Galgo News

Category: In the media

  • Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert, Seville – 2 galgos urgently needing forever homes

    Fundacion BM Conquita 400 5 20172 Spanish galgos at each end of the age spectrum…one just starting out on life and the other needing a comfy loving home and hearth to end his days. Both are with Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert in Seville. Contact them direct if you can help.

    A home for Conguita

    She was not yet two months old when she was found together with her mum abandoned on a field. We do not know what happened to her siblings but it is certain that Conguita is a survivor.

    Now her mum is adopted and Conguita is left alone. She needs urgently a family now, a shelter is not the best place for a puppy to grow up. The small girl is most affectionate and longing for a home.

    If you wish to adopt Conguita: www.fundacionbm.com/adopta/

    FBM Lucca 1 400 5 2017VERY URGENT. Adoption for LUCCA

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  • Experiments on dogs in Australia – it must stop!

    Greyhound experiments Oz 400 5 2017We all know about the beagles used for laboratory experiments.There was also furore some years ago about galgos taken for embalming for a university medical school. Now here’s another exposure of greyhounds and galgos being used in Australia for experiments. I know…another petition to sign and do we know if it will be delivered? Well, if we don’t sign it, nothing will happen. If we do, it could be like one Galgos Ethique Europe collected, over 30,000 signatures handed into a Spanish embassy.

    According to the latest available statistics, over 6,600 dogs were used for research and teaching purposes in Australia in just one year, mainly beagles and greyhounds.

    Sign the petition here.

    Read more on what goes on.

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    Melbourne

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  • Dog Training

    Dog training pictures 400 4 2017

  • Greyhound Rescue Holland – Annual Beach Walk 7th May 2017

    All details on this link.

  • Scooby rescuing in Mazarron, Murcia – hounds victims of galgueros’ brutality!

    Scooby Marazzon 2 400Scooby collected 27 dogs, mainly podencos and greyhounds in Mazarrón, Murcia, last weekend (22/23 April 2017). A Spanish region where the galgueros’ and hunters’ brutality is unbelievable.

    Some of them are in a terrible condition; like this adorable brindle male galgo that is ‘skin and bones’, and suffers from Leishmania, and the black female galga that lacks a paw … Both are in Fermin´s place till they become stronger and ready for adoption.

    This season the abandonment has been quite high in Castilla y Leon so we have only been able to pick up dogs in the south of Spain twice; in January in Cadiz and now in Murcia. For now on and until our economic situation improves, we will not be able to rescue more …

    Would you like to support our work? Please donate now: http://bit.ly/2donat or Join the teaming for only 1 €/month: http://bit.ly/2teaming

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  • Please write and Protest – Channel 5 promotes bull fighting and bull running!

    Watching the Spectacular Spain with Alex Polizzi – can’t bear the woman but like to see the other side of Spain than the one I see on rescue visits – I was horrified to see the trail for next week showing and promoting bull fighting and bull running. So please write to Channel 5 and protest!

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    ATTENTION ALEX POLIZZI

    Bull fighting is NOT a ‘sport’ nor ‘culture’..to see animals used /abused..tortured..to have their eyes covered in grease..so they cannot see..to have electric shocks to their …balls + Penis..to then be let out to the ‘baying morons’..where the Matador(the torturer!!!)then cuts the spinal cord at the base of its neck..so it cannot lift its head..+ the horses..ok with some sort of protective cover..that is useless..being gored under the stomach..ripped open for the crowds to also see..+ not a sound is made by these poor horses..their vocal cords have been cut!!

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  • The Spirit of a Greyhound

    Galgo eyes 400 4 2017I came across this beautiful poem in some paperwork from Action For Greyhounds UK, based in Norfolk where I used to live before moving to France. Although it is about a greyhound, it could just as easily be the Spirit of a Galgo…or any other sighthound.

    The Spirit of a Greyhound
    Author Unknown

    I was standing on a hillside
    In a field of blowing wheat
    And the spirit of a Greyhound
    Was lying at my feet.
    He looked at me with kind dark eyes
    Ancient wisdom shining through.
    In the essence of his being,
    I saw such love there too.

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  • Pepis Dog Refuge – Spring 2017 Auction now on!

    For those of you on facebook, there’s currently a Pepis Spring Auction raising funds to pay money off the vet bill….an ongoing problem, especially this time with an outbreak of distemper which claimed the lives of 3 galgos. There are some lovely items, please bid if you can and share widely on your pages. Link below. If you aren’t on facebook, then please join the teaming or donate.

    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1581597751868407&type=3

  • Nellie Doodles – greyhound/galgo myths

    Nellie Doodles greyhound myths 400

  • Animal Event in Holland – 29, 29, 30 April –

    28, 29 & 20th April – annual Animal Event in Holland. More details here. Tickets are on sale now.