Galgo News

Category: In the media

  • The Rosa Project – Galgo Podenco Support in the USA

    Read the story on this weblink.

  • Arthritis in dogs – what is the best supplement?

    There are many products on sale which claim to ease arthritis in dogs. Interesting article on the subject on this link.

    However, from my own experience with dogs and horses, I have found Devil’s Claw to be the best. It is a natural ‘product’ which makes it even better. I use it in powder form sprinkled on food and purchase it from Equine Answers. I’ve recommended it to friends who have been pleased with the results on their own arthritic dogs.

  • Pyometra in dogs – what is it?

    Pyometra in dogs

    A podenco recently arrived with Galgos del Sol who has a pyometra.

    What is a pyometra?

  • Plataforma NAC – No to Hunting in Spain

    Plataforma NAC demo 400 7 2024
    CÓRDOBA – No To The Hunt Demonstration 2024.

    The NAC Platform (No To Hunting) fights against hunting in all its forms and has the immediate objective of ending hunting with dogs. To this end, since 2010 we have organized a demonstration every February that has reached an international scale.

    In addition, we carry out and collaborate in all kinds of events focused on raising public awareness about animal exploitation and abuse in its broadest sense.

    We are a non-partisan association, with-profit apartheid, non-profit anti-species association.

    JOIN US AND SHARE!

    Follow us on our social networks:

    https://linktr.ee/plataformanac

    #NoAlaCaza #NoAlaCazaConPerros

  • Please sign and share to stop greyhound racing – Blue Cross petition

    Sign and share the petition here.

  • Muzzled galgo abandoned !

    Galgo muzzled 400 7 2024
    No lengths to which the galguero will go to kill his dog!

    IN BENAMARIEL

    This galgo with a muzzle, does not allow itself to be caught, so it will not be able to drink, or eat.
    People of the area, notify the Civil Guard and try to hold him if you see him.

    Update – it has been caught, I have asked what happened to it, if it was chipped or not.

    Ub the Canary Islands, podencos are sometimes abandoned with their mouths forced open with sticks.

  • e-collars being used on rescued hunting dogs in England!

    On 29th June I published an article on e-collars and why they should be banned in the UK – they are already banned in Europe. It has come to the notice of a Spanish rescue association in Valencia that an adopter in England is using an e-collar on a young rescued podenco to curb its prey drive! This is on the advice of an ‘animal behaviourist’! Of course the Podenco fraternity are up in arms and doing all they can to assist the rescue association to get the poor podenco away from these 2 women.

    This is the weblink to the story.

  • Hunter sentenced to 8 months in prison for shooting his dogs

    Plataforma NAC 400 7 2024
    In Teruel Aragon Espana

    Sentenced to 8 months in prison for killing two hunting dogs.

    The hunter protested to the civilian guards that he had killed them with a gunshot, claiming that the animals had wounds that would have been violated due to hunting activity.

    In addition, he owned 73 dogs in a kennel without administrative permission or health check.

    News: https://goo.su/8fekiS

    #NoAlaCaza #NoAlaCazaConPerros #LaVerdadDeLaCaza #VictimasDeLacaza

  • Galga Urraca with Galgos Rescue Almeria – help needed with Leishmania treatment

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    From Sandy Galgoslover

    Meet Urraca, This sweetheart is 4 years old and comes from the Badajoz region. Urraca could no longer satisfy her master so she had to disappear. Luckily she’s safe now.

    Upon her arrival at the Rescue Center we noticed that this girl’s nails were terribly long. What we already feared, the blood test confirmed “positive for Leushmania”. In the meantime, we have already started her treatment. Since the level of her leishmania is very high, we were recommended for treatment with injections. This treatment is immediately absorbed into the body.

    Glucantime is a very heavy treatment, fortunately for Urraca the disease hasn’t affected her organs so she can endure this treatment without any danger. She’s doing fine at the moment.

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  • Separation anxiety in dogs

    We have always had more than one dog so we’ve been lucky that we have never had to deal with the problem of separation anxiety. But galgos and podencos are used to living in packs, so it is something which could be a problem if a rescue is adopted as an only dog. Having said that, some – notably ex racing greyhounds – have to live as an only dog.

    This article from the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals PDSA explores the problem.