Galgo News

Category: Profiles

  • Protectora Modepran Valencia – desperate times

    All the animal rescue associations are suffering badly with a lack of donations during this recession. Here’s a story from one of them.

    ‘Animal advocate Modepran makes this announcement

    UNSUSTAINABLE SITUATION

    From Modepran we see ourselves in the obligation to release this statement to bring awareness to the situation in which our protector is. We’ve been at the limit for several months, and after the end of summer the situation persists, and we can’t do it anymore.

    With an average of between seven and fifteen rescued dogs daily that add to the more than 656 dogs and 370 cats that already live in our shelters, the situation is unsustainable and entails a collapse of the facilities, in addition to the inability to take on the maintenance costs and be careful.

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  • Walking through the Camp by Marta Navarro Garcia – against hunting with Galgos and Podencos

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    From Plataforma NAC

    The minor hunting season begins and with it starts hell for thousands of hunting dogs in Spain.
    One more year we watch helplessly how they are used as mere tools and how they are discarded, broken, injured, hungry and, in the worst case, lifeless.

    In these moments of sorrow, we share the wonderful poem by Marta Navarro Garcia read at the protest on February 6, 2022

    WALKING THROUGH THE CAMP

    I have seen death looking for my friends,
    hundreds of winged beings,
    of deer, of wild boars,
    of rabbits, of partridges,
    of greyhounds, of Podencos.

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  • Lost Companion by Steve Sanderson

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    Steve Sanderson b.1969. English artist.

    “We meet once in a while….. when I close my eyes”

  • National Adopt a Black Dog Day

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    Read about it here.

  • Protectora Scooby – summer newsletter – Animal Rescue Transitions To ‘Bureaucrazy’

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    Fermin writes.

    As many of you know, the Scooby shelter grew organically from doing the best we could with limited resources and still
    making tangible improvements for our rescued animals, nursing them back from the brink to overcome sickness and
    adversity to become dogs and cats well enough to go to loving adoption families. Yes we had tragedies but our small team
    shared the work and helped the animals to a better life. I still remember a volunteer vet from Scotland, in the twilight of his
    career, telling me to welcome volunteer vets but crucially to make sure they had solid experience because in a ‘field’
    medical setting, she said we’d need people who were skilled to work with what’s available, rather than the early career medical professionals who would not yet be ready to work in a situation needing ingenuity and technical resourcefulness. I still remember this vet stitching by candlelight when we were blighted with power cuts.

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  • Greyhound Joy – join the petition to ban greyhound racing in Scotland

    Weblink here to read Joy’s story and join the petition to ban greyhound racing in Scotland

  • Extraordinary Galgos & Podencos Canada – homing the Spanish hunting hounds

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    Yet another rescue association across the Pond working with Spanish rescue associations to home the galgos and podencos unwanted and abandoned by the Spanish hunters.

    Read the story on this weblink

  • A dog is our best friend – very true

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    Along with my horses, my dogs are my best friends. Never judge you and always keep your secrets!

  • Irish Greyhounds from Spain! To Candy Cane Rescue International

    British greyhound breeders and trainers don’t care where they send their unwanted greyhounds and some end up in Spain to be used for breeding with galgos. Candy Cane Rescue International based in Lincoln in the UK rescues greyhounds and brings them back to the UK for homing.

    Here you can read a story about some brought back from Spain in poor condition. Whilst this story is from 2021, 2 more greyhounds have just been saved by Candy Cane from being sent to Spanish galgueros.

  • Why Santa can’t use galgos/greyhounds!

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