Galgo News

Category: Fund raising

  • Team Scooby Sprinters – will you sponsor them on 29th April?

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    Eva, Špela, Urška &Žiga will run the 10km marathon in Medina del Campo in aid of Protectora y Santuario Scooby on 29 April. We are hoping you will support them and Scooby by sponsoring one or all of the runners per kilometre.

    We know how much you love to support the Scooby animals and now, for the first time ever, we have an amazing opportunity for Scooby to have a presence in the Medina del Campo annual marathon. Not only one runner, but 4 which will give the shelter an unprecedented profile on its home ground. The Scooby animals are so lucky to have these runners going to such lengths (lengths of 10km to be precise!).

    If you would like to sponsor the runners, please go to the Protectora y Santuario Scooby Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/spascooby/ and write your pledge per runner in the comments fields under the announcement about the run. We will post each runner’s time after the race on 29 April and when you see this alert, please PayPal your pledge to Edwin@scoobymedina.com Please bear in mind that PayPal deducts a small fee from your pledge. Regardless of how you pay, please mark your donation “runnername&yourname”. If PayPal is not possible for you, please private message us for an alternative means. The closing date for payments is Friday 18 May 2018.

    You can meet the runners on this weblink.

    Please pledge…. and share…… and keep sharing.

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  • Help save and rehome the Macau greyhounds – the stadium is closing!!

    At long last the dreadful Canidrome in Macau, China, will close its doors and over 6oo greyhounds need to find forever homes, may of them from Ireland and the UK. Read the story here, please share and donate etc to help.

  • Scooby to the rescue again

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    Protectora y Santuario Scooby – ‘We have rescued these two Galgos Eva and Mon in a village from Segovia. Their owner had them in terrible conditions and the Civil Guard has opened him a file for alleged animal abuse. They are very skinny and have skin problems, probably due to poor feeding and to external parasites. Now we are going to give them all the necessary care so that they recover and can start a new and happy life as soon as possible.’

    ? Can you help us keep saving lives?
    ? Join the teaming for only 1€/month http://bit.ly/2teaming
    ? Donate: http://bit.ly/2donat
    Paypal – Edwin@scoobymedina.com
    Thanks!

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  • URGENT APPEAL FOR HELP FOR PEPI’S DOGS

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    As you know, for over 10 years I have publicised the plight of the galgos and podencos of Spain and fundraised for several rescue associations. In latter years David and I have fundraised and supported Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Spain, as Jane and Alan Brian coped with up to 80 dogs dumped on them by the locals. They have both suffered ill health, Alan with heart problems, Jane with back problems, but the dogs always came first. Last September they decided to ‘retire’ and not to take in any more dogs.

    Last week Jane suffered a massive heart attack and was rushed into hospital. Rachael Lepaege has rehomed many Pepis dogs in the UK and is taking the remaining 9 Pepis dogs this week. This is going to cost thousands and so along with my fabulous galgo Polar – a Pepis dog – I am asking all my friends here to donate something…no matter how small an amount…and share this appeal. Here’s Rachael’s message.

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  • Young galga rescued from death…La Guarida need help

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    Starving and injured galga left for dead in the olive groves. La Guarida received the message about her and this is the story. If you can help towards the vet fees, details below, including Paypal.

    She is alive, being stablized on antibiotics and fuidoterapia and antibiotics and has survived the first night since rescue. Despite her terrible condition, her blood tests are negative, which means she is free of leishmania, ehrlichia and filaria! She is very malnourished with wounds which are very infected, the skin broken, extremely thin. After a night in the vet clinic, she has the strength to stand!

    ‘Please help us pay for your hospitalization, little galguita, because you will be in the vet clinic for several days.

    Bank transfer – concept. Galguita of the olive grove. – La Caixa Es19 2100 2631 87 0110322978.

    – Paypal juncalin@gmail.com

    – make yourself teamers, and help, with only 1 E a month!! https://www.teaming.net/laguarida?lang=es_ES

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  • Galgo Julio – a very slow recovery

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    Update on Julio.

    ‘Julio is fine, even if the beginning of convalescence is laborious. He cannot walk for now. Just to go to bed, that’s all. He must stay in bed.

    The rare moments when he does not sleep, he is very gentle and affectionate. This is what makes this cause particularly moving. These galgos are unable to defend themselves against their torturers and even when abused so violently, they remain affectionate with men.

    Julio is at Natalia’s in Andalusia. Convalescence will take at least three months. What will happen next to him? He is in a corner of Andalusia where the abuse of galgos is a tradition. Julio is still in danger.’

  • Galgo Julio – survives being thrown from a window

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    A story of yet another sickening act of cruelty by a sub-human species in Spain…sad that so many of them get Spain a bad name…when there are so many wonderful Spanish people trying to stop the cruelty!

    From L’Europe des Levriers.

    ‘There is in Spain, the worst and the best of human nature! A galgo was thrown out of the window of a building by gypsies and left for dead. The galgo does not move on the asphalt anymore. A girl picks it up and brings it to the vet. The galgo has multiple injuries but especially a triple fracture of the front leg. The operation will be expensive. Natalia does not have money. She can not pay. The veterinarian refuses to operate.

    A call is launched on facebook … without success. It is necessary to operate the galgo which suffers atrociously. Quick, time is running out. Cristina, our vice president in Madrid receives the call. EDL sends the money in stride. The galgo is operated. He is saved!

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  • Another injured galga rescued from the streets of Spain!

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    The abandonment of galgos after the end of hunting does not stop…however much the rescue associations and the rest of us protest about the lack of control over the breeding and abandonment of their dogs by the Spanish hunters…the authorities do NOTHING! This galga was found injured and needing help. She has been named Carman.

    ‘We are appealing for funds to help Carmen, found on the streets and in need of veterinary care. The end of the hunting season has meant we have had to take in Podencos & Galgos in need, some of which have just been dumped on us. Our resources have been depleted, but Carmen tugged at our heart strings and thankfully the response to our appeal enabled us to pick her up.

    From our initial assessment of her it looks like she has small bore gun shots wounds in various place, scars all over her body, her rear leg is very swollen and what is now an open wound on her shoulder. And despite it all …. she has the sweetest and most trusting of natures! These dogs always amaze us – can’t believe they still have faith in people!

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  • Scooby to the rescue again – 44 galgos from certain death

    News from Scooby. ‘At the end of February Fermin and Christina drove to Jerez de la Frontera, Andalucia, and saved there 44 galgos from a certain death. 30 From them came to the Scooby residencia in Valladolid. They are, very beautiful and elegant males but very scared, humiliated, abused, robbed of all their dignity, but alive. Broken, but not defeated. They will need time, understanding, patience and lots of love and fortunately, we have lots of all that and we will make you whole and proud again…!’

    Here is the latest news from the Scooby Blog…makes sad reading that for all the work the shelters do, the over-breeding and mass abandonment of these majestic hounds does not stop.

  • Portuguese Galgos…suffer the same as the Spanish ones

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    Although galgos in Portugal are not bred, used and abandoned in the number they are in Spain…it being a smaller country, they still suffer the same abuse as the Spanish ones. This stunning black beauty is one rescued by Dogs of Portugal. Read about Saaga on and if you would like to offer her a forever home, contact the association direct.

    Some years ago I worked with a volunteer in Portugal to save a galgo family from a drunk and abusive household. We saved them all and Estrela came to me in foster and went to a forever home in the UK. This is the original story.