Galgo News

Category: In the media

  • Spanish rescued hounds at play in France

    I’ve made a couple of videos of the Spanish gang at home. In order of arrival, Bebe is the little Podenca Andaluz from Seville, now 14 years old; she came at 6 years old with a damaged hind leg from an RTA. Carmela is the grey/white brindle galga, 12 years old; she came as a foster dog with serious problems from maltreatment. I brought her out of Spain with me on one of the rescues with L’Europe des Levriers. It was over 2 years before I considered her recovered enough to be homed…so she stayed with us! Bracken is the dark brindle galgo, now 8 years old, from Galgos del Sol. He came as a foster, adopted in the UK but sadly, due to an ill-health change of circumstances there, David adopted him! Finally is cream galgo Polar, now 4 years old, from Pepis Dog Rescue in Pedrera. Regular readers know his story so far.

    It is his left hind leg which he damaged as a puppy and 4 specialist vets have said there is no guarantee an operation would improve his movement. You can see in the videos that he is not hampered by it, but it is swollen with calcification of the bone. He’s been on MSM but I am now putting him on Turmeric.

    Video 1

    Video 2

  • Dogs die in hot cars

    Read the hard-hitting article here from the RSPCA.

  • Hunters claim to love their dogs?!

    Starving galgo in hunter pen 400 29 6 2017How can anyone let a dog get in this state – it’s in a compound with other dogs, not on the street!

  • Galga and pups starving on the streets in Granada

    Granada starving mom and pops 400 22 6 2017Mom galga and pups starving on the street in Guadix, Granada. Neighbours have been feeding them. I’ve asked if they have yet been taken into safety.

  • EU law – 500 euro fine for feeding/helping stray animals! Malaga province publicises

    Malaga province fining animal rescuers 400 7 2017Would you believe that Malaga is saying here that anyone feeding homeless, lost or abandoned animals risks a fine of 500 euros!! That’s an outrage! Spain is supposedly a civilised country!! Part of the European Union! There seems to be no sanction against those who abandon or abuse the animals but a 500 euro fine for anyone who dares to help them here. This is the reality in Malaga, Spain today. Spain, the land of bull-fighting and fines for feeding helpless animals.

    Seemingly this law exists in most EU countries, including Portugal. It’s an attempt to make people call authorities to pick up stray animals and take them to kennels, instead of supporting them on the streets and let them roam. A law that would only make sense if there where decent, no-kill shelters for all. It’s hardly ever enforced, people just carry out helping as usual.

    Never doubt that your help in giving dogs from here a home is invaluable.

  • Australia – greyhounds used for research – sign the petition

    Sign the petition on this link, and share widely.

  • Spain – Making an Official Complaint about animal abuse or abandonment

    Guardia C@ivil starved galga 400 25 2 2017From Mo Swatek, founder of Pro-galgo International

    PLEASE SHARE: HOW TO MAKE AN OFFICIL COMPLAINT FOR ANIMAL ABUSE OR ABANDONMENT IN SPAIN
    MO SWATEK·FRIDAY, 30 JUNE 2017

    Due to the complete denial by the authorities (politicians of all levels) of the massive existence of animal abuse in Spain, our only possibility to make a difference is to report ALL and each of the cases that we see.

    Unfortunately, the vast majority of cases are reported exclusively on the internet/social media but not to the authorities like the Spanish animal welfare police SEPRONA or directly to court, and the result is obvious. As nobody reports, the official statistics don’t include any of the severe cases all of us find nearly daily. Neither are all the dogs that shelters without subsidies and private people collect daily in the Spanish streets considered in official statistics.

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  • Andalucia – 2 dog-friendly beaches designated

    Read the story here

  • Scooby – Open letter to animal protection organisations in Castille y Leon

    Scooby Alma 400 6 2017Here’s a link to the Scooby News blog where Fermin asks that all animal protection associations in Castille y Leon work together to form a strong group to fight the maltreatment of animals there.

    This stunning galga has been named Alma, saved from the Valladolid perrera. She has an old injury to her foreleg which was left to heal on its own! Scooby have also taken another galgo from the same perrera also with a broken foreleg and he is due to have an operation to try and repair it. They need help to pay for his vet care, along with all the other animals they recently rescued.

    If you can’t have a dog or can’t adopt another one, how about a Virtual Adoption? Here are the details.

  • Beacon Dog Training – instructional videos and articles

    That dog geek 400Not about galgos but about any dog. I take Polar to Obedience classes and a couple of weeks ago on the Club fb page was a video about a dog training club in Australia, where one of the proprietors is a paraplegic, which obviously involves some dog training different from non-disabled. Here is a link to their website, if anyone is interested in discussing the subject with Tom.

    They also have several interesting videos, including this one on Training a Dog to obey in different situations, plus short articles with graphics.