Galgo News

Category: In the media

  • Survey – vote to ban bullfighting and hunting in Spain

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    Please sign and share widely.

    survey about bullfighting. Underneath is also a survey about hunting. If you would like to see hunting banned please click the YES circle and click underneath where it says VOTE.
    Its important as at the moment votes to keep hunting far outweigh votes to ban it.
    Please vote and share

    UK Support For The Anti Bullfighting Movement M.A.L – UK

    VOTE: Please vote YES! So far those in favour of keeping bullfighting (No to banning) are winning!!!

    ***Click the Yes circle then click underneath where is says vote.

    ***There is another vote further down the page to ban hunting if you would also like to vote on that.

    LINK TRANSLATION:

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  • Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert, Seville – Paloma adopted in Italy

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    If you are considering adopting a galgo, and wonder if they can live with cats, then have a look at this lovely video of Paloma, adopted in Italy from the Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert shelter. My first greyhound, a stray, lived happily with my cats but none of my Spanish galgos have, their hunting instinct has been too strong. So it’s essential that a galgo is properly cat tested before adoption.

  • August 2018 – From France to Spain with Galgos France

    August 2018 – Galgos France team travels into Spain to bring back 20 hounds for foster and adoption. Watch the video here.

  • Advice on adopting a shelter dog

    Nice piece about adopting a shelter dog.

  • Conversation with a police dog handler

    If you are interested in listening to it, click on this link.

  • Galgo Peluco with Scooby – hoping for a forever home

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    Peluco is one of the hundreds of rescued galgos at Scooby hoping for his forever home. Contact Scooby direct if you are interested in adopting him.

    ‘Hello everybody! I just wanted to let you know that I am ready now! I am ready for adoption. I am ready for the next chapter in my life; a home. In the summer of 2016 I was living in the forest with my brothers and sisters, trying to survive. We did not trust people, we were scared of them. But somehow they caught us and brought us to the shelter of Scooby. Here I slowly started to trust people and now I actually think I like them! After 1,5 years in this shelter I have seen enough. All of my friends went to homes and new friends keep coming in. I also want to go now, go to a home of my own. I am ready. Are you?
    Watch me interact with a stranger here, look how much I have grown!’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT9E0JFeIsY

  • Scooby Medina del Campo in 11 minutes

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    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.

  • Ann’s Canine Care – shelter needs help to build a quarantine kennel

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    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.

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  • Slowing down the speed eater

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    I’ve just returned early from holiday as I received an emergency call for one of my dogs. My galga Carmela collapsed and my lovely animal sitter and another friend rushed her to the vet. She was unable to stand so suspected concussion, possibly from banging her head. We took her to the vet hospital in La Rochelle where she had a scan and the diagnosis was a bump on the head and possible stroke. She is now home, having lost 5 kg in weight, drinking normally and eating small amounts of food. She is on medication for her eyesight – her head is on one side – and also on tablets for her head (the same tablets as we had for our old lurcher to stem the onset of alzheimers.

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  • How to brush your dog’s teeth

    I have lived with dogs all my life and can’t remember us ever brushing their teeth. We’ve tended to give them bones and chews to do the job. Having said that, my little podenca Bebe came as a 6 year old with her teeth in a terrible state – from bad nutrition as a puppy according to my vet. But apart from having the 4 lower front teeth removed, the rest haven’t caused problems and she is now 15 years old.

    Here’s a slide show of how to clean your dog’s teeth.