Galgo News

Category: Fund raising

  • Galgo pup Eros – saved from hanging!

    Eros Levriers du Sud 250 2 2013This pretty little pup is Eros, in the care of Levriers du Sud. Only 5 months old, he was found by a volunteer who was walking her dogs. She saw this little galgo on a tree branch. She went over and realized that he had been hung to the tree but was able to climb on a branch saving his own life! Resourceful little guy!

    It’s hard to believe that anyone would hang a young puppy… They can’t tell me that it’s because he was no good for hunting… he’s so young, he’s probably never hunted. It’s insane!

  • Galga Estrela – saved from a Portuguese hunter – latest photo

    Portugal Estrela 250 2 2013Here’s the latest picture of galga Estrella, rescued from an alcoholic hunter and druggie wife. Many of you wonderful readers donated to pay for special feed and vet bills for Estrela and two of her puppies rescued before the hunter could drown them. In a couple of weeks she will arrive chez moi, en route for her forever home in the UK. I am sooo looking forward to hugging her! Portugal Dog Rescue need just 70 euros to complete her pet passport and vaccinations before she leaves on 20th March. Please donate by Paypal

  • Scooby Medina – another 24 galgos arrive from Alicante – 200 in just one month!

    Scooby have just taken another 24 galgos back to the refuge at Medina. By my reckoning, that’s over 200 galgos in just one month! Read about it here, and please help by finding forever homes for them.

  • Scooby – galgo adoption and educating the young Spanish

    Scooby English blog – update on adoptions of dogs from Scooby, plus the work they do in schools to educate the younger generation of Spanish.

  • Scooby English Blog – update from Fermin on the galgo situation

    Back home after a week in the UK with my son and grandsons, and my daughter. So now, a few news items for you.

    Please check out the Scooby English blog, here’s the latest from Fermin. This year seems to be even worse for disposal of galgos by the hunters. And remember, Scooby need the money to feed, passport and sterilize all these hounds, plus finding forever homes for them.

    Meet Zare – another young survivor

  • Saved from the streets of Seville – no holiday here

    This is Cronos, rescued in this state from the streets of Seville by Macu. He has a serious skin condition, scrapings have been taken for analysis and for treatment to start. Poor boy. Macu’s paypal address for donations.

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  • Galga Vida, Amigos de Los Galgos appeals for help for her

    I’m in the UK again for a week, so limited to work I can do on the computer – some posts I scheduled to publish whilst I am away. But this one is just in, from Nuria Blanco of Amigos de Los Galgos. I don’t have a photo, but you can see all on the weblink.

    ‘Please help save Vida, this poor young galgo has been in hospital for a few days already. She has lost one food and she has problems in all the other three feet. At the moment, it is impossible for her to walk.’

    http://www.levriers.net/appel.html#vida

    If you wish to donate, please find the link on their website. Paypal to VIDA

  • Scooby Medina to the Galgo Rescue

    A couple of weeks ago, 40 galgos arrived at Scooby Medina from Seville. Next week they are taking in 140 – yes, 140 – galgos from all over Spain. This is a message from Scooby’s President, Fermìn Pérez Martìn:

    Hello to everybody:

    I am writing to all of you because we are receiving a huge amount of pleas of help from everywhere for taking galgos from perreras all over Spain and I would like to count on you with your support financially and taking dog, you know that without all of you we will not be able to do it, we have the space and you have the rest so together we are a winning team, waiting for your answer. Fermin

    Donate to feed and vet fees here.

  • ADANA, Badajoz, Spain – galgo lucky to be alive

    ADANA have rescued this badly injured galgo, suffering multiple bites – particularly to his testicles – and a torn neck. He also has a recent scar about 2cm wide which runs round the neck. The new neck wound is very deep to such an extent that you can see they veins. The tear is about 3cm long. To have survived such horrendous injuries – cause by being bait in a dog fight, or possibly also having been hung and released means this boy has a very strong survivor instinct. He has been named River. He’s in Badajoz, a particular hell hole for galgos.

    So, ADANA is appealing for help to pay the vet fees to help River on the road to recovery.
    You can make donations through their bank account or by Paypal Donations on the button on their website. If you click on the Union Jack top right hand corner of the homepage, you can read their news in English.

    WARNING – Upsetting photos

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  • Galgo Ed in Murcia – can you help

    AWSM Ed 250 2 2013Ed, the galgo in the front of the picture, has Erlichia AND Leishmania, so he was very lucky to have been picked up when he was found wandering around a village with Elsa the other Galga in the photo. He is being treated firstly for the Erlichia which has had this handsome guy lying in his bed over the weekend, eating ok but sleeping a lot and obviously feeling quite rough.. .and on top of all that he only has one ‘testicle’ AND his tail doesn’t work, as in ‘wag’, So WHEN all the medication has finished in about a month, he will also be castrated, which will be a bigger op than normal for a castration. He will have an xray on his back end to see if there is any damage or just some inflamation which is causing it.

    If you can help in anyway toward the vetenary care and medication it would be greatly appreciated. either to PayPal roberta-brown@sky.com or sherliebradley@yahoo.co.uk, collecting on behalf of AWSM. State it is for Ed. Thank you