Galgo News

Category: Fund raising

  • Saturday, 25th August 2012 – La Magdalena, Murcia – Fun Day

    ACTIN summer fun day poster pic 210ACTIN is an association formed in 2012 and they are holding a Fun Day on Saturday, 25th August at La Magdalena, Murcia, to raise funds for their work. They need support to start the process of reducing the numbers of abandoned puppies, kittens, dogs and cats in the region, so have decided to try and raise money for a mobile veterinary unit, which will visit the outlying villages and do basic care advice, inoculations and neutering. So if you live in the area or are going on holiday to Murcia during August, please go along and support the event.

    Viv Wharton explains the aims of ACTIN.

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  • Rescued from the gitanos on the Costa Blanca – looking for forever families

    Paradise Romeo 190 8 2012These three beautiful galgos were taken from the Gypsies. Romeo, his wife Juliet & daughter ‘Star’ were abused & locked up in a tiny ramshackle kennel. Romeo and Juliet are soul mates really need to be homed together. Romeo (the rough haired galgo) is very nervous, but soon comes around after he’s got to know you. Juliet and Star (the white one) are both very friendly. For more information and if you can offer these lovely dogs a home, please contact Paradise Kennels.

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  • Another case of vile maltreatment of a galga – Galgos 112 to the rescue

    This is the story of Noa, a galga found in Cordoba with a badly injured leg, who jumped into a river to escape being caught. But now she is in the care of Galgos 112. Her body was full of gun pellets, she has lost an eye, and her leg has been amputated. She is now in foster care in Seville.

    Here’s her story. apologies for the grammar, but I’ve just lifted it off an Internet translator. But you will understand it.

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  • Galga Ginny – fighting against the odds – please help

    Ginny 2 170 7 2012Maribel Jerez does a marvellous job of circulating appeals on behalf of dogs on death row in Spain’s perreras, chiefly in Jerez and Gesser in Cadiz. One recent one which circulated was a photo of a sad galga, no one came forward to take her, so Charl of 112carlotagalgos stepped in to save her. The perrera has now decided to spay dogs before they can leave, so Ginny, as she has been named, was spayed. It was only when she was collected from the perrera that it became obvious that Ginny was not in the best of health. Here’s her story.

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  • Galga Nana – learning about life with the Pro-Galgo family

    Do you remember Nana? She’s been in the care of Pro-Galgo and her vet for the past months. She’s now recovered, is growing, and becoming a ‘little galga monster’! Here is a lovely video of her at home with Mo’s dogs, learning that life in the outside world can be fun with the right people. Thank you to everyone involved in her rescue and her care in bringing her back to health.

  • Seville – safe at last with a chance for a happy life

    Seville, Macu to the rescue again from the gypsy settlement. Little Barbi, scared, covered in ticks, full of worms, such a baby to be away from her Mama. Foster and help with vet fees please.

    Contact Macu macu19782010hotmail.com Seville 665809169

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  • URGENT – 22 dogs abandoned in Granada refuge – help urgently needed

    Here’s the latest news about the 22 dogs in Granada which were trapped in a rescue centre where the owners had run out of money, and the dogs were abandoned.

    Spanimal.org (info@spanimal.org)

    Update: We have received the following from the good people who have rescued the animals in the abandoned shelter..

    “At the moment we have succeeded in placing 6 dogs although many are still in the compound, you can see them in the photo gallery. The rest escaped through a hole that they made in the fencing and we are trying to rescue them. We can’t leave them there as it’s an area of invernaderos. We have already found one dead that they have killed? poisoned, shot, hunger? We don’t know but we suspect poison. We are already exhausted.

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  • Accommodation in Seville? Not for these two…

    20 jul 12 celo 3 250This galga has been on the streets of Brenes, Seville for some months, too afraid to allow herself to be caught, so of course now she is pregnant. She has been befriended by a gentle German Shepherd, who is in danger of being taken and abused. This is the plea from Nat.

    ‘ I’ve seen this galga for a few months now, today I came very close but as soon as she saw a sudden movement, she fled. They are near a bar, where there are bad people and in danger of being abused and tormented by brats.

    I desperately want to help them but I am overwhelmed with rescued dogs, I need help to catch the galga and take the two of them to a kennels or foster because in a couple of months she will have puppies.

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  • Update on galgo saved from a gypsy camp in Seville

    A while ago I reported on the story from Macu in Seville, where she took a poor galgo with no hair, from a gypsy encampment, where everyone laughed at him and told Macu she was stupid for taking him. He’s now in the care of L’Europe des Levriers and there are some beautiful photos of him on this link.

    A translation of the story so far.

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  • Galgos del Sol – saving yet more abandoned galgos in Murcia

    Skip galgo 1 250 – Yes, there’s a galga dumped in there! You will remember the rescue of the Bullas dogs in Operation Rehala in January and then the Mazarron dogs from the gypsy in Murcia as well. Galgos del Sol have been very involved in these operations, taking many dogs into their care. This week they have rescued another half dozen abandoned galgos, one of whom had been dumped in a skip! – Luckily he has not been beaten almost to death- like esperanza a couple of years ago – just injured and terrified.

    Here’s the story so far.

    ‘It’s impossible to try and holiday when you live in Murcia. Galgos del Sol gets a call and goes out again and what do we find..?? A galga trapped in the rubbish dumpster and 3 galgos living on the rubbish tip. The galga trapped was very difficult because she was scared so we she would become aggresive when we tried to climb in, and the others were not so easy either.

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