Here are two links showing the Ecija refuge in Spain, where the French association Levriers sans Frontieres are helping fund new construction work for rescued hounds, which includes quarantine bays, a small theatre, as well as more kennels for the dogs.
Category: In the media
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2,000 galgo pups born every day in Spain – 90% will end up pts
El Arca de Noe, Albacete – an Italian rescue associations visits the refuge.
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Levriers sans Frontieres – 30 more galgos to homes in France
Photos of the latest rescue trip by Levriers sans Frontieres of 30 galgos from Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert shelter near Seville, to homes in France. Great for the galgos but, with at least one association travelling into Spain to bring galgos back to France for homing, France is sinking under the number! It’s getting more and more difficult for them all to find homes.
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Are galgos carriage hounds?
The Junta in Andalucia had no regard for the health and well being of galgos when they rescinded the law banning hounds being trained from motorised vehicles – whether vans, 4×4, quad bikes, motorbike. This ignoramus would have got round the ban anyway…can you believe this?!! How close are those galgos to the carriage wheels! They don’t stand a chance if he puts the horse into trot!!! I’d like to rope him to the back of that cart….seen in the area of Pepis Dog Refuge, Pedrera, Seville!
You may just be able to see there are 3 dogs – the chain of the white one in the middle is going over the carriages leaf springs, and the only way for that poor dog to get on the inside again is to get right beside that carriage wheel!
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Hounds are addictive – but there has to be an upper adoption limit!
The above was posted on a friend’s page. I thought I’d share it with you as I have learnt that one small association just rehomed a dog to someone who already has 18 dogs! Now, I have 5 dogs, french lurcher, 3 galgos and a podenco. All but one is too old to insure, so vet bills can be expensive. The old lurcher is on tablets which cost my hubbie 100 euros/month. On top of that, of course, we have dog food. I cannot understand how someone can afford 18 – soon to be 19 dogs!
I know the situation in Spain for the galgos and podencos is horrendous and associations are desperate to home dogs, to make room to rescue another one. But there has to be some sense applied in who is allowed to adopt. In France, if you have more than 9 dogs, you have to register as a kennels.
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Sarna Semodecica Pioderm – an extreme case
This poor galga is called Lucy. She was taken to the Scooby refuge in the middle of July, in this state. Cobie tells her story.
16/7/2015. This sweet little galga girl is Lucy, she´s 5 months old and was saved a few weeks ago from the perrera provincial from Valladolid by Scooby. The police had taken her there because she was walking on the street although she had an owner which was a gypsie. That person had done nothing about the severe mange she was suffering of and her whole body was covered in blood, infections and bad wounds. She was in a lot of pain and was very depressed because of the bad state she was in. Nobody wanted to go near her because they thought she was like a monster and they feared to be infected by her illness. So she got worse and worse every day until she got to this state. Poor girl. She has a long way to go to full recovery but she will get all the time she needs to become a gorgeous galga. She is in the clinic in Medina now and surrounded with love, attention, good care and medicines.
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Malaga fire – hundreds of ‘invisible’ victims
Hundreds of chained hunting dogs lost their lives this week in a big fire near Malaga. The media stated there were no victims…
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Valladolid perrera – Scooby to the rescue
From Cobie at Scooby Residencia Valladolid.
Meet puppy Joseph jr. rescued 25/8/2015 from the perrera in Valladolid by Scooby. Was he born with this or has he had 2 broken front legs without them being treated? Or maybe he was taken too soon from his mother, as usually, and is this because of malnutrition? We don´t know yet but if it can be fixed, Scooby will fix it and if not, we will find him a goodhearted family who is not looking for a `perfect`galgo but for one who needs a loving family because the heart is all that matters most!
We took 2 other galgos at the same time.
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Greyhounds/Galgos make superb Theraphy dogs.
My first greyhound had such a superb temperament that she became a PAT dog…Pets As Therapy…in the UK and regularly visited an old folks’ home to spend time with the residents, especially those who had been dog owners but couldn’t have a dog in the home.
Here is a lovely story about a Spanish Galga who is doing a similar job – but this time in New Mexico in a prison.