space for us im the Malaga province and have spent many hours checking on them and doing vet runs etc.
So far they have cost us thousands in vets, kennel and food bills and a handful of them are still in Spain due to us not having the fosters or the funds to bring them over to the UK. We also cannot book them to the kennels we usually use because our bill is already astronomical. The rescue that helped us with them now need them gone ASAP as they are blocking spaces they desperately need for their own dogs. Given how good they have been to us, we feel awful using resources they desperately need.
Scooby needs help!
Our puppies have heard that we need volunteers and quickly they have offered to take the brush to help us clean the yards.
If you also want to help us volunteer, email us at voluntarioscooby@gmail.com
If you can’t volunteer but you want to help us keep saving lives like these little ones, you can do it in the following ways.
We also picked up this galgo last week in Murcia. He was full of wounds and was wearing, like so many other galgos that we rescued, a collar made with a rope ??.
?? If you want to give him a new life and the real home he always deserved to have, send us an email to seguimientos@scoobymedina.org
If you want to help us to continue saving lives, you can do it in the following ways:
Join the teaming for only 1€/month http://bit.ly/2teaming
Donate: https://bit.ly/2KmUlk7
Paypal – edwin@scoobymedina.com
My beloved galga Sahara died from cancer…she was an apparently very healthy dogs who suddenly started to get a swollen stomach. I took her to the vet and it was discovered she had cancer and it could not be treated. July is Sarcoma Awareness Month and you can read more about it on the Greyhound Health Initiative website on this link.
