Galgo News

Category: Fund raising

  • Please Help Pepis Refuge fence land for the Galgos

    Pepis Refuge hill 4 2013Please help Pepis Dog Refuge Fence our Land for the Galgos (Spanish greyhounds)!
    www.ebay.co.uk in Pet Supplies, Dog Supplies. Or you can donate here.

    Alan and Jane thought they were going to retire when they moved to Spain. Instead, like so many other animal loving Brits, they could not turn away from the desperate situation for abandoned dogs and cats. They now have about 70 dogs at Pepis, and the latest arrivals are these 4 puppies, three of them very newly born and another little girl left at their gate yesterday. This means tremendous amount of work around the clock with feeds – those of us with children remember it well!

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  • Scooby Residencia Valladolid – handed in by her galguero!

    Scooby Valladolid 1 250 4 2013This galga was handed in to Scooby Residencia Valladolid last week, by her galguero! It’s a wonder she could still stand up. Makes you wonder what his other dogs are like. Thank goodness she is safe now with Scooby. Read more Scooby news.

    Scooby News – English blogspot

    Words from Fermin about road accident victims

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  • Pepis Refuge, Seville – now puppy Polar needs your help

    Pepis Refuge pup 250 4 2013It’s been a nightmare few months for Jane and Alan at Pepis Refuge, Seville. Rain and more rain, mud and more mud, loss of Internet. Now at least they are connected to the rest of the world again. Below are a couple of photos of some of the galgos which were dumped or arrived at the refuge during this time. And this is the story of the little chap in this photo.

    ‘This is Polar,he was left at the refuge three weeks ago and has a deformed back leg.He saw the bone specialist on Tuesday and we were told that his leg was broken when he was a tiny baby and, as he has grown, the leg has become twisted above and below his knee and he will need to have several operations to correct the deformity. We were told that if the leg is not tended too soon,as he grows the leg will not. I will post the xray taken when I receive them.’

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  • PEPI’S Refuge, Seville – 2014 CALENDAR PHOTO – closing date 31st May 2013

    Pepis calendar front 250Susan Dawson did a fantastic job or creating the 2013 Pepis Calendar and she’s now asking everyone to submit fabulous pix of their hounds for the 2014 calendar. Here’s what she says.

    ‘The Blue Greyhound is putting together a fantastic calendar for 2014 to raise funds for Pepis Dog Refuge based in Pedrera, near Seville in Spain. The 2013 calendar was a huge success, and we received lots of positive feedback from buyers in the UK, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, France, USA and Canada.

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  • Pepis Refuge, Seville – victims of the weather again – Urgent Appeal

    Pepis Refuge hill 4 2013Jane Brian writes. ‘ This winter has for us been a wet one and as we showed on the website before,the mud that engulfed our patio and some of the dog pens has again invaded us. We have been advised that it has become dangerous as a huge piece is just waiting to come down and could destroy the house. As we use the house for injured dogs and dogs who have sterilisation opps this has become top priority.

    We own a large hill that is attached to the refuge and we feel this would be the only way we could safely continue our work. To make this possible we need your help.

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  • Mairena Perrera – SOS Animales Sevilla saving dogs

    Mairena galgo pup 250 4 2013Because of all the news coming in every day, I don’t have time to post all the appeals I receive about galgos in perreras. Volunteers work in most perreras, trying to find associations and foster homes to save dogs. This week there are over a dozen galgos in Mairena perrera, including a puppy, pic here. There are 209 dog photos in the 15 April album of Mairena perrera. If you want to help, email SOS Animales Sevilla direct. If you want to donate to save this puppy or any of the other galgos, donate Paypal ayudaperrosmairena@hotmail.com and specify donacion galgo. Paypal a/c to send donations – here it is in full Paypal ayudaperrosmairena@hotmail.com

  • Cuenca Refuge – saved from becoming a perrera again!

    Cuenca refuge in trouble. Original story. I now have this news from a reliable source.

    The licence has gone to Rescani Belgium which work together with people from Madrid. So it stays a shelter.

  • Levriers sans Frontieres meet an Angel and a Devil – and save some galgos and podencosa

    Odile Brochot, president of Lévriers sans frontières, and 6 French volunteers just returned from a rescue trip to Spain. They went to a perrera to save some dogs from certain death there, took their rescued dogs back to Fondation Benjamin Mehnert, went to a galguero hideaway, saved some dogs there and then went to Scooby Medina where they also took some dogs to be taken back to France to be adopted out.

    At the perrera, they saw an angel and met the devil.

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  • 4th April 2013 – Happy Belated Birthday DutchGalgoLobby

    Apologies that this news is a little late. I’m currently in the UK for a funeral and flat clearing and have restricted access to a computer.

    Happy 2nd Birthday DutchGalgoLobby on 4th April 2013

    On April 4th, DutchGalgoLobby celebrates her 2nd birthday. In her relatively short existence, DutchGalgoLobby has achieved quite a lot. Dutch Politics are now well aware of the Galgo mistreatment in Spain and one of the parties even set up a resolution to ask the Dutch government to take action. Regretfully this resolution did not get enough votes to pass because they still think it is an internal Spanish problem, to be solved by Spain. (Subsidiarity principle)

    Therefore we approached the European Parliament which is in progress but takes time. European parliament is rather sluggish!

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  • Galgo Connection Spain Spring Fling

    Galgo Connection Spain has taken many galgos and podencos, after the hunting season,also other dogs like Blas, an English bulldog who needs an operation in his eyes. We know many people need help but please some euros from each one can help us to keep our work helping this poor animals, our vet bills are so high and we also pay the pension (kennels) for them. For this we open a fundraising in youcaring. `Please help us …

    http://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/galgo-connection-spain-s-spring-fling-to-help-the-dogs/49788