Galgo News

Category: Profiles

  • Puntanimals Shelter, Umbria, Huelva – dozens of galgos needing forever homes

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    This is the story of Puntanimals Shelter in Umbria, yet another area bad for hunting dogs. (This stunner is Esperanza)

    ‘https://www.puntanimals.org/nuestra-historia/

    Puntanimals is a non-profit association created to help abandoned and mistreated animals. The idea was born from the hands of a fighter, animal lover who wanted his dream of helping those most in need to come true. We are located in the town of Punta Umbría (Huelva). Since before having the shelter, we already collected the animals that we found and we looked for a home where they were safe and had their needs covered. Officially we have been operating since 2011, it was when we decided to rent a place to be able to protect all the animals while we look for a definitive and responsible adoption for them.

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  • Galgo Rescue International Network – the story

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    The story of Galgo Rescue International Network by Abby who founded the Association in 2006.

    I adopted my first ex-racing greyhound in the United States in 1997. I was unaware of the situation with the Spanish galgos until a friend introduced me to their plight in the early 2000s. By that time I had several retired racers and was involved in greyhound rescue, but there was something about the galgos and the extreme nature of their struggle that motivated me to become involved. I began working to gather medical and practical supplies to take to Scooby for my first trip in October 2005. I am a veterinary emergency and critical care nurse, and engaged three of my coworkers to join me in my first trip to Scooby.

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  • From a volunteer in a shelter to running a shelter

    Back in 2007 when I first travelled to Spain with L’Europe des Levriers to bring rescued galgos and podencos back to our French home for foster and adoption, Galgo News was started. One of the first people to contact me for help in publicising galgos in shelters was Tina Solera, then a volunteer who discovered an injured galgo needing help. It’s been interesting to follow the work of Tina since then with her association Galgos del Sol, to the shelter she now presides over. See the video on this weblink.

  • El Refugio de Brown in Badajoz, Extramadura – desperately needing help – donations, fosters, adoptions

    A desperate appeal from Lidia Martinez of El Refugio de Brown in Badajoz, Extramadura, a terrible region for hunting dogs.

    ‘I introduce myself I am Lidia Martinez and I am a teamer and collaborator of El Refugio de Brown in Zafra Badajoz, her situation is very hard,there are only two people managing more than 100 animals, at a cost monthly of € 2,000 or more in veterinary and residency expenses. They do not have their own premises, as the city council evicted them from its facilities and also residencia, where we take many animals from the perreras from Extremadura and Andalucia.

    Please we ask you to value the possibility of being part of these groups with all support, since all help is fundamental and donations and help is desperately needed.

    I leave you the link to their website so you can know them a little more and the links of their two groups.

    www.elrefugiodebrown.org

    https://www.teaming.net/elrefugiodebrown

    https://www.teaming.net/rescatadosdelaperrera

  • Poor Galgo – strangled by a shoe lace! Now safe with Galgos del Sol

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    From Tina at Galgos del Sol.

    ‘Only days after hunting dogs are excluded from the new Wwelfare Protection Laws in Spain, this galgo was found nearly dead’ strangled by a shoe lace. Luckily found by people who are disgusted by these new laws. Deliberately tortured to die in agony. He’s not well & in vet care.

    In relation to the case of the strangled Galgo, we have presented a formal legal statement. It can be seen in full on our FB page

    Video – warning, upsetting pictures

    Below is the action being taken against the owner of this galgo, who has been identified!

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  • Tasmania – fighting dog racing

    Here’s the weblink to another of the Lawmaker Spotlighs by grey2kusa – this time about a criminal lawyer fighting greyhound racing in Tasmania.

  • Mark Russell, fighting to end dog racing

    grey2kusa are running Lawmaker Spotlight articles and this weblink is about Mark Russell, Greens Member of the Scottish Parliament representing Fife.

    grey2kusa.org

  • The Daphne Legacy Tour – in memory of Galga Daphne

    Since the beginning of my involvement with the plight of the Galgo and Podenco back in 2007, I have watched the explosion of rescue associations – especially since the advent of Facebook in 2011 – which has been a positive in the struggle to deal with the treatment and abandonment of the hounds every year by the Galgueros. Many of these fabulous hounds now travel long journey across the Atlantic to forever homes in America and Canada.

    Recently one of the US homing associations visited SOS Galgos to take back some hounds lucky enough to be offered forever homes. Here’s what happened.

    ‘We wish to give a huge heartfelt thank you to Captain Kate for having come to visit the SOS Galgos Rescue & Education Center in Barcelona and an equally huge heartfelt thanks to Founder of the Daphne Legacy Tour, Christina Azharian, for making it all come together. Much needed awareness has been raised about the plight of these gentle but resilient survivors, the Galgos, who are used and abused by Spanish hunters (galgueros) for hare coursing from September to February, year after year. Only awareness will make change. More education means less rescue. Thank you’

    The Daphne Legacy Tour is a transport organization, bringing Galgos to the USA from Spain to be adopted through Greyhound adoption groups.

    Read the story on this weblink. https://youtu.be/wMdd2zC7JPQ

  • The Story of Galgo’s Rescue Almeria

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    In 2015 Sandy and John Cortebeeck sold up in Belgium and moved to Almeria to open a kennels. As with all good intentions, for dog lovers in Spain, the mass abandonment of galgos and podencos takes over everyone’s life. Thank goodness there are people willing to give up almost everything to help these amazing dogs, treated like rubbish by the sub-human Spanish galgueros.

    Click on this weblink to read the full story.

  • Galgos 112 – saving the abandoned and suffering Spanish hounds

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    Over the years I’ve mentioned this association when they have taken on board the rescue and rehabilitation of dogs which the sub human hunters have tried to kill, without success, or have been unbelievably seriously injured on the roads. Here’s a story of just such another poor galga who, despite all her suffering at the hands of a hunter, still has the capacity to love,

    The story of Flower